The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved the creation of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, a sweeping change that will amplify the former school’s mission to inspire citizenship and develop leadership.
The change will take effect in April.
"It gives us an opportunity to do an even better job with our young people,” said Sen. John Glenn, “It acknowledges the important role of public affairs in today's society.”
The change will take effect in April.
"It gives us an opportunity to do an even better job with our young people,” said Sen. John Glenn, “It acknowledges the important role of public affairs in today's society.”
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The John Glenn School of Public Affairs improves public policy making and management through research and analysis. Click here to learn how the practical knowledge created at the Glenn School can help make better policy decisions and advance management practice in the public sector.
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The Management Advancement for the Public Service (MAPS) program offers training seminars that build management and leadership skills for top executives, mid-level managers, first-line supervisors and administrative support staff. » Click here to learn more.
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The Glenn School wiki is the first place to go for answers to almost any question about the school
Glenn School Wellness
The Glenn School’s Wellness Council is here to help create a healthy environment for staff, faculty and students with a range of resources to help you in your quest for better health. PUBLIC ADDRESS MAGAZINE
Click here to download the currect edition of the Glenn School's Public Address magazine as well as find back issues.
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BOOKS
Recently published books by Glenn School faculty
Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyageis a comprehensive, comparative text on the structure and function of governments around the world. Written by two of the field's leading public administration scholars, this book provides an interdisciplinary perspective and a global, historical, and theoretical examination of the management and governance of the modern state. Authors: Jos Raadschelders, Eran Vigoda-Gadot »Click here to learn more.
Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century. In this expanded and updated edition of a benchmark volume, a cast of international contributors compare and contrast civil services from around the world and the adaptations that have been made in order to cope with the new challenges of running public services in the 21st century.
Edited by : Frits M. Van der Meer, Jos C.N. Raadschelders and Theo A.J. Toonen »Click here to learn more.
Cultivating Effective Implementation: The Practice of Integrating Policy and Managementpresents an instrumental approach to implementation analysis. By spanning policy fields, organizations, and frontline conditions in implementation systems, this book provides a robust foundation for policy makers, public and nonprofit managers and leaders. Authors: Jodi Sandfort and Stephanie Moulton »Click here to learn more.
Public-Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local ServicesPublic–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions frame the use of PPPs at the local level: What do PPPs look like? What gives rise to the use of PPPs? And, what are the outcomes of PPPs? The articles in this book provide insightful answers to these questions. Authors: Germà Bel, Trevor Brown, Rui Cunha Marques »Click here to learn more.
Public Administration and the Modern State: Assessing Trends and Impact assesses the nature of public administration in the 21st Century and looks at the ways in which public sectors have adapted in order to confront the daunting challenges faced by today’s governments. Authors: Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Eberhard Bohne, John D. Graham »Click here to learn more.
Complex Contracting draws on core social science concepts to provide wide-ranging practical advice on how best to manage complex acquisitions. Using a strong analytical framework, the authors assess contract management practices, suggesting strategies for improvement and ways to avoid the pitfalls of managing contracts for large and sophisticated projects. An in-depth analysis of the US Coast Guard's Deepwater program is used to illustrate ways to respond to real-world contracting challenges. Authors: Trevor Brown, Matthew Potoski, David M. Van Slyke »Click here to buy the book at Cambridge University Press or here for Amazon Books. 
Mastering Public Administration. From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo. In this updated third edition each chapter spotlights a significant theorist in the field, covering their life, research, writings, and impact. Nine mini-chapters were written by 15 of the Glenn School’s doctoral students. The combination of biographical narrative with explanation and analysis makes abstract theories understandable and providing much-needed context. Authors: Brian R. Fry and Jos C.N. Raadschelders »Learn more about the book
Cooperative Research Centers and Technical Innovation: Government Policies, Industry Strategies, and Organizational Dynamics looks at the crucial management and evaluation challenges that accompany scientific and technical innovation in Cooperative Research Centers. Authors: Craig Boardman, Denis Gray , Drew Rivers
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Simulation for Policy Inquiry illustrates the development and use of simulation models designed to capture some of the complexity inherent in the formulation, management, and implementation of policies. Edited by Anand Desai with contributions from many Glenn School students and faculty. »Click here to buy
Wicked Environmental Problems offers a new approach for managing environmental conflicts within common real-world decision-making frameworks.Authors: Peter Balint, Roland Stewart, Anand Desai and Lawrence Walters
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Public Administration: The Interdisciplinary Study of Government provides an account of the discipline, considering its history, growth, boundaries, and underlying assumptions. Author: Jos C.N. Raadschelders
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IN THE NEWS
This past weekend (Feb.28), five Glenn School students--Maria Deri, Jacob Foskuhl, Jeff Green, Robert Simeral and Claudia Wilson--participated in the Midwest region of NASPAA'S Student Simulation Competition in Bloomington, Indiana. The teams focused on developing a "bottom up" approach to health care reform. A Glenn School student was a part of each of the top three teams in the Midwest. » Click here to learn more about the NASPAA'S Student Simulation Competition.
