WG7: Public Administration Education
WG 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. 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.
The presenters and discussants came from five different countries.
All presentations were excellent in both content and research methods.
The subjects included critical, cutting-edge issues related to PA education in the digital era.
Subjects included: the effects of new trends on accreditation, the role of training institutes, effects of digitalization on pedagogy, gamification, micro-credentialing, and student perspectives on the move toward online education and job-focused training.
Because of a smaller number of presentations per session, there was time for excellent discussion. All the presented topics fit together in ways that were not even evident prior to the conference. Members of the working group came away with a sense of urgency in dealing with the many, interrelated challenges and were committed to stay in touch.
