Honorary Conference Chairs 2010 Honorary Conference Chairs

Walter D. Broadnax a distinguished professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of . Until August 2008, Broadnax was presi­ dent of Clark University (CAU). Currently the largest of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) institutions, CAU was established in 1988 with the consoli­ dation of two historic institutions, Atlanta University (1865) and Clark College (1869). Prior to his presidency at , Broadnax served as Dean of the School of Public Affairs at in Washington, D.C., and as professor of public policy and management in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, where he also directed the Bureau of Governmental Research. For a six-year period from 1981 to 1987, Broadnax was a full-time faculty mem­ ber at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1993 Walter Broadnax to 1996, he was the deputy secretary and chief operating officer of the U.S. Distinguished Professor of Department of Health and Human Services. Public Administration In prior years, he held key positions in state government, as president of the Maxwell School New York Civil Service Commission and as the director of Children, Youth and Syracuse University Adult Services for the State of Kansas. Broadnax currently serves on the Advisory Board of Harvard University's Taubman Center and is Trustee Emeritus of Syracuse University. ·

Camilla Stivers is distinguished professor emerita, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, where she held the Levin chair in urban studies and public service for five years. She has been a member of ASPA since 1979. Stivers is a two-time winner of the Rita Mae Kelly award given by the Section on Women in Public Administration for distinguished research. She has authored or co-authored several books including Governance in Dark Times: Practical Philosophy for Public Service (2008), which received the Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration. Stivers was associate editor of Public Administration Review (PAR) and editor of the University of Alabama book series, "Public Administration: Criticism and Creativity." She also spent nearly nearly two decades as a practicing manager in Camilla Stivers community-based nonprofit organizations and taught at The Evergreen State Professor Emerita College. Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs Cleveland State University

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