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LeRoux, K., Piatak, J., Romzek, B., and Johnston, J. (2019) . Informal Accountability in Children’s Service Networks: The Role of Frontline Workers, Human Service Organizations: Management Leadership & Governance, 1-17.

Dr, Tom Barth (MPA Director) had his essay “Amerians with Disabilities: A Reminder for Public Administrators” published inn the PA Times. (2019)

Suzanne Leland received a grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation for $194,000 for FY2019-2020 titled “Bench-Marking Non-Motorized Policies and Project Delivery.”

Cheryl Brown’s work with a team of scholars at UNC Charlotte and the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (S. Chen, HLTH & DSI; A. Whiteman, GEOL & ESCI; A. Li, CAS; T. Rapp., E. Delmelle, and G. Chen, GEOL & ESCI; C. Brown, POLS; P. Robinson and M. Coffman, CHHS; D. Janies, BINF; […]

Drs. Beth Elise Whitaker, James Igoe Walsh, and Justin Conrad, published an article, “Natural Resource Exploitation and Sexual Violence by Rebel Groups,” in The Journal of Politics. See the March 7, 2019 online edition. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/701637?fbclid=IwAR1CB1S_SnRZB_Yur0l6Lbk_yabKLVPLySxfktKSeS0Ne_rSUpLJV88jquY&

MPA faculty member, Dr. Suzanne Leland, received the Donald Stone Distinguished Scholar Award from the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM) at the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in Washington, DC on March 8, 2019. This prestigious award, given since 1981, recognizes (1) significant contributions to the practice and/or […]

February 22, 2019. The North Carolina Political Science Association announced the Oral Parks Memorial Award for Best Faculty Paper, “Does Politics Influence Election Administration Expenditure? A Political Model of Election Administration Expenditure in North Carolina Counties.” The award recipients, all of UNC Charlotte, are Dr. Zachary Mohr, Dr. Martha Kropf (pictured) Ms. JoEllen Pope (Public […]

“Let’s Fix It” Tour of College Campuses, February 21 The UNC Charlotte Department of Political Science and Public Administration hosted a bipartisan conversation series with former Congressmen Patrick Murphy (Democrat) and David Jolly (Republican), who offered their diagnoses of what’s wrong with Washington politics and solutions of what we can do about it. Professor Eric […]

This link will take you to an article in USCentre regarding North Carolina’s 9th District election https://bit.ly/2EDGoyo.

Four 49ers from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration won in the 2018 midterm elections: U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson ’96 (History and Political Science double major), N.C. House Rep. Jason Saine ‘95, N.C. House Rep. Cecil Brockman ’06, N.C. House Rep. Mary Belk ’06, and N.C. Sen. Ted Alexander ’82.