Teaching with Social Media to Empower Students and Give Courage to Faculty: A Civic Engagement Class Example

Next week, I travel to Toronto, Canada to present on a panel entitled “Utilizing technology to enhance and improve the learning experience.” The panel is being convened by the Teaching Section of the Association of Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. This presentation will be similar to those I have delivered in previous workshopsContinueContinue reading “Teaching with Social Media to Empower Students and Give Courage to Faculty: A Civic Engagement Class Example”

Center for Public and Nonprofit Management Makes Faculty Research Accessible and Relevant

This year, the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management in the School of Public Administration at UCF is launching a new initiative to make the research and scholarship of our faculty more accessible to our local community stakeholders and partners. The instrument: a one page “research brief” that states key research findings and, importantly, offersContinueContinue reading “Center for Public and Nonprofit Management Makes Faculty Research Accessible and Relevant”

A Politics of Hope within Public Administration

“Hope” is a powerful word. Bill Clinton ran for the presidency as the man from Hope (Arkansas); Barack Obama won the presidency largely on a theme of hope and change. As our partisan politics and legislative politics demonstrate so vividly, hope, to the extent is exists, is often fleeting. The shift from campaigning to governing,ContinueContinue reading “A Politics of Hope within Public Administration”