Celebrating Public Service Recognition Week

National Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW), an annual opportunity across the United States to pay tribute to public service employees, officially took place last week. Some ASPA Chapters and Sections held events; others are scheduled during the rest of this month.

Thank you to the following ASPA groups for honoring public servants in your communities:

Events Held Week of May 5

• Central Virginia Chapter (May 4): Flying Squirrels Minor League Ballgame
• Research Triangle Chapter, Section on Democracy and Social Justice and Partners (Week of May 5): Five-Day Webinar Event
• New Jersey Chapter (May 8): Annual Awards Ceremony
• Sacramento Chapter (May 8): Annual Awards Dinner
• Suncoast Chapter (May 9): Public Service Appreciation Ceremony

• Hampton Roads Chapter (May 16): Public Service Awards Luncheon
• Utah Chapter (May 20): Awards Ceremony
• Greater Houston Chapter (May 22): Public Service Recognition Week Award Ceremony

E-Learning at Your Fingertips

ASPA staff work tirelessly to keep your skills up to date and the information flowing all year long through our e-learning program. Visit our website to see more details about upcoming KeepingCurrent, BookTalk and Student and New Professional series programming.



KeepingCurrent: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch? Examining the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Children's Food Assistance Programs
May 15 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT

Speakers:
LaMonika Jones, Director of State Initiatives, Food Research and Action Center
Elizabeth A. Marchetta, Executive Director, Food and Nutrition Services, Baltimore City Public Schools
Sabrina Romanoff, Clinical Psychologist, New York City

Join us for this engaging discussion of the impacts of recent federal cuts to food assistance programs and the impact the reduction and elimination of these resources has had on low-income families, particularly school-age children. This panel will discuss the broad range of repercussions food insecurity can have on children as they grow and develop, in addition to the economic and societal consequences of long-term food insecurity.




Student and New Professionals Series: Application of the Federal Fair Housing Act with Disability Rights Texas
May 21 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT

Speakers:
Christopher McGreal, Attorney, Disability Rights Texas
Linda Nathan, Moderator, Student and New Professionals Representative, ASPA

This student and new professionals-based presentation will focus on two parts: (1) providing a brief description of Disability Rights Texas and (2) outlining general housing rights policies for persons with disabilities with an emphasis of the Federal Fair Housing Act and making accommodation and modification requests related to an individual’s housing.




KeepingCurrent: Navigating the New Intergovernmental Relationship: A Practitioner's Guide for State and Local Governments
Sponsored by Suffolk University
May 22 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT

Speakers:
Sonia Alleyne, Moderator, Executive in Residence and Faculty, Suffolk University
Geoff Beckwith, Distinguished Lecturer in Public Service, Suffolk University; Former Executive Director and CEO, Massachusetts Municipal Association

This webinar will explore the impacts of federal policies on state and local governments, ethical leadership and strategies for adapting to today’s challenges. Our speakers will offer valuable insights for academics, public administrators and leaders navigating this evolving landscape.




From the Archives
KeepingCurrent: The UN Global Report on Gender Equality in Public Administration
The 2021 Global Report on Gender Equality in Public Administration (GEPA) was launched first at the United Nations High Level Political Forum in November 2021 and provides an overview of key trends and analysis on women’s participation and leadership in public administration. The report finds that though there has been progress on women’s representation overall, persistent gaps remain. Women continue to hit glass ceilings and glass walls that stop them from advancing to positions at the highest levels of power and influence. View this discussion and hear more from the report's authors. (Sponsored by University of Pittsburgh, SPIA; members only)



Students and New Professionals: The Cover Letter Conundrum
According to ResumeLab, 83 percent of employers say cover letters are important when making hiring decisions. But, they are not a regurgitation of your resume or CV in paragraph form, they are not generic letters and they certainly are not optional. Constructing them is an art form, deserving serious attention every time you write one. This webinar is designed for those on both the practitioner and academic job markets. (Members only)

Laila El Baradei and her husband, Ibrahim Shoukry, died in a car accident in April.

El Baradei joined ASPA in 2017 and was a very active member, participating in webinars, Annual Conferences and writing for PA TIMES Online regularly. She won the International Public Administration Award in 2024 (which was named for her friend, Allan Rosenbaum, shortly thereafter). She was a member of the International Chapter and served on its board; a member of the Section on African Public Administration; and a member of the Section on Effective and Sound Administration in the Middle East. She was a well-known participant withing ASPA's international circles and a proud voice for the MENA region in public administration.

