WG7
Public Administration Education
The aim of the Working Group is Public Administration Education in its broadest sense (curriculum development, curriculum technology, e-learning, teaching technology, best practices, research on education, quality assurance, modern management of public administration programmes, international accreditation, and the like).
Important information
From participants of this working group full paper is required before the conference.
10/04/2024
Deadline of presenters registration (obligatory for all Paper Presenters, Coordinators and Chairs)
*05/05/2024 - Late registration (available for all participants without: Paper Presenters, Coordinators and Chairs)
10/04/2024
Deadline of full paper submission
Register for 32nd NISPAcee Annual Conference 2024
Call for papers
Over the years, the Working Group has hosted a variety of presentations and debates concerning higher education in the field of public administration, as well as presentations by relevant stakeholders from specialised international organisations such as EGPA, EAPAA, NASPAA, and ASPA.
This Working Group is striving to offer a comparative view how higher education in the field of public administration is perceived and implemented at an international level and to offer best practices for universities and countries searching to improve their current situation.
The Working Group also focuses on those interested in the management of public administration education because they are in charge of public administration programmes, manage public administration departments or like to share experiences with public administration teaching.
Specific goals
For the 2024 conference, the coordinators propose at least one session focusing on higher education’s role related to the overall conference theme. In particular, the conference will pay special attention to the topic of public administration’s role in rebuilding after a major conflict and/or how to create a public administration that helps to avoid conflict, providing a more stable and sustainable governmental system. What is higher education’s role in providing security, economic development and political stability?
The Working Group intends to publish, in the long run, an edited book on this subject. The volume might include analyses of these challenges as they apply to various geographic locations and transnational analyses on this subject.
Guidelines for contributors
The working group is interested in papers connected broadly to higher education in public administration (teaching, research, curriculum development, internationalisation, national and international accreditation, programme management, and the like). We are interested in papers employing both qualitative and quantitative methods. The group encourages a comparative approach at the international level in dealing with the topics mentioned above and the development of practical solutions/suggestions based on the universities’ own experiences, which can also be transferred to other organisations.
Papers can address the field of higher education as understood in a broad way, meaning authors can address both traditional forms/programmes in higher education as well as training for civil servants, online learning, open courses, and the like). Papers addressing the conference theme in the context of higher education are encouraged. At least one conference session of the WG may be focused on that theme.
The abstract should clearly show a strong connection with the PA education field to be accepted. Papers should contain between 7 and 20 pages.
Coordinators
Calin Hintea
Babes-Bolyai University, Department of Public Administration, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, hintea@fspac.ro
Calin Emilian Hintea is a Professor at Babes Bolyai University, Romania and Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University. And ex-president of NISPAcee network.
He teaches Public Management and Strategy courses. Professor Hintea is the Dean of the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences at BBU. He is also a former Secretary of State, Head of Strategy Unit, the Prime Minister's Office (2009-2011) as well as a former Chair of the Public Administration Department at BBU (2004-2012).
He is the Senior Editor of the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (ISI Journal).
Roger Hamlin
Michigan State University and Babes-Bolyai University, hamlin@msu.edu.
Roger Hamlin is a Professor of Urban Planning directs several projects for the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) at Michigan State U. (MSU) and is Associate Dean for International Programs at Babes-Bolyai U. He was previously Associate Director of IPPSR, Resident Fellow, and Director of International Programs and was Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Program at MSU for eleven years.
He also administered the Community Planning Program at Columbus State University in Georgia.He currently directs projects that build governance capacities at the sub-national level in the US and abroad. Dr. Hamlin earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Hamilton College in New York and a Master's and Ph.D. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He has worked for the Senate and the Office of Planning Services of New York and has lived and worked in South America, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe.
He has authored several books on public-private partnerships. Professor Hamlin has earned the White House Achievement Award, The Nelson Jack Edwards Award and the Illinois Foundation Award. He has earned national awards from the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners. He was a CIC Academic Leadership Fellow.
Information for Paper holders
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