Outreach - University, College and Department Service
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Please also see the section, Outreach - Research and Teaching Collaboration Within the University.

The Program for Rehabilitation Leadership developed a collaborative proposal with the College of Education, Department of Counseling and Psychological Services for federal funding of a “Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Masters Degree Scholars Program.” PRL also developed a Disability Etiquette Workshop for the Georgia State University Opportunity Development/Diversity Education Planning Office.

James Alm is Chair of the Economics Department. He was the AYSPS representative on the Provost’s Area of Focus evaluation committee, a reviewer of GSU Perspectives course proposals, member of the committees for AYSPS Ramsey Chair search, State Fiscal Economist search, Economics Department labor/health economics search, chair of the Economics Department committees for the Langdale Chair search, W.J. Usery Chair search, and assistant professor search. He served as chair of the dissertation committee for Arti Adji, Asmaa El-Ganainy, King Owalla, Edward Sennoga, and Mohammad Yunus, and as a member of the committee of Ki-Whan Choi, Paul Kagundu, Abdu Muwonge, Dmitry Shishkin, Bayar Tumennasan, Roy Wada, Darmen Zhumadil, and Jason Calder. He was a discussant at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies conference on “Challenges in the Design of Fiscal Equalization and Intergovernmental Transfers,” Atlanta, Ga., September 2004.

Roy Bahl is Dean of the College. He advised graduate students Bayar Tumennasan and Robynn Cox and served as Co-Chair of the Dean’s Search Committee for the Robinson College of Business. He also served on several dissertation committees in economics. He presented “The Challenges of Tax Reform in a Global Economy” at the International Studies conference on "The Challenge of Tax Reform in the 21st Century," Stone Mountain, Ga., May 2004; and “Intergovernmental Transfers: The Vertical Sharing Dimension” with Sally Wallace at The Andrew Young School's Fifth Annual Conference on Public Finance Issues in an International Perspective: The Challenges in the Design of Fiscal Equalization and Intergovernmental Transfers, Stone Mountain, Ga., October 3-5, 2004.

Jameson Boex assisted the Director of the International Studies Program, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, with the overall management and administration of the International Studies Program; he took the lead in writing numerous project proposals and contributed to securing several other projects, and concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with Research for Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) in Tanzania. He led efforts to engage in technical assistance activities in Lesotho (with Michael Rushton) and Peru (with Javier Arze); played a leading or contributing role on drafting proposals for new or follow-up activities in Tanzania (DANIDA III; Government of Tanzania), the Decentralized Local Government IQC and the Building Recovery and Reform through Democratic Governance (BRDG) IQC (both with PADCO); and contributed to several articles about the ISP in The Briefing. He represented the International Studies Program and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies on a number of occasions at the request of the Director of International Studies Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Dean, including travel to Washington, D.C., in June 2004 to represent the International Studies Program at a USAID Conference. He mentored AYSPS Summer Intern Chris Baffa; taught a session on multi-year budgeting for the Thailand Modern Expenditure Management Training Program; supported Javier Arze in drafting a review of the Nepal Expenditure Assignment Study; together with Paul Benson and Tao Jiang, maintained the International Studies Program Internet site, home to the ISP Working Paper Series and other materials relevant for fiscal policy experts and practitioners.

Carolyn Bourdeaux served as Chair of the M.P.A. Admissions Committee; member of the Search Committee for Non-Profit Management and Finance Position in PAUS; member of the PAUS Curriculum Committee; PAUS Representative on Advisory Committee for Law School Urban Fellows Program, part of their Center on the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth; PAUS Representative on the Information Center Advisory Committee; member of PAUS Student Appeals Committee; assisted with the PAUS effort to develop an AYSPS Public Finance Proposal for the Provost Initiative and with the Law School initiative to develop their Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth Proposal for the Provost’s Initiative. She also taught two classes, on budget reform and cost analysis, in the Summer Training Session on Public Budgeting and Financial Management through the International Studies Program.

