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General News Apr 3, 2020

NAPA Co-signs Letter in Support of the Report of the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service

An open letter to President Donald J. Trump and Members of the 116th Congress: We are writing to you as organizations dedicated to inspiring public service and encouraging excellence in government. We welcome the final …

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Standing Panel News Apr 2, 2020

An Intergovernmental Web and Effective Disaster Response: Difficult, but Possible

Blog Entry by Academy Fellow Dr. Katherine Willoughby ('13) With contributions by Donald Bathurst, Gregory Devereaux, Kay C. Goss, Elizabeth Kellar, Shelley Metzenbaum, John Ten Hoeve, and Louis W. Uccellini Never has …

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General News Apr 2, 2020

Meet our Fellows: Dr. David E. Lewis ('12)

David E. Lewis is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of two books, Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design (Stanford University Pres…

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Grand Challenge News Mar 23, 2020

Agile Federalism in Times of Crisis

G. Edward DeSeve, Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration and Executive in Residence, Brookings Executive Education. The Many Forms of Federalism Under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, “[t]he powers …

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Grand Challenge News Mar 23, 2020

Roundtable on Creating Modern Water Systems for Safe and Sustainable Use

Climate change, aging infrastructure, and dated governance and management structures have combined to undermine the safety and sustainability of the U.S. water systems. In order to restore these critical systems, the U.S…

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General News Mar 19, 2020

Meet our Fellows: Dr. Margaret Simms ('19)

Dr. Margaret C. Simms is a nonresident fellow in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute. Until April 2018, Dr. Simms was an Institute fellow and director of the Low-Income Working Fami…

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Grand Challenge News Mar 18, 2020

A Social Equity Lens for COVID-19 Action: 10 Key Questions

By Phillip J. Cooper, Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration and Douglas and Candace Morgan Professor of Local Government, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University A Social Equity Len…

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General News Mar 5, 2020

Meet our Fellows: Stan Soloway ('16)

Stan Soloway is President & CEO of Celero Strategies, LLC, a full-service strategic consultancy focused on the federal market. Celero Strategies is Soloway’s latest step in a career during which he has become widely …

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Standing Panel News Mar 5, 2020

CIOs Face a New Virus – COVID 19

By Dr. Alan R. Shark, Executive Director, CompTIA’s Public Technology Institute and Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration Until recently CIOs, especially those at the state and local levels, had to …

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Grand Challenge News Feb 21, 2020

Could the Government Help Us Protect Our Data?

Alan Shark, fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and associate professor at George Mason University, proposes that the federal government should take better action to protect users’ privacy within thei…

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Grand Challenge News Feb 13, 2020

How Government Gets it Right on Privacy

The American public rightfully expects government and businesses alike to be responsible stewards of information. Emerging trends to use more data for enhancing decisions face reasonable tensions with what is ethical, pr…

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Grand Challenge News Feb 13, 2020

Virtual Roundtable on Data

Should a “Digital Bill of Rights” be adopted? If so, what rights, protections, and obligations should be established within this framework for protecting data privacy? Pris Regan Over the last ten years or so, there ha…

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