SPA News
ASU visionary Brent Brown remembered for dedication
Brent Brown was an ASU visionary who will long be remembered for his dedication to students, the university and public service. Brown passed away Saturday, May 24, after a long illness. Read more ...
Denhardt first to assume role of Coor Chair
The first Lattie and Elva Coor Presidential Chair has been awarded to School of Public Affairs Director Robert B. Denhardt, providing a $1 million endowment to develop scholarship and education in leadership and ethics across ASU. Read more ...
New Morrison Institute Study Looks at Arizona's "Megapolitan" Future
Morrison Institute’s new report Megapolitan: Arizona’s Sun Corridor, one of the first reports in the U.S. on a single megapolitan area, recognizes a more sophisticated technique for analyzing urban growth—that shared economic and quality of life interests are more important than physically growing together. Read more ...
Robert Denhardt selected Regents' Professor
Regents' Professors stand out for their accomplishments in many areas, including excellence in teaching, exceptional achievements in research or other creative activities, and national and international distinction in their fields. Read more ...
SPA Celebrates Year's Achievements
At the 2007-2008 SPA Annual Awards Luncheon, 20 students were inducted into Pi Alpha Alpha, the national honor society for public administration. In addition the following students, faculty and staff were recognized for their achievements and contributions over the past year.
- Undergraduate Outstanding Service: Samuel Feldman, Erica Schwartzmann, Otoniel Navarrete,
- MPA/MPP Outstanding Scholar-Citizen:
Michelle Hindman, - Outstanding Doctoral Paper: Jill Young,
- Outstanding Faculty Associate:
LaVerne Parker Diggs, - Outstanding Faculty Research:
Tom Catlaw, - Outstanding Faculty Teaching: Joe Cayer,
- Outstanding Faculty Service: Jim Svara,
- Outstanding Staff Award: Collette Brooks
Ron Perry receives Faculty Achievement Award
This award was established by the Provost last year to recognize and honor top intellectual contributions in a range of categories. Professor Perry is the recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award in Defining Edge Research, Best Professional Application.
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New Morrison Report - Sustainability for Arizona: The Issue of Our Age
The 6th edition of Arizona Policy Choices, Sustainability for Arizona describes sustainability as a defining issue and organizing principle for the 21st century. The report provides real-life examples of sustainability in practice as well as advice and insights of 28 policy leaders and thinkers from the public and private sectors. Read more ....
SPA Hosts Local City Manager
The School of Public Affairs was honored to host Dr. Frank Benest, City Manager for Palo Alto, California for a presentation April 3, 2008 on “Coping with Accelerating Change in Local Government”. Dr. Benest copes with inevitable, quick change in his municipality by creating a learning culture and “growing successors” from within city government. Read more ...
Urban planners draw upon School of Public Affairs expertise
It may not seem like the Valley has much in common with cities in the Middle East or Australia. But large urban areas springing up in desert locales share many common issues – water supply, pollution problems and affordable housing – among them. Read more ...
Students abound at social equity conference
A recent national conference on social equity co-hosted by the School of Public Affairs drew more students this year than previous events held in other cities, organizers say.
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MPA and MPP Students Awarded City of Phoenix Scholarship
Three graduate students in the School of Public Affairs were honored last month from the Phoenix Women's Commission for the Mary Ann Huerta Jenkins Fellowship which recognizes the strength of women in public service. Read more ...
Catlaw named editor of leading journal
Thomas Catlaw has been named the Editor in Chief of Administrative Theory & Praxis (ATP), a leading journal in public administration. With a particular focus on critical, normative, and theoretical research, ATP is the journal of the Public Administration Theory Network. For more information see www.patheory.org
Donation provides funds for urban management fellowships
Citing an important need to provide support for graduate students with aspirations to enter local government, the Pederson Group Inc. has announced it will donate $25,000 for fellowships in the Marvin Andrews Graduate Program in Urban Management in ASU’s School of Public Affairs. Read more ...
Svara believes Phoenix mayor will win re-election
James Svara, a professor at Arizona State University's School of Public Affairs, said he believes Gordon will win a second term, noting that he has high visibility in the community, strong name recognition and a well-financed campaign. Read more ...
Phoenix Business Journal honors ASU professor
ASU’s Nan Ellin of the School of Public Affairs is earning recognition from the Phoenix Business Journal's “Power Book” for her design and revitalization of urban environments. Read more ...
Third annual alumni lecture focuses on innovation
Keynote Speaker, Katy Singlaub is the Chair of the Board of the Alliance for Innovation in local government, an exciting new partnership involving the International City-County Management Association, the Innovation Groups, and the ASU School of Public Affairs. Katy serves as the County Manager for Washoe County, second-largest county in Nevada. Katy was appointed County Manager in 1998 after serving two years as Asst. County Manager for Finance and one year as Deputy County Manager. Read a transcript of the speech ...
$1 million Ramsey gift advances ASU executive education
The Arizona State University School of Public Affairs’ executive education program is celebrating its expansion across the Southwest United States through a major investment of $1 million from Bob Ramsey. The contribution insures that public executives in the newly-named Bob Ramsey Executive Education Program will receive premier education in building successful public-private partnerships, leadership, ethics and community resilience.
New downtown degree preps students for urban growth
Students in the new urban and metropolitan studies program at Arizona State University’s School of Public Affairs are learning about community and economic development, historic preservation, social justice, and acute needs in rapidly growing urban areas such as housing, transportation, and environmental quality in the classroom and in the City of Phoenix. Their trip this past week to the downtown Phoenix historic Warehouse District south of Jackson Street, hosted by artist and property owner, Michael Levine, exposed them firsthand to the challenges of making a city livable and to ongoing historic preservation and zoning debates. Read more ...
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