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Outreach
- Research and Teaching Collaboration Within the University
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Joint Appointments
Paul G. Farnham is Associate Professor of Economics and Health Administration in the Institute of Health Administration within the Robinson College of Business and also in the Department of Economics.
Gary T. Henry is Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Affairs and also in the Department of Political Science.
Michael Rushton is Associate Professor in Public Administration and Urban Studies and also in the Department of Economics.
Benjamin P. Scafidi, Jr. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and also in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies.
Other Activities
served as PAUS Representative on the Advisory Committee for the Law School Urban Fellows Program, part of their Center on the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth, and assisted with the Law School initiative to develop their Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth Proposal for the Provost’s Initiative.
participated in the internal Academic Program Review committee for the Robinson College of Business' Risk Management and Insurance department.
continued to teach Economics for Managers (MBA 8231) and the new Microeconomics for Managers (MBA 7030), an MBA foundation course in the Robinson College of Business; and served as departmental foundation course coordinator for Economics for Managers (MBA 8231) in the MBA program of the Robinson College of Business. He has been directly involved with the negotiations with the Robinson College regarding the role of economics in restructuring the MBA program.
was asked by the Institute of Public Health to teach Prevention Effectiveness and Economic Evaluation (PH 7530) in Spring 2005. This is a course open to students in the MPH, M.P.A., and Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy programs.
served as a Teaching Associate from the Economics Department for the Georgia State University Center for Teaching and Learning.
served as a joint faculty member in the Institute of Health Administration in the Robinson College of Business; as a representative from the Economics Department on the MBA Steering Committee in the Robinson College of Business; on the Advisory Committee for the University Center for Teaching and Learning; and as a member of the teaching faculty in the Institute of Public Health.
see also Joint Appointments.
participated in the College of Law’s proposal to the Provost to develop The Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth and the Physical Environment at Georgia State University.
earned funding for the “Research Instrumentation Grant: Updating and Enhancing the Experimental Economics Laboratory” with Susan Laury, Ragan Petrie, and Laura Taylor from the Department of Economics, and Sebastien Pouget and Ann Gillette from the Robinson College of Business.
joined a group of other GTA coordinators from departments across the university to discuss training of GTAs. The group will share resources for GTA training courses in various departments.
served as a Committee Member for a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Education.
presented “Storytelling as a Qualitative Research Method” to Dr. Thomas’ doctoral seminar in the College of Education, May 2004.
collaborated with Colin Crawford, School of Law, on working papers on decentralized sewage treatment systems. She was included in the School of Law’s proposal for a Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth and the Physical Environment.
served as co-chair with Gabriel P. Kuperminc of the dissertation committee for Andrew Mashburn, Ph.D. candidate in Psychology.
see also Joint Appointments.
served as a member of the doctoral committee of Grady Stone, College of Education.
served as Senior Associate of the W.T. Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations in the Robinson College of Business.
has engaged in research projects with Joey Williams (FRC).
planned the urban/regional curriculum with Geoffrey Turnbull (PAUS).
collaborated with James P. Cooney, Jr., et al in the Robinson College of Business on the Long-Term Care Partnership research project.
collaborated with Pat Ketsche and William Custer in the Robinson College of Business and Georgia Health Policy Center Staff on a HRSA State Planning Grant for the Uninsured.
lectured to Karen Minyard's PH 7170 class on long-term care research, January 2004.
lectured to Pat Ketsche's HA 8190 class on the Georgia Indigent Care Trust Fund, March 2004.
lectured to Armenia Williams' HHS3300 class on Research and Academia as Policy Influences, May 2004.
and Roger Weed received funding for a collaborative project between the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services in the College of Education, to fund a scholarship program for graduate students in Rehabilitation Counseling preparing to work in the public sector.
attended MBA Open House receptions in March, July and October 2004, representing the Economics Department, and helped coordinate the Economic Department's response to changes in the MBA Program Proctored Masters Comprehensive exams.
