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Dr. Jeffrey L. Brudney’s co-authored text, Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration, has been published by Thompson-Wadsworth.  The book is now in its Seventh Edition and has been used in more than 110 colleges and universities.

Congratulations to Dr. Camilla Stivers, recipient of the Brownlow Award
Dr. Camilla Stivers published Governance in Dark Times in March 2008. She received the prestigious Brownlow Award from the National Academy of Public Administration for the book. The award is given each year for the book that the academy considers the best book published.

Congratulations to Michael Stephen Levy (author) and the Sacred Landmarks Series (publisher) 
Michael Stephen Levy is the author of the new book from The Sacred Landmarks Series, Revelations:  Photographs of Cleveland’s African American Churches.   The book contains contributions by The Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones, The Reverend Marvin A. McMickle, and The Reverend Otis Moss, Jr., as well as an afterword by Professors Norman Krumholz and Michael J. Tevesz titled “Unseen Pillars of the Community.” The Sacred Landmarks Series is a collaborative publishing venture between The Kent State University Press and CSU’s Levin College of Urban Affairs’ Center for Sacred Landmarks.  Dr. Tevesz serves as Series Editor.  A Copy of Revelations is on display in UR 335.  See http://www.josaphatartshall.com/gallery/ for more information.

Congratulations to Dr. Virginia O. Benson and Dr. Richard Klein who are co-authors of a newly released book, Historic Preservation for Professionals. After completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the U.S., Benson and Klein saw the need for this comprehensive approach to historic preservation, examining where it has been and where it is going, anticipating that historic preservation must encourage collaborative projects among planning, design, and development professionals. It is intended as a starting point for new people in the field and as a valuable resource for those already in the field. The book emphasizes career opportunities.  The book's forward is written by Stanley M. Smith, the recently retired leader of Historic Boston Incorporated. The book is published by the Kent State University Press.

Vera Vogelsang-Coombs, Lawrence Keller, and Sylvester Murray, published and article together titled "Council-Manager Government at 100: Facilitative Governance and Citizenship Ethics in the Administrative State" was published by Palgrave Macmillan as Chapter 8 in the following book: Citizenship: A Reality Far From Ideal, edited by Andrew Kakabadse, Nada Kakabadse, and Kalu N. Kalu (pp. 171-186).

Christine Ledvinka has an article out in the September 2009 issue of the Review of Public Personnel Administration. The article is co-authored with Paul Battaglio and the title is: "Privatizing Human Resources in the Public Sector: Legal Challenges to Outsourcing the Human Resource Function".

Dr. Wendy Kellogg has a paper published in the June volume of the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management entitled "Ohio's Balanced Growth Program: a case study of collaboration for planning and policy design." The article is based on eight years of participation in the state-level program and research conducted as the basis of a set of policy papers for the Ohio Lake Erie Commission. JEPM is an international journal that focuses on environmental planning and management and is read primarily in the United States and Europe.

Dr. Sugie Lee and Steven P. French have a paper published in the June volume of the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management entitled “Regional impervious surface estimation: an urban heat island application.” This paper describes a GIS-based estimation method that can be used to forecast future amounts of impervious surface as a mitigation measure for urban heat island effect in a metropolitan region. The method is unique because it employs a regression model that links the existing amount of impervious surface to population and employment at the census tract level.

Rosentraub, Mark S. and David Swindell. 2009. “Doing Better: Sports, Economic Impact Analysis, and Schools of Public Policy and Administration”. Journal of Public Affairs Education 15(2) 219-242.

Swindell, David, Mark Rosentraub, and Alexandra Tsvetkova. (2009). “Public Dollars, Sports Facilities, and Intangible Benefits: The Value of a Team to a Region's Residents and Tourists.” Journal of Tourism. 9(2): 133-159.

Dr. Mark S. Rosentraub and David Swindell have a new publication "Of Devils and Details: Bargaining for Successful Public/Private Partnerships between Cities and Sports Teams," Public Administration Quarterly, 33: 1 Spring 2009 pp. 118-148.

Professor Norman Krumholz has an article in the American Planning Association's publication, The Commissioner (Spring 2009) titled "Social Equity and the Cleveland 2020 Citywide Plan." Krumholz is a member of the Cleveland City Planning Commission.

