STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
The Andrew Young School has identified three strategic priorities it will pursue in the ongoing development of the digital landscape in the 21st century.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
The Andrew Young School has identified three strategic priorities it will pursue in the ongoing development of the digital landscape in the 21st century.
1. Policy Analytics
We Will…
Advance the field of policy analytics through the research we conduct and the courses and credentials we offer.
Actions to Date
- AYS convened a multi-institutional consortium of innovative faculty who teach and research in data science to build community, collaborate and share resources to deepen our institutional capacity to provide data science curricula.
- AYS will offer a concentration in policy analytics starting in the fall 2020 semester.
Work Group Members
- Lead: Cynthia Searcy
- Mark Reed (Criminal Justice & Criminology)
- Pierre Nguimkeu (Economics)
- Lorenzo Almada (Economics)
- Esra Tanyildiz (Public Management & Policy)
- Susan Snyder (Social Work)
2. New Technologies & Marginalization
We Will…
Identify the varying effects of new technology on marginalized groups, and anticipate future technology driven disparities to devise more inclusive interventions and policies.
Four Thematic Research Areas:
- Current and emergent marginalization: risk and disruptive factors
- New technologies and social mobility
- Government agency capacities
- Technology and the expansion of formal social control
Work Group Members
- Lead: Ann-Margaret Esnard
- Juree Capers (Public Management & Policy)
- Ann DiGirolamo (Georgia Health Policy Center)
- Thomas Goldring (Georgia Policy Labs)
- Robin Hartinger-Saunders (Social Work)
- William Sabol (Criminology & Criminal Justice)
- Vjollca Sadiraj (Economics & Experimental Center)
3. Open Access
We Will…
Develop and operate AYS Open, an open access philosophy geared toward increasing the benefit and reducing the cost of knowledge generation and dissemination and use.
Work Group Members
- Lead: Scott Jacques
- Taylor Olmstead (Dean’s Office)
- James C. Cox (Economics and ExCEN)
- Todd Swarthout (ExCEN)
- Kevin Ackaramongkolrotn (ExCEN)
- Jaro Klc (GSU Strategic Initiatives & Development)
- Richard Wright (Criminal Justice & Criminology)
- Paul Benson (ICePP)
- Lionel Scott (Social Work)
- Michael Pesko (Economics)
- Andrew Heiss (Public Management & Policy)
- La Loria Konata (GSU Library)
- Laura Burtle (GSU Library)
- Dean Dabney (Criminal Justice & Criminology)
- Marie Ouellet (Economics)
- Leah Daigle (Criminal Justice & Criminology)
- Mike Shapiro (Criminal Justice & Criminology)
- Josh Hinkle (Criminal Justice & Criminology)