Richard Charles participated in the PAUS committee on the impact of the new Public Policy degree on existing B.S.-UPS programs; and continued his service as faculty advisor to the GSU Gamma Sigma chapter of Alpha Eta Rho, the national aviation fraternity.

Ronald G. Cummings served on the AYSPS Management Committee and served on promotion and tenure committees for Yongsheng Xu and Felix Rioja.

Robert Eger III served as liaison to the M.P.A. Board, coordinator of the Presidential Management Fellowship, member of the Public Management and Policy New Hire Committee, faculty advisor for Students for Progressive Transit, dissertation committee member, and on the Best Term Paper Award Committee. He also served as graduate advisor to Hai Guo, Jungbu Kim, Amanda Wilsker, Poullang Doung, and Andrew Haas; and dissertation committee member for Tony Giasi and Mohammad Yunus.

Paul G. Farnham served as a Teaching Associate from the Economics Department for the Georgia State University Center for Teaching and Learning; chaired the AYSPS Academic Program Committee, which reviews all issues pertaining to AYSPS academic programs; and served as the AYSPS representative on the university committee to evaluate the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies. He also served as a senator from the Economics Department in the Georgia State University Senate; was a member of the Admissions and Standards, Budget, and Library Advisory committee; served on Admissions and Standards subcommittees reviewing hardship withdrawals, raising the minimum GPA in various majors, and student appeals; and served on the Budget Cost subcommittee reviewing the criteria of quality, centrality, viability, cost/return on investment, and comparative advantage of programs, centers, and activities at Georgia State University. He also served as a dissertation committee member for Roy Wada, as a reader for the dissertation proposal defense of Eric Sarpong, and began discussions with Mercy Mvundura regarding her dissertation proposal.

Paul J. Ferraro served on the University’s Cultural Diversity Committee, the University Administrative and Support Unit Review Committee, the University’s African-American Male Initiative Committee, the Economics Department’s Undergraduate Program Committee, Educational Policy Committees for Economic Development and Resource/Environmental, Photocopy Committee, Search Committee for the Noah Langdale Chaired Professorship in the Economics Department, and the Search Committee for a non-tenure-track Associate Research Professor position. He was coordinator of the Economics Department Faculty and Staff Annual Giving Campaign (Spring 2004) and of the Economics Department seminar series; Faculty Advisor to the Georgia State University Economics Club and Georgia State University’s tennis club; and Faculty Coordinator of Georgia State University’s chapter of the Omicron Delta Epsilon Honors Society.

Shelby Frost served on the Undergraduate Program Committee for the Economics Department; served as GTA coordinator for the Economics Department (with Jon Mansfield); served as Economics Department representative on the social science assessment committee; served as Economics Department representative on the University Senate, and served on the nominations committee, APACE (and undergraduate program council subcommittee of APACE), faculty affairs committee, and the student life & development committee; and served as faculty advisor to all undergraduate economics majors; there are currently over 200 students and the number of economics undergraduate students has increased substantially since she took over the position.

Atef Ghobrial served as coordinator of the Transportation Studies Program, on the post-tenure review committee at PAUS, on the promotion and tenure committee at PAUS, and was nominated to serve on the triennial evaluation committee of GSU VP for Development. He invited Winston Cooper, The Director of Ground Services at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, to give a presentation on airport planning and management; Tony Charaf, Senior VP at Delta Air Lines, to give a presentation on air logistics and globalization; and Connie Canon, Senior Planner with MARTA, to discuss planning, financial and marketing issues in public transit. He served as GSU representative in the Southeastern Transportation Center (STC), one of 10 regional centers established by the U.S. Department of Transportation; accompanied four graduate students to attend the Transportation Research Board Meeting in Washington D.C.; and accompanied 17 undergraduate and graduate students to the Transportation Management Center in Atlanta.

Douglas Greenwell served on the Planning Committee for the Hosea Williams Award at GSU.

