UNO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PHD 2021 ANNUAL REPORT

PHD PROGRAM

ANNUAL REPORT 2021

THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AT UNO HAS A WORLD-CLASS FACULTY. WE ATTRACT STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER .

WE PROVIDE A RIGOROUS, RELEVANT EDUCATION. WE ARE NATIONALLY RANKED, LOCALLY ENGAGED.

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PA PhD Program | University of Nebraska at Omaha MISSION The UNO PhD in Public Administration creates a supportive, collaborative, and rigorous environment for students to develop their intellectual identities and a comprehensive understanding of the field and a range of research traditions.

VISION Our students and alumni will make significant contributions to theory, policy, research, and practice towards enhancing a democratic society.

VALUES Intellectual openness, collaboration, diversity, and excellence.

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Angela Eikenberry PhD

PhD Chair, School of Public Administration University of Nebraska at Omaha

WELCOME A MESSAGE FROM THE PHD CHAIR Welcome!

Our PhD program is unique in creating a supportive, collaborative, and rigorous environment for students to develop their intellectual identities and a comprehensive understanding of the field and a range of research traditions. The UNO School of Public Administration is ranked 28th in Public Affairs in U.S. News and World Report and higher in several specialization areas.

Our graduates typically complete the PhD program having at least one or two publications and substantial teaching experience. We have a strong record of placing our students in faculty positions as well as in government and nonprofit positions focused on applied research, evaluation, and consulting.

Throughout this annual report you can see the significant contributions and milestones achieved by our stellar students. We hope you will consider joining us in Omaha!

MAVERICK STRONG 2021

Angela Eikenberry PhD Doctoral Program Chair School of Public Administration University of Nebraska at Omaha aeikenberry@unomaha.edu

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UNO’s PA PhD Program: National Recognition | Intellectual Identity | Academic Rigor

DIMENSIONS

The Public Administration PhD program emphasizes both the Typically, by their third year, students are assigned to teach empirical and normative dimensions of the field. at the undergraduate level. The courses they teach support the Emergency Management undergraduate program, the It recognizes multiple ways of knowing by teaching Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Studies concentrations in public interpretive, critical and post-traditional approaches administration and nonprofit management, as well as the in addition to more traditional positivist knowledge campus-wide nonprofit management minor. development. Students learn to translate knowledge to The PA PhD program is now one of seven at solve organizational challenges, community problems, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha societal needs in the U.S. and across the globe. As a result The faculty, PhD program emphasizes both are the empirical and and normative the field. ITin has beendimensions extremelyofsuccessful of the commitment of our our PhD graduates recognizes multiple ways oftoknowing critical andprogram postfulfillinginterpretive, the initial goal of the well prepared for the job market and well trained becomeby teaching traditional approaches in addition to moreintraditional knowledge enhancingpositivist the national reputation independent academics. development. Students learn to translate knowledge to solve organizational of the School and University.

Intellectual identity, academic rigor and democratic purpose challenges, community problems, and societal needs in the U.S. and across the are central to the program’s success. Students experience globe. As a result of the commitment of our faculty, our PhD graduates are well a culture of openness, coupled with opportunities to prepared for the job market and well trained to become independent academics. conduct research with faculty, funding to attend academic conferences, and chances to teach undergraduate courses online and in person.

Intellectual identity, academic rigor and democratic purpose are central to the program’s success. Students experience a culture of openness, coupled with opportunities to conduct research with faculty, funding to attend academic conferences, and chances to teach undergraduate courses online and in person.

Typically, by their third year, students are assigned to teach at the undergraduate level. The courses they teach support the Emergency Management undergraduate program, the Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Studies concentrations in public administration and nonprofit management, as well as the campus-wide nonprofit management minor.

UNO’s School of Public Administration (SPA) houses these programs in addition to the Ph.D. in Public Administration: Masters of Public Administration, Aviation Institute (AI), Emergency Management & Disaster Science (EMDS), Master of Science in Urban Studies (MUS), Graduate Certificates and Professional Programs, and minors in Tribal Management and Emergency Services (TMS). The SPA is in the College of Public Affairs and Community Service (CPACS).

