ANDREW YOUNG SCHOOL of POLICY STUDIES The

ANDREW YOUNG SCHOOL OF POLICY STUDIES The

BriefingSummer 2009 Dean’s Corner

Where in the World is the Andrew Young School?

Atlanta, of course. relocated across the United States, from Florida to California To be more specific, and stretching north to Minnesota and New Hampshire, with we are located in a nice contingent building in Washington, D.C. the historic heart of Atlanta at Five Our Ph.D. alumni constitute a small, yet significant, part of the Points, the crossroad Andrew Young School’s total global impact. AYS graduates at where Atlanta began. all degree levels have landed highly placed positions in national We are within and local government policy agencies and departments, corpo- the expanding rations and consulting firms. In 2008-2009 alone, our Interna- urban boundaries tional Studies Program provided policy advice and technical of Georgia State University, which sits among business and assistance to governments in Egypt, Pakistan, India, Peru, Vietnam, government office buildings, street-level retail shops, residential Macedonia, Laos and the Congo. Locally, Georgia’s elected offi- high-rises, public parks and busy thoroughfares. cials often turn to our Fiscal Research Center for policy advice and training, while our Georgia Health Policy Center works with We are a relatively young policy school and have been in our health care planners and policy makers around the country. current building only about four years now. There are still days that I believe I could stop a random passerby in front of our As the world becomes more closely connected, governments building and ask him where the Andrew Young School is, and will face ever greater policy challenges. We have every reason he might not know he is standing in front of it! This is, in equal to believe that the Andrew Young School’s programs, faculty, parts, the frustration, the challenge, and the opportunity that students, and most important, its alumni, will significantly influ- comes with being in a university that is not apart from, but ence policy in various arenas all over the world. a part of, a great international city. The question may well soon become: where in the world are Perhaps the more telling question is not where are we located, we not? but where is our influence being felt? We recently traced the placements of our 54 Ph.D. graduates in Economics and Public Policy during the last four years. They literally span the globe, from Mexico to Ireland, Serbia to Uganda, Germany to China, Robert Moore and Botswana to Indonesia. Thirty-five of our Ph.D. alumni have Interim Dean, October 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009

Georgia State University Georgia State University, a unit Mark P. Becker Avani Raval Andrew Young School of the University System of President Dean’s Office Administrator of Policy Studies Georgia, is an equal opportunity Georgia State University Jennifer Giarratano The Briefing educational institution and an Ron Henry Editor Summer Issue – 2009 equal opportunity/affirmative Provost and Vice President action employer. Gayon McFarquhar-Johnson of Academic Affairs The Office of the Dean Leah Seupersad, publishes The Briefing for alumni, For more information on W. Bartley Hildreth University Relations friends, faculty and staff of the the Andrew Young School, Dean Contributing Writers Andrew Young School of Policy contact us: Studies, Georgia State University, Phone: 404-413-0023 Robert E. Moore Meg Buscema P.O. Box 3992, Atlanta, GA Fax: 404-413-0021 Associate Dean Carolyn Richardson Avani Raval 30302-3992. [email protected] Bill Doerr Photographers www.andrewyoungschool.org Development Director contents AYS Ne w s Georgia officials fill Fiscal Research Center’s property tax conference to capacity . . . . 2 Dean W. Bartley Hildreth to direct the ASY...... 4 Newman is named chair of PMAP. . 5 The AYS and Robinson College of Business partner on new reasearch center...... 5 AYSPS Worldwide Ph.D. Placements from 2006–08...... 6

2 | Georgia officials fill Fiscal Research Center’s property tax conference to capacity AYS celebrates unveiling of Roy Bahl portrait...... 8 Academic director gives the PMAP student experience a total makeover...... 9

Re a c h i n g Ou t Experts examine challenges to fiscal decentralization at ISP conference ...... 10 AYS partners with 18 | Broadening the policy conversation on trauma care Cairo University...... 11 GHPC awards unique Legislative Health Policy Certificate...... 12 PMAP offers new degree programs & concentrations. . . . 14 Nonprofit leadership training taps into deep talent pool . . . . 16 5 | Newman is named chair of PMAP Broadening the policy conversation on trauma care. . . 18

Experts examine challenges to fiscal Study abroad 10 | decentralization at ISP conference 32 | programs Po l i c y Re s e ar c h Property taxes the focus of FRC Research...... 20 Income taxes and the elderly. . . 22 Representation plays a critical role in policy design...... 23

Fa c u l t y To d ay ...... 24

St u d e n t s To d ay ...... 31

Al u m n i To d ay ...... 37 34 | AYS celebrates 13th Annual Honors22 Day 23 9 | Academic director gives the PMAP student experience a total makeover Fr i e n d s To d ay ...... 41

Andrew Young School The Briefing | 1 Georgia officials

Fiscal Research Center’s property tax conference tocapacity More than 300 elected officials and public The topic also garnered serious attention from the media. administrators from around Georgia attended a prop- Articles in the Atlanta Business Chronicle and several Morris erty tax conference sponsored by the Andrew Young School’s newspapers, including the Florida Times-Union, featured Fiscal Research Center in September. Titled “Towards a Better comments from presenter Mark Haveman, executive director Understanding of Property Taxes & Proposed Policies,” the of the Minnesota Taxpayers Association, Rep. Chip Rogers conference was designed to provide the state’s fiscal gate (R-Woodstock) and Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ranger). keepers an opportunity to learn more about how property taxes, assessment limitations and levy caps work. The conference was organized and planned with the assistance of representatives of the Association of County Commission- “Assessment caps or ‘freezes’ have been on the radar of the ers Georgia, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, the General Assembly each of the last three years. Our goal for Georgia Municipal Association, the Georgia Public Policy the program was to present an unbiased view of assessment Foundation, the Governor’s Office, the Senate Finance Com- limitations,” says Professor David Sjoquist, director of the Fiscal mittee and the House Ways and Means Committee. Additional Research Center and Domestic Programs. Fiscal policy experts presenters included Professor Sjoquist, who holds the Dan E. showed Georgia’s leading policymakers how the property tax Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational and Community works in Georgia; reviewed its growth and alternative policies Policy; Sally Wallace, professor of Economics in the Andrew like assessment limitations, caps and exemptions that limit its Young School and associate director of the Fiscal Research growth; and shared what other states have learned as they Center; Vicki Lambert, director of the Local Government have wrestled with the same issues. The objective was to pro- Services Division of the Georgia Department of Revenue; vide a better understanding of the implications of assessment Nancy McCallin, president of the Colorado Community caps and what has happened in other states that have done it. College System and former executive director of Colorado’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting; Richard Hawkins, The day-long session attracted an audience that at times filled associate professor of Economics at the University of West Georgia’s Capitol Education Center auditorium beyond capac- Florida and principal associate with the Fiscal Research Center; ity with elected officials and staff from and Jay Wortley, the General Assembly, city councils, senior economist for county commissions, school boards, the Michigan Senate state agencies and universities. Inter- Fiscal Agency. ested community leaders were also in attendance. Presentations are available at “Folks are listening,” says Sjoquist, http://aysps.gsu.edu/ who has since seen some of the frc/index.html. facts that were presented at this conference used by local governments in other meetings.

Top center (left to right), Dan Ray and Jim Davis. Right (left to right), GA Rep. Richard Royal, Nancy McCallin, Mark Haveman, W. Jay Wortley and Richard Hawkins. Above, AYS Professor Dave Sjoquist, director of the Fiscal Research Center and Domestic Studies.

Andrew Young School AYS News | 3 Dean W. Bartley Hildreth to direct the AYS W. Bartley Hildreth became dean who will be instrumental in creating and implementing the of the Andrew Young School of school’s further growth and prominence.” Policy Studies on July 1. Hildreth succeeds Regents Professor Roy Bahl, An expert on municipal securities, public budgeting, and who helped create Georgia State state and local finance, Hildreth holds a Ph.D. in Public University’s newest school and served Administration from the University of Georgia and an M.P.A. as its dean from 1996 until 2007. from Auburn University at Montgomery. He directed the Kansas Public Finance Center since 1994 and was interim Hildreth came to AYS from the Hugo Wall School of Urban dean for Wichita State’s business school from 2007 to 2008. and Public Affairs at Wichita State University, where he had been the Regents Distinguished Professor of Public Finance and Hildreth received the 2008 Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for a faculty member of the W. Frank Barton School of Business. lifetime scholarly achievement in public budgeting and finance. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2005, he served as a visiting research “It is an honor to be selected to lead the Andrew Young chair in public policy at McGill University in Montreal. He School, a top-ranked policy school known for its scholarly con- has served on the National Advisory Council on State and tribution and policy advice in Atlanta and in capitals around the Local Budgeting and the Governmental Accounting Standards globe,” says Hildreth. “Ambassador Andrew Young said the Advisory Council. world calls all of us to leadership. My job is to keep that vision alive during the Andrew Young School’s next stage of growth AYS Professor Gregory Lewis, who chaired the search commit- as a creative leader in the world of policy studies.” tee, believes that Hildreth’s leadership capabilities and his scholarly reputation will help provide visibility for the AYS. “Bart is Upon announcing Hildreth’s appointment, Provost Ron Henry an excellent and well-known scholar in an area that fits really said: “The AYS has attained an outstanding reputation since its well with the AYS,” he says. inception. It is felt that Bart Hildreth will be a leader of vision AYS Advisory Board commends ınterım dean Associate Dean Robert Moore (right), who served as interim dean of the AYS, was formally recognized by the AYS Advisory Board for his exemplary service to the school. Moore filled the position after former dean James Alm took leave for health-related reasons.

Moore focused his efforts on the growth and progress of the school. “The school is in great shape for our new dean,” he says. “We have the best Dean’s Office staff in the university, and the day-to-day business activities of the office have gone without a hitch. We continue to lead theuniversity in externally funded research, according to the latest Research Office report. We have updated and enhanced our curriculum, and several significant proposals are in progress.”

Following Moore’s move, Economics Professor Mary Beth Walker (left) accepted a temporary appointment as interim associate dean. She has since been asked to chair the Economics department effective July 15.

“Mary Beth graciously agreed to accept this responsibility and help guide the Dean’s Office,” says Moore. “I have appreciated having her assistance and insight on the many issues that have come to the office.”

4 | AYS News www.andrewyoungschool.org Newman is named chair of PMAP

Professor Harvey Newman was appointed chair of the “Fifty students showed up Department of Public Management and Policy in April 2008. last fall at the first meeting He replaced PMAP Professor Greg Streib, who returned his of our student organization, focus to research and teaching after chairing the department the PMAP Community Net- for three years. work, for our Stump Harvey Newman Night. Normally Newman’s tenure at Georgia State predates the founding of about five students would the Andrew Young School. He joined the university as a gradu- come,” she says. ate research assistant in 1970 and in 1971 became an assistant in the Dean’s Office of the College of Urban Life. He developed “The main thing I bring to Georgia State’s first nonprofit management program in 1975 this position is experience and chaired the Department of Urban Studies in the College within the university,” says of Public and Urban Affairs from 1981 until 1987. His research Newman. “Our PMAP focus is nonprofit and economic development policy, particu- faculty and staff bring a larly tourism. wealth of knowledge and talent into the classroom.” Newman is a board member for several nonprofit groups and Newman says he will con- a frequent speaker in a variety of settings, including the Executive tinue teaching, researching Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations. He directs and working with PMAP the educational programs for the Nonprofit Studies Program, faculty to develop courses and in 2007 he co-developed and now teaches the AYS’s wildly for new and existing degree popular fall course, Policy Leadership, with Professor Michael programs in public policy. Mescon, a member of the AYS Advisory Board and dean emeri- He also promises to resurrect his downtown Atlanta walking tus of the Robinson College of Business. tour in the spring.

Newman is as well known for his inexhaustible knowledge of “Professor Newman brings a wealth of experience in PMAP the history of Atlanta’s economic and community development to PMAP,” says Interim Dean Robert Moore. “His credentials as he is for his policy research, teaching and leadership in local and credibility have allowed him to hit the ground running, and national nonprofit organizations. engaging the faculty in developing important, significant changes to curriculum and program improvements in the department. “Harvey is like a rolodex,” says Maggie Tolan, the department’s We expect to continue to see exciting new programs originating new academic programs director. “His Atlanta knowledge in this department.” and connections are invaluable to our students and our work.

