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.

James Alm is Chair of the Economics Department. He was a reviewer of GSU Perspectives course proposals, a member of the AYSPS Ramsey Chair search committee, and the AYSPS Dean’s Evaluation committee, a member of the Fiscal Research Center State Fiscal Economist search committee, and Chair of the Department of Economics “any field” search committee. He was a member of the Langdale Chair search committee, W.J. Usery Chair search committee, and the public economics search committee, served as a member of the Department of Economics environmental and resources economics search committee, and a member of the Department of Economics urban and regional economics search committee. He also Chaired six dissertation committees.

Roy Bahl is Dean of the College. He served on the dissertation committees of Dmitriy V. Shishkin and Li Zhang and as Chair of the dissertation committee for Bayar Tumennasan.

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 served as the internal Account Reviewer for ISP accounts, took the lead in writing numerous project proposals, contributed to securing several other projects, and played a leading or contributing role on drafting proposals for new or follow-up activities in Tanzania for 2006, securing the Decentralized Local Government IQC (with PADCO) and securing the project “Designing a Grant Systems for Regional Councils in Namibia.” He also contributed to several articles about the ISP in The Briefing and Georgia State University Magazine. He represented the International Studies Program and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies on a number of occasions, both internally as well as externally, including presentations to the AYSPS Summer Interns and the New Faculty Orientation on behalf of the ISP; served on the Public Finance Field Committee, and presented guest lectures as part of graduate-level public finance courses for James Alm and David Sjoquist; and maintained and partially redesigned the International Studies Program web site, home to the ISP Working Paper Series and other materials relevant for fiscal policy experts and practitioners, and the ISP Update Newsletter. He served as Reader for Abel Embaye, on the Master's Thesis Committee for Jason Calder, and as Dissertation Committee Member for Abdu Muwonge, Pablo Saavedra, Dmitry Shishkin and Guevera Yao.

Carolyn Bourdeaux served as 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; and Chair of MPA/MSUPS Admissions and Recruitment Committee for PAUS. As part of the Recruitment Committee, she drafted text and oversaw development and placement of ads, posters, and electronic materials to promote MPA and MSUPS programs. The poster has been sent to over 300 schools and has been placed in strategic locations around the metro Atlanta area; ads have been placed in nonprofit and other professional newsletters and in regional college and university student and alumni publications. She developed and implemented proposals to improve recruitment, including initiation of the Dan Sweat Fellowship, and oversaw and managed spring and fall admissions processes.

Robert J. Eger III served as Liaison to the MPA Board, Coordinator of the Presidential Management Fellowship, Faculty Advisor for Students for Progressive Transit, Dissertations committee member, and Vice Chair of the 2005 Faculty and Staff Annual Giving Campaign. He served as dissertation committee member for Mohammad Yunus and Abel Embaye, and for Jerry Poppe at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Paul G. Farnham served as a course coordinator for MBA 7030, "Microeconomics for Managers," in the MBA program of the Robinson College of Business. He has been involved in ongoing negotiations with the Robinson College regarding the role of economics in the MBA program. He 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, served on the Peer Review Committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Georgia State University Seed Grant Awards in the Social & Behavioral Sciences, September 9, 2005, served on the Promotion and Tenure Committee for Patricia Ketsche in the Institute of Health Administration in RCB, served as a representative from the Economics Department on the MBA Steering Committee in RCB, served as a senator from the Economics Department in the Georgia State University Senate, and was a member of the Admissions and Standards, Budget, and Library Advisory committees. He served as dissertation committee Chair for Mercy Mvundura and committee member for Roy Wada.

Paul J. Ferraro served on the University’s Cultural Diversity Committee, the University Administrative and Support Unit Review Committee (Spring), the University’s African-American Male Initiative Committee, the Department of Economics’ Undergraduate Program Committee, the Department of Economics’ Photocopy Committee, the Department of Economics’ Educational Policy Committees for Economic Development and Resource/Environmental, the Search Committee for the Noah Langdale Chaired Professorship in the Department of Economics, and was schedule coordinator of the Department of Economics seminar series. He was Faculty Advisor to the Georgia State University Economics Club, and Faculty Coordinator of Georgia State University’s chapter of the Omicron Delta Epsilon Honors Society. He was the Committee Chair for Kwaw Andam, Vid Adrison and Ju Tsun Hsieh, and a Committee Member for Artidiatun Adji, Peter Bluestone, and Liliana Lettieri.

