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Military | Defense Through the Public Administration Lens Summer 2017 | Vol 3 | Issue 3 Military | Defense Through the Public Administration Lens EDUCATION EDITION PAGE 4 PAGE 12 PAGE 23 Understanding the Sustainable NASPAA List of Military Development Goals Accredited Programs FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Department of Public Administration Prepare for Public Service in a Global Environment Ph.D. in Public Affairs Master of Public Administration Traditional, Fully Online, and Executive MPA options Bachelor of Public Administration Graduate Certificate Programs: ~ Public Management ~ Community Development ~ Human Resource Policy and Management ~ Homeland Security and Emergency Management ~ International and Comparative Public Administration ~ Public Finance, Procurement and Contract Management Affiliations: The Metropolitan Center at FIU The Institute for Public Management and Community Service Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management - Dr. Howard Frank (Editor-in-Chief) - Dr. David Guo (Managing Editor) Visit PA.FIU.EDU or Call 305-348-5890 IN THIS ISSUE 2 MILITARY AND DEFENSE 2 Supporting Our Veterans Isn’t Just the Right Thing… It’s the Smart Thing Overall homelessness for veterans has dropped since 2010. This progress has not been happenstance. 4 How Do We Understand the Military? Much of the public continues to misunderstand service in the military. How do we explain it? SUMMER 2017 | VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 3 6 COLUMNS 6 Defense Policy Must Work with State-Craft Copyright ©2017 American Society for Public Administration 9 Should the Public Administration Community Resist the Current Anti-Government Paradigm? The American Society for Public Administration was 10 President’s Column established in 1939 to promote the advancement, 11 Ethics Moment teaching and practice of public and nonprofit administration. It is the largest and premier 12 The United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals association for professionals in the field. and Building a Good Society 1730 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Suite 500 15 A National Veteran Policy Field of Study to Guide Washington, DC 20036 Policy Development, Program Investments and 202-393-7878 main | 202-638-4952 fax Improve Outcomes On the Internet: www.patimes.org There is no field of study for issues affecting veterans and their families. Doing so can produce more effective policy. Editor in Chief William Shields, ASPA Executive Director 19 Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Managing Editor Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy Karen E. T. Garrett, Chief of Communications and As part of its online BookTalk series, ASPA hosted Living Legends and Full Marketing Agency author G.L.A. Harris for a look at the Combat Exclusion Policy. 21 Understanding the Policy Intent of the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill SUBSCRIBE TODAY Since enactment of the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill, oversight of the law has exposed problems that call into question whether its policy intent is being met. PA TIMES is a publication of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), a not-for-profit corporation. The magazine is published four times a year. The online version is distributed twice a week and 23 EDUCATION posted to patimes.org. Subscriptions are available. Domestic subscriptions are $50 per year, first class 23 NASPAA Accredited Programs List delivery. Foreign subscriptions are $75 per year, 30 The Biden Institute at the University of Delaware: international air delivery. Subscriptions must be prepaid in U.S. dollars. Contact the Membership Written On His Heart Department at [email protected] to start a We sat down with the Biden Domestic Policy Institute’s managing director, subscription. Mike Donilon, to discuss the launch of the institute at the University of Delaware. Single Copies Individual issues of PA TIMES are available for $3.50 31 From Brexit to Immigration Reform: 13th and $2.50 per issue for orders of 10 or more. Transatlantic Dialogue Addresses Critical Issues Reprint Requests from Both Sides of the Atlantic If you would like to reprint an article from PA TIMES, This year’s Transatlantic Dialogue brought together leading U.S.- and please contact the editor at [email protected]. Europe-based scholars and practitioners to discuss major public administration issues. Article Submission/Author Guidelines Deadlines for editions and author guidelines are 33 The Landscape of Performance Measurement available at www.aspanet.org under PA TIMES. Education Everyone is measuring performance. This research measured select Letters to the Editor NASPAA-accredited MPA programs’ performance to see how they compare. Feedback on any article published in the print edition is welcome. Letters must be no more than 350 words 36 Teaching Resources Guide for Public Affairs and and must include author’s name and address. They can be submitted by email to [email protected] or by Administration: Overview of the Fourth Edition mail to PA TIMES Editor, 1730 Rhode Island Ave., NW, A look at the Teaching Resources Guide, which has links to more than Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036. 