The AYS and Robinson College of Business partner on new research center

AYS economists are a key element you’re interested in doing research fraud, natural disaster, man-made calamity in the new Center for the Economic on topics related to risk. This is a great or liquidity crisis, the ability of individuals, Analysis of Risk under development by opportunity for us to make an impact organizations and societies to anticipate the Department of Risk Management on academic research and policy,” and manage risk is becoming more and and Insurance at the J. Mack Robinson says Associate Professor Susan Laury, more critical,” he says. College of Business in partnership with associate director of the Experimental the AYS and the Federal Reserve Bank Economics Center. The center is funded by a unique ”Areas of Atlanta. The first research center of of Focus” program in which Georgia its kind in the world, CEAR will manage CEAR will bring together some of State University provides internal grants a “virtual” network of 100 economists the top minds from around the world to units based on the merit and potential who address risk-related problems. to study and find solutions for even impact of a project. The new CEAR the most complex risk-related problems, initiative will be funded at $1.4 million “We expect that CEAR will put us agrees Robinson College of Business per year. on the map as the place to go when Dean H. Fenwick Huss. ”Be it fire or

Andrew Young School AYS News | 5 Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTICUnited S tatOCEANes AL – Alabama Nevbahar Ertas, Ph.D. Policy, ’07 University of Alabama at Birmingham CA – California Roy S. Wada, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 University of California, Los Angeles & RAND Corporation Postdoctoral Appointment Ignacio A. Navarro, Ph.D. Policy, ’08 California State University, Arctic Circle Monterey Bay CO – Colorado Ikuho Kochi, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Colorado State University DC – Washington, D.C. Asmaa El-Ganainy, Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Ireland

International Monetary Fund Roman Raab  Abdu Muwonge, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Ph.D. Economics, ’08 The World Bank National University

of Ireland at Galway  Angelino Viceisza, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 International Food Policy Research Institute MN NH NY CO IN OH   DC CA MO  PACIFIC SC PACIFIC ALGA A TLANTIC Kwaw S. Andam, Ph.D. Policy, ’08 International Food Policy FL Research Institute Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Cancer Mexico FL – Florida Jose Rendon-Garza Hai Guo, Ph.D. Policy, ’08  Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Florida International University Ministry of Finance, Mexico OCEAN GA – Georgia Raul A. Ponce Kathryn T. Brice, Ph.D. Policy, ’05 Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Director, CommunityEquator Economic Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez Equator INDIAN Equator Development Institute, Georgia Tech Christopher S. Horne, Ph.D. Policy, ’05 Kennesaw State University OCEAN OCEAN John W. Matthews, Ph.D. Policy, ’06 Georgia State University (FRC) Paul Kagundu, Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Tropic of Capricorn Peter Bluestone, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Catherine P. Slade, Ph.D. Policy, ’08Tropic of Capricorn Tropic of Capricorn Georgia State University (Econ) Georgia State University (FRC) University of Georgia Institute for Eunice Heredia, Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Djesika Amendah, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Behavioral Research Georgia State University (ISP) Centers for Disease Control – Zeynep E. Tanyildiz, Ph.D. Policy, ’08 Olga Pavlova, Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Prevention Research Branch Georgia State University (PMAP) OCEAN InterContinental Hotels Group Mercy Mvundura, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Monica L. Oliver, Ph.D. Policy, ’08 Guevera A. Yao, Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Centers for Disease Control – independent consultant Georgia State University (ISP) Prevention Research Branch IN – Indiana Abel Embaye, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Dmitry Shishkin, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Eric M. Sarpong, Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Georgia State University (Econ) Georgia Gwinnett College Eli Lilly Velma Zahirovic-Herbert, Jungbu Kim, Ph.D. Policy, ’07 Ph.D. Economics ’07 Georgia State University (FRC) MN – Minnesota University of Georgia – Griffin Bulent Anil, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Nara F. Monkam, Ph.D. Economics, ’08 University of Minnesota – Duluth Georgia State University (FRC)

6 | AYS News www.andrewyoungschool.org Worldwide Ph.D. Placements from 2006–08

ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN

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China Li Zhang Ph.D. Economics, ’05 Germany Central University of Finance & Economy Hyun Jung Park Xinye Zheng Ph.D. Policy, ’06 Ph.D. Economics, ’05 United Nations Renmin University, Beijing Framework Convention

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 Ph.D. Policy, ’08

 Pudong Software Park Co., Ltd., Shanghai

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 Nikola Tasic  South Korea Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Bangladesh  National Bank of Serbia Mohammad Yunus Kyoungwoo Lee

PACIFIC Ph.D. Economics, ’07PACIFIC

Ph.D. Economics, ’06  A TLANTIC Korea Digital University Central Bank of Bangladesh Dubai  Steven K. Buigut Taiwan Tropic of Cancer Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Tropic of Cancer Ming-Hung Yao American University  of Dubai Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Tunghai University  OCEAN Thailand Uganda Panupong Panudulkitti Equator Equator Edward Sennoga INDIAN Ph.D.Equator Economics, ’07 Indonesia  Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Royal Thai Police, Artidiatun Adji

Makerere University Metropolitan  Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Traffic Division Universitas Gadjah Mada OCEAN OCEAN Vid Adrison Botswana Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Universitas Indonesia Christine E. Moloi Tropic of Capricorn Tropic of Capricorn Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Tropic of Capricorn Riatu Qibthiyyah  Bank of Botswana Ph.D. Economics, ’08 University in Jakarta

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MO – Missouri NY – New York OH – Ohio Shiyuan Chen, Ph.D. Economics, ’08 Ki-Whan Choi, Ph.D. Economics, ’06 Albert Sumell, Ph.D. Economics, ’05 Microfinance Risk Management, LLC University of Buffalo Youngstown State University NH – New Hampshire Zhenhua Hu, Ph.D. Policy, ’06 SC – South Carolina Mike T. Tasto, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 HSBC Bank (NYC) Robert Salvino, Ph.D. Economics, ’07 Southern New Hampshire University Shena Ashley, Ph.D. Policy, ’07 Coastal Carolina University Syracuse University (PMAP)

Andrew Young School AYS News | 7 Faculty, family and friends joined Regents Professor and AYS founding Dean Roy Bahl on Nov. 30, 2007, to celebrate the unveiling of his portrait. It hangs in the front lobby of the school, joining the portrait of AYScelebrates Andrew Young that was unveiled in 2005. unveılıng of Royportraıt Bahl

W.J. Usery, Dean Roy Bahl and Janet Johnson

Andrew Young and Dean Roy Bahl

Dean Roy Bahl and Rossin, the artist

Dean Roy Bahl is joined by his wife Marilyn (left) and his daughters, Ashleigh and Renee, as he addresses the gathering.

8 | AYS News www.andrewyoungschool.org academic director gives the PMAP student experience a total makeover

“The AYS Public thing tangible when they graduate,” she says. “Our goal is to see Management and every student build a two- or four-year plan that is purposeful Policy program allows about what they’re doing inside and outside of the classroom.” Georgia State students top-caliber faculty at the “Maggie’s comprehensive program of career events is typical of best price and provides programs in the public management and policy field,” says Pro- them the best access to fessor Newman. “Our area of study places a stronger emphasis government and nonprofit on career preparation.” activities outside of the school,” says Director of Tolan agrees. “The M.P.A. has a ‘credential-ish’ feel to it, like an Academic Programs and M.B.A. or C.P.A. The expectation is that you, an M.P.A., are an Alumni Relations Maggie advanced leader in your field.” She feels that a well-mapped Tolan, who joined the career development path is essential. department in July 2008. She feels the program is The department hired Tolan as a consultant after Jim Martin one of the best-kept left the position to run for the Senate. Tolan and her partner secrets in Atlanta. had moved to Atlanta from Arizona seeking a better quality of life for their two young children. “We were so impressed, “Among the top 27 nationally ranked public affairs programs, we hired her full-time after three months,” says Newman. we are among the least expensive and most flexible,” she says. continued on page 30 Tolan, whose responsibilities include student recruitment, internship development and alumni relations, believes Public Administration and Urban Studies has PAUS is now the that the connections among PMAP and been renamed the “Department of Public Man- Atlanta-based government agencies Department of agement and Policy” to better reflect its teaching and nonprofits are a key selling point. Public Management and research focus. The new name aligns the “I think we’ve got a gold mine here.” and Policy department with the national recognition it frequently receives in media such as “America’s Tolan has worked with Chair Harvey Best Graduate Schools” rankings in U.S. News & World Report. PMAP Chair Harvey Newman and faculty to redesign the Newman and Professor Ted Poister successfully argued the case for the name total student experience at PMAP, change before Georgia State University’s Administrative Council in October; from admission through graduation. the motion passed with overwhelming support. Drawing from a career that culminated in leadership positions in both aca- “We are proud of the new name because it captures what we do within the demia and career services at Arizona Andrew Young School,” says Newman. “Public policy is obviously at the heart State University, Tolan has developed of what our school is about, but the term ‘public management’ is also widely a series of career mapping and net- recognized within our field. Along with our research focus in public management working programs that show students and policy, service and teaching in our undergraduate degree, our masters’ degrees how to best engage in and articulate (the M.P.A. and M.P.P.) and our doctoral program, this change should enhance their unique set of experiences in our reputation.” PMAP, setting AYS graduates apart from those of similar public affairs PMAP educates and trains future professionals for the public and nonprofit arenas, programs at other universities. enabling them to effectively manage people, resources, information, organizations and networks. For more information on PMAP, go to http://aysps.gsu.edu/paus/ “We want to help our students spend index.html. their money wisely and have some-

Andrew Young School AYS News | 9 Experts examine challenges to fiscal decentralization at ISP conference

“The main objective of the conference where to guide our own future policy was to gather, in a single place, prominent work.” He says the participants particu- experts in academia and international larly appreciated the thoughtful insights organizations who have been advising and guidance provided by the confer- developing and transitional countries that, ence leaders. for a variety of institutional and political reasons, can be defined as ‘hard to decen- The ISP is, along with several other tralize.’ The contributions at the confer- organizations, at the leading edge of ence provided valuable lessons on how policy reform in fiscal decentralization to implement successful decentralization issues around the world, says Martinez. ISP faculty from the Andrew Young School have provided training and capacity building programs in more than half of the developing countries discussed at the conference, including Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan and Tanzania.

Presentation papers and Fiscal policy experts PowerPoint slides from the who work in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America found a common language in September 2008 at the annual public finance conference sponsored by the International Studies Program. Titled “Obstacles to Decentralization: Lessons from Top to bottom, left to right: Ildar Zulkarnay, Selected Countries,” the conference Bashkir State University, Russia; Bob Searle, joined professionals from the World fiscal expert from Australia; Jorge Martinez- Vazquez; Serdar Yilmaz, Grant Bishop* and Bank, International Monetary Fund Anwar Shah of World Bank and the United Nations Capital Devel- opment with independent consultants and esteemed public finance faculty reform programs in other countries in from the Andrew Young School, the the future,” says Regents Professor and ISP Director Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, London School of Economics and conference can be downloaded who co-organized the conference with other universities. at http://aysps.gsu.edu/isp/2410.html. Francois Vaillancourt, an economics pro- They will be collected for a book to fessor from the University of Montreal. Presentations addressed the challenges be edited by Martinez and Vaillancourt. of public finance reform in 16 developing The World Bank Institute’s lead countries. Topics ranged from “Local ISP conferences bring together senior economist, Anwar Shah, believes the Government Discretion and Account- policy experts, academics and policy AYS conference provided an important ability” in Ethiopia to “Fiscal Federalism makers around an important fiscal policy opportunity for scholars working on and Petroleum Resources” in Iraq and theme at least once, often twice a year. decentralization reforms to have their “Decentralization in the Post-Conflict For information on this year’s conference, works critiqued by peers: “We learn African Environment” of Sierra Leone go to http://aysps.gsu.edu/isp/index.html. and Southern Sudan. from both successes and failures else- *formerly with World Bank

10 | Reaching Out www.andrewyoungschool.org Building an economic hub abroad AYS partners with Cairo University The AYS has entered into a three-year partnership that will send fiscal policy faculty from the Interna- tional Studies Program to provide training and technical assistance to Cairo University’s Depart- ment of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science. The project, which began in March, will strengthen and broaden the outreach of the Egyptian university’s faculty and establish it as a regional hub for teaching, research and technical assistance in economics.

“We met with their dean, Professor Alia El Mahdi, on February 5 in Atlanta, to finalize the work plan,” says research associate and AYS alumna Eunice Students at Cairo University Heredia-Ortiz (Ph.D. in Economics, ’07), who man- ages the project. As a first activity this spring, Susan on a program its Ministry of Local Development and the Laury, associate director of the Experimental Economics Ministry of Finance. In 2008 the ISP and AECOM, a company Center, trained faculty in Cairo on experimental that provides technical and management support services economics methods. around the globe, were awarded a $1 million joint contract to provide decentralization services to the national government. The partnership will enhance the quality of the university’s economics teaching and research, allowing it Georgia State is awarded a major grant to better serve a variety of Egyptian to help develop a West African university stakeholders: think tanks, development agencies, civil society, the private sector, and government policymakers. Under the partnership, the university’s contribution to economic development will be felt throughout the country.

A $400,000 grant awarded by The American Council on Education office of Higher Education for Development, in cooperative agreement with the USAID (United States Agency for International Development), will support the three-year partnership. In (Left to right) Mark Robinson (IS&T), Sharon King (Office of International Affairs), addition to developing new training Brad Moore (IRS), former Prime Minister Daniel Duncan, Wallace and IUGB President programs and curriculums, the ISP will Salio Toure recently gathered in Cote d’Ivoire to develop the IUGB’s business plan. bring faculty and staff from Cairo Uni- versity to Atlanta to benefit fully from Georgia State University and the International University of Grand-Bassam in Cote the academic programs and activities d’Ivoire expanded their partnership in June, when IUGB agreed to give Georgia State available to students in the Andrew grants of up to $3 million over the next three years for help developing its programs Young School. and curriculum.

AYS has assisted Egypt with its decen- AYS Professor Sally Wallace, associate director of the Fiscal Research Center, will tralization reforms in a number of serve as provost and vice president of academic affairs at the West African university. ways since 2007, when ISP worked

Andrew Young School Reaching Out | 11 More than 30 members and staff of the Georgia General Assembly attended the GHPC awards inaugural sessions of the Legislative Health Policy Certificate Program developed by the Georgia Health Policy Center. Fifteen earned the certification. “We had some really great legislative champions – unique Legislative Rep. Sharon Cooper (R-Marietta), Rep. Micky Channell (R-Greensboro), Sen. Don Thomas (R-Dalton) and Sen. Greg Goggans (R-Douglas) – and this made all the difference in our success,” says Health Policy GHPC research associate and AYS alumna Rachel Ferencik (M.P.A., ’04), who leads the project. Certificate Designed to prepare elected officials for the chal- lenging health issues that come before them during the session, the GHPC program is part of a three-year health policy education initiative funded by the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation. It will be offered again this year.

“Our goal is to help state policy makers think about health from a broader policy perspective as they wrestle with complex issues like health care financing, public health, access, the uninsured and Medicaid,” says GHPC Director Karen Minyard.

“I am appreciative of the Pictured left to right: Rep. Billy Mitchell, Jeremy Betts, Rep. Mike Cheokas, Rep. Michele Henson, Rep. John Andrew Young School for this Lunsford, Margie Coggins, Karen Minyard, Mary Ann Phillips, Rachel Ferencik, Robert Moore, Rep. Sharon opportunity,” says Rep. Cooper, Cooper and Speaker Glenn Richardson. who chairs the House Com- mittee on Health and Human The Andrew Young School Services. “I received quality health policy information that will help in my decision-making.” congratulates the first Prior to designing the program, the GHPC conducted a series of stakeholder interviews with recipients of the Legislative leaders in the Georgia House and Senate and learned that those who served on health-related Health Policy Certificate: committees wanted to elevate their understanding of health policy issues. “They wanted a more Reps. Sharon Cooper, in-depth study of health policy,” says Ferencik. “We ended up targeting the certification to four Mike Cheokas, Pat Gardner, committees in the House and Senate: the Health and Human Services committees, and the health-related Appropriations sub-committees.” Michele Henson, John Lunsford, Gene Maddox, Ferencik notes that the curriculum framework was based on a “systems” approach to health Fran Millar and Billy policy. “We wanted them to think about health policy in the long term, look at trends, and consider unintended consequences of policy decisions. Our approach was enthusiastically received Mitchell; Sens. Don Thomas, by the legislators, who appreciated that perspective.” Four core sessions that covered an intro Lee Hawkins and Gloria duction to health policy, the impact of health status on Georgia, health spending, and coverage Butler; and staff members and access to care were followed by four sessions on topics chosen by the participants. Ginny Powell, Jeremy Other states have contacted the GHPC to learn more about the program, so the GHPC is Betts, Margie Coggins working on another program that would bring health policy practitioners and policymakers from and Jesse Weathington. different states together.