Shelby Frost served on the Undergraduate Program Committee and the GTA Undergraduate Teaching Committee of the Department of Economics, served as faculty advisor for all undergraduate economics majors, served as Department of Economics representative on University Senate and served as a member of four standing University Senate committees: Committee on Academic Programs, Faculty Affairs Committee, Nominations Committee, and Student Life and Development Committee. She also served on many subcommittees: ASUR review of student advising committee, grievance group, salary inversion and compression committee, non-tenure track governance committee (Chair), student activity fee committee, undergraduate program council, and social science assessment committee; represented the Department of Economics at Georgia State’s Panther Preview on November 12, 2005; attended ESL 7500 final micro-teaching seminars for economics graduate students (several different times in each semester); and served as AYSPS representative for the graduation ceremony in spring 2005.

Douglas Greenwell served on the planning committee for the Hosea Williams Award at Georgia State.

Shiferaw Gurmu served as AYSPS Coordinator for the 2004-05 State Charitable Contributions Program, as Member of the AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee, as Member of the AYSPS Web Committee, as Coordinator of the Applied Econometrics Workshop, Chair of the Econometrics Field Recruiting Committee, Chair of the Econometrics and Statistics Educational Policy Committee of the Department, and Coordinator of the Departmental Computer and Technology Activities. He served as dissertation Chair for Eric Sarpong, dissertation committee member for Ant Veysel, Generosa Kagaruki, Guevera Yao, Mohammad Yunus and Peter Oburu, and MA paper Chair for Alemayehu Muzu.

Carol D. Hansen Chaired Lori Fancher’s comprehensive exams and proposal defense, Ken Little’s dissertation data collection and analysis, served on PAUS student appeals committee, Chaired PAUS international faculty and student exchanges committee, created a proposal for new international MPA track, and created syllabi for a PAUS course that has not been taught in over a decade. She also served as advisor for all HRD-MS students.

Kenneth Heaghney guided a graduate student through analysis of the trends and status of Georgia’s unemployment insurance trust fund.

Gary T. Henry served as co-Chair of the University Data Warehouse Users Group, co-Chair of the Provost’s Data Management Committee, chair of the sub-committee on Faculty Reports, and served on the Faculty Committee for the Joint Georgia Tech and Georgia State University Policy Studies Ph.D. Program. He also chaired the Ph.D. student appeal panel.

Julie L. Hotchkiss served as Chair of the dissertation committee of Olga Pavlova and Roy Wada, as Member of Ikuhu Kochi's dissertation committee and as dissertation reader for Mercy Mvundura.

Janet L. Johnson served on Christopher Horne's dissertation committee.

William M. Kahnweiler served as Director of the B.S. HRP&D (Human Resource Policy and Development) and M.S. HRD (Human Resource Development) degree programs. In this capacity, he provided management and oversight of the programs’ phase-outs. He served as member of the PAUS Curriculum and Scheduling Policy Committee and as AYSPS representative on a sub-committee of the University Senate’s Admissions and Standards committee (Undergraduate Admissions and Standards); and led a discussion with Public Policy doctoral students on surviving the dissertation process.

Bruce E. Kaufman served as Chair of the Economics Library Committee, Member of the Economics Undergraduate Committee, Chair of the Ad Hoc subcommittee of Undergraduate Committee to develop new undergraduate major in International Economics and Modern Languages, Member of the Annual Review Committee for Associate Professors of Economics, Chair of the Labor Curriculum Committee, and Member of the AYSPS Academic Affairs Committee. He also served as Master’s Thesis Supervisor for Cheng Di, Baosen Qiao and Corby Garner, Committee Member for Olga Pavlova, Chair of the Post-tenure Review Committee for Shif Gurmu, Member of the Promotion Review Committee for Shif Gurmu and Sally Wallace, Member of the Search Committee for W.J. Usery Chair in Labor Studies. He worked with Janet Johnson on bringing Richard Freeman to AYSPS for the April W.J. Usery Lecture, and planning the Spring 2006 lecture with Alan Krueger; and organized a visit to AYSPS for 14 visiting foreign dignitaries on August 29; and gave a one-hour seminar on “The Current Situation in American Industrial Relations.”