Shiferaw Gurmu served as coordinator of the 2004 State Charitable Contributions Program, member of the AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee, Chair of the Econometrics and Statistics Educational Policy Committee of the Department, coordinator of the Departmental Computer and Technology Activities Econometrics Recruiting Committee, coordinator of the Applied Econometrics Workshop, and on the Econometrics Field Recruiting Committee. He served as dissertation chair for Eric Sarpong; committee member for Ant Veysel, Generosa Kagaruki, Dianne Weinman, Jim Nelson Barnhart, Guevera Yao, and Mohammad Yunus; and reader for Jose Rendon-Garza and Gyusuck Geon.

Carol D. Hansen chaired two Ph.D. committees, served as PAUS Director of International Student and Faculty Exchanges, developed a project agreement between the M.P.A. program and the University of Northumbria’s Department of Politics, served on the GSU Career Services Center Committee, and served on the GSU International Programs Committee. She also served as program chair for Lori Fancher and dissertation chair for Ken Little; offered M.S.-HRD advising to about 20 students; offered B.S.-HRP advising to approximately 45 students; and served on the department's student appeals committee.

Amy Helling served as Chair of the AYSPS Faculty Affairs committee and the PAUS M.S.-UPS admissions committee, and as member of the GSU Faculty Senate, Faculty Affairs Committee, Planning and Development Committee, and Traffic Safety Subcommittee, PAUS curriculum committee, 2004 PAUS faculty evaluation committee, the committee to investigate the impact of the B.S.-UPS in Public Policy on other undergraduate majors, and as an AYSPS representative on the committee overseeing the creation of a dual master’s degree with Columbia Seminary. She also served as Practicum Coordinator for PAUS; advised students choosing the planning and economic development specialization in B.S.-UPS, M.S.-UPS and M.P.A.; and served on the dissertation committee for Kathy Brice, in the joint Policy Ph.D. program.

Gary T. Henry served as Chair of the dissertation committee for Craig S. Gordon, candidate for Joint Policy Ph.D., Co-Chair with George Rainbolt on the University Senate Committee on Data Management, Chair on the subcommittee on Program Data, and member of Provost’s Decision Support Committee and member of Promotion and Tenure Committee for the Department of Political Science.

Julie L. Hotchkiss served as a member on the Econometrics & Statistics, Labor Economics & Industrial Relations Educational Policies Committees within the Economics Department, and as Director of the Georgia Administrative Data Project, where she oversees the acquisition and maintenance of data files obtained through on-going contracts with the Georgia Department of Human Resources and the Georgia Department of Labor. She also served as dissertation Chair for Olga Pavlova, Generosa Kagaruki, and Roy Wada, and as member for Ikuho Kochi.

William M. Kahnweiler served as Director of the B.S.-HRP&D and M.S.-HRD degree programs. In this capacity, he provided management and oversight of the programs’ curricula, staffing, and daily operations as well as developing and executing the phase-out of both programs. He was a member of the PAUS Curriculum and Scheduling Policy Committee, served as a representative of AYSPS at Panther Preview, was AYSPS’ representative on a sub-committee of the University Senate’s Admissions and Standards committee, and served as advisor to 8 M.S.-HRD students and faculty advisor to approximately 70 B.S.-HRP&D students.

Bruce E. Kaufman served, for the Economics Department, as member of the Undergraduate Committee, Chair of the Annual Review Committee for Associate Professors, Chair of the Labor Curriculum Committee, and as a member of the AYSPS Academic Affairs Committee. He was the Master’s Thesis Supervisor for Andres Bernal, Dan Gronsbell, Joelle Abi-Hachem, Brian Maculloch, and Suvin Champa. He also gave a presentation to the GSU Economics Club, October 20, 2004.

Douglas J. Krupka served as member of Gyusuck Geon’s Thesis committee, will serve on Yao Guevera’s committee as he works on his proposal, and advised Bulent Anil on strategies for his thesis research.

