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Tom Barth published an essay in the PA Times, “Key Public Admiistration Questions from COID-19” aspatimes.org/key-public-administration-questions-from-covid-19/

Ben Radford had his paper “Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Cross-Document Detection and Coreference Identification of Militarized Interstate Disputes” accepted to the 2020 LREC Proceedings.

Suzanne Leland, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Jaclyn Piatak and Cherie Maestas had an article titled “Policy Venue Preference and Relative Trust in Government in a Federal System” accepted for publication in Governance. Suzanne Leland, Olga Smirnova and Chris Goodman had an article titled “The Consequences of Specialized Governance on Spending and Expansion of Public Transit” accepted for […]

Jim Douglas, Zach Mohr and Ringa Raudla published a comparative public administrative article on the use of cost accounting in Public Administrative Review http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/puar.13162.

The UNC Charlotte Model UN team traveled to Atlanta Georgia to participate in the Southern Regional Model UN conference. Thirty-five students attended. With the exception of three delegates, all students attending were new and this was their first major conference. They did very well taking home a Distinguished Delegation award, two outstanding delegate awards, and […]

Our North Carolina Student Legislature delegation participated in October 2019 debates at Campbell University and November 2019 debates at Lenoir Rhyne College. At the October Interim Council, our delegation passed 4 of the 6 resolutions they introduced. Zachary Saunders won the Best Speaker Award and Sarah Dunning won the Best Resolution Award for her resolution […]

The UNC Charlotte delegation hosted the September (2019) Interim Council of the North Carolina Student Legislature. Nineteen members of our delegation attended. Seven UNCC delegates introduced resolutions, all of them passed. Joshua Wiggins won the Best Resolution Award for his resolution on Tuition for Veterans. Jacob Baum, Jonathan Spruill, and Joshua Wiggins were nominated for […]

On October 2, 2019, Bill Brandon, Jim Douglas, Eric Heberlig and Suzanne Leland honored faculty emeritus Ken Godwin at “Talking Policy in the Queen City and announced a new student Fellowship in Dr. Godwin’s name.

In October 2019, Dr. Amber Knight and Dr. Joshua Miller presented their paper “Making Prenatal Screening Work for Women: Promoting Epistemic Justice for the Sake of Reproductive Autonomy” at the Association for Politial Theory Annual Conference at the University of California at Irvine.

Dr. James Walsh received the First Citizens Scholar Award in November 2019.

In November 2019, The Harshini de Silva Graduate Mentor selection committee named Dr. Suzanne Leland the 2020 recipient.

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; […]

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.”

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

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.

Piatak, J. and Mohr, Z., More Gender Bias in Academia? Examining the Influence of Gender and Formalization on Student Worker Rule Following. Journal of Behavioral Public Admimistration.

Jason Giersch, Martha Bottia, Elizabeth Stearns, Roz Michelson and Stephanie Moller had their paper “The Predictive Role of School Performance Indicators on Students’ College Achievement” accepted for publication in Educational Policy. (May 2019)

Mel Atkinson presented “Women at War: Debating Defense in the U.S. House of Representatives” (coauthored with Jasonn Windett and Reza Mousavi) at the annual MPSA conference in Chicago, (April 2019)