Glenn School major Sarah Montell is profiled by Ohio State University’s Honors and Scholars program. Montell describes here WAIP internship at the White House. » Click here to read the story.
Professor Jeffrey Bielicki is a co-author of six conference papers that were presented at the 12th International Greenhouse Gas Technologies conference in Austin, TX. These papers cover a range of issues related to mitigating CO2 emissions and reducing climate change, including how using the CO2 to produce geothermal energy; barriers to the deployment of CO2 infrastructure; the physiochemical characteristics of storing CO2 in fractured shale; and quantifying leakage from geologic CO2 storage reservoirs in the context of the U.S. EPA Underground Injection Control Program. More information about these papers can be found on Prof. Bielicki's website.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded Professor Neal Hooker a $494,547 grant to study organic food policy. Hooker will study the expanding organic food market and the complexities it faces with sustainability, source of ingredients and foods, certification and consumer knowledge. The mission of the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture is to advance agricultural research, education to address agricultural challenges.
Professor Caroline Wagner has been elected to the Council on Foreign Relations. Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan organization that provides foreign policy analysis to its members, government officials, business executives and others. » Click here to learn more about the Council on Foreign Relations.
Two graduates of the Glenn School’s doctoral program, Adam Eckerd and Roy Heidelberg, have an article published in Public Administration Review. Their research looks at whether state and federal reforms aimed at increasing private sector involvement in brownfield remediation have actually done so, and they consider the implications for other goals of brownfield remediation, such as providing economic development assistance in communities where such change is needed. Eckerd is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech and Heidelberg is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University.
» Click here to read “Public Incentives, Market Motivations, and Contaminated Properties: New Public Management and Brownfield Liability Reform.”
Professor Jos Raadschelders has three new books recently published:
Public Administration and the Modern State: Assessing Trends and Impact, edited by Eberhard Bohne, John D. Graham, Jos C,N, Raadschelders (with Jesse Paul Lehrke).
A second edition printing of Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century with Frits M. van der Meer, Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Theo A.J. Toonen (eds.), and Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyage with Eran Vigoda-Gadot (with Mirit Kisner.)
Professor Jason Seligman is quoted in an ABC6 news story on public pension funds investing in hedge funds and private equity. » Click here to watch “Ohio's Big Gamble.”
Professor Jill Clark was selected as one of 14 United States delegates to the 8th International Quadrennial Rural Geography Conference held at Swansea University, Wales. During a plenary session, she will present “Do ‘local’ food producers produce better places? Examining the relationship between civic and political engagement and marketing channels.”
Professor Noah Dormady and Gabe Englander (OSU Dept. of Economics) have a new paper published in the Journal of Public Policy. “Carbon allowances and the demand for offsets: a comprehensive assessment of imperfect substitutes” provides a synthesis of extant work, market data and the regulatory frameworks of the worlds major carbon markets, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the drivers of demand for carbon offsets. It also provides a detailed assessment of the process through which international carbon offsets are produced.» Click here to read the paper. » Click here to read the paper.
In a new paper published in the Review of Public Personnel Administration, Professor Russell Hassan and his co-authors investigate how public manager assessments of employee behavior can affect the degree to which the manager uses two different types of empowerment: consultation and delegation. » Click here to read “The Role of Employee Task Performance and Learning Effort in Determining Empowering Managerial Practices.”
Editorial in the Columbus Dispatch on the John Glenn College of Public Affairs. » Click here to read "Welcome to John Glenn College of Public Affairs."
Best Value Schools has ranked the Glenn School as #24 on their list of 50 Most Innovative Public Service School in the U.S. 2015. Click here to learn more.
Dr. Josh Hawley, associate professor at the Glenn School and director of the Ohio Education Research Center, has received a renewal of NIH Award “A Model-Based Examination of Behavioral and Social Science Workforce: Improving Health Outcomes” in the amount of $1,562,123 for 2015-2018. The project is conducted with Dr. Richard Larson, MIT, and Dr. Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Virginia Tech. The renewal application develops and applies systems modeling frameworks to the science workforce, focusing on the portion of the social and behavioral workforce improving health outcomes. The goal is to identify policy levers to improve the science workforce for NIH and provide practical guidance to decision makers tasked with improving the staffing of the nation’s health care workforce.
Dana McDaniel, Glenn School graduate and former Glenn School Alumni Society Board member, who was recently named city manager of Dublin, Oh, is profiled in an article in the Columbus Dispatch. » Click here to read, “New city manager helped Dublin develop.”