Susan K. Laury served as Associate Director of the Experimental Economics Program, served on the Vice President for Research’s Advisory Committee, the Senate Research Ad Hoc Committee on the Responsible Conduct of Research, University Senate, the Senate’s Academic Programs and Continuing Education (APACE) Committee, the Graduate Committee of APACE, the Senate’s Information Technology Fee (IS&T) Committee, the Student Technology Fee Subcommittee of IS&T, the Internal Grants Program Faculty Peer Review Committee, served as the economics coordinator for the GSU Annual Giving Campaign, and as a member of the Langdale Search Committee.

Gregory B. Lewis served on the Admissions and Coordinating Committee of the Georgia Institute of Technology-Georgia State University joint Ph.D. program in public policy. He helped institute a new brown bag series of faculty and doctoral student research presentations. In the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, he served on the faculty steering committee and chairs a faculty search committee; served on the AYSPS promotion and tenure committee and co-chaired the search committee for the senior cancer scholar; served as PAUS coordinator for the University Foundation and State Charitable Campaigns; served as primary advisor for most joint doctoral students; as dissertation committee Chair for Dennis Burns and Zhenhua Hu; and member of the dissertation committees of Nevbahar Ertas, Nicole Fehrenbach, Craig Gordon, Christopher Horne, Sugie Lee, Pablo Saavedra, Eric Sarpong and Roy Wada.

Deon Locklin attended two workshops at the Center for Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, to obtain certification to teach the Learned Optimism and Resiliency model developed by Dr. Martin Seligman; public administrators and not-for-profit managers can use the model to support and sustain organizational change efforts. She also attended the Spring Conference of the Council of State Administrators for Vocational Rehabilitation, Bethesda, Md., April 26-28, 2004, and the National Rehabilitation Education Conference, Washington, D.C., October 24-26, 2004.

Jon Mansfield attended MBA Open House receptions in March, July and October 2004, representing the Economics Department; helped coordinate Economic Department response to changes in the MBA Program Proctored Masters Comprehensive exams, attended ESL 7500 International Teaching Assistants Microteaching Panel – Spring and Fall 2004, and administered (with Shelby Frost) a teaching test for new Econ Graduate Instructors. He designed the Web site for GTAs teaching undergraduate economics, offered Econ 9520 GTA Teaching Seminar Fall 2004, administered GTA Teaching Qualification test, met with the Robinson College of Business MBA Steering Committee to discuss transition to new 1.5 hour classes, and redesigned MBA courses and Web site for the transition in Fall 2004.

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez co-directed the Indonesia Masters program, oversaw and lectured during the International Studies Program eight-week Fiscal Policy Summer Training Program, and helped establish a close relationship with the Peace Corps. He served as chair of the promotion Committee for Felix Rioja and Neven Valev and the Faculty Awards Committee, served on the Recruiting Committee for the Economics Department, and served as Graduate Student Advisor of dissertation committees for Andrey Timofeev, Javier Arze (Chair), Eunice Heredia (Chair), Olga Pavlova, Sasatra Sudsawasd, Dmitry Shiskin (Chair), Pablo Saavedra (Chair), Jose Rendon-Garza (Chair), Paul Kagunda (Chair), and Li Zhang (Chair).

Robert E. Moore is Associate Dean of the College. He regularly attended and frequently organized or assisted in the organization of the following committees and groups: AYSPS Faculty meetings; AYSPS Management Committee meetings; Dean's Staff meetings; Chairs' and Deans' meetings; PR group meetings; Personnel and Facilities meetings; and Technology and Web meetings. He contributed to and reviewed the school's development of Area of Focus Proposal in International Public Finance, managed and responded to the many student appeals that are received in the Dean's Office and provided support and organizational structure to allow for the move to the new building. He has undertaken the reorganization of Dean's Office staff assignments now that the building project and move are complete. This reorganization involved the reclassification of two positions and reorganization of the PR/External Communications assignments in the AYSPS. He supervised, reviewed, and provided input for the Academic Service Unit Reviews (ASUR) in Financial Management (Dave Sandt), Academic Assistance (Sue Fagan), and Public Relations (Avani Raval/Cindy Pembroke); an action plan has been completed for Public Relations. He regularly or frequently represented the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies on the following University committees or groups: Deans Group; Administrative Council; APACE; FACP; Enrollment Strategic Management; Admissions and Standards; Cultural Diversity; CBSAC; Research Associate Deans Group; and the Pilot Mentoring Committee; and served as Chair of the Associate Vice President for Development Search Committee, which will continue into 2005.