Yuriy Kitsul served on the dissertation committee of Abel Embaye and on Econometrics and Macro Theory field committees.

Douglas J. Krupka served on the Urban/Regional search committee, participated in Urban and Regional Analysis Group discussions and activities, served as committee member for Gyusuck Geon, Guevera Yao, Bulent Anil, and Velma Zahirovic-Herbert and reviewed the master's thesis for Manish Gupta.

Glenn M. Landers mentored Kaara DeFreitas in her AYSPS Summer Policy Internship in June and July 2005.

Susan K. Laury served on the University Senate, the Senate’s Committee on Academic Programs (CAP), the Graduate Committee of CAP, the Academic Program Review Committee of CAP, the Senate’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) Committee, the Student Tech Fee Subcommittee of IS&T, the Vice President for Research’s Internal Grants Program Faculty Peer Review Committee, as a member of the Langdale Search committee (2004-05), as a member of the search committee for experimental economics (2005-06), and on Ikuho Kochi’s dissertation 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. In the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, he served on the faculty steering committee and Chaired a faculty search committee; he also served on the AYSPS promotion and tenure committee. He also served as primary advisor for most Policy joint doctoral students, as Chair of the dissertation committees for Dennis Burns and Zhenhua Hu, and on the dissertation committees of Kwaw Andam, Nevbahar Ertas, Nicole Fehrenbach, Christopher Horne, Sugie Lee, Mercy Mvundura, Pablo Saavedra, Eric Sarpong, and Roy Wada.

Jon Mansfield attended MBA Open House receptions in March, July and October of 2005, representing the Economics Department, helped coordinate Economic Department response to changes in MBA Program, attended ESL 7500 International Teaching Assistants Microteaching Panel in Spring and Fall 2005, administered with Shelby Frost a teaching test for new Econ Graduate Instructors. He served as co-Chair of the MBA Program Committee for the Economics Department, Chair of the GTA Undergraduate Teaching Committee with Shelby Frost and Liz Kozlovski, 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 the MBA course for the Global Partners MBA Program.

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, Technology and Web meetings; he managed and responded to the many student appeals that are received in the Dean's Office; he continued with replacement due to turnover and subsequent reorganization of Dean's Office staff assignments, involving the reclassification of four positions and interviewing/hiring for two positions; reclassified and hired a new AYS Director of Development; supervised, reviewed, and provided input on two Academic Service Unit Reviews (ASUR) in Academic Assistance: Class Scheduling and Undergraduate Advisement (Sue Fagan). He regularly or frequently represented the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies on the following University committees or groups: Deans' Group, Administrative Council, CAP, FACP, Enrollment Strategic Management, Admissions and Standards, Cultural Diversity, CBSAC, Research Associate Deans' Group, Associate Deans' Graduate Group, and the Pilot Mentoring Committee; and he served as Chair of the Associate Vice President for Development Search Committee, but this search was discontinued in early 2005 due to lack of funds. He served as a reader on the dissertation committee of Peter Oburu.

Harvey K. Newman served as Faculty Adviser of the Eta Gamma Chapter of the Sigma Nu Fraternity. He served on AYSPS Academic Programs Committee, as a Member of the Search Committee for the Ramsey Chair in Nonprofit Studies, as Member of Committee to Evaluate Dean Roy Bahl, as Member of the Search Committee for an Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Studies, on the PAUS Promotion and Tenure Committee, as Graduate Faculty, on the PAUS Ad Hoc Committee on Writing Across the Curriculum course, on the PAUS Committee on Learning Outcomes for the BS and MS in Urban Policy Studies degree programs, as a Member of the Selection Committee for Awards in the Urban Policy Studies Program, and as a Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee for the M.S.-UPS Program.

Lloyd G. Nigro served as Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies through July 2005. He served as Chair of the Academic Program Review Committee of the University Senate’s Committee on Academic Programs, member of the University Strategic Planning Committee, and member of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies Academic Program Review Action Plan Committee. He advised MPA students in the HR track, Public Health track, Criminal Justice track, and MPA/JA degree program.