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This past weekend (Feb.28), five Glenn School students--Maria Deri, Jacob Foskuhl, Jeff Green, Robert Simeral and Claudia Wilson--participated in the Midwest region of NASPAA'S Student Simulation Competition in Bloomington, Indiana. The teams focused on developing a "bottom up" approach to health care reform. A Glenn School student was a part of each of the top three teams in the Midwest. » Click here to learn more about the NASPAA'S Student Simulation Competition.
Glenn School major Sarah Montell is profiled by Ohio State University’s Honors and Scholars program. Montell describes here WAIP internship at the White House. » Click here to read the story.Professor Jeffrey Bielicki is a co-author of six conference papers that were presented at the 12th International Greenhouse Gas Technologies conference in Austin, TX. These papers cover a range of issues related to mitigating CO2 emissions and reducing climate change, including how using the CO2 to produce geothermal energy; barriers to the deployment of CO2 infrastructure; the physiochemical characteristics of storing CO2 in fractured shale; and quantifying leakage from geologic CO2 storage reservoirs in the context of the U.S. EPA Underground Injection Control Program. More information about these papers can be found on Prof. Bielicki's website.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded Professor Neal Hooker a $494,547 grant to study organic food policy. Hooker will study the expanding organic food market and the complexities it faces with sustainability, source of ingredients and foods, certification and consumer knowledge. The mission of the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture is to advance agricultural research, education to address agricultural challenges.Professor Caroline Wagner has been elected to the Council on Foreign Relations. Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan organization that provides foreign policy analysis to its members, government officials, business executives and others. » Click here to learn more about the Council on Foreign Relations.Two graduates of the Glenn School’s doctoral program, Adam Eckerd and Roy Heidelberg, have an article published in Public Administration Review. Their research looks at whether state and federal reforms aimed at increasing private sector involvement in brownfield remediation have actually done so, and they consider the implications for other goals of brownfield remediation, such as providing economic development assistance in communities where such change is needed. Eckerd is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech and Heidelberg is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University.
» Click here to read “Public Incentives, Market Motivations, and Contaminated Properties: New Public Management and Brownfield Liability Reform.”Professor Jos Raadschelders has three new books recently published:
Public Administration and the Modern State: Assessing Trends and Impact, edited by Eberhard Bohne, John D. Graham, Jos C,N, Raadschelders (with Jesse Paul Lehrke).
A second edition printing of Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century with Frits M. van der Meer, Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Theo A.J. Toonen (eds.), and Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyage with Eran Vigoda-Gadot (with Mirit Kisner.) Professor Jason Seligman is quoted in an ABC6 news story on public pension funds investing in hedge funds and private equity. » Click here to watch “Ohio's Big Gamble.” Professor Jill Clark was selected as one of 14 United States delegates to the 8th International Quadrennial Rural Geography Conference held at Swansea University, Wales. During a plenary session, she will present “Do ‘local’ food producers produce better places? Examining the relationship between civic and political engagement and marketing channels.” Professor Noah Dormady and Gabe Englander (OSU Dept. of Economics) have a new paper published in the Journal of Public Policy. “Carbon allowances and the demand for offsets: a comprehensive assessment of imperfect substitutes” provides a synthesis of extant work, market data and the regulatory frameworks of the worlds major carbon markets, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the drivers of demand for carbon offsets. It also provides a detailed assessment of the process through which international carbon offsets are produced.» Click here to read the paper. » Click here to read the paper.In a new paper published in the Review of Public Personnel Administration, Professor Russell Hassan and his co-authors investigate how public manager assessments of employee behavior can affect the degree to which the manager uses two different types of empowerment: consultation and delegation. » Click here to read “The Role of Employee Task Performance and Learning Effort in Determining Empowering Managerial Practices.” Editorial in the Columbus Dispatch on the John Glenn College of Public Affairs. » Click here to read "Welcome to John Glenn College of Public Affairs."
Best Value Schools has ranked the Glenn School as #24 on their list of 50 Most Innovative Public Service School in the U.S. 2015. Click here to learn more.
Dr. Josh Hawley, associate professor at the Glenn School and director of the Ohio Education Research Center, has received a renewal of NIH Award “A Model-Based Examination of Behavioral and Social Science Workforce: Improving Health Outcomes” in the amount of $1,562,123 for 2015-2018. The project is conducted with Dr. Richard Larson, MIT, and Dr. Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Virginia Tech. The renewal application develops and applies systems modeling frameworks to the science workforce, focusing on the portion of the social and behavioral workforce improving health outcomes. The goal is to identify policy levers to improve the science workforce for NIH and provide practical guidance to decision makers tasked with improving the staffing of the nation’s health care workforce. Dana McDaniel, Glenn School graduate and former Glenn School Alumni Society Board member, who was recently named city manager of Dublin, Oh, is profiled in an article in the Columbus Dispatch. » Click here to read, “New city manager helped Dublin develop.”News Archive
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