Jeffrey L. Brudney, Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service, and Tamara G. Nezhina, DePaul University, published an article, "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: More Bark than Bite for Nonprofits", in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, January 6, 2009

Dr. Jeffrey L. Brudney, Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service, authored two chapters in a new book entitled Challenges in Volunteer Management (2008) (with Tamara Nezhina and Aigerim Ibrayeva). Jeffrey L. Brudney, Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service, and Beth Gazley, Ph.D., received the 2008 Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Division Best Article Award.  Earlier, their paper, "The Purpose (and Perils) of Government-Nonprofit Partnership," was published as the lead article in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly* (vol. 36, no. 3, September 2007), the top journal in nonprofit sector studies. Dr. Brudney is pictured to the left.

Dr. Jessica Sowa had an article "The Collaboration Decision in Nonprofit Organizations: Views from the Front Line" was published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly., October 21, 2008.

Dr. Vera Vogelsang-Coombs published the following article on Mayor Jackson's Operations Efficiency Task Force, as follows:  Vera Vogelsang-Coombs and William M. Denihan (’98 BA), "Performance Measurement Used to Achieve Results and Advance Social Equity in Cleveland."  Public Administration Times.  31, 5 (May 2008):  pp. 4-5. 

Dr. Jessica Sowa had a publication appear in Administration and Society (May 2008) titled "Implementing Inter-Agency Collaborations: Exploring Variation in Collaborative Ventures in Human Service Organizations.”

Jeffrey L. Brudney co-authored the PAR article, "What Drives Morally Committed Citizens?  A Study of the Antecedents of Public Service Motivation."    The article can be found in Public Administration Review,  68, 3 (May/June 2008):  445-458.

Michael W. Spicer’s article, "The History of Ideas and Normative Research in Public Administration:  Some Personal Reflections,"  was in Administrative Theory & Praxis, 30, 1 (March 2008):  50-70.  Mike first delivered this paper as a keynote address at an international public administration research conference held at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Dr. Camilla Stivers published the article, Public Administration's Myth of Sisyphus", in Administration & Society (January 2008).

Dr. Ned Hill has a working paper posted on the Brookings website.  The paper’s senior author, Leah Curran (’01 BA in Urban Studies, ’02 MPA) is a doctoral candidate in public policy at George Washington University.  The paper is titled “Poverty, Programs, and Prices:  How Adjusting for Costs of Living Would Affect Federal Benefit Eligibility.”  The article can be accessed here.

Interim Dean Ned Hill has a chapter in the new Brookings book Retooling for Growth:  Building a 21st Century Economy in America’s Older Industrial Areas (2008).  The chapter is titled “Understanding Economically Distressed Cities” and is authored by Harold L. Wolman, Edward W. Hill, Pamela Blumenthal, and Kimberly Furdell.

Associate Dean Wendy Kellogg published an article in the winter 2007 issue of Practicing Planner, the professional journal for the American Institute of Certified Planners.  The article presents a case study of Ohio's Balanced Growth Program, a collaborative approach to growth management and land use change that is non-regulatory and incentive-based. The program entails development of collaborative land use plans by local governments on a watershed basis. Dr. Kellogg has consulted for the Ohio Lake Erie Commission on the Balanced Growth Program since 2001.

Professor Sugie Lee co-authored an article on declining suburbs in four metro areas, including Cleveland, in the Winter 2007 issue of the Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Dr. Jennifer Alexander's article "Public-Nonprofit Partnership:  Realizing the New Public Service" was accepted for publication by Administration & Society.

The Center for Sacred Landmarks partnered with the Lorain County Sacred Landmarks Initiative at Lorain County Community College to publish Transcendent Light:  The Windows of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.  The monograph contains a collection of essays on stained glass, the windows, the architecture, and the history of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Elyria, Ohio and is edited by Douglas R. Hoffman. 

Dr. Wendy A. Kellogg, Kevin O'Brien, Claudette Robey, and Kirstin Toth recently published an article called “The Use of Focus Groups for Design and Implementation of Collaborative Environmental Administrative Programs: A Comparison of Two State-Level Processes in Ohio."  The article appeared in the September 2007 (vol 9, no 3) issue of  the Journal of Environmental Practice (Journal of the National Association of Environmental Professionals), published by Cambridge University.

Dr. Michael Tevesz was invited to write a chapter in the book, Living in the Vermillion River Watershed. Mike's chapter is called "Freshwater Mussels of the Vermillion River."

Northeast OHio High-Tech Economy Report, prepared by the The Center for Economic Development examined the high-tech sector in Northeast Ohio (NEO). It focuses on two time periods: 2004-2007, the last recovery period, and 2006- 2007, the latest one-year change. Four major perspectives are reflected in this year’s analysis: (1) changes in overall NEO high-tech trends in comparison to the Midwest and the United States, (2) analysis of technology groups within the high-tech sector, (3) detailed analysis of bioscience in Northeast Ohio using the industry definition adopted by BioOhio, and (4) track of the NEO research and development activity in industry and academia. The study includes an analysis of four indicators of high-technology: employment, average wages, gross regional product, and productivity.

