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Professors
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benzadok@fau.edu
Professor
Efraim Ben-Zadok completed his undergraduate work in political science and sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. During his military service, he also served as a liaison officer to the International Red Cross in Tel-Aviv. As a graduate student in New York in the 1970s, he worked at the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, the Israeli General Consulate in New York, John Jay College, and New York University. He received his M.P.A. and Ph.D. (1980) degrees from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. Dr. Ben-Zadok began his academic career as Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv University and thereafter at the State University of New York. Currently, he is Professor of Public Administration in the College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Since he came to FAU in 1989, he has served as Director of the Ph.D. Program for the School of Public Administration; Director of Graduate Studies for the College; Co-Director of the Florida-Israel Institute--a Florida State University System international linkage institute; and a visiting scholar at the Amsterdam Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment, University of Amsterdam.
Dr. Ben-Zadok is a student of urban, regional, and national policies who traveled by foot, bus, and train throughout almost all countries in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and some countries in South Pacific and North Africa. His fields of interest include: public policy analysis, implementation, and evaluation; comparative public policy; urban and regional policy and planning; and environmental growth management and community sustainability. He published numerous journal articles and book chapters about urban, regional, and national policies in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Turkey, Israel, and Ghana. His current theoretical interest focuses on evaluation of state-regional-local policies and on decision-making processes in long-range large-scale urban and regional policies. He brings international and comparative literature to his courses followed by case studies and examples from his own experiences. |
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Dr. Rosalyn Carter
rcarter@fau.edu
Dean, College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs and Professor
Rosalyn Carter is a Professor of Public Administration and Dean of CAUPA. Dr. Carter's primary responsibility as the Dean is the development of programs in the College and University. She has been the Dean since 1993, and her accomplishments include the creation of new programs, accreditation of new and old programs, modification of College procedures, and the development of research centers. |
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afarazma@fau.edu
Professor
Ali Farazmand is a Professor in the School of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches core Ph.D. and MPA courses of Conceptual Foundations of PA, Organization Theory and Administrative Behavior, and Public Personnel Administration, and elective courses of Organizational Behavior, Bureaucratic Politics and Public Policy. He has a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. His areas of research include Organization/Administrative Theory, Behavior, History of PA, Bureaucratic Politics, the New Administrative State, Civilization and Administration, and Comparative/International PA. He is the author and editor of numerous journal articles, book chapters, journal symposia, and more than nine books. His recent books include The State, Bureaucracy, and Revolution: Agrarian Reform and Regime Politics (Praeger 1989), Encyclopedic Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration (Marcel Dekker, 1991, in 55 chapters/800 pages), Mdern Organizations: Administrative Theory in Contemporary Society (Praeger, 1994), Handbook of Bureaucracy (Marcel Dekker, 1994, in 43 chapters), Public Enterprise Management: International Case Studies (Greenwood Press, 1996), and Modern Systems of Government: Bureaucrats- Politicians Interface (Sage, March 1997). His forthcoming books include Administrative Reform in Developing Nations (JAI Press) and The New American Administrative State: A Political Economy Analysis (Praeger), and his books in progress include Encyclopedic Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management in 100 chapters (Marcel Dekker), Early Origins of Public Administration, Politics and Administration in Revolutionary Iran: The Regime and Elite Changes and the Bureaucracy, Public Enterprises and Privatization: Lessons for Public Management Education and practice, Modern Organizations (a text), and Handbook of Strategic Public Personnel Administration with Charles Washington of FAU (Marcel Dekker). |
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hmiller@fau.edu
Professor and Director of the School of Public Administration
Professor Hugh T. Miller is known for applying postmodern concepts to the fields of public policy and public administration. Postmodern Public Administration: Revised Edition is his most receont book, coauthored with Charles J. Fox and published in 2007 by M.E. Sharpe. Before that, his recent books include Tampering with Tradition: The Unrealized Authority of Democratic Agency (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), with Peter Bogason and Sandra Kensen. He is also the author of Postmodern Public Policy ( Albany, NY; State University of New York Press, 2002). An earlier book Postmodern Public Administration: Toward Discourse (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1995) was co-authored with Charles J. Fox, with whom he also co-edited Postmodernism, Reality, and Public Administration: A Discourse (Burke, Virginia: Chatelaine Press, 1997). These Things Happen: Stories from the Public Sector (Burke, Virginia: Chatelaine Press, 1998) was co-edited with Mohamad Alkadry. |
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thai@fau.edu
Professor
Director, Public Procurement Research Center
Khi V. Thai, Ph.D., is Professor, School of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University. Professor Thai has taught since 1978 (University of Maine, 1978-1990; and Florida Atlantic University, 1990-present). His expertise is in public budgeting, financial management and public procurement. He served as director of the Bureau of Public Administration at the University of Maine (1988-1990), Director of the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University (1992-96), and most recently founder and Director of the Public Procurement Research Center at Florida Atlantic University (1999-present). He organized a variety of training programs, particularly international training programs. Most recently, he has provided technical assistance to the South Florida Water Management District, the Government of Sierra Leone ( Africa), and the Federal Government of Canada in the area of procurement reforms. He is editor of three academic journals (Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Journal of Public Procurement and International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior); (2) Editorial Board member of 4 other academic journals; (3) author or editor of 6 books; (4) author or co-author of 33 referred articles, and 12 non-refereed articles and technical reports; (5) author or co-author of 17 book chapters; (6) editor or co-editor of 14 academic journal symposia; and (6) principal investigator of 24 grants/contracts. His most recent books include Introduction to Public Procurement (2004), Developing and Managing Requests for Proposals in the Public Sector (2004), and Challenges in Public Procurement: An International Perspective (2005). |
Associate Professors
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CooperCRG@aol.com
Associate Professor
Donald R. Cooper teaches research methods, statistics, and organizational behavior. A faculty member since 1976, he has taught in the MBA, executive MBA, MPA and doctoral programs in public administration and business. He also served as the associate dean of the business school, director of the public administration doctoral program, and director of a research center. Cooper's Ph.D. is from Kent State University. In addition to grants, articles, books, and monographs, he has received several teaching awards, most recently from the College of Architecture, Urban & Public Affairs.