Ragan Petrie served on the Graduate Committee of the Department of Economics, the Microeconomics Comprehensive Exam Committee, the Faculty Affairs Committee for AYSPS, three Educational Policy Committees of the Department of Economics on Microeconomic Theory, Economic Development and Resource/Environmental, search committee for the Experimental Economics position, served as supervisor for Master’s paper (Sarah Jacobsen and Michael Arjona), dissertation committee member for Xinye Zheng, Hanji Wu and Abdu Muwonge, and organized the annual Graduate Student Picnic in August 2005. She also co-organized with Jim Cox, Todd Swarthout, Susan Laury, Laura Taylor, and Shelby Frost the series of Workshops on Using Experiments in the Classroom, Fall 2005, and presented in and organized sessions on how to use experiments to illustrate opportunity costs, markets, and demand.

David W. Pitts served as a member of the PAUS curriculum committee and a member of a committee to revitalize the Human Resource Management curriculum in the PAUS Department. He also served as Dissertation committee member for Sue Frank.

Theodore H. Poister served as Chair of a post-tenure review committee for John Thomas, on post-tenure review committee for Atef Ghobrial, as Member of the MPA admissions committee, as Member of the MPA Assessment Tool Committee, and as faculty adviser for the newly formed PAUS Graduate Student Association. He also served as Chair of the AYSPS Committee on Promotion.

Inas Rashad served on the Undergraduate Program Committee and oversaw tracking exams, and served as Temporary Research Chair for the Chronic Disease and Aging Research Team at the Georgia State Institute of Public Health. She also served as member of Mercy Mvundura’s dissertation committee, advisor to Eric Sarpong, and member of Lei Zhang’s comprehensive exam committee.

Mark Rider served on the Academic Program Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Deans’ Ad Hoc Committee on Collaboration between AYSPS and the Department of Political Science, and the University Senate’s By-Laws and Statutes Committee. He also directed the Undergraduate Economics Tutoring Lab. He served as dissertation committee member for Christine Moloi and Jose Rendon-Garza, and as reader for Peter Oburu, Mohammed Vunus, Li Zhang and Xinje Zheng.

Felix Rioja was the Keynote Speaker for the induction ceremony of the GSU chapter of Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, April 2005. He served on the Graduate Committee and the Macro Policy Committee of the Department of Economics and served as Doctoral Coordinator for the Department of Economics. He served as committee member for Arti Adji, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Steven Buigut and Jose-Rene Rendon Garza.

Christine H. Roch served as member of the University Senate, Senate Research Committee, Senate Research Internal Grants Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs, PAUS Executive Committee, PAUS Curriculum Committee, BSPP Implementation Committee, The Admissions and Coordinating Committee for the Joint Ph.D. Program, Nevbahar Ertas’ Dissertation Committee, John Matthews’ Dissertation Committee, and Reader for Velma Zahirovic-Herbert’s Dissertation Proposal Defense; and served as Co-coordinator of the Education Policy Lunch Speaker Series and PAUS Departmental Library Liaison.

Michael Rushton served as Chair of the Curriculum Committee and Chair of the Faculty Search Committee, and was on the International Programs Committee for PAUS. He served on the dissertation committees of Ki-Whan Choi, Asmaa Adel El-Ganainy and Zhenhua Hu.

Bruce A. Seaman served as Member of the Board of Regents Economic Impact Task Force, Placement Adviser for economics department doctoral students, Chair of the Microeconomic Theory Committee (includes additional tutoring of doctoral students preparing for micro-theory comprehensive exam, summer semesters); led the committee in developing a proposal for changes in the administration of the Microeconomics Theory Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam (now being considered by the Graduate Committee), constructed and graded all master's micro-theory comprehensive exams, and assisted in constructing and grading Joint Policy degree program comprehensive exams. He served as dissertation committee Chair for Ant Veysel and Peter Oburu, Member of the dissertation committee for Eric Sarpong and Zhenhua Hu, and served as outside reader for dissertation proposal defense for Mamadou and 3 others. He had regular interaction with and advised a number of undergraduate students; served as informal adviser to the Economics Club and club president Ben Le and vice president Glenn Patterson; as annual host of the Fall Economics Club mixer; wrote many letters on behalf of students for admission to law school or graduate school; served as Affiliated Faculty with the Fiscal Research Program, Andrew Young School; was responsible for research program in deregulated industries, and served as Member of the Nonprofit Studies Program; Member of the University Faculty Senate (and two subcommittees) and Member of the AYSPS Faculty Affairs Committee.

