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On 1 July 2005, Mel Dubnick
assumed his position as professor of Political
Science and director of the MPA
program at the University of
New Hampshire, located in Durham.
From September 2003 to June
2005 he was Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow at the
Queen's University Belfast Institute
of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research
and he remains associated with Queen's as a International
Research Fellow.
From 1992 to 2005 he was professor
of Political
Science and Public
Administration at Rutgers
University - Newark and was designated professor emeritus
upon his departure from RU-N He also holds adjunct
positions at the School
of Public Affairs of Baruch College/CUNY as well as
in the Advanced
Programs MPA faculty at the University of Oklahoma.
Previously he was an adjunct professor at
Columbia
University's School of International & Public Affairs.
He was at Queen's as the first recipient of
the Fulbright-Queen's
University of Belfast Fellowship in Governance, Public Policy
and Social Research and has been awarded
a QUB International Fellowship that extended his full timerole
at Queen's through the 2004-2005 academic year. His continued
work at Queen's involves a number of projects related to
issues of accountability and democratic inclusion.
He is the co-author of textbooks
on public policy analysis, public administration, and American
government. In addition to his work on government
accountability systems, his scholarly publications include
articles on a wide range of topics, including Third World
development planning, health care reform, government regulatory
policies, intergovernmental relations, industrial policy,
administrative reform, and teaching administrative ethics.
His most recent writing has included an analysis of American
civic education and the state of scholarship in the field
of public administration.
Dubnick is an active member
of the public administration and political science communities.
He served as program co-chair of American
Society for Public Administration's
2002 National Conference held in Phoenix. He also
organized the Paul
Van Riper Symposium held in Phoenix just prior to Phoenix
meeting (see schedule
and posted papers).
He was Section Secretary for the ASPA
Ethics Section from 1998 to 2002 and remains active
in maintaining the section's list serv and website. He is
a member of the Public
Administration Review editorial board. From 1991 through
1996, Dr. Dubnick served as managing editor of Public
Administration Review, and from 1985 through 1990 he
was co-editor in chief of the Policy Studies Journal.
He is also active in the Public
Administration section of the American
Political Science Association (APSA), serving as both
webmaster and list serv manager (H-Pubadmin) since 2001.
Dubnick served as co-chair of the APSAs Task
Force for Civic Education in the 21st Century from 1996
to 2001, and remains the on-line manager of APSA's Civic
Education List Serv: APSA-CIVED.
In 2001, Dubnick was "rostered"
as a Fulbright
Senior Specialist. The duration of the appointment is
five years. In September 2002 he completed his first assignment
with a two-week visit to Leiden University and Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven.
He was the co-recipient of
the 1987 William
E. and Frederick C. Mosher Award for a co-authored article
published in Public
Administration Review,
"Accountability
in the Public Sector: Lessons From the Challenger Tragedy."
He also received the 2000 Laverne
Burchfield Award for the best book review article in
PAR's volume 60. He has also been honored with
the Thomas R. Dye
Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Policy
Studies (Policy Studies Organization, 1996), the Aaron Wildavsky
Book Award (Policy Studies Organization, 1997), as well
as awards for outstanding academic achievements from the
New Jersey (1996) and Metropolitan New York (1991) Chapters
of the American Society for Public Administration.
He has also been an active
institutional representative at the National
Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration,
where he served on various site visit teams and committees,
including the Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation
(1992-1995).
He has held various administrative
and governance positions in academe, including acting chair
of the Rutgers-Newark Graduate Department of Public Administration
(1999-2000), director of the Rutger's MPA program (1998-2000),
chair of the Department of Public Administration at Baruch
College/CUNY (1988-1992), faculty senate president and senate
executive committee chair at the Kansas University (1986-1988),
and director of KU's MPA program (1982-1983).
Born in Brooklyn, New York,
Dr. Dubnick considers Pueblo, Colorado (where he attended
high school and college, and where he met his wife-to-be)
his hometown. He graduated with honors from Southern
Colorado State College (now Colorado
State University-Pueblo) in 1968, and earned his M.A.
(1969) and Ph.D. (1974) in political
science at the University of Colorado - Boulder.
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