Lloyd G. Nigro served on the Academic Programs and Certificates Committee (APACE) of the GSU Senate and as the chair of its Academic Program Review Committee, served on the Provost’s University Strategic Plan Committee, served as advisor for undergraduate and graduate students in PAUS academic programs, and served as department chair; served as advisor to approximately 20 undergraduate and 20 M.P.A. students; and jointly developed section of PAUS 8111 with Katherine Willoughby.

Ragan Petrie served on the Graduate Committee of the Economics Department, the Faculty Affairs Committee for AYSPS, three Educational Policy Committees of the Economics Department (Microeconomic Theory, Economic Development, Resource/Environmental), search committee for the Noah Langdale Chair in Environmental Economics, supervisor for Robynn Cox's Master’s paper, dissertation committee member for Xinye Zhen, and organized the annual Graduate Student Picnic in August.

Theodore H. Poister served as a member on the Faculty Senate, on the Faculty Affairs and Planning & Development Committees, as chair of the AYSPS Promotion & Tenure Committee, and as member of the PAUS Faculty Steering Committee (re-elected in 2004) and as Chair of the M.P.A. Admissions Committee.

Inas Rashad served as Temporary Research Chair for the Chronic Disease and Aging Research Team, GSU Institute of Public Health, and assisted in the Rating of International Teaching Assistants, December 2004.

Mark Rider served on the Senate by-Laws Committee, Academic Affairs Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, the IEF Scholarship Review Committee, and Director of the Undergraduate Economics Tutoring Lab; served as faculty advisor to the Summer Intern Program (David Allen), Master’s thesis faculty advisor to Aparna Krishnamoorthy and Alejandro Garcia, and he served on the dissertation committees of Jose Rendon-Garza, Dmitry Shishkin, Mohammed Vunus, Li Zhang, and Darmen Zhumadil. He served as a panel discussant for “Careers in Economics” to GSU undergraduates; as faculty advisor for Aparna Krishnamoorthy and Alejandro Garcia; as member of the dissertation committees of Jose Rendon-Garza, Dmitry Shishkin, and Li Zhang; and as reader for Mohammed Vunus and Darmen Zhumadil.

Felix Rioja served on the Graduate Committee and the Macro Policy Committee of the Economics Department; served as Doctoral Coordinator for the Economics Department; served as dissertation committee member for Jose Rendon-Garza, Arti Adji, and Asmaa El-Ganainy, and as reader for Eric Sarpong’s dissertation.

Christine H. Roch served as chair of the Committee to Assess the Impact of the B.S.-PP; served as a member of the PAUS curriculum committee, PAUS Executive Committee, B.S.-PP Implementation Committee, the Admissions and Coordinating Committee for the Joint Ph.D. Program, on the Dissertation Committees of John Matthews and Gyusuck Geon; and served as Co-coordinator of the Education Policy Lunch Speaker Series and PAUS Departmental Library Liaison.

Michael Rushton served as Chair of the Search Committee for nonprofit faculty in PAUS; member of the Search Committee for the Ramsey Chair in Nonprofit Studies; coordinator of the Nonprofit Studies Program; member of the PAUS Curriculum Committee, Performance Review Committee, and International Programs Committee (including the committee to establish a joint degree with the University of Northumbria at Newcastle), Chair of the Committee to implement the new B.S.-PP degree, and was on the dissertation committees of Christopher Horne, Ant Veysel, Ki-Whan Choi, and Asmaa El-Ganainy. He also served on the “Academic Group” of the GSU Strategic Plan; served as discussant at the session “Tax Structure Revisited” at The Challenges of Tax Reform in the Global Economy, International Studies Program, Stone Mountain, Ga., May 24-25, 2004; and served as Chair of the session “The Relationship of Equalization to Other Policies” at the Challenges in the Design of Fiscal Equalization and Intergovernmental Transfers, International Studies Program, Stone Mountain, Ga., October 3-5, 2004.