David L. Sjoquist is the Director of the Fiscal Research Center and Director of Domestic Studies at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He served as Member of the School Management Committee, as Chair of the Search Committee for Ramsey Chair, as Member of the Economics faculty search committee, as Member of the Departmental Associate Professors’ Annual Review Committee, and 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). He was a member of the dissertation committees for Peter Grigelies, Peter Bluestone, Gyusuck Geon, and chair for Ki-Whan Choi and Bulent Anil.

Paula E. Stephan served on the dissertation committees of Eric Sarpong and A.J. Sumell, worked with Zeynep Alkan (Policy Ph.D. candidate) on her dissertation proposal, served on the committee to evaluate full professors, and Chaired the summer research committee.

Gregory Streib is Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies. He Chaired the PAUS curriculum committee for part of the year, 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 MPA Program Assessment Committee. He also began a term on the university senate this fall.

Laura O. Taylor served as Chair of the Undergraduate Program Committee, Environmental Policy Committee, served as an advisor to a summer intern as part of the NSF-funded summer internship program, served as host for an international scholar from the Danish National Environmental Institute, September/October 2005, served as Associate Director of the Environmental Policy Program, served as a member of the AYSPS management committee, served on an adhoc committee to explore potential joint academic programs between AYSPS and the Department of Political Science, served as coordinator and host for lecture by Bruce Babbitt, former secretary of the Interior, October 2005, served on an AYSPS academic dishonesty committee, served as a member of the AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee, served on the committee to evaluate the Dean of AYSPS, served on the annual review committee for Assistant Professors in the Department of Economics, served as the Economics Advisor for the concentration in Natural Resource Management of the Masters of Public Administration, served as departmental representative to the American Economics Association' Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, served on the search committee for the Noah Langdale Chair, and served as a committee member of the search committee for a junior position in economics (any field). She served as Chair of the dissertation committees for Peter Bluestone, Peter Grigelis (graduated Summer 2005), Ikuho Kochi, and Albert Sumell (graduated Dec. 2005), and member of the dissertation committee for Mamadou Sow and Velma Zahirovic-Herbert.

Erdal Tekin served as the Director of Georgia Administrative Data Project for the Fiscal Research Center, co-authored two papers with Lakshmi Pandey and Sally Wallace as Policy Briefs for the Georgia Health Policy Center, served on the Graduate Committee, Summer Research Committee, as advisor to the Graduate Student Association, on the Admissions and Coordinating Committee for the Joint Program, as a member of the Usery Chair Search Committee (Fall 2005), the Labor/Health faculty search committee (Spring 2005), the Time Series Econometrics faculty search committee (Spring 2005), and the Any Field faculty search committee (Spring 2005), and served on the organizing committee for the Child Policy Symposium, Spring/Fall 2005. He served as dissertation committee member for Olga Pavlova, Roy Wada, Albert Sumell, Eric Sarpong, Bulent Anil, Mercy Mvundura and committee supervisor for Djesika Amendah.

John Clayton Thomas served on the PAUS Chair Search Committee, Public Policy and Management Search Committee, PAUS Promotion and Tenure Committee, PAUS Executive Committee, MSUPS Admissions Committee, and the PAUS Departmental Program Review Committee. He also served on the AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee and the Coordinating Committee for the Joint Doctoral Program in Public Policy. He served on the Senate, Budget Committee of the Senate, Budget Priorities Subcommittee of the Senate Budget Committee, Bylaws and Statutes Committee of the Senate, and the Enrollment Management Subcommittee of the Senate. He served as Chair of the dissertation committees of Christopher Horne and Shena Ashley.

Andrey Timofeev served as a dissertation member for Dmitry Shishkin.

Geoffrey K. Turnbull Chaired the Urban Economics Ph.D. Examination Committee, the Assistant Professor Annual Evaluation Committee, and the Third-Year Faculty Review Committee in the Department of Economics, and served on the Microeconomics Ph.D. Examination Committee, the Department of Economics Summer Research Grant Committee, and the Urban-Regional Faculty Search Committee in the Department of Economics. He also Chaired the University Faculty Awards Committee and the Examination Committee for Joint Georgia Tech-Georgia State Policy Program. He served as dissertation committee member for Bulent Anil, Ki-Whan Choi, Dianne Weinman and Dmitry Shishkin; as dissertation Chair for Gyusuck Geon, Velma Zahirovic-Herbert, John Matthews, Robert Salvino and Mike Tasto; and as master's paper supervisor for Ignacio Navarro.

