Friday, March 8, 2024 Featured Speaker Victoria DeFrancesco Soto Dean of the Clinton School of Public Service Victoria DeFrancesco Soto is Dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas and is a political analyst for NBC News and Telemundo. Victoria is the first Latina Dean at a presidential institution and is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administrators. Victoria previously taught at Northwestern University, Rutgers, and The University of Texas at Austin. She Read More …
Category: Membership News
Obituary of Dr. Mary Susan Power
Former ASU-Jonesboro professor, Dr. Mary Susan Power, died on August 9, 2021. Dr. Power taught at ASU-Jonesboro from 1968 until 2000, and she was honored during the school’s centennial celebration in 2009-10 by the ASU Faculty Association as one of the First 100 Distinguished Faculty of the institution for her university service, as well as her impact on her field and her students. She was an active member of the Arkansas Political Science Association (ArkPSA), including serving on the Association’s Read More …
How to improve faculty-student relations and enrollment in online classes
On Dec. 7, 2021, Johns Hopkins University Press will publish Connecting in the Online Classroom: Building Rapport between Teachers and Students by Dr. Rebecca Glazier, an associate professor of political science in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The book addresses how faculty can improve the online teaching environment and their rapport with their students. Grounded in 12 years of the author’s teaching experience, original research, and academic literature, the book explains how simple Read More …
Political Scientist news from around the state for Spring and Summer 2019
The items below are noticeable accomplishment of political science professors from around the state of Arkansas for the Summer and Spring 2019. Dr. Christopher Housenick — Associate Professor of Political Science at Arkansas State University — appeared on Arkansas Week with Steve Barnes (August 16, 2019), which aired on the Arkansas Educational Television Network. Among the topics discussed were the recent visits of Democratic presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke and Amy Klobuchar to the state, the ongoing controversy over the casino in Read More …
Best Paper Award at American Political Science Association Conference
Dr. Donald M. Gooch, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stephen F. Austin State University and longtime member of ArkPSA, received the Best Paper Award from Political Science Education section of the American Political Science Association for his 2017 APSA conference paper entitled, “Structuring Civic Education: Assessing Civic Literacy Retention and Curricular Sequencing”.
Summer Publications by Arkansas Political Scientists
Catherine C. Reese, Professor of Public Administration, Arkansas State University: Reese, Catherine C. “The Status of Pay Equity for Women of Color in the U.S.” Review of Public Personnel Administration, forthcoming 2018 (published online 20 March 2018). Reese, Catherine C. and Handley, Donna M. “The Quietest Revolution: State Gender Pay Equity Proposals, 1990-2016.” MidSouth Political Science Review, forthcoming Fall 2018. Tusalem, Rollin, Associate Professor of Political Science, Arkansas State University: Tusalem, Rollin. “State Regulation of Religion and the Quality of Read More …
Does the American political system work?
William Schreckhise — associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arkansas — confronts this question in his new book Evaluating American Democracy and Public Policymaking. In confronting this question, this book covers: citizen trust and confidence in their governmental institutions; equality of participation in American political institutions; responsiveness of public policy to public opinion, ability of political actors to create effective public policy; and extent that political system costs and benefits Americans of different classes, Read More …
UCA Professor honored by the Ethiopian Crown Council
Dr. Gizachew Tiruneh — standing on the far left of this picture, and an Associate Professor in the University of Central Arkansas Department of Political Science and ArkPSA member — was recognized for his 2015 book, The Rise and Fall of the Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia: Is the Kebra Negast a Time-Bound Document? At a special ceremony held in Washington DC on March 3, 2018, Dr. Tiruneh was made an Officer of the Order of the Star of Honor of Read More …
New book on Public Administration and globalization
Khan, Haroon A. Globalization and the Challenges of Public Administration Governance, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Ethics, E-Governance and Sustainability in the 21st Century. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector. Written from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries, it uses governance and public administration interchangeably to argue that the tasks of implementation require the cooperation of both the public and private sectors, especially in a Read More …