12 | Reaching Out www.andrewyoungschool.org GHPC helps CDC broaden the conversation on health care reform The Georgia Health Policy Center helped design and facilitate framework that would bring public the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2008 health into the national health reform Leaders to Leaders Conference, Shaping Policy for a Healthier debate. GHPC staff conducted back- Nation, held in Washington, D.C., in July. GHPC Director ground research, focus group testing Karen Minyard facilitated the session, “Finding the Voice of and key informant interviews to Public Health in the National Health Reform Dialog,” and identify common priorities and participated in a panel discussion titled “Engaging Americans strategies for achieving health for a Healthier Nation.” improvements. This work led to the development of a Levels of “National health reform policy discussions have routinely focused Reform model that the GHPC on expanding access to health care, containing costs, financing used to make recommenda- the system and delivering quality care,” says Minyard. “We are tions to the CDC. working with the CDC and others who are attempting to change this culture and expand the conversation to include Following the conference, health promotion, health improvement and disease prevention. the GHPC developed and produced the guide, “Playbook for Action: “Health should be considered in all policies at the state, local Shaping Policy for a Healthier Nation.” Organized to and national levels,” she says. help leaders convert their ideas to actions, the playbook was funded by the CDC with support from the National GHPC’s work on this project began in the summer of 2007, Network of Public Health Institutes. It is available for download when the CDC contracted with the GHPC to establish a at http://aysps.gsu.edu/ghpc/2905.html.

State’s trauma network is excellent, for fewer than a third of all Georgians

Patients treated at Georgia’s nated statewide trauma nated, regionalized and 700 people per year could trauma facilities have an system, putting more resi- accountable trauma system be saved from a trauma- excellent chance of survival, dents – particularly in rural that gave it the capacity to related death,” writes Avey. writes Senior Research Asso- areas – at greater risk. “If reduce mortality rates to the ciate Holly Avey in the GHPC Georgia created a coordi- national average, as many as Avey outlines current Issue Brief, “Trauma Care in challenges and proposed Georgia: Building a Better G e o r g i a T r a u m a C a r e improvements to the state’s System.” Georgia’s designated trauma delivery system. She trauma centers report an • The state does not have a coordinated notes the lack of 911 call ser- eight percent mortality rate. statewide trauma system. vices in 20 counties and the However, less than a third of 40 counties that are outside • 20 Georgia counties do not have a 911 all Georgians who suffer seri- of a 50-mile radius of a trauma emergency call system. ous injury are treated at a center, many of which lack designated trauma center. & • There are an insufficient number of ground access to ground and air and air ambulances for the size of the state. ambulances. “Time required Georgia’s death and disability figures to reach a trauma victim and rate from traumatic injuries • 40 counties lie outside a 50-mile radius transport to a trauma care is 20 percent higher than the facts of a trauma center. facility can be a significant national average. The state challenge for many of the rural does not operate a coordi- GHPC briefs on important health topics are available at www.gsu.edu/ghpc. areas in the state,” she writes.

Andrew Young School Reaching Out | 13 PMAP offers new gratifying to see the graduate and under- degree programs graduate interest in our concentrations. “We’re also working to improve the quality of our historically strong M.P.A. concentrations program. For example, this year we & introduced a new course, Law for The Department of Public Manage- Popular new concentrations have been Public Managers,” he says. ment and Policy continues to expand added to PMAP’s Bachelor of Science in Public Policy: nonprofit leadership, and Effective this fall, PMAP will offer a and improve its degree programs in public management and governance. “Our new Master of Public Policy degree public policy, drawing the attention nonprofit leadership concentration has with concentrations in planning and been really attractive,” says department economic development, and social policy. of students looking for a competitive chair Harvey Newman. “Every seat in Additional concentrations in disaster edge while preparing for and building our introductory course has filled each policy, health policy, nonprofit policy careers in public service. of the three times we’ve offered it. It is and public finance policy are pending approval. “We designed our M.P.P. for people who have a strong interest in policy analysis or policy related to our core specializations,” says Newman. “Pending approval, we will be one of two Georgia universities that offer this degree and the only one to offer these concentrations, as Georgia Tech’s M.P.P. focuses more on science and technology.”

Early in 2009, PMAP had finished a proposal for Georgia State to offer a Ph.D. in Public Policy independent of the joint Ph.D. with Georgia Tech currently offered. “We want to continue our partnership with Georgia Tech,” says Newman, “but they also offer their own Ph.D. This degree would give our Public Management and Policy Degrees students the opportunity to earn a Gr a d u a t e Un d e r g r a d u a t e Ph.D. in the areas that we do best: public and nonprofit management, • Master of Public Administration • B.S. in Public Policy with concentrations public budgeting and finance, and policy with concentrations in Criminal Justice, in Nonprofit Leadership, Planning and and program evaluation.” Management and Finance, Nonprofit Economic Development, Public Manage- Management, Planning and Economic ment and Governance, Public and This fall PMAP will also sponsor a new Development, Policy Analysis and Nonprofit Human Resource Policy Freshman Learning Community called Evaluation, Public Health • Minor in Urban Policy Studies Public and Nonprofit Leadership: Making • Master of Public Policy (new Fall 2009) (Public Policy) a Difference. “This FLC will increase our with concentrations in Disaster Policy, visibility and student affiliation with our • American Humanics Certificate Nonprofit Policy, Planning and Economic school,” says Maggie Tolan, PMAP’s direc- (nonprofit leadership) Development Policy, Public Finance Policy, tor of Academic Programs of Alumni Social Policy Affairs. “Exciting courses in public and nonprofit leadership will be paired with • Ph.D. in Public Policy* a course on global disasters. • Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy “Our goal is to have students belong (with Georgia Institute of Technology) *Pending Board of Regents approval to our college from day one,” she says.

14 | Reaching Out www.andrewyoungschool.org Summer Research Interns rate the Program a success

Ten rising seniors from colleges Dever of the University of Georgia, “I felt that this internship provided me and universities around the Michael Ivie of Clayton State, Casey with the opportunity to grow both as Wichman of Ithaca College, Mary Githens an economist and as a young scholar. United States were chosen of Armstrong Atlantic University, Steven I really learned a lot from my mentor from among 100 outstanding Couper of the University of North in how to perform graduate research. Carolina, Leigh Shapiro of the University I am sure this will help me in my future applicants to participate in of Florida and Nyda Mukhtar of the economic endeavors.” the Andrew Young School’s University of Washington participated “The program offered a hard-to-come-by 2008 Research Experience for in the 2008 program. In anonymous evaluations they express their enthusi- undergraduate research program. Undergraduates Program (REU). asm and support for REU: I don’t think anything else would prepare me better for graduate work Sponsored by the National Science “The program was great. It was a great in economics.” Foundation, this six-week summer intern- opportunity to gain first-hand graduate ship provides undergraduate students school and research experience and work AYS Professor James Marton led this the opportunity to actively participate with some extremely qualified people. summer’s 2009 REU Summer Policy in policy research. It also provided an opportunity to meet Research Internship program that ended like-minded people and have a fun sum- July 14. For more information and to “The long-term goal for the program is mer in Atlanta.” view past student papers, go to http:// to attract qualified, interested students, aysps.gsu.edu/econ/1639.html. especially minorities and women, to quality Ph.D. programs in economics, public policy, and other social science disciplines,” 2008 Georgia State Undergraduate Summer Policy Intern Papers says Associate Professor Neven Valev, who has managed the program eight of ff Steven Couper, ”Credit Market Participation: An Examination of Determinants its 11 years at the AYS. “Our REU alumni, and Productivity Effects” many of whom are enrolled in or have ff Tracy Davis, ”Measuring Risk in College Students: A Survey Using the Domain- graduated from top graduate programs, Specific Risk-Attitude Scale” are enthusiastic ambassadors for the AYS throughout academia, industry and ff Patrick Dever Jr., ”Capital Grants: Determinants of Sub National Capital Financing: policy circles.” An Econometric Analysis”

REU interns work with faculty mentors ff Mary Githens, ”Best Practice Note in Establishing Fiscal Policy Units: Scope of Work” on their research projects; their papers ff Michael Ivie, ”Credit Markets and Economic Growth in the United States” are then published on the AYS website. They participate in peer discussion ff Nyda Mukhtar, ”Calculating Expenditure Needs for South Africa” meetings, seminars with AYS faculty and research staff, roundtable discussions on ff Aurelie Ngo-Mambongo and Zainab Lawal, ”Financial Development in economic research and a variety of off- African countries” campus tours and faculty/student mixers ff Leigh Shapiro and Jon Rork, ”The effect of statewide merit aid on migration of the designed to maximize their experience. college-educated, and vice versa”

Aurelie Mambongo, Zainab Lawal and ff Casey Wichman, ”An Assessment of U.S. air quality policy and its effects in Georgia: Tracy Davis of Georgia State, William Past, present and future”

Andrew Young School Reaching Out | 15 An AYS-managed executive nonprofits and the executive training program tailored directors of smaller to mid- to the nonprofit sector sized organizations. During Nonprofit enjoyed its third successful the week-long course, year in 2009. Executives who prominent nonprofit leaders, attend the Executive Leader- expert faculty and industry leadership ship Program for Nonprofit peers help them translate Organizations program give theory into practice and it high marks for its engaging concepts into strategies that format and practical content are relevant and practical for training in evaluations every year: their organizations. The Non- profit Studies Program at AYS “This will help me redirect and its partners, the Georgia our board. Excellent, thought- Center for Nonprofits and ful and original.” the Center for Ethics at Emory University, developed the cur- “It really forced us to think riculum. The program is man- outside the box and develop aged by Nonprofit Studies. taps a clear vision and assessment of our own thinking. Insightful, “ELPNO is especially strong into deep inspiring and a delight.” in its emphasis on strategic thinking, resource develop- “I liked the opportunities to ment and management, talent share experiences and hear leadership skills and deep from others about how they knowledge of the nonprofit pool see themselves as leaders. sector. It’s the only program

2009 graduates of the Executive Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations. Front row, left to right: Nino Kadagidze-Zhvania, So much to be gained from like it in the Southeast and Julie Smith, Darryl Jones, Holly Comer, Brian Young, John Berry, cross-collaboration, with so comparable to leading pro- Marisa Goodwin and Elisabeth Omilami. Back row, left to right: many experts in one room.” grams at Harvard, Stanford Kacie McDonnell, Dave Blanchard, Christina Lennon, Laura Moore and other elite institutions, ELPNO is a professional and Vikki Millender-Morrow, with PMAP chair Harvey Newman. though a bargain by compari- development program son,” says Professor Dennis targeted to emerging and Young, the Bernard B. and senior leaders in major

16 | Reaching Out www.andrewyoungschool.org manager of SunTrust prominent nonprofit leaders Atlanta’s Not-For- themselves,” says Young. “Our Wh o is ELPNO f o r ? Profit and Govern- keynote speakers have been • ELPNO is intended ment Banking division; Dr. John Seffrin, president of for current or aspiring Ann Cramer, director the American Cancer Society, nonprofit CEOs for IBM Corporate and Helene Gayle, president • People who have Citizenship and of CARE. Also, we have been demonstrated compe- Corporate Affairs quite successful in securing tence and a proven for the Americas; scholarships from individuals track record in their and Sheffield Hale, and organizations – several work, but who want chief counsel for affiliated with the AYS and/ to add some breath or the American or the Nonprofit Studies depth to their skill base Cancer Society. Program advisory boards – • People who are highly who believe strongly in the motivated and passion- “ELPNO is notable need to train tomorrow’s ate about a career in Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of for its collaboration nonprofit leaders. This year the nonprofit sector Private Enterprise and direc- among the Andrew Young we have commitments from and in serving the tor of Nonprofit Studies. School, Emory and the the UPS Foundation, Alston community and society Georgia Center for Non & Bird, Coxe Curry and Wh a t w i ll I l e a r n ? “We mix lectures, case stud- profits,” says Young. “Within Associates, and other public- • What is happening in ies, class exercises, and lots the AYS, it draws on the spirited sponsors.” of reading and discussion. It’s strengths of both the Non- today’s nonprofit world a full-immersion morning ’til • How to apply strategic profit Studies Program and …we have been quite night experience that builds the Public Performance thinking to opportunities successful in securing lasting friendships and colle- and Management Group and threats gial relationships as well as a directed by Deon Locklin, scholarships from individuals • How marketing and strong foundation of knowl- who participates as ELPNO and organizations … who branding fit into edge in nonprofit manage- faculty and offers one-on- believe strongly in the need organizational strategy • Why leaders fail, and ment and leadership from a one mentoring/counseling to train tomorrow’s CEO perspective. Participants why they succeed sessions with participants nonprofit leaders. are tired but energized at during the program.” The • Your own leadership the end of the week!” he says. PPM managed logistics Dennis Young style, and how it affects for ELPNO this summer. your organization In three years ELPNO Applications for the 2010 • How to manage has trained 76 current and The program draws talent ELPNO course will soon personal change aspiring nonprofit CEOs and support from the deep be available. For more infor- and transition from Georgia, Florida, India pool of world class nonprofits mation, go to http://aysps.gsu. • How to meet the and Africa. “They come from that are concentrated in edu/nsp/ELPNO.html or challenges of non- smaller nonprofits and larger Atlanta. “Prominent academ- contact Vermell Lighter at profit governance organizations like the Bobby ics from other institutions are nonprofitstudiesprogram@ • Techniques for develop- Dodd Institute and Goodwill included on the faculty, as are gsu.edu. ing income portfolios Industries,” says Young. “Coun- and resources try directors from CARE • How to manage risk offices in El Salvador and • How to measure finan- Kosovo have also attended.” cial health for long-term stability and growth Roxanne Spillett, CEO of • How to use real world Boys and Girls Clubs of benchmarks for organi- America, was this summer’s zation performance and keynote speaker. Sam Pettway, program effectiveness founding director of Board- • The best HR practices walk Consulting, returned to for finding and develop- lead a panel on governance ing talent that featured Joseph Arnold, • The role of ethics and senior vice president and integrity in leadership