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PhD Program: 1995-2021

A HISTORY OF EXCELLENCE PHD PROGRAM HISTORY: In May of 1994, the Board of Trustees of the University of Nebraska approved a PhD program for the School of Public Administration with classes to begin in the Fall semester of 1995. Since that time, we have been providing graduates with the ability to achieve scholarly distinction in higher education or leadership positions in public and nonprofit management.

80% of graduates are employed in academic positions in the U.S. and elsewhere;

the remaining are in upper-level administrative positions in public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations.

Our graduates have been placed at Virginia Tech, Rutgers, SUNY Albany and a host of other universities in the U.S. and around the world. The remaining are in upper-level administrative positions in public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations such as working in the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration; the Vice-Mayor of Nanchang, the capital city of Jiangxi province in China; and the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation.

Our Campus. Otherwise Known as Omaha.

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MAVERICK STRONG

UNO’S PA PHD PR

COMMUNITY

“We are seeing the need and challenge with students and organizations to engage students across sectors: public, private and nonprofit.”

Dr. Craig Maher UNO SPA Director

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ROGRAM STUDENTS:

& PROFESSIONALLY ENGAGED TEACHERS | COURSES TAUGHT BY OUR PHD STUDENTS Felipe Blanco ▸ Reviewer, APPAM 2020 Equity and Inclusion Student Fellowship ▸ Member, PAT-Net 2022 annual conference organizing committee ▸ Member, ASPA Nebraska Council Lora Frecks ▸ Treasurer, ASPA’s Section for Science & Technology in Government.

Josey Hazelton ▸ Board member, ASPA Section on Transportation Policy & Administration Theodore Johnson ▸ Board member, ASPA Section on Transportation & Policy Administration ▸ Member, CPACS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee ▸ Adviser, Beta Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc

Nick Juliano ▸ Co-chair, Juvenile Service Committee of the Nebraska Children’s Committee and Youth Impact! of Douglas County. ▸ Member, Dual Status Youth Practice Network of the Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice Reform. ▸ Board member, Nebraska Juvenile Justice Association and Boys Town South Omaha Advisory Board Yeonkyung Kim ▸ Assistant, Dg.O 2020 Wei-Jie Liao ▸ Volunteer, World Vision and Long-Hua Elementary School Kenya Love ▸ Vice President, Black Family Health & Wellness Association ▸ Board member, North Omaha Area Health Clinic, ▸ Member, Regional Health Equity Council ▸ Treasurer, POC Collaborative ▸ Member, Civic Health Index Planning committee

Shawn Maxwell ▸ Member, Share Our Table, Food Systems Subcommittee Emily McNabb – ▸ Board member, UNO Schwalb Center for Israeli and Jewish Studies ▸ Board member, Nebraska chapter of the National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI) Carol RedWing ▸ Member, UNO Native American Studies (NAS) Executive Council ▸ Board member, Mode Shift Omaha

Students taught the following courses as instructors of record (26 classes taught in total): PA 1010: Intro to Urban Studies PA 2000: Leadership and Administration PA 2170 Introduction to Public Administration PA 3000: Applied Statistics PA 3200: Planning and Evaluation PA 3500: Nonprofit Organizations and Management PA 3700: Financial Management for Nonprofits PA 4300: Public Policy PA 4390: Public Budgeting PA 4530: Strategic Planning

Morgan Vogel ▸ Member, ASPA Nebraska Council ▸ Waldo Society 2020-21 Leadership Team

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#28

NATIONAL RANKING

#8

PUBLIC BUDGETING AND FINANCE

#11

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

#12

NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT

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PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

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Zoom Style We had a record number of eight graduates this past year, who are now employed in university research and teaching or government or nonprofit administrative positions:

congratulations

TO OUR 2020 GRADUATES

Dr. B.J. Fletcher

Dr. Byungwoo Cho

Dr. Megan McGuffey

Dr. Jiseul Kim

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Cleveland State University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Future Government, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Executive Director, Community Crops

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Arkansas State University

Dr. Elizabeth Gillespie

Dr. Dell Gines

Dr. Ming Xie

Assistant Professor, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration, University of Memphis

Dr. Xian Gao

Senior Community Development Advisor, Omaha Branch-Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, West Texas A&M University

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University - Los Angeles

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P U B L I C A D M I N I S T R AT I O N P H D P R O G R A M

ACCOMPLISHMENTS The SPA PhD program admitted its first class in 1995 and now has 51 graduates, mostly in academic positions, as well as working in upper-level administrative positions in public, nonprofit, and forprofit organizations.