The Sky isn’t Falling Everywhere looks at the consequences of treating Cuyahoga County’s housing market as “one market” versus a shrinking but relatively price stable market and a submarket plagued by abandonment and foreclosure. Brian Mikelbank, Director of the Center for Planning Research and Practice, was interviewed about the study on WCPN. org on Tuesday, November 11, 2008, http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/WCPN/news/15259/

Brian Mikelbank, Charlie Post, Ivan Maric, and Tom Bier are doing research for the City Council of Cleveland on the housing market, foreclosures, and home equity. The results of the foreclosure impact study were discussed at the council meeting on November 11, 2008. The study is available at http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/Home/News/November%20102008/tabid/581/Default.aspx.

The Urban Center released a report, "A Scan of Attributes in County Government Structure", prepared for The Commission on Cuyahoga County Government Reform (October 24, 2008).

The Urban Center prepared a report analyzing the potential impact of a proposed paid sick and family care leave legislation on the economy of the state of Ohio. The report was prepared for Ohioans to Protect Jobs and is titled The Likely Impact of Mandated Paid Sick and Family-Care Leave on the Economy and Economic Development Prospects of the State of Ohio."

The Center for Economic Development (CED) and JumpStart Inc. have released their third annual report summarizing the findings of an entrepreneurship confidence survey (conducted from May 30 to June 30, 2008) to assess the entrepreneurial climate and entrepreneurs’ confidence in their ability to start and sustain a business in Northeast Ohio. The 2008 results provide data to compare how entrepreneurs’ confidence has changed since the previous two studies, released in September 2006 and September 2007. CED researchers Ziona Austrian, Ph.D., Director, and David Kasdan, a Ph.D. student at the Levin College, led the effort with JumpStart providing the promotional and technical support to execute the survey.

The report was funded by the Cleveland State University Presidential Initiative for Economic Development, JumpStart, and the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The complete report, titled “Northeast Ohio Entrepreneurship Confidence Survey: Third-Year Findings” can be found at: http://urban.csuohio.edu/economicdevelopment/publications.html

The report spurred an article in the Plain Dealer, “Northeast Ohio entrepreneurs optimistic despite poor economy.” Both Ziona Austrian and Ray Leach of JumpStart are quoted here: http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/09/northeast_ohio_entrepreneurs_o.html

Kathy Hexter, Molly Schnoke, and Alan Weinstein of the Center for Civic Education and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law released their report, "Responding to Foreclosures in Cuyahoga County:  A Pilot Initiative, Interim Report,” on May 12, 2008.  The report, prepared for the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners, is an assessment of the County's comprehensive approach to addressing foreclosures on two levels:  1) Making foreclosure proceedings faster and fairer and 2) Creating an early intervention program to help residents prevent foreclosure.  The report can be accessed here.

Driving Ohio's Prosperity (June 2009). Edward W. (Ned) Hill, Jim Samuel & Fran Stewart, in cooperation with The MPI Group, Inc. Prepared fro Compete Columbus.
Central Ohio Is the Leverage Point of a Two-Job Strategy for Growing the Value of Automotive & Advanced Manufacturing
How to help manufacturers do today’s job of meeting customers’ demands and tomorrow’s job of continuing to innovate and improve

Driving Ohio's Prosperity, Recommendations (June 2009). Edward W. (Ned) Hill, Jim Samuel & Fran Stewart, in cooperation with The MPI Group, Inc. Prepared fro Compete Columbus.

The Center for Economic Development released the Economic Brief, April 2008.   The Brief is the fourth release in a series that provides a broad overview of employment and wage trends for Northeast Ohio. It updates earlier editions with data for the first quarter of 2007.  It is intended to provide a quick, current, and informative snapshot of the regional economy.  Northeast Ohio is defined as a 16-county area that includes five metropolitan areas (Akron, Canton-Massillon, Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Mansfield, and Youngstown-Warren) and four non-metropolitan counties (Ashland, Ashtabula, Columbiana, and Wayne).  On Friday, April 4, 2008, Jill Taylor was interviewed on WCPN about the findings from the Brief.

The Center for Economic Development together with MAGNET has released the Northeast Ohio Manufacturing Brief and the Northwest Ohio Manufacturing Brief; both are available online.