Andrew Young School Reaching Out | 17 broadening the policy conversation on trauma care The Andrew Young School’s “There were several goals for the series. The title of the first forum, “Trauma Ser- Public Performance and Primarily, we wanted to add to the dis- vices in Georgia: Where Are We Now? Management Group produced cussion around trauma care by identifying Where Should We Go?” served as the a series of trauma care forums designed the potential options that those in the theme for the series. “This forum laid for Georgia policy makers. Held at policy arena have available as they con- the groundwork for the second two, as the AYS in 2008, each session was well tinue to address the issues and problems we examined state and national issues attended by interested state and local that are out there. In the first two ses- related to providing trauma services,” he policy makers as well as public and sions, we did this by bringing together says. Speakers included nationally recog- private health care providers. The series information and expertise from others. nized trauma expert Arthur Kellerman, was supported by the AYS and the For the third forum, we brought in the M.D., from the Emory School of Medicine; Healthcare Georgia Foundation, which public finance expertise from the AYS,” Patrick O’Neal, director of the Georgia also supported printed proceedings reports Tom Wade, who coordinated Office of Preparedness; Ben Hinson, a from the forums that were released the series for PPM. member of the Trauma Services Network this spring. Commission and president of Mid Geor- gia Ambulance Service; and Tom Bell, CEO

Clockwise from upper left: Dr. Dennis Ashley, Rep. Sharon Cooper and Dr. Gage Ochsner; Dr. Arthur Kellerman; attendees at third forum; Dan Miears; Hannah Heck, Rep. Mickey Channell and Sen. Preston Smith; Jim Craig; attendees at second forum; Tom Wade

18 | Reaching Out www.andrewyoungschool.org of Cousins Properties. Karen Minyard, director of the Georgia Health Policy Center, moderated the speakers in a Impatience may help panel discussion. “Trauma Care in Geor- gia: Building a Better System” was distrib- explain the education gap uted. (See related story on page 13.)

Coordination and regionalization were Time preferences, or the perceived benefits of patience, may determine whether a the focus of the second forum in August, person shopping for a new washer will invest in an expensive front-loading energy which was opened by trauma advocate efficient model or choose the less efficient model on sale on the showroom floor. and survivor Dan Miears. Experts from The consequence of their decision will show up in their energy use and spending over the State of Maryland and the Richmond, the next several years. When time preferences shortchange a person’s willingness to Virginia, ambulance authority made invest in his or her education, however, the consequences can be even more severe. presentations. Glenn Landers, senior research associate with the GHPC, AYS faculty Paul Ferraro and Ragan Petrie conducted a series of field experiments moderated a panel discussion with and collected data on 581 eighth graders from a central Georgia school district to Dr. Dennis Ashley, chair of the Georgia examine adolescent time preferences. These preferences are a possible – yet relatively Trauma Care Network Commission; unexplored – factor affecting educational outcomes. For example, they may help explain Rep. Sharon Cooper, chair of the House the persistent higher education gap between blacks and whites and between black Health and Human Services Committee; men and women, despite significant subsidies like the HOPE scholarship in Georgia. and Dr. Gage Ochsner, Chief of Trauma Services at Memorial University Medical For their working paper, “The Today and Tomorrow of Kids,” Ferraro, Petrie, Marco Center in Savannah. An issue brief was Castillo of the Georgia Institute of Technology distributed: “Trauma Care: A Case for and Jeff Jordan of the University of Georgia, Their results indicate that time Coordination and Regionalization,” by Griffin, investigate whether children’s time pref preferences are an important Patricia Ketsche, associate professor erences vary across observable characteristics component of the economic at the Institute of Health Administration and whether any observed differences relate of the Robinson College of Business. to behavior. “We targeted this age because the decisions of children. education literature recognizes that important AYS faculty addressed accountability and decisions about dropping out of school or going to college are made just after children finance at the third forum in October. pass this age,” says Petrie. “The question is, how do you put in place a sustainable network that will continue?” They conducted the field work through the Andrew Young School’s Experimental says Wade. Presentations were made Economics Center, or ExCEN. Experimental methods are a simple and direct way to by Associate Professor James Marton, measure outcomes, says Ferraro. “They have the advantage of using real stakes and Ketsche and Jim Craig, Director of Health being standardized. Unlike traditional surveys, they potentially provide a direct measure Protection with the Mississippi Depart- of underlying preferences that are less likely to be biased.” ment of Health. Professor David Sjoquist, the Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Their results indicate that time preferences are an important component of the Education and Community Policy and economic decisions of children. “Time preferences matter,” says Ferraro. “Black children director of the Fiscal Research Center and are more impatient than white children and boys are more impatient than girls. Black Domestic Programs, moderated a panel boys have the highest discount rates of any group, meaning they are least likely to want with Rep. Mickey Channell, Sen. Preston to invest in the short term for longer-term benefits. Smith, Gov. Sonny Perdue’s policy director Hannah Heck, and Craig, Marton and “We find that children who discount future monetary benefits more strongly in Ketsche. “Options for Funding Trauma our experiment also have more disciplinary referrals,” he says. “Thus our simple Care in Georgia,” a report prepared by experiments may serve as a more precise way to identify at-risk children.” Future FRC Research Associate Peter Bluestone work will continue to explore the relationship between time preferences, incentives and Robert Buschman, a Ph.D. student and educational outcomes, and will attempt to identify when and how these time in economics, was distributed. preferences form.

The sessions garnered media stories Experimental methods are important not only in detecting differences in the popula- throughout the Southeast. Video feed tion, but also as a starting point to improve the understanding of divergent life paths, is available on Georgia State Univer- the report suggests. sity’s iTunes U site at http://aysps.gsu. edu/2525.html. Go to http://excen.gsu.edu for more on the ExCEN.

Andrew Young School Policy Research | 19 Property taxes the focus of FRC research

The property tax is a The Fiscal Research Center Research developed for the on the principle that, with major source of revenue has published several key September 2008 conference few exceptions, this tax reports and presentations at the State Capitol, “Towards should be imposed on the for local school districts to respond to questions a Better Understanding of market value of all property and counties, which levy circulating among policy Property Taxes & Proposed (universality) and that all makers in Georgia about Policies,” examines Georgia’s property in a jurisdiction more than 80 percent property taxes and the property tax history, trends should be taxed at the same of this tax. The state options for reducing them. and limitations, often compar- ad valorem rate (uniformity). levies less than one per- “Legislators and their staff ing them to the experiences Exemptions and other are interested in how prop- of other states. changes over the last 25 years cent, yet the question of erty taxes and property tax have distanced the system how to reduce this highly assessments work,” says Pro- Local property taxes made from these principles, yet fessor David Sjoquist, director up 63.4 percent of the total no one has attempted to visible and often contro- of the Fiscal Research Center local taxes in Georgia in quantify the magnitude of versial tax has become and Domestic Programs. 2005-06 writes Sjoquist in these changes on the value “Many are interested in figur- the introduction of FRC of the property tax digest. increasingly important ing out whether assessment Report No. 180, “By the “If this suggests that the state for Georgia policy makers. freezes are a good policy.” Numbers: Property Taxes in has rejected the principles Georgia.” This report presents of universality and uniformity, a comprehensive review of then perhaps it is time to data on property taxes state- articulate a set of new tax Annual Georgia tax summary available wide and by county. It exam- principles on which to base ines growth in the property future changes to the struc- What revenues do various taxes generate for Georgia tax base and revenue, how ture of the property tax,” and its municipalities? What are the main provisions of the tax base varies by county, the report concludes. each tax imposed in Georgia? These facts are at your how the composition of fingertips in the FRC publication, “Georgia’s Taxes: the tax base has changed Proposals to limit property A Summary of Major State and Local Taxes.” Published over time and property taxes and their growth are in January 2009, the 15th edition offers readers an easy taxes by type of government. among the property tax read on state and local taxes in Georgia and comparisons reforms under consideration with other states. “The discussion of the prop- in Georgia and other states. erty tax is really a discussion “Property Tax Limitations,” Co-authors Professor David Sjoquist, FRC principal associ- of state legislation” writes (FRC Report No. 179) by ates Jack Morton and Richard Hawkins use graphs, tables Sjoquist in “A Brief History of FRC Research Associate and bullets to summarize key points including the tax base the Property Tax in Georgia,” John V. Winters shows how and rate, major exemptions, revenue production, admin (FRC Report No. 182 and assessment limits and levy istration, payment dates, special provisions and more. FRC Brief No. 182). Georgia’s limits are administered across Get your copy now at http://aysps.gsu.edu/frc/457.html. system of ad valorem prop- the states, and the effects erty tax was founded in 1851 they have on local fiscal

20 | Policy Research www.andrewyoungschool.org structures. “Any reductions tremendous divergence in in revenue or expenditures effective property tax rates Georgia’s system of ad valorem property tax was founded at the local level are usually for property owners within in 1851 on the principle that, with few exceptions, offset by increases at the a district, which shifts the this tax should be imposed on the market value of all property state level,” he writes. “Evi- property tax burden from (universality) and that all property in a jurisdiction should be taxed dence suggests that voters long-time property owners at the same ad valorem rate (uniformity). were motivated by a desire to recent buyers. “Assess- for lower property taxes and ment limits lead to potential more efficiency in govern- lock-in effects, since moving shift. They shift from home- reducing the property tax ment and not by any desire from a property held for a owners to businesses. They burden at the conference. for reduced public services.” long time potentially results shift from long-term residents “For states willing to put in a large increase in property to newer residents. And this up the money, there are His review of existing taxes,” he writes. shift impedes a person’s options that would have literature found that these willingness to sell a home better results than a freeze, limitations have generated: “An individual taxpayer looks and move up – a big problem while maintaining tax equity significantly reduced auton- at an assessment freeze and in Florida. and the fiscal independence omy for local governments; most think it’s a good thing of the local governments. increased expenditure varia- for them,” says Sjoquist. “There are alternative tions in local jurisdictions “But research suggests that ways to reduce property FRC reports and briefs that foster increased dispari- property taxes don’t fall as taxes,” says Sjoquist, who are available at http:// ties in service levels; and a a result of the freeze, they presented other options for aysps.gsu.edu/frc/1725.html.

State Gross Tax Digest Per Capita, 1996 State Gross Tax Digest Per Capita, 2007

Gross Digest Per Capita Gross Digest Per Capita  GDPC < = $10,000 (3 counties)  GDPC < = $10,000 (1 county)  $10,000 < GDPC < = $20,000 (108)  $10,000 < GDPC < = $20,000 (6)  $20,000 < GDPC < = $30,000 (42)  $20,000 < GDPC < = $30,000 (68)  $30,000 < GDPC < = $40,000 (3)  $30,000 < GDPC < = $40,000 (47)  GDPC > $40,000 (3)  GDPC > $40,000 (37)

Andrew Young School Policy Research | 21 Income taxes and the elderly

Georgia’s population aged 65 and over is projected to grow from 9.6 percent of the total population in 2000 to 15.9 percent in 2030, according to what the U.S. Census Bureau. In fact, this population will rise to shares of 20 percent and higher in more than half of the states. While federal policies related to the elderly have focused on controlling expenditures in Social Security and Medicare, federal drıves and state income tax provisions for this growing population warrant a thorough examination according to Jonathan Rork, an assistant professor at the AYS.

“This is an important area of research,” write Rork and Karen Smith Conway of the polıcy? University of New Hampshire, Durham, in their article, “Income Tax Preferences for the Elderly,” published in the Public Finance Review (September 2008). “As the elderly population grows, so too will the fiscal consequences of these tax preferences.”

Rork and Conway’s analysis reveals that tax policies toward the elderly have evolved differently across the states and the federal government. The federal government has decreased its elderly tax preferences while the states have remained more generous. There is also great variability across the states, with evidence of strong regional patterns. Many states use fiscal policy competition to aggressively recruit the high-income elderly. “States’ policies have also moved in conflicting ways, such that the effect on the total state tax treatment of the elderly is unclear,” they write.

Among possible explanations are patterns consistent with the influence of politically active elderly people, they find. “States in which the elderly have more time for political activities tend to have higher tax bonuses.” However, a proportionally large elderly population is associated with less generous tax preferences, suggesting a “program cost” rather than “preference” effect of an aging population.

A second explanation is state competition for the tax base and economic stimulus the elderly bring. “The region most associated with retirement havens, the Southeast, has exhibited behavior the most consistent with tax competition.

“The states are diverging from the federal government in their income tax treatment of the elderly,” they conclude, recognizing that “a worthwhile extension of this research is to examine how these tax preferences first began and compare them to the political power and tax competition pressures in existence at that time.” The full article can be downloaded at http://pfr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/5/523.

