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Dr. Ben-Zadok

Dr. Efraim Ben-Zadok

benzadok@fau.edu
Professor

Efraim Ben-Zadok is John M. DeGrove Eminent Scholar in Growth Management and Development and Professor of Public Administration.  In 1989, he joined the faculty of the College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs at Florida Atlantic University.  Since then he has served as Director of the PhD 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.  Ben-Zadok began his academic career at Tel Aviv University and thereafter at the State University of New York.

Professor Ben-Zadok research interests include public policy analysis, implementation, and evaluation; comparative public policy; urban and regional policy and planning; and environmental growth management and community sustainability.  His current work involves the evaluation of state-regional-local programs and decision-making processes in long-range urban and regional policies.  Ben-Zadok has published widely including journal articles and book chapters about urban, regional, and national policies in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Turkey, Israel, and Ghana. His research has been informed by extensive travels through most of North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and the Pacific.

Professor Ben-Zadok received his M.P.A. and Ph.D. (1980) degrees from the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.  In New York, he held positions at the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, the Israeli General Consulate in New York, John Jay College, and New York University.  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.
Dr. Carter

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.
Dr. Cooper

Dr. Donald Cooper

CooperCRG@aol.com
Associate Professor

Donald R. Cooper is on the faculty of the School of Public Administration where he teaches research methods, statistics, and organizational behavior. As a veteran FAU faculty member, he has taught in the MBA, executive MBA, and currently teaches in the MPA and doctoral programs in public administration. 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 where his interdisciplinary studies focused on organizational behavior, communication, and measurement. In addition to grants, articles, books, and monographs, he has received several teaching awards from the College of Business and the College of Architecture, Urban & Public Affairs.

His textbook, Business Research Methods, (Irwin/ McGraw-Hill, 2008) was the first comprehensive business research textbook and continues its market leadership in graduate programs of North and South America, UK, India, and East Asia. Published in 6 languages, it’s in the 10th edition with several decades of teaching students around the world.  Cooper’s Marketing Research textbook, was released in 2006, also by McGraw-Hill.

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 in the 90s, he created IBM's customer satisfaction program for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He also directed the marketing research that launched IBM's first consumer brand PC in Europe - ultimately becoming the Aptiva brand in the U.S.  Later he worked with Lenovo, the successor to ThinkPad. Currently, he provides senior management of electronics firms with brand, segmentation, and service/repair analysis. His firm also represents a wealth management consultancy in Shanghai, China.

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.
Dr. Skip Cory-Scruggs

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.
Dr. Farazmand

Dr. Ali Farazmand

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).
Dr. Leip

Dr. Leslie Leip

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.
Dr. McCue

Dr. Cliff McCue

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.
Dr. Miller

Dr. Hugh T. Miller

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.
Dr. Nyhan

Dr. Ron Nyhan

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.
Dr. Patterson

Dr. P. M. Patterson

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..
Dr. Sapat

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.
Dr. Sementelli

Dr. Arthur Sementelli

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.
Dr. Thai

Dr. Khi V. Thai

thai@fau.edu
Professor
Director, Public Procurement Research Center

Khi V. Thai has taught since 1978. His expertise is in public budgeting, financial management and public procurement. As shown in detail below, he is (1) editor of 3 academic journals; (2) Editorial Board member of 8 other academic journals; (3) author or editor of 12 books; (4) author or co-author of 41 referred articles, and 12 non-refereed articles and technical reports; (5) author or co-author of 22 book chapters; (6) editor or co-editor of 17 academic journal symposia; and (6) principal investigator of numerous grants/contracts. In addition, he has served as director of the Bureau of Public Administration at the University of Maine, Director of the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University, and founder and former Director of the Public Procurement Research Center at Florida Atlantic University. He organized a variety of training programs, particularly international training programs, at the University of Maine and Florida Atlantic University. Most recently, he has provided technical assistance to the South Florida Water Management District, the Government of Sierra Leone, Uganda, Bulgaria, Columbia, and the Federal Government of Canada in the area of procurement reforms, procurement integrity and international procurement.

In 2004, Professor Thai initiated the International Public Procurement Conference.  The conference is intended to be a forum for practitioners and researchers from developed and developing countries (1) to share and to advance knowledge, innovation and best practices in public procurement; and particularly (2) to build a global network for practitioners and researchers.  To achieve this goal, a website (www.IPPA.WS) has been created, where all papers presented at previous conferences are posted.

In 2008, he received the “Distinguished Service Award” from the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc., a national professional association.
Dr. Vanyolos

Dr. Istvan Vanyolos

ivanyolo@fau.edu
Assistant Professor

Istvan Vanyolos (Bachelor in Economics and MBA from Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary, MPA and PHD from SUNY, Albany) is assistant professor of public administration and policy in the School of Public Administration at the Florida Atlantic University. His area of interest is public budgeting and finance with an emphasis on education policy and intergovernmental relations. His recent research focuses on the impact of the late state budgets on school district fiscal behavior, the institutional changes in the Hungarian higher-education, and fund balance policies of school districts. He teaches public financial management, research methods, and public policy courses.
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