served as co-chair of the MBA Program Committee for the Economics Department and as member of the GTA Undergraduate Teaching Committee.
met with the Robinson College of Business MBA Steering Committee to discuss the transition to new 1.5 hour classes, and redesigned MBA courses and the Web site for the fall 2004 transition.
taught Public Health Policy (PH 7170) Spring Semester 2004.
evaluated student presentations in Jennifer Murphy’s English as a Second Language class (ESL 7500) in December 2004. Many Economics Ph.D. students are in the class.
submitted a proposal to a new initiative entitled Social Dynamics at the National Science Foundation, with Marco Castillo at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Chris Hartmann in the Department of Education.
collaborated with Michael Eriksen, Director of the Institute of Public Health, on a proposal for the Georgia Cancer Coalition. She also guest lectured in Michael Eriksen’s MPH class “Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Health,” Institute of Public Health, Georgia State University.
served as Temporary Research Chair for the Chronic Disease and Aging Research Team of the GSU Institute of Public Health, and assisted in the Rating of International Teaching Assistants, December 2004.
is affiliated with Georgia Health Policy Center.
is collaborating on research with David P. Richardson of the Robinson School of Business.
and Mary Beth Walker presented “Panel Data Evidence on State Variations in Public Spending on Education” to the Education Workshop at GSU.
See Joint Appointments.
regularly serves as reader for dissertation proposals in other academic departments and as an informal adviser to students in the Robinson College of Business, via his Applied Microeconomics (Econ 8100) course.
served as reader for a qualifying exam in the Department of Mathematics within the College of Arts and Sciences, and submitted and graded questions regarding several areas of economics for the exam.
served as chair of the APACE subcommittee to review the Institute of International Business in the Robinson College of Business; authored the subcommittee report; and testified before a larger APACE committee, 2004 (completing work begun in 2003).
is an Urban Fellows Faculty Affiliate, a program supported by the College of Law but dedicated to bringing together faculty and students from across the university to work together on urban and regional issues.
served as Urban and Regional Analysis Group coordinator. URAG is a multi-disciplinary research group with 14 affiliated faculty from AYSPS, Robinson College of Business, and the College of Law. Ongoing tasks include organizing and coordinating URAG activities, recruiting additional faculty from College of Law and Robinson College of Business; developing and managing URAG Web site content; managing all aspects of the URAG Working Papers series; and editing and managing the publication and distribution of the URAG Research Notes series.
served on the organizing committee, the selection committee, arranged a speaker for the 2005 spring semester program, and served as Urban Fellows Program-URAG liaison for the Urban Fellows Program in the College of Law.
worked on a joint research project with Kelly Edmiston in the Department of Economics on “What Caused Proposition 13? An Empirical Evaluation of Two Alternative Hypotheses," and revised a joint paper with Kelly Edmiston on “Local Government Competition for Economic Development.”
completed two joint research papers with economics graduate student Gyusuck Geon on “Local Government Internal Structure, External Constraints, and the Median Voter Hypothesis” and “The Effect of Home Rule on Local Government Behavior: Is There No Rule Like Home Rule?”
has a joint research paper in progress with economics graduate student Gyusuck Geon on “The Effects of Home Rule on Vertical Competition in Overlapping Jurisdictions.”
served on the dissertation committee of Kaysia Campbell, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Finance.
served as dissertation committee member for Alfred Kopi-Soffka, a student from Risk Management and Insurance in the Robinson College of Business.
see also Mark Rider.
was a leader in the development of a University-wide proposal for a National Center for Community Preparedness for Homeland Security. The proposal involved faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences, Robinson College of Business, College of Law, College of Health and Human Services, and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
was dissertation director for Dr. George Meals, Ph.D. in Political Science, who defended his dissertation in Spring 2004.
served on a search committee for the Institute of Public Health, College of Health and Human Services.
taught classes with the Gerontology Institute within the College of Arts and Sciences.