His eighth edition of Business Research Methods, (Irwin/ McGraw-Hill, 2003) was the first comprehensive business research textbook in the '70s and, now enhanced with co-author Pamela S. Schindler, continues its market leadership in graduate programs of North America, UK, India, and China. Cooper is currently writing Marketing Research, to be released in 2004 by McGraw-Hill, with Pamela Schindler.
Dr. Cooper is also the managing director of the Cooper Research Group, a customer satisfaction and market research consultancy specializing in customer satisfaction, loyalty, defection, and market segmentation research for the electronics and computer industries. While on leave of absence in Paris from 1989-1992, Cooper created IBM's customer satisfaction program for Europe. He also directed the marketing research that launched IBM's first consumer brand PC in Europe - which ultimately became the Aptiva brand in the U.S. Currently, he provides senior management of several firms with brand, segmentation, and service/repair analysis.
Prior to his academic career, Cooper was responsible for executive recruitment at a Fortune 500 and served as an U.S. Air Force Captain in the 1151st SAS during four years of active duty. |
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lleip@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Master of Public Administration Program
Leslie Leip's career in education began when she received her Bachelor's in Education from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She taught theatre, speech, and English at high schools in St. Louis, Missouri until she started her graduate work. She received a Master's in Public Policy Administration and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Upon the completion of her Ph.D. in 1992, She joined the faculty at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She taught undergraduate and graduate political science courses. She decided she wanted to move to Florida, so she applied for a job at FAU in 1995. She is currently a faculty member in the School of Public Administration in the College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs.
Her training as a quantitative methodologist has allowed her to teach method courses, complete some very interesting research, and be involved with several dissertations. Information about her courses, research, and service is included in her web site. |
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cmccue@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Coordinator of the Bachelor of Public Management Program
Dr. Cliff McCue is an Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, College of Architecture, Urban, and Public Affairs, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Dr. McCue has published extensively in the top journals in public administration, purchasing, and public management, examining such critical issues as organizational effectiveness, productivity, decision-making, behavior, and public policy. In addition, he has authored two books, Local Government Budgeting: A Managerial Approach (Quorum 1999), and Immigration and Its Impact on American Cities (Praeger 1996). Currently, Dr. McCue is completing a book which evaluates local government employee benefit programs and another two books in public procurement. |
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rcnyhan@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Master of Nonprofit Management Program
Director, Nonprofit Resource Center
Ronald C. Nyhan is an associate professor in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. Prior to FAU, he was President and CEO of Landrum & Brown, Ltd. which oversaw the efficient operation and maintenance of large-scale facilities in the Middle East. The company was primarily responsible for performance measurement and service evaluation in building trades, utility service, transportation and engineering. He was also a Principal with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he served as Project Director for the management and productivity evaluations of local government functions at Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. He also served as Project Director for evaluations of federal agencies including Federal Rail and Federal Aviation Administrations.
His publications are found in Public Productivity and Management Review, Evaluation Review, Health Care Review, Journal of Health and Human Services, Public Administration Quarterly, The International Journal of Public Administration and the International Review of Administrative Sciences. |
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patterso@fau.edu
Associate Professor
P. M. Patterson (M.P.A, Ph. D., American University) is on the faculty of the School of Public Administration, and teaches in FAU's B.P.M., M.P.A., and Ph.D. programs. Dr. Patterson's work is published in Administrative Theory and Praxis, American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Productivity and Management Review, Public Voices, and other scholarly venues.. |
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Dr. Alka Sapat
asapat@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Ph.D. in Public Administration Program
Dr. Alka Sapat is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Ph.D. Coordinator. Her research interests include disaster and crisis management, environmental policy adoption and regulation, environmental justice, federalism, intergovernmental relations, and technology policy. Dr. Sapat’s teaching interests include public policy, research methods, and disaster management. Dr. Sapat’s work is published in Public Administration Review, Policy Studies Review, International Journal of Public Administration, and other scholarly venues. |
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sementel@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Dr. Art Sementelli (BA Carnegie Mellon, MPA Gannon University, Ph.D.
Cleveland State University) is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. His research areas include critical theory, environmental policy, and pragmatism. He is the Managing Editor for the International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior. He also currently serves on the editorial board of Administrative Theory and Praxis. |
Assistant Professors
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Dr. Floydette Cory-Scruggs
fcory@fau.edu
Associate Dean, College of Architecture, Urban & Public Affairs
Assistant Professor
Dr. Floydette Cory-Scruggs currently serves as Associate Dean of the College while continuing to serve as a faculty member in the School of Public Administration, teaching in both graduate and undergraduate programs. Her research interests include organization development, leadership, and health policy. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. |
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