Political Power Measures States with highest percentage of elderly Arkansas, Iowa, Rhode Island, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, West Virginia States with lowest percentage of elderly California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia States with high relative elderly median wealth Arizona, West Virginia, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Montana, Kentucky, North Dakota States with low relative elderly median wealth Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Maryland High relative nonelderly labor force participation Arizona, West Virginia, Michigan, Delaware, Ohio, Maine, Pennsylvania Low relative nonelderly labor force participation Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, North Dakota Note: For each nongeographic category, the ten highest and ten lowest states were taken. Then any state without a broad-based income tax from the author’s calculations was excluded. Oldest/youngest was based on the percentage of the state’s 1977 population that was elderly. Median wealth was calculated by the authors from the 1980 Integrated public Use Microdata Series. Labor force participation rates were given to the authors from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

22 | Policy Research www.andrewyoungschool.org Representation plays a critical role in policy design

Policy design choices have a broad impact on citizen engagement, for female students, political participation and views about the role of government. and fewer students AYS Associate Professor Christine Roch believes that public dropping out of schools are a valuable place to examine policy design and its school. Testing the impacts. “Given that a key role of public education is to provide extent to which an understanding of democratic citizenship and the requisite representation influ- skills for effective political participation, its success may depend, ences the policy tools in part, on the types of policy tools favored by teachers and used by teachers and administrators,” she says. administrators to discipline students, Roch Roch, David Pitts of American University and AYS alumnus and her co-authors Ignacio Navarro (Ph.D. in Public Policy ’08) use public education find that schools with data to explore the relationship between bureaucratic repre- ethnic representation balanced between teachers and students sentation and the choice of school disciplinary programs for are more likely than others to adopt learning-oriented discipline the paper, “Representative Bureaucracy & Policy Tools: Ethnicity, policies rather than sanctions that stigmatize behavior. Student Discipline, and Representation in Public Schools,” which is forthcoming at Administration and Society. “Stigmatizing tools may support the disenfranchisement of target groups, while learning tools are more likely to support “As public officials determine the tools they will use to admin problem solving and capacity building, which – in broader ister policy, a complex set of social processes influence their governmental contexts – may even lead to greater political choice of policy design,” says Roch. “We argue that representa- participation.” They suggest that the distinction is important, tional impacts are key among these influences.” with potentially long-lasting implications. “Representation affects the design of policy, with broad social and political Representation in public schools is proven to relate to higher consequences that extend beyond the immediate organization.” test scores for students of color, higher academic achievement

Article examines the ethical knowledge of city managers

The ethical knowledge of agers. Their article will be For the article, Streib and During a 10-year period most practicing city managers published in Public Integrity. Rivera analyzed a database that began in 1998, Streib conforms quite well to the that contained all AKA scores led a team of AYS faculty ICMA Code of Ethics, accord- “Our findings suggest that from 2000 to 2007: assess- and researchers in developing ing to Professor Greg Streib. city managers understand the ments of 1,956 public officials, the two instruments the In “Assessing the Ethical ICMA requirements, although 1,197 of which were city ICMA uses in its Management Knowledge of City Managers,” it is impossible to say how managers. Their goal is to Practices Assessment: the he and co-author Mark this happens,” says Streib. advance the discussion of the AKA and the Performance- Rivera, a former AYS research They found that managers roles of public administrators Based Assessment. These associate and president for with more experience got in democratic governments. tools help ICMA members the Atlanta affiliate of the higher scores, and there were “Our data does offer some evaluate and determine their American Evaluation Associa- some variances across the insights into how local gov- professional development tion, analyze scores from the country. “The impact of expe- ernment professionalism has needs. The AKA is now ICMA’s Applied Knowledge rience suggests that the ability been working out,” they write. required to become an Assessments to assess the to see the ethical nuances of “Overall, ICMA efforts have ICMA credentialed manager. success of the ICMA in pro- different situations is learned produced impressive results, moting ethical standards and on the job and/or though but we also found intriguing educating practicing city man- additional training,” he says. variations in AKA scores.”

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William Waugh is co-PI for social science projects in the new Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence on Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure, and Emergency Management; was invited to serve on the editorial board of Disaster Sociology and Psychiatry.

Dennis Young has been elected to the governing board Harvey Newman Sally Wallace Shiferaw Gurmu Karen Minyard of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations.

honors & awards Research Centers Economics Chip Kenney (PPM) was awarded a $500,000 grant from H. Spencer Banzhaf and co-investigators were awarded the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services grants from the Environmental Protection Agency ($255,000) Administration to provide managerial training and technical and the National Science Foundation ($68,000). He has been assistance to nonprofit organizations throughout the Southeast. chosen as the book review editor for the Journal of the History Deon Locklin (PPM) received funding for projects from of Economic Thought. the Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs for focus groups Barry Hirsch was invited to be an affiliate of the Alfred P. of state employees and from the Georgia Regional Transporta- Sloan Foundation’s Industry Studies Program. tion to survey mass transit riders.

Bruce Kaufman was invited to join the editorial board of the Human Resource Management Journal. publications

Jim Marton is on a team that was awarded a $400,000 Economics grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the effects of Medicaid reform on access to care, program sustain- Barry Hirsch & Freeman, J. (2008). College Majors and ability and administrative efficiency. the Knowledge Content of Jobs. Economics of Education Review, 27(5), 517-535. Erdal Tekin and a team including AYS alumnus Roy Wada (Ph.D. in Economics ’06) were awarded a $265,342 Inas Rashad & Christian, Thomas (Ph.D. in research grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Economics). Trends in U.S. Food Prices, 1950-2007. Economics for “The Effects of Food Prices and Food Advertising on Body and Human Biology, (forthcoming); ___. Associations of Cycling Composition of Children.” with Urban Sprawl and the Gasoline Price, American Journal of Health Promotion, (forthcoming). Neven Valev joined the editorial board of Economic Analysis and Policy. ERDAL TEKIN, Brezina, T. & Topalli, V. Might Not Be a Tomor- row: A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Violence. Criminology, (forthcoming). Public Management And Policy MARY BETH WALKER, ERDAL TEKIN & SALLY Gregory Lewis and Charles Gossett won the Charles WALLACE. (2009) Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes. Redd Award for Best Paper on the Politics of the American West Southern Economics Journal, 75(3), 892-907. for 2007 from the Western Political Science Association for “Explaining Rising Support for Same-Sex Marriage in California.” Yongsheng Xu, Pattanaik, P., Tadenuma, K., Yoshihara, N. (Eds.). (2008). Rational Choice and Social Welfare. Warren, Harvey K. Newman was named co-chair of the 40th Michigan: Springer Publishing; ___ & Gaertner, W. (2008). Anniversary Committee of the Urban Affairs Association. Chapter 9. In K. Basu & R. Kanbur (Eds.). Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, Cynthia Searcy was awarded the 2008 Dissertation and Measurement, New York: Oxford University Press. Prize by Syracuse University for “Are Eating and Exercise Behaviors at School Contributing to Adolescent Obesity in the United States?”

24 | Faculty today www.andrewyoungschool.org Erdal Tekin presented “Body Composition and Wages” Public Management And Policy at the economics seminar series at the Tinbergen Institute Bill Kahnweiler. The human resource development in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in October. profession: Current status and future directions. Human Mary Beth Walker presented “A Decomposition of the Resource Development Quarterly, (forthcoming). Black-White Differences in Preterm Birth” and “Neighborhood Crime and Teacher Turnover” at the Southern Economic Associ- Janelle Kerlin. (2008).Organizational Responses to Homeland Crisis: The U.S. Afghan Diaspora. In. J. Brinkerhoff ation meetings in Washington, D.C., in November. (Ed.), Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, (forthcoming). Public Management And Policy

CATHY YANG LIU. Ethnic Enclave Residence, Employment Harvey Newman presented “Civic Engagement in the and Commuting of Latino Workers. Journal of Policy Analysis and Bachelor of Public Policy Degree at Georgia State University” Management, (forthcoming). at the National Association of Public Affairs and Administration meeting in Charleston in October. Harvey Newman & Crunk, Glenda (AYS M.P.A.). (2008) Religious Leadership in the Aftermath of Atlanta’s 1906 Race Riot. Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92(4), 460- 485. Kaufman inducted into “hall of fame” The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) inducted Economics presentations Professor Bruce Kaufman into its Economics new “Hall of Fame” for industrial relations scholars. Kaufman joined four other “Inau- Paul Ferraro presented “Protected Areas and Payments gural Fellows” inducted by the association, for Environmental Services: the evidence base” at the World formerly the Industrial Relations Research Association. Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation in September in Oslo, Norway. LERA honored Kaufman and fellow inductees Richard Freeman of Harvard University, Thomas Kochan of the Shiferaw Gurmu presented “Publishing and Patenting in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fran Blau of Cornell Universities: The Role of Personal and Employment-related Char- University and Arne Kalleberg of the University of North acteristics” at the National Science Foundation’s Using Human Carolina at its annual meeting in San Francisco in January. Resource Data Workshop in Washington, D.C., in September. “To those in the industrial relations field, these are some Bruce Kaufman was the keynote speaker at the second of the biggest names out there, so I am indeed honored annual conference of the Brazilian Industrial Relations Associa- to be among them,” says Kaufman. tion held in Sao Paulo. Kaufman’s book, Managing the Human Factor: The Early Years Klara Sabirianova Peter presented “Myth and Reality of Human Resource Management (Cornell University Press, of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and 2008) was nominated in the Labor History journal as a Welfare Effects in Russia,” co-authored with Yuriy Gorodnichenko Best 2008 Book in the Field of Labor Studies. He was also and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, at the American Eco- named an Alumni Distinguished Professor in 2008, the high- nomic Association annual meeting in San Francisco in January. est faculty award conferred by Georgia State University.

David Sjoquist presented “Reducing Property Taxes “These honors are wonderful recognition of Kaufman’s in Georgia: Descriptions and Analysis of Recent Trends,” academic accomplishments,” says Interim Dean Robert co-authored with AYS alumnus John Winters (Ph.D. Moore. “To be an inaugural fellow and a member of the in Economics ’09), at the annual meeting of the National Tax illustrious company in LERA’s industrial relations Hall of Association in Philadelphia in November. Fame, have a book nominated as the best in its field, and be named an Alumni Distinguished Professor all in one year is like winning a trifecta.”

All awards, publications and presentations are listed in the AYS Annual Report online.

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Christine Roch and David Pitts presented “Ethnicity and Research Centers Policy Tools in Public Education: The Role of Representation,” and Cathy Yang Liu presented “Ethnic Enclave Residence Karen Minyard spoke at the Georgia State Capitol about and Ethnic Niche Employment of Latino Immigrants” at the the reorganization of the Department of Human Resources 31st Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public and creation of the Department of Health in October and Policy Analysis and Management in Los Angeles in November. moderated the panel, “Prevention: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later” at the 26th Biennial Institute for Georgia Legislators in Cynthia Searcy presented “Charter School Finance: Athens in December. An Examination of Schools of Choice in Georgia” at the Associ- ation for Budgeting and Financial Management annual confer- Holly Avey presented a poster, “Chronic Stress and ence in Chicago in October. Health Disparities: Investigating the Roles of Race and Class Discrimination” at the National Institute of Heath Summit: Bill Waugh participated in the Emergency Management The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities in National Accreditation Program Commission meetings in San Diego Harbor, Md., in December. in October.

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Jorge Martinez-Vazquez (ISP) and Santiago Lago Paula of the University of Vigo, Spain, co-organized the conference, Stephan “The reform of the assignment of taxes to Spanish regions: (Economics) Challenges and Opportunities.” Sponsored by the Galician has been Regional Government, it was held in Santiago de Compostela, appointed to Spain, in October. the National Research Bruce Kaufman (Economics) has been appointed adjunct Council professor in the Department of Employment Relations, Griffith Committee University, Brisbane Australia. on the Examination The Andrew Young School congratulates Wanda Cooley, of the U.S. assistant director of the Office of Academic Assistance, student Paula Stephan with Xinli Liu (M.A. in Economics Air Force’s Glenda Crunk (M.P.A.) and Charlotte Petrek, ’96), the chief economist in the Shanghai Science, college personnel and facilities officer, who have been presented State Bureau. Technology, Sparks Awards by Georgia State University. The award recog- Engineering nizes faculty, staff and students who exemplify a willingness and Mathematics Workforce Needs in the Future and Its Strat- to go the extra mile with good humor and perseverance. egy to Meet Those Needs. In November she presented seminars on the Economics of Science at Renmin University and W.J. “Bill” Usery, Distinguished Executive Fellow at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing and the AYS, in October Korea University in Seoul. She visited with AYS alumni in both pledged $100,000 to countries while there. then university president Carl Patton (at left) for Andrey Timofeev (ISP) and Musharraf Cyan (ISP) use in support of efforts in October completed the first of three fiscal policy training to locate a U.S. Bureau and technical assistance missions commissioned by the United of the Census Research Nations Development Programme. Data Center in Atlanta, a proposal being led Erdal Tekin was a visiting researcher at the Institute for by the AYS in cooperation the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, and presented with other regional his paper, “Body Composition and Wages,” with alumnus Roy institutions. (See story Wada (Ph.D. in Economics ’07), who works at UCLA/RAND. next issue.)

26 | Faculty today www.andrewyoungschool.org In Memoriam Dr. James Franklin Crawford, of Industrial Relations. “Jim was a tireless faculty Professor Emeritus of Geor- Dr. Crawford retired from recruiter,” agrees Professor gia State University’s Andrew Georgia State in 1983. David Sjoquist, the Dan E. Professor Young School of Policy Stud- Sweat Distinguished Chair in Emeritus ies and former chair of the “Under Jim’s leadership the Educational and Community Department of Economics, department started its Ph.D. Policy and director of the James Crawford died on June 8 in Atlanta. program,” wrote Professor Fiscal Research Center and He was 89. Emeritus Paula Stephan in an Domestic Studies. He says 1920-2009 e-mail from Paris, upon hear- Dr. Crawford hired only top- A naval officer during World ing of his death. She credits caliber faculty, beginning a War II, Dr. Crawford studied Dr. Crawford for engineering trend that continues today. at the University of Colorado the considerable expansion “It was Jim’s leadership and at Boulder after the war and of the department in the personal commitment that earned a Ph.D. in Economics 1970s, adding 15 new faculty made this possible.” from the University of Wis- that included Bruce Seaman, consin at Madison. In 1956 David Sjoquist, Paul Farnham, Stephan also remembered he moved to Atlanta and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Dr. Crawford’s “love of joined Georgia State College Bruce Kaufman and Stephan. industrial relations. He tire- as an assistant professor of lessly worked to remind Economics. (The name “All of us were fresh out the College of Business of changed to Georgia State of graduate school. In retro- the importance of offering University in 1969.) spect, I realize how gutsy it classes in industrial relations Photo Courtesy of the Special Collections and Archives, was of Jim and his colleagues to business majors.” Georgia State University Library In 1960 Professor Crawford to hire a group of young was named acting chairman faculty that could and did, After retiring in 1983, of the Department of Eco- from time to time, out-vote Dr. Crawford had a remark- nomics, Finance and Statistics. senior faculty on a number able career as a realtor, Within two years he chaired of issues! And he and his wife wrote Stephan. “He kept the Department of Econom Mim went out of their way in great shape, working out ics, a position he held until to welcome young faculty,” at a gym almost daily, and 1981 when he became direc- she wrote. pursued his love of music – tor of the school’s Institute especially jazz.”