Bruce A. Seaman was the Placement Adviser for Economics Department doctoral students, 2004-2005. He served as chair of the Microeconomic Theory Committee (includes additional tutoring of doctoral students preparing for micro-theory comprehensive exam during summer semester), constructed and graded all masters micro-theory comprehensive exams, and assisted in constructing and grading Joint Policy degree program comprehensive exams. He served as dissertation committee chair for Jim Barnhart, Ant Veysel, and Peter Oburu, as member of the dissertation committee for Eric Sarpong; had regular interaction with and advised a number of undergraduate students and the Economics Club, wrote many letters on behalf of Mikhail Melnik, and specifically assisted in his obtaining job at Nicholls State University, wrote a letter on behalf of Muliadi Widjaja for grant application, served as advisor to Masters student Uli Liebensperger, and assisted with the search for a candidate for the Ramsey Chair to serve as head of the Nonprofit Studies program. He also served as an Affiliated Faculty with the Fiscal Research Program, responsible for research program in deregulated industries, and as member of the Nonprofit Studies Program. He presented “What Can Economists Say About Controversial Social Issues: The Cases of Drug and Gun Control” to the Georgia State University Economics Club, November 3, 2004.

David L. Sjoquist served as member of the School Management Committee, chair of the Search Committee for Ramsey Chair, and member of the Economics faculty search committee. He also served as member of the Steering Committee of the Atlanta Outreach Consortium (a partnership involving the Presidents and Community Outreach Staff of the four Atlanta area universities) and as Director of the Fiscal Research Center and Director of Domestic Studies, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

Charlotte Steeh served on the committee that evaluated applications for the GSU undergraduate Study Abroad program and served on C.J. Curry’s Ph.D. committee.

Paula E. Stephan lectured in Jon Mansfield’s two classes on September 28, 2004, and lectured to summer interns on June 11, 2004. She also served on Sooho Lee's dissertation committee, as member of the College P&T Committee, as chair of the Department Summer Research Program and the Committee to evaluate Associate Dean Robert Moore, and served on a Economics Department search committee for a health economist.

Gregory Streib chaired the curriculum committee in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, served on the PAUS Academic Program Review Committee, served on the public management and public policy search committee for the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, and the M.P.A. Program Assessment Committee.

Laura O. Taylor served as chair of the Ph.D. dissertation committees for Peter Bluestone, Peter Grigelis, Ikuho Kochi, and Albert Sumell, (co-chair with Paula Stephan), as a member of the Ph.D. dissertation committee for Toshi Uchida, Mamadou Sow, and Velma Zahirovic-Herbert; as Chair of the Undergraduate Programs Committee, as Associate Director of the Environmental Policy Program, as a member of the AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee, as a member of the Academic Program Review Committee for the Department of Management, as a committee member of the search committee for the Noah Langdale Chair, and as a committee member of the search committee for a junior position in economics.

Erdal Tekin served on the Graduate Committee, Summer Research Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Admissions and Coordinating Committee for the Joint Program, and organized the Child Policy Speaker Series. He served as the Advisor to the Graduate Student Association; served on the Labor/Health faculty search, Time Series Econometrics faculty search, and the faculty search committees; and served as a dissertation committee member for Olga Pavlova, Roy Wada, Albert Sumell, and Eric Sarpong.

John Clayton Thomas served on the PAUS Chair Search Committee; Public Policy and Management Search Committee; PAUS Promotion and Tenure Committee; PAUS Executive Committee; M.S.-UPS Admissions Committee; PAUS Departmental Program Review Committee; and the Cancer Scholar Search Committee. He served as the faculty coordinator for the new brochure for Master of Science in Urban Policy Studies; served on the AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee; Coordinating Committee, Joint Doctoral Program in Public Policy; and Public Policy Doctoral Program Review Committee. In the University Senate, he served on the Budget Committee of the Senate, Budget Priorities Subcommittee of the Senate Budget Committee, Bylaws and Statutes Committee of the Senate, and Enrollment Management Subcommittee of the Senate. Chris Horne successfully defended his dissertation proposal to the committee he chairs.