PhD Program Celebrates 25 Years of Excellence

In our 25th year of the PhD in Public Administration, we saw our largest graduating class yet. These eight graduates have come from all over the U.S. and several countries, and landed jobs in academic and other institutions in the U.S. and Korea.

ALUMNI: PROMOTIONS OR NEW POSITIONS THIS PAST YEAR Dr. Gang Chen became Associate Professor at the Rockefeller College, University at Albany – State University of New York.

Dr. Jim Harrold became Student Services Coordinator at the UNO School of Public Administration.

Dr. Courtney Jensen became Associate Professor & Director of Public Administration at Eastern Washington University.

Dr. Junghack Kim moved to become Assistant Professor Graduate School of Public Administration, Korea University.

Public Administration Awards and Partnerships The UNO Office of Research and Creative Activity (ORCA), with support from the University of Nebraska Central Administration, UNO Graduate Studies, and the Nebraska Research Initiative (NRI), has developed the Research Development Program aimed at stimulating research and creative activities at UNO. The program provides support in the form of doctoral graduate research assistantships (GRAs) with the goal of increasing scholarly productivity, doctoral program enrollment, and grant support, contributing to an overall growth in UNO’s external funding.

Dr. Tom Jamieson, in partnership with Dr. Cristián Doña-Reveco in the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS), and Dr. Barbara Gomez-Aguinaga in SPA, are collaborating on a research project on “Human Mobility and Emergency Management.” Dakota Caldwell, a second-year PhD student, is the GRA for this project.

Dr. Yu-Che Chen, in partnership with Dr. Yuliya Lierler in Computer Science, and Dr. Chenyu “Victor” Huang in the SPA Aviation Institute are collaborating on a project on “Transparency and Fairness of Artificial Intelligence in Government Decision-making: Regulation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.” Yi-Fan Wang, a second-year PhD student, is the GRA for this project.

The UNO Center for Public Affairs Research also provides support to the PhD program in many ways, including regularly supporting Graduate Research Assistants. For example, in 2020, Ryan Rouse worked on research exploring the effects of local government fragmentation and structure on the performance of libraries at the city, county, and special district levels.

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PHD STUDENTS PUBLISHED

22 PUBLICATIONS Blanco, Felipe. (2020). Review of the book Racism, Latinos and the Public Policy Process, by Henry Flores. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 39(2), 553-556.

Bryan, T. K., Robichau, R. W., & L’Esperance, Gabrielle E. (2020). Conducting and utilizing evaluation for multiple accountabilities: A study of nonprofit evaluation capacities. Nonprofit Management and Leadership.

Bullock, J.., Young, M., and Wang, Yi-Fan. (2020). Artificial Intelligence, Bureaucratic Form, and Discretion in Public Service. Information Polity, 25(4), 491-506.

Eikenberry, A. M., & Song, Xiaowei. (In press). Collaborative philanthropy and doing practically relevant, critical research. Researching Voluntary Action: Innovations and Challenges, J. Dean & E. Hogg (eds), Policy Press.

Heckler, N., & Kim, Yeonkyung. (2020) Crypto-Governance: The Ethical Implications of Blockchain in Public Service, Public Integrity.

Heckler, N., & Rouse, Ryan (2020). Freedom of speech versus racial justice: Homeplace theory, antiparallelism, and becoming-minor.

Administrative Theory & Praxis, 1–20.

Heckler, N., & Kim, Yeonkyung. (In press). Crypto-Governance: The Ethical Implications of Blockchain in Public Service, Public Integrity.

Kim, Yunseung. (2020). A Study on the Influence of the Government’s Organization Policy on the Performance of State-owned Entities – From the Policy Instrument Perspective, Journal of Policy Analysis & Evaluation, 30(2), 29-66. [In Korean] King, K.M., Tchouankam, T., Keeler, H., Minter, C., Love, Kenya S., Teel, M., Cai, G., Estabrooks, P. (2020). Conceptualization and utilization of community engagement approaches in translational research: a scoping review. Journal of Translational Science. Volume 7: 1-9.

L’Esperance, Gabrielle E. & Bryan, T.K. (2020). Program evaluation for The Omaha Community Foundation’s Nonprofit Capacity Building Program.