Thomas presents O’Leary of Syracuse University, informing Thomas of the selec- paper at prestigious tion of his paper. The conference was held on the 40th anniversary of the origi- Minnowbrook III nal Minnowbrook conference – named after the conference center that housed it – where Dwight Waldo, then the Albert Conference Schweitzer Chair at Syracuse, brought public administration scholars together to discuss the direction of the field of public Professor John Thomas was invited to present a administration. Ideas from that conference, reflective of the paper he had proposed, “Involving the Public and Other Stake- tumultuous sixties, sparked a critical examination of public holders in Public Management: A Practical Theory with Case administration scholarship and practice aptly termed the “New Applications,” at the Syracuse University Maxwell School’s pres- Public Administration” of the 1960s and 1970s, which left an tigious Minnowbrook III Conference in Lake Placid, New York, enduring legacy for the field. in September. It is one of the few papers subsequently selected for an edited book of papers from the conference. “In public administration circles, this is about as good as it gets: to present an invited paper at this conference.” says Professor “We received nearly 300 proposals, and the committee Harvey Newman, chair of the Department of Public Manage- judged yours to be among the best,” wrote Maxwell Advisory ment and Policy. “John deserves our congratulations for enhanc- Board Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor Rosemary ing the prestige of the Andrew Young School in this way.”

Andrew Young School Faculty today | 27 Recognized for excellence in teaching and writing, Associate Professor Kurt Schnier joined the AYS from the Department of Environmental and Natural The AYS Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island, where he received the welcomes Teaching Excellence Award. Schnier uses econometric, experimental and simulation modeling methods on research focused on developing efficient new faculty marine resource policy. He is associate editor of Marine Resource Economics. and research Assistant Professor Rachana Bhatt’s research focuses are labor and applied economics, with a specific concen- associates tration in education. She has researched and analyzed reading rates and public library use, ability tracking in elementary schools and the impact of school lunch As the reputation and prestige of the Andrew Young School lengths on children. She earned graduate degrees in economics at the University of Rochester, N.Y. continues to rise, so does the demand for – and interest

from – talented faculty, research associates and staff Pu b l i c Ma n a g e m e n t a n d Po l i c y to serve the school’s ever-growing enrollment. The learning Assistant Professor Cathy Liu received experience of AYS students, already exceptional under a Ph.D. from the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of the direction of the school’s present faculty, is further Southern California, where she worked enhanced and enriched by its newest members. with the Lusk Center for Real Estate and Population Dynamics Research Group. Her research has been supported by the Ec o n o m i c s U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Prior to joining the AYS as an assistant Development and the Haynes Foundation and can be found professor, Andrew Hanson was in Chicago Policy Review, Urban Studies, and Urban Policy and a research assistant for the Center for Research. She holds an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago. Environmental Policy and Administration at Syracuse University, where he earned Assistant Professor Yoon Jik Cho his Ph.D. He has served as a staff econo- works in the field of public management. mist for the Council of Economic Advisers He holds an M.P.A. from Seoul National in Washington, D.C., and his work has University and a Ph.D. in Public Affairs been published in the National Tax Journal. His primary research from the School of Public and Environ- interests are urban economics and public finance. mental Affairs at Indiana University. Cho is interested in the role of trust in public Clinical Assistant Professor Grace O management, leadership, human resource spent May as a Visiting Scholar CERMSEM management and quantitative methods. His research is under at the Université de Paris 1 Panthon- review in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Sorbonne before joining the economics Leadership Quarterly and other journals. department at the AYS last summer. She earned her Ph.D. and master’s degree Assistant Professor Cynthia in economics at the University of Kansas Searcy’s research specializes in finan- and her undergraduate degree at Ewha cial management and budgeting, education Womans University in Seoul, Korea. O’s teaching and research policy, and health policy related to child- interests focus on macroeconomics/aggregation, monetary hood obesity. She holds a Ph.D. from Syra- economics and North Korea’s economy. cuse University and an M.P.A. from NYU. Searcy spent four years as a research associate at the Citizens Budget Commission,

28 | Faculty today www.andrewyoungschool.org a fiscal watchdog agency based in New York City. The Journal Research Associate Heather Devlin of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Journal brings more than nine years of state of Public Budgeting & Finance and American Journal of Evaluation public health experience to the GHPC. have published her articles. Prior to joining the AYS, she led the program evaluation and systems thinking Visiting Lecturer Heidi Tauscher efforts for the Minnesota Department has garnered award-winning academic and of Health’s diabetes program. She earned professional experience in ethics, law and an M.A. from the University of Kansas. public management. She holds a J.D. from Wake Forest University, a Ph.D. in Ethics Theresa Kanter is a research associ- & Society from Emory University and is ate for the GHPC’s Community Health a Certified Mediator through Harvard Law Systems Development team. Her research School’s Program for Mediation. Tauscher interests center on how cities and towns was a research fellow for the Emory University Ethics Center promote or hinder healthy living. Before and has taught for Emory, the National Business Institute and joining the AYS, she was a program associ- the Southern Institute for Business & Professional Ethics. ate for the Pioneer Portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She earned a Zeynep Esra Tanyildiz, Master of Urban and Regional Planning at Virginia Tech. a recent Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Joint Doctoral Program at Georgia State Naima Wong joined the GHPC after and Georgia Tech, joined the AYS as a completing a doctorate at the University clinical teaching assistant professor special- of Michigan. She is an expert on research izing in policy studies. Her research focus design and implementation, program in the area of scientific human capital pays development and evaluation, and sustain- special attention to foreign doctoral stu- ability technical assistance for projects dents and network relations. She holds an M.A. in urban policy and communities. Her research interests planning and a B.A. in city and regional planning and has earned include the health of underserved popula- a National Science Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. tions, empowerment, youth and community development, and community-based participatory research methods. Ge o r g i a He a l t h Po l i c y Ce n t e r Senior Research Associate Holly Pu b l i c Pe r f o r m a n c e a n d Ma n a g e m e n t Avey’s research centers on health Alumna Moreblessing Dzivakwe (M.P.A. ’07), formerly disparities, social determinants of health a graduate research assistant for PPM, recently joined its staff and stress-related illness. She is an expert as an administrative specialist. She is assisting on the PPM in innovative research methods of inquiry, project to develop a strategic plan for the Georgia Department analysis and representation. Avey has of Agriculture. spent15 years in public health program design, implementation, evaluation and Dale Verstegen is assistant project director of the community organizing with hospital, collegiate and community Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program for Community populations. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of Georgia Rehabilitation Programs at PPM. Before joining the AYS, he and an M.P.H. at the University of Michigan. was the assistant director of the University of Tennessee Center on Disability and Employment and had consulted with com Research Associate Jane Branscomb munity rehabilitation programs on organizational change provides project coordination, secondary and development. research, writing and other support to the GHPC. Her recent projects include facilitating a work group revising Georgia’s statewide cancer plan; assisting in a study of the literature on root causes of health disparities in the rural Southeast; and assessing the capacities and needs of public health institutes across the U.S. Prior to joining the AYS, Branscomb was a nonprofit executive. She earned a B.E. at Vanderbilt University.

Andrew Young School Faculty today | 29 every single student, and they are all so very engaged New in their field of study.” Enrollment at the AYS stands at nearly 800 this year, and Academic Williams says undergraduate enrollment has increased over the past year. “The Assistance quality of our graduate applications is good, and we’re seeing a talented stream director of students coming in for advisement,” she says.

Williams says she made few is old changes when she joined the office. “We’re moving for- ward, establishing our vision hand at for the Office of Academic administrative roles at ing sense of humor. “I had Assistance, strengthening Georgia State – most to think hard about the tran- what the office is already recently managing graduate sition,” says Williams. “I was doing well. Our first priority Georgia and scheduling services for happy where I was. But is to provide quality advise- the College of Arts and Sue spoke very highly of ment to students and to Sciences – after earning her the AYS and how great ensure their success in our State bachelor’s degree in sociology the administrative support programs,” says Williams. here in 1998. was for her office.” “We’re here to serve stu- Shelly-Ann Williams dents, faculty and staff.” knows Georgia State Uni The biggest cheerleader Williams is happy she made versity from the dual per- for the position in Academic the transition. “This school The Office of Academic spectives of both students Assistance was its retiring has so much to offer, and Assistance is located in the and administration. The director, Sue Fagan, says I am excited to be a part lobby of the Andrew Young Andrew Young School’s direc- Williams. Fagan had created of it. I had always wanted School at 14 Marietta Street, tor of Academic Assistance the department a dozen to work with students; they NW. Go to http://aysps.gsu. since May 2008, she has years earlier and ran it with always found their way to my edu/oaa/index.html. held a number of important wisdom, grace and an engag- desk. Here our office touches

Academic director gives the PMAP itself: more than 40 students showed up for the first meeting student experience a total makeover this semester, and there’s new leadership,” says Newman. continued from page 9 “A graduate student I was trying to recruit this week took one look at our Calendar of Career Events, and it was a closed deal. “The first thing Maggie did was help ourstudents map out Enhancing the employability of our students is one of the key their coursework plans,” says Newman. “That led to more logical measures for our department. Maggie’s contribution already has course scheduling and long-range curriculum planning so that been tremendously important in meeting our goals,” he says. our graduate and undergraduate students can plan their academic programs from the time they enter PMAP to the time Newman reports that these changes and the department’s they graduate, semester by semester. new concentrations and courses are having a positive impact on enrollment. “Our undergraduate enrollment seems to “One of the most exciting things Maggie has helped us recog- be growing rapidly. We’re very excited about that,” he says. nize is how important it is to get students off on the right track. She has also developed a required new student orientation Tolan’s next marketing target is the PMAP Alumni Web program, in which our experience this past fall and spring semes- page. To learn more about PMAP degree programs, people ters has just been outstanding. Our student club has reinvented and events, go to http://aysps.gsu.edu/paus/about.html.

30 | Faculty today www.andrewyoungschool.org Peace Corps student aıds development of Guatemalan town

Graduate student Kristy Joseph (Economics) San Juan Ermita and is recording GPS (global positioning enrolled at Georgia State so she could enter system) points to create maps of a nearby village. the Peace Corps Master’s International Program offered by the Andrew Young Joseph is working on health center databases that will help School. “I wanted to follow in a career in reduce the mortality rates of pregnant women and increase economic development and the Peace child vaccinations. “With the doctor we are trying to gather data Corps sounded like a good way to start,” to figure out correlations between births and the economic says the New Jersey native. “I wanted to cycle of planting and harvesting,” she says. Joseph has provided help people in some way, although at the HIV/AIDS and mental health training to children and has trained time, I didn’t know how. I wanted to learn others on the importance of clean water, sanitation and breast Spanish, and I’m a sucker for travel and experiencing new things, feeding and how to watch for signs of illnesses in young children. learning a new culture and meeting new people.” The experience has given Joseph a greater appreciation for She landed in San Miguel Dueñas, Guatemala, for three months critical thinking. “A person can adapt to any type of environ- of language, technical and cultural training, and has nearly ment, if you free yourself from what you think you’re ‘supposed’ completed two years of work in municipal development and to do.” She will return to the United States with a much richer public health for the small town of San Juan Ermita. In Novem- cross-cultural understanding of the roles communications, edu- ber she returns to the states holding all of the credits required cation and citizenship play in a developing country. She says the to complete her degree. Peace Corps Master’s International Program has given her all of the new cultural and hands-on working experiences she had Joseph had expected to focus on municipal development. hoped to gain – and more. “Guatemala has been working on decentralization for more than a decade,” she says. “We had been trained to get the municipal government organized, provide technical assistance on software programs and create more par ticipation from the citizenry.”

But issues related to the overall health of the community quickly caught her attention. Her time and efforts are now split between the town’s municipal government and its health center. “I create budgets and profiles for municipal projects and have also created a website, www.sanjuanermitagt. com,” she says. “The site gives residents and others the ability to follow the development of their town and any events or activities that are taking place.” She is conducting a census of

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she’d earn a core credit top-level officials. “For exam- towards her M.P.A. “I wanted ple, a retired general talked Study abroad to learn how Europeans view to us about NATO, how it life and government policy, worked. We had a two-hour and how they treat employ- conversation with the chief programs ees in their organizations; economist of the European Greenland their structure. I had heard a Central Bank in Frankfurt.” lot about their move towards a greener way of life, how The AYS programs are expand R u s s i a designed to foster global C a n a d a Arctic Circle they are environmentally perspectives and understand- Iceland structured.” She felt the Norway Sweden ing. Sriuthai agrees that these understandingFinland experience would further her development as a public intangible benefits are a top administration professional. draw. “There is no way you Estonia Japan Latvia Mongolia N. Korea can read about this experi- United Kingdom Denmarkof policyLithuania “The program exceeded ence in a book and be able S. Korea Poland Belarus these expectations,” says to feel it,” she says. Ireland Kazakhstan United States Germany Sriuthai, who in February Belgium C h i n a Czech Rep. Ukraine Slovakia went to work in a research Developed and administered Kyrgyzstan opic of Cancer Austria Hungary Tr with Georgia State Univer France Romania Uzbekistan office of the Internal Revenue Italy Turkmenistan Tajikistan Service in Washington, D.C. PAsity’sCIFIC Office of International ATLANTIC Bulgaria OCEAN Spain De s t i n a t i o n : E u r o p e Affairs, the AYS offers five Portugal Turkey Mexico Like many Georgia StateAfghanis tan The AYS study abroad pro- programs abroad: Nepal Syria Philippines PACIFIC Greece University students,Iran M.P.A. grams introduce studentsLa. Lebanon Burma The Bahamas Iraq Pakistan • Europe from a Policy OCEAN Tunisia Israel graduate Amy Sriuthai (2008) to institutions, organizationsVietnam Morocco India Thailand Perspective: Government, Cuba grew up in Atlanta. Last May and people who makeCambodia impor- Belize Tropic of Cancer Saudi Arabia Honduras Algeria tant policy contributions. This Economics, and Leadership Guatemala Dom. Rep. Egypt she had the experience of Libya Brunei El Salvador Haiti Western Sahara a lifetime when she joined group visited the Council (European Union Nicaragua (Occupied by Morocco) Malaysia more than a dozenOman other of Europe and the Court of Maymester Study Abroad) Costa Rica Equator Mauritania students,Eritrea Yemen AYS faculty David Human Rights in Strasbourg; Panama Mali Indonesia Venezuela Niger Sri Lanka • Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng- Senegal Chad Sudan Pitts, Carol Hansen and the Deutsche Bank and Euro- Guyana Gambia land (Exchange program) Colombia Director Deon Locklin INDIAN peanEquator Central Bank in Frank- Suriname Guinea Bissau Burkina Faso Nigeria Ecuador Benin French Guiana Guinea ofEthiopia the Public Performance furt; NATO Headquarters, Cote Somalia • Public Administration Sierra Leone d'Ivoire Ghana Central African Republic and Management Group, in the U.S. Mission to the Euro- Australia Peru Togo Cameroon and Urban Studies in Tr Liberia Uganda opic of Capricorn Equatorial Guinea Kenyathe Andrew Young School- pean Union, the European Sao Tome & Principe Lausanne, Switzerland Equator Dem. Rep. Gabon sponsored study abroad Commission and European Of Congo (Exchange program) Congo Tanzaniacourse: Europe from a Policy Parliament in Brussels; and B r a z i l OCEAN Perspective – Government, UNESCO and the Institute • Economic Studies in Bolivia of the Arab World in Paris. Economics, and Leadership. Tropic of Capricorn Zambia Lausanne, Switzerland Angola Chile Paraguay OCEAN (Exchange program) Zimbabwe Sriuthai joined the program “We had many opportunities Namibia Botswana Mozambique Madagascar Tropic of Capricorn when she saw the number to question our keynote • Economic Studies of places she would tour in speakers,” says Sriuthai, who Swaziland in South Africa three weeks and learned that appreciated this access to Lesotho Argentina Uruguay South Africa (Maymester program)

