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From the Director The fall semester is well underway. We welcomed 18 new students this fall into the MPA Program. Fourteen people graduated last spring from the program and one in the summer. We continue to work with a number of not for profit agencies on internships for students interested in that field, and state and local government as well. Last year we were busy with reaccreditation and are finishing up a few items with that this year as well. We hope to have that accomplished by the spring. We continue to try hard to stay in touch with our graduates and urge all of you to email me with news that we can share in our newsletter. Charlie Tyer, Director T he public administration faculty continues to be highly productive in their research and publication efforts. Below is a listing of published and forthcoming books and articles by some of the faculty within the past year.
Hays, Steven W. Sowa, Jessica
Ingraham,
Patricia W., Jessica E. Sowa, and Donald P. Moynihan. (2004) "Linking
Dimensions of Public Sector Leadership to Performance." In Patricia W.
Ingraham and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., eds. The Art of Governance:
Analyzing Management and Administration. Washington, DC: Tyer, Charlie Symposium Editor, “Local Government Administration,” Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 27, no. 4 (Winter 2004). Included within: “Local Government Enterprise Fund Activity: Trends and Implications,” with Jeffrey Molinari. Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 25, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 369-391. Recent Graduates and Awards Congratulations to the following MPA graduates who graduated from the program in the spring and summer of 2005. Spring graduates included the following: Robbie Bennett, Dawn Betenbaugh, Joe Cronin, Chris Eversmann, Casey Fields, Tracy Hamilton, Kurt Hitzeman, Julie McCutcheon, Stephanie Monroe, Wade Osburn, Brandi Palmer, Patricia Priester, Natalie Viers and Lauren Wise. Jantzon Blackmon graduated in the summer.
Ann Marie Cotty (2001) Anne Marie Cotty currently serves as an Internal Auditor for the City of Greenville, South Carolina. She will be married in October of this year to William R. Lathan III, a CPA with KPMG in Greenville. Matthew Brady (2004) Matthew is working as a planner with the South Carolina Energy Office. Ben Duncan (1982) Ben has resigned as Executive Director of the Board of Trustees at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC. He is now deputy director of the SC Department of Insurance. Prior to going to SC State, Ben worked in the Governor's Office. Chris Eversmann (2005) Chris left Richland County as public works director this fall and joined Wilbur Smith and Associates in Columbia as a project manager in their aviation division. John Lummus (1991) John is currently the director of the Anderson County Office of Economic Development in Anderson, SC. He also serves on the board of the South Carolina Economic Developer's Association. Miriam Mitchell (1993) Miriam Mitchell previously employed in Employee Services of Beaufort County as the Workers' Compensation Specialist, transferred to the Internal Audit Division of the County in June 2005. As a member of the Internal Audit team, she participates in financial and performance audits of Beaufort County Government. Miriam has also been selected to participate in the Sheldon Leadership Program, which began August 23, 2005. Elisabeth Ondera (2004) Elisabeth has changed jobs with the City of Columbia. Interning with the City will in the MPA Program, she took a job with the Columbia Housing Development Corporation upon graduation as assistant to the director. She has recently moved to a newly created position of Development Center Coordinator in Development Services, a new city department brought about by a 2004 study of the city's structure. She will be attempting to help streamline the development and permitting process. Gregg Robinson (1993) Gegg left the SC Department of Commerce during the spring of 2005 and took the position of Executive Director, Orangeburg County Development Commission. Robyn Rogers (2003) Robyn took a job in November 2004 as Executive Assistant to the Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee of the SC House of Representatives. Prior to that she had worked as a page for four years, including her tenure in the MPA Program. Ron Scott (2000) Ron took a job as Director of Economic Development for Lexington County in July of 2005. Formerly he was with the SC Employment Security Commission. Rebekah Steen (2004) Rebekah has taken a job with the Southern Strategy Group, a national state lobbying group opening an office in Columbia. Rebekah published a paper this fall in the online journal of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration honorary society, Pi Alpha Alpha, which resulted from her capstone project, fall of 2004. The article is entitled Representative Government and Gender Diversity in State Legislative Bodies and appears in Volume 7 of the journal. The URL is: http://naspaa.org/initiatives/paa/journal/volume_7.asp then scroll down to the third article.Gary Thibault (1977) Gary was named Executive Director of the SC Worker’s Compensation Commission. Formerly he was the Director of Division of Insurance and Medical Services for the Commission and Interim Director of the Worker's Comp Commission. Carmen Harper Thomas (2002) Carmen moved from the State Energy Office at the SC Budget and Control Board to the Grants and Incentives Division of the Department of Commerce where she worked from June 2002 to December 2004 coordinating planning and reporting to HUD for the state’s CDBG program to nonentitlement local governments. Beginning in the fall of 2004, she began law school hoping to graduate in May 2007. This past summer she served as an associate with the McNair Law Firm in Columbia. Jerry Thomas (1994) Jerry Thomas teaches political science and administrative law in the department of government at Eastern Kentucky University. Before going to Eastern he worked with a subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina as a contractor for the national Medicare program. Since graduating from the MPA program, he worked in the South Carolina Governor's Office under David Beasley and in the State Budget and Control Board's Executive Institute. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Kentucky, studying judicial politics and sexual minority policy. Jerry is pictured on the left this past summer with Guillermo Arturo Vicente Leon, an MPA graduate (1994) in Costa Rica.
Mike West (1977) Mike left Johnson City, Tennessee last year and moved to Dothan, Alabama as city manager. See his web welcome at: http://www.dothan.org/depts/admin/admincmwelcome.htm Prior to being city manager in Tennessee, Mike was an assistant city manager in Columbia, SC and also worked as budget director in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Jane Williams (1980) Jane has taken a position as Assistant Dean for Advancement at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She is the former Vice President for Advancement at Columbia College and also worked in the Office of the Dean of the former College of Liberal Arts at USC, now the College of Arts and Sciences. More to come with the next issue!!! Attention Alumni!!! We need to hear from you. Let us know about events in your life, career, etc. and we'll include that in our online newsletter to share with your colleagues around the state, country and world. Photos are welcome.
LET US KNOW WHAT YOU’VE BEEN UP TO One of the most challenging aspects of the MPA Program is maintaining contact with the hundreds of individuals who are among our alumni and friends. To help us in this regard, and to provide past classmates with updates on your lives, we would greatly appreciate it if you would take a few seconds to provide personal and/or professional feedback. And, with the advantages of on-line technology, it couldn’t easier to give us a quick snapshot of what you’ve been up to recently. Please take a moment to write us at the following email address: Any news concerning job changes, career accomplishments, families, and geographical relocations will help us to enlarge our next account of ALUMNI ACTIVITIES and to share in your achievements. Please be sure to include an email address and/or street address in your communications, and tell us what year you graduated. And, photos are encouraged!! THANKS!!
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