Public Affairs and 

Academy of Management Invitation
August 11- 16, 2006
Atlanta, Georgia

Between August 11-16 2006, the Academy of Management (AOM) will hold its 66th annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. As liaison between the PMRA and the Public and Nonprofit Section of the AOM, I ask you to consider submitting a paper. The PMRA does not meet next year, and the AOM provides a venue where you can expect to gain high-quality feedback on your work. The submission deadline for your completed paper is January 9 2006, and authors are provided written comments on their papers in March/April.=20

The conference theme, Knowledge, Action and The Public Concern, explores the linkages among organizational knowledge, managerial action and the major issues that face people in the global and knowledge economy. The Public and Nonprofit Division focuses on state and civil society, which include public and non-profit organizations such as government agencies, the military, social services, cultural and educational institutions, membership and professional associations, and advocacy, religious, and charitable organizations. Major topics include: decision making; strategy; organizational behavior and human resource management; political behavior; collaboration and conflict among public, non-profit, and private organizations; service and community-building; organizational networks involving public and non-profit organizations; theories of governance; public policy; and the social and ethical dimensions of public and non-profit activity. Special attention to how distinctive qualities of the public and non-profit sectors influence management and organizational processes.

More information on the conference http://meetings.aomonline.org/2006/
for the call for papers http://www.aom.pace.edu/pn/conference.html.

Donald P. Moynihan
Assistant Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs University of Wisconsin-Madison
Phone: 608-263-6633
http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/facultystaff/moynihan-donald.html

2006 Student Choice Award winners at IUB are: Orville Powell and Bob Boch. These award winners will be honored at the Spring Recognition Banquet on April 23 at the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center. 

Chris Craft, IUB, participated in a Nature Conservancy workshop, "Conservation Planning for Priority Bays and Estuaries along the South Atlantic Coast," on April 11-13 in Savannah, Georgia. The program was sponsored by the Efroymson Fellowship Program and included participants from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Indiana.  

Meredith Kincaid and Scott Jones, first-year Arts Administration students, submitted proposals and have been selected to present papers at the “National Endowment of the Arts: 40 Years of Leadership in the Arts” symposium to be held May 17-19, 2006 at American University in Washington, DC. Another first-year student, Stephanie Dowdy-Nava, was selected to receive a scholarship to attend this NEA symposium. 

Robert Ramsey, IUE, was recently awarded the Indiana University East Student Choice Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award is the highest honor given to a faculty member at IU East. The award ceremony took place on Friday, April 14, in Vivian Auditorium on the Richmond, Indiana campus. Ramsey also was awarded the Faculty Advisor of the Year Award for his contribution as faculty advisor to the campus Criminal Justice Club and as faculty advisor to Alpha Phi Sigma, the National Criminal Justice Honor Society.  

Lois R. Wise, IUB, was awarded a Summer Faculty Research Grant for “Inclusiveness in the Bureaucracy: Employment of Foreign Nationals in Central Government” by the West European Studies National Resource Center, 2006.

In Print 

Beth Gazley, IUB, published the lead article in Nonprofit Management and Leadership's spring 2006 issue. Co-authored with Jeffrey L. Brudney, the article is entitled "Moving Ahead or Falling Behind? Volunteer Promotion and Data Collection."  

The journal GROUND WATER came out this January (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2006) with a special theme issue devoted to the Analytic Element Method of groundwater flow modeling. Henk Haitjema, IUB, served as the lead guest editor and wrote the foreword. Haitjema has devoted his academic career to the development and promotion of this specific method, and the production of this special issue of GROUND WATER is a major step in its promotion. The journal is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers (NGWA) and is widely read in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to the foreword, he also published a paper in the issue entitled "A fast direct solution method for nonlinear equations in an analytic element model". 

Les Lenkowsky, IUB and IUPUI, published “Foundations Can Expect Increased Attention From State Officials” in the April 20 “Opinion” column of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, available to subscribers at: http://philanthropy.com/temp/email.php?id=3lqz2fdrohukp1fkjdtw967294c1aowz. 

Joe Pellicciotti, IUN, published "The Employee Polygraph Act of 1988: A Focus on the Act's Exemptions and Limitations" in the Loyola Law Review (51 Loy. L. Rev. 911).  

Rafael Reuveny, IUB, with co-author Katherine Barbieri, published "Economic Globalization and Civil War," in the Journal of Politics, 67: 1228-1247 (2005).

Presentations

Wolfgang Bielefeld, IUPUI, presented "Issues in Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship" at the Maxwell School's symposium on “The Big Questions in Nonprofit Management” on April 7 in Syracuse, New York. 

Rafael Reuveny, IUB, presented the paper "Resource Scarcity and Civil War" at the yearly meetings of the Peace Science Society (International) in Iowa City, Iowa, on November 4-6, 2005, co-written with Katherine Barbieri. He also presented this paper in the yearly meetings of the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC on September 1-4, 2005. On August 18, 2005, Reuveny was interviewed on the pullout from the Gaza Strip, for the daily newspaper, Poughkeepsie Journal (NY), in "Pullout Concerns Valley Residents." 

Lois R. Wise, IUB, Presented “Ethical Perspectives on Diversity and Leadership: Leaders’ Perceptions of the Higher Plane” at the Multi-sector Forum on Leadership at the Tobias Leadership Center at IUPUI on April 14.

State University of New York Board of Trustees Chair Thomas F. Egan and Chancellor Robert L. King recently announced the establishment of the "Chancellor John W. Ryan Fellowship in International Education" in honor of SUNY Chancellor Emeritus Ryan.  (The Board of Trustees honored Ryan with the title of chancellor emeritus in November 1999.  Ryan was the first to have that title bestowed.)  Ryan, also president emeritus of Indiana University, is currently on the SPEA Board of Visitors.  Professor Kemal Gürüz -former president of the Higher Education Council of the Republic of Turkey-is first recipient of the fellowship.  The complete news release can be found at:  http://www.suny.edu/.

IU's Office of International Programs offers a range of grants and exchanges to promote study, research, and teaching with an international focus.  Application procedures and deadlines vary.
http://www.indiana.edu/~intlprog/