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32 | Students today www.andrewyoungschool.org A semester-long program role in the global marketplace that builds upon the – through a series of lectures, AYS student is a Strasbourg experience, in-country discussions with Congressional Research Service intern A Semester in Europe from industry and public officials, a Policy Perspective (European and site visits.” They also Economics graduate student Ashley Custard served as a Union Study Abroad), will witness the country’s socio- Congressional Research Service intern the summer of 2008. debut in the fall. It will allow economic challenges and One of 18 outstanding students selected from a highly students to study at the learn about its history and qualified field of candidates, Custard worked in the Govern- University of Strasbourg cultural traditions. ment and Finance division. and take excursions into Germany, Luxembourg, In 2008 a visit to the Univer- The intern program was developed in the 1990s to encour- Belgium and Switzerland. sity of Witwatersrand, one age more minority students to consider careers in public of the leading universities in service, according to the CRS. At a June reception reported Go to www.eustudies the country, and a discussion in The Library of Congress Gazette (August 15, 2008), Rep. program.eu for at the African Leadership John Lewis welcomed Custard and the other interns, and more information. Academy were added to the shared stories about his first experiences in Washington, D.C., program. “The academy visit as a student on the first Freedom Ride in 1961, then as a De s t i n a t i o n : spotlighted the role of lead- planner and participant in the 1963 March on Washington. So u t h A f r i c a ership in economic develop- Since 2001 more than ment, which we have added “I hope and pray that you’ll learn a great deal, and that 70 students have made as an important new element some of you will come back to Washington as members the annual Maymester trek to the program,” says Ross. of Congress, ambassadors, a governor, a mayor, a great to South Africa in a joint teacher, a great researcher, a great librarian,” the Gazette program developed by the Itineraries, applications and reports he told the students. economics departments of dates for all AYS-sponsored the AYS and Morehouse Col- study abroad programs are lege. Most go well-prepared online at http://aysps.gsu.edu/ after taking the course, The StudyAbroad/index.html. Economy of South Africa. For more information on the M.P.A.s named Presidential European programs, contact Management Fellows “The overall goal for this Carol Hansen at chansen@ study abroad program is gsu.edu. Contact Bess Blyler M.P.A. students Rhonda Belser-Davis, Clorise Harvey and to present students with a for more information on Nadine Randall were selected last spring (2008) to par broad understanding of the the South African program: ticipate in the Presidential Management Fellows program, South African economy, infra- [email protected]. a prestigious two-year federal program operating out of structure, environment and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Its purpose is governance,” says program “to attract to the Federal service outstanding men and director Glenwood Ross, an Scenes from Europe and women from a variety of academic disciplines and career associate clinical professor at South Africa, including the paths who have a clear interest in, and commitment to, AYS and assistant professor Council of Europe head excellence in the leadership and management of public at Morehouse. “Our students quarters in Strasbourg policies and programs,” as stated on the program’s Web (third from left), South examine the process of eco- site, www.pmf.opm.gov/. The AYS students joined a class African vineyards (fourth nomic and social develop- of 82 M.P.A. students from the top policy schools around ment – and South Africa’s from left) and Amy Sriuthai and friends waiting for the country. a train (right). Professor Harvey Newman, chair of the Department of Public Management and Policy, offered special congratulations and thanks to David Pitts, assistant professor of PMAP, who managed the program for the AYS. “This is a fine reflection on the hard work that we as a faculty do. It also speaks well of the quality of our students,” he said.

Andrew Young School Students today | 33 AYScelebrates 13th Annual Honors Day, April 2009

Fellowships, scholarships, awards and honors were bestowed upon Andrew Young School students at the school’s 13th Annual Honors Day Cere- mony the night of April 21, 2009. Inductees into Omicron Delta Epsilon, the national honor society for students of economics, and Pi Alpha Alpha, the national honor society for the field of public affairs, were also recognized, as were the international scholars who attended AYS with the support of prestigious fellowships and programs.

Ph.D. student John Win- ters (Economics), right, and Marcais Frazier, above, an undergraduate student in Public Manage- ment and Policy, made remarks at this year’s event. Professor Mary Beth Walker presented the awards.

http://aysps.gsu.edu/3129.html

34 | Students today www.andrewyoungschool.org Student News

Sarah Arnett and central government of the Colorectal Cancer (Ph.D. in Public Policy) won authorities who attended Screening Demonstration the 2008 ABFM Michael the Annual Conference of Program. 5(2); ___, Holden Curro Award for “Rules of the Peruvian Network of D., Green S.G., Boehm J., Seeff Engagement: Budget Rules Rural Municipalities in Lima L.C., Tangka F. (2008). Start-up and the Quality of Financial in October. of the Colorectal Cancer Management,” which she Screening Demonstration presented at the ABFM Gustavo Canavire- Project. 5(2); ___, Seeff, L. C., annual conference in Bacarreza (Ph.D. in Tangka, F., Wanliss, E., Major, Chicago in October. Economics) & Ehrlich, L. A. & Nadel. M., et al. (2008). (2008).The impact of Development of a federally Spencer Brien (Ph.D. migration on foreign trade funded demonstration in Public Policy) presented in Bolivia. In H. Kolb & colorectal cancer screening “Looking for Leviathan in the H. Egbert (Eds.), Migrants program. 5(2); ___, Subrama- Tax Base: Do Income Elastic and Markets: Perspectives nian, S., Bapat, B., Seeff, L. C. & Tax Structures Lead to Public from Economics and the Gardner, J., et al. (2008). Cost Expenditure Growth?” at Other Social Sciences. of Starting Colorectal Cancer the ABFM annual conference (pp.235-248). Amsterdam, Screening Programs: Results in Chicago in October. Netherlands: Amsterdam from Five Federally Funded University Press. Demonstration Programs. Cristian Sepulveda 5(2). All articles in Preventing (Ph.D. in Economics) pre- Amy DeGroff (Ph.D. Chronic Disease, Atlanta, sented ”Intergovernmental in Public Policy), Boehm, J., Georgia: U.S. Centers for Transfer System in Peru: Green, S. G., Holden, D. & Disease Control & Preven- Principles and Challenges” Seeff, L. C. (2008). Facilitators tion. (www.cdc.gov/pcd/) to more than 400 mayors and Challenges to Start-Up

The Public Management and Policy Community Network, PMAP’s student organization, has built a page on Facebook PMAP at www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=105095355203. All in PMAP students, faculty and alumni are invited to join the page to get connected to the Network’s activities and its growing social media pool of members. For additional information about the PMAP Community Network, go to http://aysps.gsu.edu/paus/ pmapnetwork.html.

Also, an untold number of Andrew Young School students and alumni are budding YouTube videographers. For example, M.P.A. student Emily Turner, who has a strong interest in housing affordability issues, has produced a video, Housing for INclusion: Ending the Trend of Gentrification, and has posted it online. To view her production, go to www.youtube.com and type the title into the search box.

Have you posted a video version of your academic research, interests or presentations online? If you have, let us know and we’ll set up a link to your site. E-mail a brief description PMAP: of your video, its title and the link to the Dean’s Office at Community Network [email protected] and we will post it on our alumni or student pages at www.andrewyoungschool.org.

Andrew Young School Students today | 35 and the Torch of Peace Award goes to… Andrew Young School Representatives of the Andrew Young School have received this faculty and students honor eight of the last nine years. were well repre- sented at Georgia In 2008 AYS alumna Shena Ashley (Ph.D. in Public Policy ’07), State’s 26th Annual an assistant professor in PMAP, and PMAP graduate student Martin Luther King, Jr. Kimberly Cooper were awarded the 2008 Torch of Peace for Convocation on alumni and graduate student. January 15. Recipients of the 2009 MLK This year’s Torch of Peace Award event attracted were AYS alumnus an audience and Associate Clinical of more than Professor Glenwood 1,400 says Ross (left), who AYS alumna directs the South Tonya Cook African study abroad (M.S. in HRD program, and student ’05). Program Nicholas Harvey Specialist for (right), who is Student Life working towards a graduate degree in Public Policy through and Leadership/ the joint Ph.D. program of the AYS and the School of Policy Intercultural at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Relations at Georgia State, The Torch of Peace award is presented every year to Georgia Cook was the State faculty and staff members, undergraduate and graduate event chairper- students, an alumnus and the student organization who best son for the 26th demonstrate an outstanding ability to facilitate or promote Annual MLK, Jr. positive intercultural relations at Georgia State University. Convocation.

AYS students Three remarkable Andrew Young School seniors were presented the highly regarded Georgia State University award: Targeting Outstanding Achievements of Student Transfers. The T.O.A.S.T. capture award honors transfer students who achieve special distinction in the areas of student activities and campus life. Now AYS alumni, Baruch Feigenbaum (B.S. in Public Policy ’08), Jonathan Bridges T.O.A.S.T. awards (B.S. in Public Policy ’08), and Aubree Lundie (dual B.S. Economics and Psychology ’08), left to right in the photo, received engraved glasses and certificates at the annual T.O.A.S.T. awards ceremony held in April 2008.

Feigenbaum was a senator in the Student Government Association, publicity coordinator for the PMAP Network and received the Governor Joe Frank Harris Award for academic achievement in the field of public policy. Bridges was vice president and president pro tem of the Economics Club and was awarded the William Gable Award in recognition of his high academic standing and professional promise. Lundie was president of the Phi Chi Theta professional business and economics fraternity and coordinated its annual Dinner with a Winner in 2008. She was also tapped for Omicron Delta Epsilon, the national honor society.

36 | Students today www.andrewyoungschool.org Mandela Scholar heads a key policy post

Chief Director Vuyelwa Vumendlini heads Public Service and Administration on remuneration challenges, the Remuneration Policy and Macro Bene- proposing salary structures and policies that will enable govern- fits unit of the Department for Public Ser- ment to achieve its desired objective. “A remuneration policy vice and Administration for the Republic should position government as an employer of choice. It should of South Africa. Her department negoti- encourage and reward excellent performance and, most impor- ates salaries and conditions of service for tantly, it should strive towards building a dynamic work force the government’s 1.2 million employees: that is motivated, efficient and effective, one that thrives on pro- its teachers, police, nurses, defense work- fessionalism through creating proper career path opportunities ers and others. for professionals.”

An AYS Mandela Scholar who graduated from Georgia State Vumendlini appreciates her training at the AYS. “It has helped a University with a Masters in Economics, Vumendlini was visiting lot, both at the Treasury Department, (her first employer upon California and Washington, D.C., to gather information on best returning from Atlanta), and now – they are both policy depart- practices when she decided to add a trip to Atlanta to visit old ments. It is a good place to learn the crafting of policy, under- friends at the school. standing it and what its implications are for the economy and the labor market,” she says. “The training I received at the Andrew Young School was good for what I do,” she says. “I use it all the time at work. The AYS Vumendlini lives and works in Pretoria, where she sees other was like a close-knit family with an international scope when AYS Mandela fellows “all of the time.” Lesley Fisher works for I was there, and the professors were very helpful.” the National Treasury and Veronica Mafoko is with the Depart- ment for Provincial and Local Government. “Our government During her visit, she offered an update on South Africa and her buildings are so close together that it’s really easy to say, ‘Hey, work for the national government. let’s meet for coffee.’”

“The chief directorate develops and implements policies for Do not be surprised to see Vumendlini on campus the next public service employees and conditions of service (i.e. pension time she visits the U.S. “I feel some sort of connection with this benefits, medical, housing, leave etc.). We also monitor and eval- place,” she says. uate these policies,” she says. The unit advises the Minister for

Mandela AYS Mandela Scholar Veronica Mafoko is a senior manager responsible for municipal finance policy at the Department of Provincial and Local Government in Pretoria. In this position she Scholar Mafoko develops policy on municipal finance and is responsible for the implementation of the Municipal Property Rates Act. She ensures that the nine provincial departments responsible for local is a senior-level government have the capacity to support municipalities in its implementation and advises the department on policy or legislation that has fiscal and financial impacts on local government finance and on the development and refinement of the fiscal framework for local government. policy advisor Before her job change in March 2008, Mafoko developed policy on the equitable sharing of revenues, and also developed and reviewed the distribution formula. “I changed my job profile in 2008 to expand my horizons,” she says.