Eric C. Twombly was the Campaign Coordinator for Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in the State of Georgia’s Charitable Contributions Program and served as a member of the MPA Admissions Committee. He served as a member of King Owalla's dissertation committee.

Beverly Tyler presented the Critical Conditions Workshop on advance care planning for staff of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, November 8, 2005.

Neven Valev directed the Summer Internship Program, for which he compiled a list of department Chairs from minority colleges and universities in the U.S. and a list of small regional colleges in Georgia to heavily advertise the program in these schools. As a result, there were four strong African-American female participants, fulfilling one of the important mandates of the program to extend opportunities to underrepresented groups. He compiled a research report with Felix Rioja on the effects of the growing Hispanic population on the state of Georgia, which addressed issue in the labor markets, the financial sector, the education system and the health care system. He served as member of the Graduate Program committee, prepared and advertised with Felix Rioja the Summer Macroeconomics Training course, served as member of the Macro, International Economics and Economic Development field committees, participated in three mock interviews of job market candidates from the doctoral program, prepared and graded the macroeconomics comprehensive exams, and worked with visitors to the International Studies Program, Benno Torgler and Konstantin Pashev.

Mary Beth Walker served on the University-wide Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, on the econometrics field committee of the Department of Economics, served on the academic review committee for the University strategic plan, and served on the recruiting committee for the econometrics position in the Department of Economics. She Chaired dissertation committees for Hyun Park, Mamadou Sow and Kyoungwoo Lee, and served as committee member for Asmaa El-Ganainy, Paul Kagunda, Edward Sennoga, Li Zhang, Bulent Anil, Bayar Tummenasan, Christine Moloi, Ikuho Kochi and Alfred Kopi-Soffka.

Sally Wallace served on two search committees for departmental search, as Chair of the Public Finance Committee in the Department of Economics, and presented lectures to the students in the AYSPS Institute Summer Program on fiscal decentralization and grants, revenue assignment and fiscal architecture. She served as mentor for the American Economic Association Pipeline Mentor’s Program for Robyn Cox, helped establish a graduate student travel fund, served as “advisor” for graduate student roundtable initiative, served on numerous dissertation committees, as Chair for Christine Moloi and Abdu Muwonge, and also served as reader for Mohammad Yunus, Peter Oburu and Abel Embaye.

William L. Waugh, Jr. served as the coordinator of the MPA/JD program, the Natural Resource Management Program, and the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Management; served as faculty advisor for the Georgia State Chapter of Pi Alpha Alpha, the National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration; served on the University Senate Executive Committee, Planning and Development Committee, and Budget Committee; served on the review committee for the Department of Respiratory Therapy; Chaired the search committee for the new PAUS Chair; served on the AYSPS faculty affairs committee; and served on the PAUS MPA admissions committee, a promotion and tenure committee, a post-tenure review committee, human resources management specialization committee, and the international programs committee.

Laura A. Wheeler served on the search committee for a Senior Research Associate for the Fiscal Research Center, Fall 2005.

Katherine G. Willoughby served as Chair of the PAUS Academic Program Committee, as a member of PAUS Search Committees for the department Chair and for junior faculty, as a faculty mentor to Carolyn Bourdeaux, as a member of the AYSPS and PAUS Academic Program Committees, as a faculty liaison with Robert Eger and Theodore Poister to the MPA Advisory Board, and as co-coordinator with Greg Streib of the PAUS Internship Program.

Yongsheng Xu served as member of the graduate committee, graduate micro committee and principles textbook committee, served as Coordinator of the Master Programs in economics, and coordinated the Economics Seminar Series in 2005. He served as Chair of dissertation committees for Hanji Wu and Xinye Zheng, Member of dissertation committees for Shiyuan Chen, Abdu Muwonge, Raul Alberto Ponce, Mohammad Yunus, and Li Zhang, and as Reader for Steven K. Buigut and Peter Oburu.

Dennis R. Young served as Director of the Nonprofit Program for the Andrew Young School. He advised PAUS doctoral students Sheena Ashley and Taehyun Jung.