L’Esperance, Gabrielle E. (2020). Program evaluation of the African NGO Leadership Transition Fellowship Program. ARNOVA/AROCSA. Liao, Wei-Jie, & Chuang, S-H. (2020). Assessing the Patterns and Causes of Local Budget Changes: Incremental Budgeting Theory or Punctuated Equilibrium Theory? Journal of Public Administration (Taiwan).

Liao, Wei-Jie, Kuo, N-L., & Chuang, S-H. (2020). Taiwan’s budgetary responses to COVID-19: the use of special budgets, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 33(1).

Lin, W-H., Wang, H., and Wang, Yi-Fan. (2020). A Study on the Factors Affecting the Success of Passing the Threshold of an Electronic Proposal in Taiwan. The Journal of Public Administration & Policy, 71, 1-42. (In Mandarin) Maher, C.S., Oh, Jae Won and Liao, Wei-Jie. (2020), Assessing fiscal distress in small county governments, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 32(4), 691-711.

McNabb, Emily, & Fletcher, B.J. (In press). Food Insecurity and Economic Crisis: The Case of Omaha, Nebraska during the Covid-19 Shutdowns.

Pautz, M. C., & Vogel, Morgan D. (2020). Investigating faculty motivation and its connection to work-life balance: Engaging public service motivation to explore faculty motivation. Journal of Public Affairs Education Symposium.

Piatkowski, D.P., Pitla, S., Luck, J.D., & Hazelton, Josey K. (2020). Preparing for a Driverless Future. Nebraska Department of Transportation.

Reyes-Nunez, Reyna L. (In press). Book review: Exploring the world of social policy: An international approach. International Review of Public Administration.

Tzeyu L.Michauda, Paul A. Estabrooks, WenYou , Todd J. McGuire, Fabio Almeida, Kelly Karls, Kenya Love, Keyonna King, Jennie Hill, Jill Reed, Gwenndolyn Porter, Dejun Su. (2020). Sustaining the reach of a scalable weight loss intervention through financial incentives-a pragmatic, feasibility, online randomized trial protocol. Contemporary Clinical Trials. Volume 98, 106142 Vogel, Morgan D. (2020). When service calls: Public service motivation and calling as complementary concepts for public service.

International Public Management Journal.

Vogel, Morgan D. (2021). A pandemic’s reminder: The public service vocation is at the heart of our field, Journal of Public Affairs Education.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2020/21

Student Awards & Fellowships

Ming Xie – Won the 2020 UNO Helen Hansen Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

CONGRATS TO FELIPE BLANCO UNO School of Public Administration D I V E R S E R I S I N G G R A D UAT E S C H O L A R | 2 0 2 1 A S PA F O U N D E R S ’ F E L L O W

Student Spotlight: Felipe Blanco Felipe Blanco has not only garnered notice at UNO, but he has recently been recognized as a 2021 Founder’s Fellow by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). He was also selected as a Rising Grad Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. He has also been named an equity and inclusion Fellow by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).

Felipe is a third-year public administration Ph.D. student, focusing on matters of race and ethnicity. He earned his bachelor’s degree in public sector economics in 2007 from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and his master’s degree in public administration and public policy in 2010 from Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE). In Mexico City, he transitioned into teaching as an adjunct professor of public administration.

Not long after moving to the US and working as a community organizer, Felipe enrolled at UNO to continue his education. He has earned a UNO Graduate Research and Creative Activity grant to study antidiscrimination initiatives in Mexican federal public administration and presented his findings in March.

Felipe says he views racism as one of the most serious public policy issues that needs addressing in the U.S. After finishing his doctorate, he plans to pursue a tenure-track position at a research institution. Congrats and well done for all, Felipe.

Wei-Jie Liao – Won the 2020 Western Social Science Association (WSSA) Outstanding Graduate Paper Award Felipe Blanco –Selected as a 2021 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Founders Fellow, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 2021 Rising Graduate Scholar, and 2021 PA Theory Network Fellow.