Andrew Young School Alumni today | 37 “Graduates of the joint Ph.D. Hai Guo 2008 AYS Ph.D.s program in Public Policy are Setting Discretionary Fiscal in Ec o n o m i c s a n d now influencing policy deci- Policy Within the Limit of t h e i r dissertations sions within public and non- Budgetary Institutions: profit organizations,” says Evidence from American Viviane Maria Bastos Harvey Newman, professor State Government. de Malafaia and chair of the Department The Effect of Changes in of Public Management and Ignacio Antonio Navarro Maternity Leave Policy on Policy. “One has accepted Labor Market Outcomes a position at Syracuse, which Housing Tenure, Property Rights, for Females in Brazil. is generally regarded as the and Urban Development top-ranked policy school in in Developing Countries. AYS the U.S. Others are in top Shiyuan Chen policy universities from coast Monica LaBelle Oliver Three Essays in Public Finance. to coast.” Evaluation of Emergency produces Response: Humanitarian Aid Benjamin Israel Miller “Our record class indicates Agencies and Evaluation Use. that doctoral students under- Estimating the Firm’s stand the advantages of Demand for Human Resource a record earning a doctoral degree Hector Gonzalo Ordonez Management Practices. at a policy institution where International Research practice is emphasized along Collaboration, Team Nara Francoise Monkam number with theory, which is particu- Performance, and Scientific The Money-Moving Syndrome larly unique in an Economics and Technological and the Effectiveness of Ph.D. program,” says Interim Capabilities in Colombia: Foreign Aid. Dean Robert Moore. “Our A Bottom-Up Perspective. of Ph.D.s graduate-level students have Peter Helekiah Oburu the unique opportunity to be Catherine Putnam Slade Consumer Adoption of The Andrew Young involved in policy work in our centers. Students also recog- Does Patient-Centered Bandwidth Intensive School awarded a record nize the strong programs we Care Affect Racial Disparities Applications and Its Impact offer in our areas of special- in Health? on Broadband Adoption. 17 doctoral degrees in ization, as ranked in News- 2008 to an academically week and U.S. News & World Zeynep Esra Tanyildiz Riatu M. Qibthiyyah Report, for example.” The Effects of Networks on impressive group of Essays on Political and Institution Selection by Foreign Fiscal Decentralization. students. The research 2008 AYS Ph.D.s Doctoral Students in the U.S. in Pu b l i c Po l i c y a n d Roman Raab interests of the freshly t h e i r dissertations Wenbin Xiao Pension Reform and (A joint degree with the minted Ph.D.s are inter- Determinants of New Retirement Incentives: Georgia Institute of Technology) Technology-Based Firms’ Evidence from Austria. esting and diverse, and Performance in Catch-Up Kwaw Senyi Andam Regions. Evidence from the each represents a great Thalyta Ernandya Yuwono Essays on the Evaluation of U.S. Biopharmaceutical Individual Income Tax in deal of promise for the Land Use Policy: The Effects and IT Service Industries. Indonesia: Behavioral Response, of Regulatory Protection on future of public policy. Incidence, and the Distribution Land Use and Social Welfare. Lei Zhang of Income Tax Burden. Uncompensated Care Provision and the Economic Behavior of the Hospitals: The Influence of Regulatory Environment on Hospitals.

38 | Alumni today www.andrewyoungschool.org aAYS courcallse to action for Malawı student

Political science major Joseph Mwandidya ship them,” took just two years to earn his undergraduate degree at he said, “even Georgia State. “I would not recommend any student do what though I had I did. I had no scholarship or money to pay my tuition,” he says. no job to get this But what he did have is a desire to serve his country, he told kind of money. Professor Michael Mescon, admitting that he hoped some day I delivered pizza.” to become president of Malawi. His friends The AYS Policy Leadership course inspired Mwandidya to act in Malawi sent on his desire to serve even before he graduated. “In those who him art and spoke to our class – leaders in banking, health care, philanthropy, jewelry to sell private business, local government and nonprofits – I saw the for a fund raiser, opportunity of a lifetime, a window that for me may never and he asked his Michael Mescon and Joseph Mwandidya open again,” he says. “I had to grab it.” local pastor if he could raise funds “The Policy Leadership course features outstanding civic and at church. He raised $500 speaking at services and $1,235 business leaders who talk about what they’ve accomplished selling the jewelry at his church one weekend. That Monday, and how they did it. Our students learn from a remarkable his pastor called to tell him that members heard his plea and collection of people,” says Mescon, who created the course had generously raised his total. The glasses were shipped to with professor and PMAP Chair Harvey Newman. Mescon Malawi and distributed to 10 villages. is an AYS Advisory Board member and dean emeritus of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business. Says Mescon: “Joseph followed up with every single one of our speakers. He was persistent and handled himself well. His After every presentation, Mwandidya would introduce himself pastor told me that if Joseph were running for president, he’d to the policy leader and ask for his or her advice and support vote for him.” on projects to help his homeland, he says. “I managed to get in touch and followed up with every speaker. If we are to be In fact, soon after meeting Mwandidya, former ambassador a better Malawi, we have to educate our children, build tourism Andrew Young became his mentor. “Andy encouraged Joseph and build infrastructure.” to create jobs. He told him he would help more people as an economic entrepreneur than as president of the country,” says Speaker Christina Lennon, executive director of the Georgia Newman. “He also gave Joseph $15,000 to buy a truck and start Lions Lighthouse Federation and former Amanda Hyatt Fellow a distribution company. Now he owns four trucks and will have and AYS alumna, opened Mwandidya’s first window. “She told ten by the end of the year. us how her organization helps people in Georgia with prescrip- tion glasses and talked about its work in the Philippines. When “Joseph has the attention of Malawi’s president and ministers. I heard that, I thought about my people in Malawi who live on He is building a future for others and influencing the public $1 a day or less and can’t afford glasses. It was an opportunity sector,” says Newman, who has invited him back to talk to for me to help my people,” he says. the leadership class each of the last two years. “His story is so inspiring that another student has said, ‘If he can do it for After class he told Lennon about his concerns, and she asked Malawi, I can do it for South Africa.’” how they could help. The Federation agreed to supply as many glasses as needed, but could not ship them. It would cost $6,347 “This course was the turning point of my life: a life-changing to send a container to Malawi. “I told her we’d find a way to experience,” says Mwandidya. “The last class I took at Georgia State, it has meant more than any other.”

Andrew Young School Alumni today | 39 Alumni Today: news research for the country, reviews fiscal policy issues for other countries, participates in various analytical and research projects for the department and writes policy papers. [email protected]

Nevbahar Ertas (Ph.D. in Public Policy ’07), accepted a tenure-track assistant pro- Chanda Allen-Baffoe Tonya Cook Stephen Everhart Wasseem Mina fessor position in the School of Social and Behavioral Chanda D. Allen- David Bowes (Ph.D. Specialist for Student Life and Sciences, Department of Baffoe (M.P.A. ’08) has in Economics ’99) was Leadership/Intercultural Rela- Government at the University relocated to Johannesburg, granted tenure and pro- tions at Georgia State. (See of Alabama at Birmingham. South Africa, following a moted to associate professor Torch of Peace awards story, promotion by General Elec- of Economics at Southeast- page 36.) [email protected] Stephen Everhart tric Energy as its new Region ern Louisiana University in (M.A. in Economics ’95/Ph.D. Resource Director for Africa Hammond. [email protected] Asmaa Adel in Economics ’02) was named and India. Her responsibilities ElGanainy (M.A. in Eco- associate dean of the School include project planning, logis- Tonya Cook (M.S. in nomics ’03/Ph.D. in Econom- of Business at the American tics, and managing, coaching Human Resource Develop- ics ’06) was promoted to fiscal University in Cairo in June. and developing the field ment ’05) has graduated economist for Armenia in the Following tours in Brazil, engineers that support GEE’s from the United Way VIP Fiscal Affairs Department of Mexico and Venezuela with Africa and India regions. Program, which trains future the International Monetary the World Bank and Interna- [email protected] directors for nonprofit Fund. She handles all fiscal tional Finance Corporation, boards. She is the Program operations, policy advice and he had been managing direc- Graduate of first B.P.P. class lands a spot at the CDC

Public health was not a career field AYS alumnus Ramu Kaladi tional manage- had planned on entering. So how did he end up celebrating ment. I wasn’t his second year at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and tied down to Prevention in June? ”When I got the call from the CDC to help a specific policy improve global public health, I listened. ” area, like city planning, which gives me a great deal of flexibility in career choices” Kaladi joined the CDC through the federal government’s he says. “Dr. (Harvey) Newman has been there to guide me and Student Career Experience Program. As a student trainee he continues to be a great mentor. The Policy Leadership class provided administrative assistance to both the Strategy & Inno- gave me new perspectives on organizational management and vation Office and the Workforce & Career Development Office culture, and I realized that the same management and policy in the Coordinating Office for Global Health. Now an entry- principles hold true in all organizational sectors. level health policy analyst, Kaladi tracks legislation with relevance to global health. He also puts together informational material Before joining the CDC, Kaladi interned at the Georgia Lions on the CDC’s global health work for Congress and other Lighthouse Foundation run by AYS alumna Christina Lennon. policymakers to consider as they formulate policy. He says that experience and his public policy degree caught the CDC’s attention. “The CDC is better known for its emergency A member of the first class to graduate with AYS’s new outbreak preparedness and for providing the technical exper- Bachelor of Science in Public Policy, Kaladi attributes his steady tise and research needed to combat and prevent disease glob- rise at the CDC to the program’s courses and AYS professors. ally, but it also does great policy work. I know that the work I do “The B.P.P. focuses more on the policy process and organiza- has a snowball effect and creates a big positive impact,” he says.

40 | Alumni today www.andrewyoungschool.org Friends Today tor of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. At AUC he teaches project AYS Advisory Board elects Sam Allen chair finance and risk management. [email protected] The Andrew Young School Advisory Board has elected S.M. Zahid Iqbal (M.A. Samuel Allen, chairman of in Economics ’07) joined the the investment management economics department at firm, Globalt, Inc., to serve the North South University, as its chair. He succeeds Paul one of the leading universities Rosser, founder and chair in Bangladesh, as a lecturer. of Rosser International, Inc., [email protected] who had admirably served the AYS since creating the Left to right: Angela Allen, Paul Rosser and Sam Allen Wasseem Michel board in 1996 along with Mina (Ph.D. in Economics Ingrid Saunders Jones of that accurately captures the who would catalogue this ’02) sends greetings from The Coca-Cola Company. spirit and legacy of former rich period in Atlanta and the Department of Econom- Ambassador Andrew Young the U.S. as ‘ancient history’ – ics and Finance, College of Sam and his wife, Angela for future generations of stu- if they know it at all – will Business and Economics at Allen, have been members dents and faculty. understand how and why United Arab Emirates Univer- of the AYS board since 2004. the Andrew Young School sity in Al Ain, UAE, where he Angela has also served on “Our school embodies the of Policy Studies embodies has been an assistant profes- the Georgia State Univer- rich stew of spiritual, civic and its namesake’s values.” sor of Economics since 2004. sity Foundation. economic values and policies He serves on the university’s brought to light by Andrew Allen recognizes Paul Rosser Educational Outcomes A Griffin native, Allen brings Young in his roles as minister, and his wife, Sally Rosser, Assessment Committee, a wealth of experience in human rights activist, Georgia for their exemplary service corporate management and chairs the department-level congressman, United Nations on the board. “They make a governance to his role at the equivalent of EOAC, and was ambassador, Atlanta mayor, great team – we share similar AYS. CEO of Globalt from recently selected to chair a Olympics promoter and suc- values and mutual respect. 1990 to 2004, he also serves research project committee cessful private businessman. With his work experience on the boards of Chattem, of the Strategic Planning While our students, faculty and leadership qualities, Paul Inc., of Chattanooga and Council in his college. and visitors today may under- brought a valuable interna- Servidyne, in Atlanta. stand and celebrate his com- tional perspective to the [email protected] mitment to this school – and Advisory Board and the AYS. “Our primary goal is to Ken Robbins (B.S. in may even bump into him in Vision is one of his strengths, raise the profile of the Urban Policy Studies ’93) the hallways – we want to be and he advanced a large Andrew Young School in sure that those in our future vision for the AYS.” was named Braselton’s public the metro Atlanta community, works director in July 2008 the state and the nation,” after serving as the town’s he says. “Raising the school’s Community Foundation supports the American Humanics program utilities’ construction inspec- profile will help increase tor since March 2007. From its endowment and expand A major gift from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta has 1976 to 2006, he had worked its capabilities. allowed the Department of Public Management and Policy to offer the for the DeKalb County water American Humanics Certificate program, which prepares undergraduates and sewer department. “We also want to expand for careers in nonprofit leadership. the Advisory Board. We’re Mark Thompson currently reconstituting com- “We are pleased to affiliate with American Humanics as they have clearly (Ph.D. in Economics), for- mittees of the board and identified competencies for students who are preparing for careers in non- merly the dean of the School will expand our membership profit organizations,” says Professor Harvey Newman, PMAP chair. “One of of Business at Quinnipiac and capabilities.” the challenges we have addressed is incorporating the AH competencies University in Hamden, Conn., with the standards developed for MPA programs by the National Associa- was named the university’s Projects directed by the tion of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. We believe that this senior vice president for board include introducing combination will enhance the preparation of our graduates for their academic and student affairs. AYS Dean Bartley Hildreth to professional lives and, in turn, help to strengthen the nonprofit sector.” [email protected] the community and developing a communications vehicle For more information go to http://aysps.gsu.edu/nsp/humanics.html.

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Friends Today

Several friends of note support the programs of the Andrew Young School throughout the year. The Nonprofit Studies Program, for example, offers a case study on the friends multi-layered collaborative effort required to fund important educational programs that have a broad and lasting positive impact. support For example, a UPS Foundation grant was used to underwrite scholarships for the NSP Executive Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations (ELPNO), the important preeminent training program for current or aspiring nonprofit chief executives in the Southeast. (See ELPNO story on page 17.) programs “The UPS Foundation’s support is critical to the program’s ability to recruit CEOs of the from organizations that otherwise do not have the resources to provide for their professional development,” says Dennis Young, director of the Nonprofit Studies AYS Program and the Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise at Georgia State University. Additional scholarship funding for ELPNO was received from Alston + Bird, Coxe Curry & Associates, Calvin Edwards & Company, and The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and organizations that employ ELPNO students. “Without these contributions, it would simply not have been possible to offer a program like ELPNO with a quality and breadth commensurate with top national programs. Their support is an investment in the nonprofit sector, and we are grateful,” says Young.

Substantial funding from various Atlanta-based corporations and foundations finance many of the educational and research programs of the NPS. Young recognizes the Georgia Power Foundation, Glenn Family Foundation, Mark and Evelyn Trammell Foundation, Northern Trust Bank and individual members of the NSP Advisory Board for their generous support.

“These important sources of support combined with the investments of the Andrew Young School have enabled the NSP to enter the top ranks of university nonprofit academic programs, with major achievements in educational programming, research and service to the nonprofit community,” he says.