Geoffrey K. Turnbull served as chair of the Urban Economics Field Exam Committee, Faculty Evaluation Committee for Assistant Professors, and the Regional Faculty Search Committee, and also served on the Summer Research Grant Committee and Senate Research Committee. He served as vice-chair of the 2004 Annual Georgia State Faculty/Staff Giving Campaign and as volunteer on the AYSPS 2004 Annual Georgia State Faculty/Staff Giving Campaign.

Neven Valev directed the Summer Internship Program, designed and implemented (with Felix Rioja) the Summer Training Program in Development Macroeconomics, coordinated international recruitment for the Ph.D. program, prepared and graded the macroeconomics comprehensive exams, and worked with visitors to the International Studies Program. He also served as member of the Graduate Program committee and member of the Macro, International Economics and Economic Development field committees; served as dissertation chair for Steven Buigut and Natasha Bayda, and as member for Jose Rendon-Garza, Paul Kagundu, Edward Sennoga, Asmaa El-Ganainy and Arti Adji.

Mary Beth Walker served on the University-wide Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, faculty review committee for assistant professors, econometrics field committee of the Economics Department, the academic review committee for the University strategic plan, recruiting committee for the health/labor position in the Economics Department, recruiting committee for the econometrics position in the Economics Department, and participated in Panther Preview. She served as dissertation advisor to Hyun Jung Park, a student in the joint public policy Ph.D. program; and as dissertation chair for Mamadou Sow, a doctoral student in economics.

Sally Wallace served on the search committees for the labor/health economics search, was Chair of the Public Finance Committee, presented lectures to the students in the AYSPS Institute Summer Program on fiscal decentralization and grants, revenue assignment and fiscal architecture; served as a member of the University Senate, on the Executive Committee (strategic plan subcommittee), Internal Grants and Grant Review, Nominations Committee, Budget (priorities subcommittee), Administrative Support Unit Review Committee, and Cultural Diversity Committee; and served on numerous dissertation committees and as reader for Jose Rendon Garza, Mohammad Yunus, and Gyusuck Geon. She presented “Can Developing Countries Impose a Personal Income Tax” with James Alm, International Studies Program Conference, The Challenges of Tax Reform in a Global Economy, May 2004.

William L. Waugh, Jr. served on the University Senate’s Planning and Development Committee (chair of subcommittee on University Closing); Budget Committee (chair of joint subcommittee on Budget Priorities and Principles), and Research Committee (subcommittees on strategic planning and research integrity); the Committee for the Administrative Services Unit Review for Facilities Management (chair); Committee for the Triennial Review of the Vice President for External Affairs; the Vice President for Research’s Advisory Committee on the Conduct of Responsible Research; the University’s Ad Hoc Committee on Homeland Security; the University’s Committee on Extraordinary Events (Emergency Planning); the AYSPS Committee on Faculty Affairs; and the PAUS Committees on International Projects, Part-Time Instructors, Tenure and Promotion, and the Chair Search. He coordinated the Graduate Certificates and concentrations in natural resource management and disaster management and the M.P.A./J.D. program and was faculty advisor to the GSU chapter of Pi Alpha Alpha Honorary Society.

Katherine G. Willoughby served as Chair of the PAUS Academic Program Review Committee, as faculty liaison to the M.P.A. Advisory Board, as a member of the PAUS Faculty Search Committee for two junior positions, and as a member of the PAUS Chair Search Committee.

Yongsheng Xu served as member of the graduate committee, graduate micro committee and principles textbook committee, and was coordinator of the Master Programs in economics. He chaired the dissertation committees of Hanji Wu and Xinye Zheng, and was a member of dissertation committees of Li Zhang, Darmen Zhumadil, and Yumus Mohammad.