Gabrielle L’Esperance and Ming Xie – Were selected to receive a 2020 International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) PhD Fellowship Yunseung Kim – Won the 2020 UNO American Association of University Professors Bernard Kolasa Scholarship Eleven students also received UNO Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA) Award funding, totaling $55,000: Bit An Felipe Blanco Minshuai Ding Josey Hazelton Seoeun (Grace) Jung Yeonkyung Kim Wei-Jie Liao Reyna (Liz) Reyes-Nunez Ryan Rouse Xiaowei Song Morgan Vogel

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20/2021 ACCOMPLISHMENTS DOCTORAL CANDIDATES

CONFERENCES ATTENDED (VIRTUAL)

Ten students passed Field Exams to become Doctoral Candidates

Despite the challenges of COVID in 2020/21, our Students remained active in attending these conferences:

Felipe Blanco Melanie Chapman Minshuai Ding Joel Gehringer Josey Hazelton Gabrielle L’Esperance Jae Won Oh Reyna (Liz) Reyes-Nunez Xiaowei Song Morgan Vogel

▸ Latin American Students Association (LASA) ▸ American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) ▸ Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) ▸ International Public Policy Association (IPPA) Summer School Program ▸ Digital Government Society DG.O 2020 ▸ Conference of Minority Public Administrators (COMPA) ▸ International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) ▸ Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) ▸ Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop ▸ Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM) ▸ Northeast Conference on Public Administration (NECoPA) ▸ Public Administration Theory Network (PAT-Net)

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DISSERTATION PROPOSALS Nine Doctoral Candidates successfully defended their Dissertation Proposals

Bit An, “A Case Study of the Process of the PILOT Policy Based on the ACF and RDT”

Nick Juliano, “Using System of Care Principles to Address the Needs of Juvenile Justice Youth”

Kristin Broyhill, “Economic Development Policy Narratives in Rural Nebraska”

Yunseung Kim, “Fiscal Impacts and Allocation of Water and Wastewater Funding Sources”

Melanie Chapman, “Interpretive Policy Analysis of Health and Equity in All Policies at the Local Level”

Emily MacNabb, “Social Vulnerability and Trust in Government Disaster Response: The Case of a Potential Flood Event in a Metropolitan Area”

Minshuai Ding, “Does Specialized Governance of Transit Make A Difference in Performance? An Analysis of Midwest Transit Agencies” Gabrielle L’Esperance, “African NGO Relationships: A Study of the Expression of Everyday Agency in NGOs”

Morgan Vogel, “Advancing a Discourse of Vocation for Public Administration: Understanding the Experiences of City Managers through Narrative Inquiry”

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PHD APP MAVERICK STRONG

DEMOCRATIC | SOCIAL INNOVATOR S | SCHOLARS We foster a culture of openness where the process of knowledge creation among students is a common enterprise.

As our students move through the PhD program, they have opportunities to teach and to work handin-hand with faculty. When they graduate, they are prepared to understand and help solve public problems.

The PhD in Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) creates a supportive, collaborative, and rigorous environment for students to develop their intellectual identities and a comprehensive understanding of the field with a range of research traditions.

Throughout the PhD program, we will empower you to establish a strong intellectual identity.

You will be introduced to different knowledge traditions and become thoroughly immersed in the discourse of public administration and its integration of theory and practice.

We foster a unique culture of openness where the process of knowledge creation among students is a common enterprise. As our students move through the program, they have opportunities to teach and to work one-on-one with faculty. When you graduate, you will be prepared to understand and help solve public problems as an academic or a practitioner.

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PHD IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION APPLICATION CHECKLIST o APPLY ONLINE

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International applicants who have completed coursework at international higher education institution(s) are required to submit a transcript evaluation.

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TAKE THE TOEFL/IELTS (INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS)

TOEFL: Minimum score of 557 (or 233 on computer-based test or 90 on Internet based test) Or minimum IELTS score of 6.5, or minimum Pearson score of 61.

SUBMIT A STATEMENT OF INTENT

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In a five-page statement of intent describe the following: Your goals in pursuing a PhD and plans after completion of the PhD., Research interests and desired area of specialization Discussion of faculty with whom you would like to work related to research interests An explanation of academic and professional backgrounds SUBMIT WRITING SAMPLES

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Academic or professional writing sample (such as a term paper, thesis, conference paper, evaluation report, or published work).

1-page abstract summarizing the contents of the writing sample. o SUBMIT THREE LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION Provide three email addresses for writers of letters of recommendation.

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APPLICATION DEADLINES: FOR APPLICANTS SEEKING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: JAN. 15 ALL OTHER APPLICANTS: MARCH 15

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