2,500 teaching resources and technologies. Advertising Sales Representative 38 Norwich University: Taking Action Learning to the Fox Associates Inc. Next Level 116 West Kinzie A look at Norwich University and its College of Graduate and Continuing Chicago, IL 60654 Studies. 312-644-3888 ext 116 39 SOCIETY NEWS 39 Section Spotlight Section on Public Administration Education 43 ASPA Chapters Celebrate Public Service Recognition Week PATIMES.ORG 49 Members in the News Supporting Our Veterans Isn’t Just the Right Thing… It’s the Smart Thing By Elisha Harig-Blaine Two or three times each year, our attention turns philanthropies joined federal partners to accelerate toward veterans and the sacrifices they have made veteran hiring and fill gaps in services. One for the United States. Yet sustaining that focus example: Since 2011, the Home Depot Foundation beyond Memorial Day, the 4th of July and Veterans has focused on veterans and built or improved Day has been essential to creating meaningful and more than 30,000 homes in nearly 2,000 cities. Its lasting change, especially when it comes to ensuring commitment to veteran-related causes will grow to a that veterans have a safe place to call home. quarter of a billion dollars by 2020. DEFENSE Notwithstanding the fact that homelessness continues to be a seemingly intractable public policy challenge, significant inroads have been made with regard to veterans. Overall homelessness for this population has plummeted by 47 percent since AND 2010, with the number of veterans on our streets falling by 57 percent. This progress has not been happenstance. It is the result of planning, dedicated resources, collaboration and local leadership. In 2010, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness released Opening Doors, a first- time strategic approach to ending homelessness by prioritizing specified subpopulations, starting with veterans. Federal officials recognized that focusing on them initially presented numerous advantages. First, veterans have unique access to such services and benefits as health care, education Taken together, communities for the first time had and employment. the resources needed to significantly reduce—even Beyond access to resources, policymakers end—veteran homelessness. The challenge: Develop understood that reducing homelessness required the systems and sustainable structures required to the support of public and private partners at every effectively and efficiently use those resources. To level. Recognizing the “sea of goodwill” for veterans, support these community based systems, federal federal officials began to target housing resources partners funded technical assistance initiatives to to homeless ones with the HUD-VA Supportive provide guidance, working with stakeholders to Housing voucher program, a partnership of the U.S. implement best practices like the by-name lists of Department of Housing and Urban Development homeless veterans and common assessment tools to MILITARY (HUD) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). prioritize veterans for assistance based on need. HUD provides a Housing Choice Voucher—Section A final component has been the active engagement 8 voucher—for veterans and VA provides case of local elected officials through the Mayors management services. Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness, led by In addition to longer-term housing subsidies, VA federal agencies and supported by the National launched a shorter-term program, the Supportive League of Cities (NLC) and other national Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program, organizations. Launched in 2014, the challenge is in 2009. One year later, Congress authorized and a network of 611 elected officials—521 mayors, 83 appropriated historic levels of funding to support county and city officials and seven governors—who local efforts to end veteran homelessness. have made the permanent commitment to ensure homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring, The private sector matched this unprecedented starting with veterans. level of congressional support. Businesses and 2 SUMMER 2017 The Mayors Challenge has been a mechanism for the nation’s longest period of continuous conflict. local elected officials to demonstrate their support Supporting veterans and their families is not simply for ending veteran homelessness. It also has a matter of patriotism; it is a matter of national provided homeless service providers a platform security. to engage public officials around specific actions they can take to help accelerate community based To
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