El Baradei had been an active member of the American University in Cairo (AUC) community for more than 30 years, first as a student and then as faculty. She was a member of the faculty at Cairo University for more than 14 years before joining AUC as a visiting associate professor in 2006. In 2009, she was promoted to full professor and was granted tenure in 2012. She served as the first associate dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and later as acting dean and then associate dean for research and graduate studies. She was a member of the Global Steering Committee for Pi Alpha Alpha.

El Baradei was a longtime contributor to the IIAS–IASIA community as well, bringing her insight, compassion and rigor to her many roles. As project director of IASIA’s Working Group V on Gender, Diversity, and Equity, she championed inclusive governance and brought critical attention to the voices of women and underrepresented populations across all regions of the world. Through her leadership, the working group became a global platform to advance equity and meaningful participation in public administration and policymaking.

Sister to Mohamed ElBaradei, former Vice President of Egypt, El Baradei leaves behind a strong legacy of impact on her students and colleagues, as well as a lasting influence on the local and international public policy sphere. Students knew her for her humility, support and commitment to integrity. Throughout her career, she had been recognized multiple times for her teaching excellence and service to the university. She also received numerous awards from local and global organizations including the United Nations Development Program and the Arab Administrative Development Organization.

El Baradei earned her BA and MPA from AUC and her PhD in public administration from Cairo University.

Find a statement about her death on the AUC website.

Laurin L. Henry, a teacher, writer and academic administrator in the field of government and foreign affairs, died in Charlottesville, Virginia last month. He was 103.

Henry was a life member of ASPA, having joined in 1947. He attended the Annual Conference regularly and was a stalwart supporter, contributing to ASPA's endowment for decades. He was a long-time member of the Central Virginia Chapter.

Henry was born in 1921 in Kankakee County, Illinois; both of his grandfathers were farmers and were active in local affairs. His mother was a music teacher and his father managed a country bank that failed in the Great Depression. The family expectation of public service and his youthful experience of hard times would be a strong influence on his life.

Henry graduated from DePauw University in 1942. He joined the Navy as an enlisted personnel specialist during World War II; post-war studies in political science at the University of Chicago led to his MA in 1948 and Ph.D. in 1960. He married his wife, Jane, in 1946.

His early professional career was with Washington, DC think tanks. He wrote his best-known publication, “Presidential Transitions” (1960), at the Brookings Institution—the first serious examination of disruption in the government and dangers to the nation when a new president and administration come into office. Published during the Eisenhower-to-Kennedy transition, the book got widespread attention, including a front-page book review in The New York Times. It also opened up the field of transition studies for later scholars.

In 1964, Henry became professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he organized a new graduate program in public administration. Reflecting his strong belief that teachers and government practitioners can learn much from each other, he invited government officials into his classes and, for 10 years, directed a program that brought mid-level federal officials for a year’s graduate study at UVA. He helped bring the Federal Executive Institute to Charlottesville and served as a liaison with the university.

In 1978, Henry became dean of the School of Community and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he built up graduate programs, including a doctorate in public affairs, fostering involvement of faculty with the state and local governments. He retired from VCU in 1987. Returning to Charlottesville, he was a guest scholar at the Weldon Cooper Center and a frequent contributor to the early programs of the Miller Center. He also worked at the Federal Executive Center, preparing executives for top-level jobs in civil service and consulting for a variety of agencies including the Bureau of the Budget (the precursor to the Office of Management and Budget), GAO and NASA. Henry also served as a consultant to the Alaska State Commission.

In addition to his ASPA membership, he was a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and founding member and second president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. In 1986, he was tasked with documenting the organization's background, which resulted in "Education for Public Service: The Growth of University Study of Public Administration and Public Affairs and the Origins and founding of the National Association of Schools Of Public Affairs and Administration."

Henry had a quiet “second life” on his farm at Mustoe, Virginia, in the mountains of Highland County, where he tended cattle, renovated a farmhouse and put in many happy hours on his tractor mowing pastures. This retreat provided relief from the tensions of academia and put him in touch with country life reminiscent of his boyhood. In his later years, he wrote personal memoirs and the family history, and participated in the governance of University Village, where he lived for many years.

Henry was kind, modest and frugal. He was predeceased by his wife of 70 years, Jane K. Henry (2016). He is survived by daughters and grandson. Always the voice of reason, his passing leaves a very large hole in his small family, the University Village community and the professional world he continued to be a part of.

Find his obituary online here.

Comments Sought for OPM Rule to Politicize Public Services

As has been reported widely, the Office of Personnel Management has re-thought its former Schedule F plan, now renamed Schedule Policy/Career. The rule is not final and is open for public comment through May 23.

Federal comments matter. By law, they must be read by the administration and substantive comments require a response. Failure to do so could see the rule overturned by the courts. Comments do not need to be long, but volume matters so enter your comment online by the deadline. You do not need to have read the policy in-depth or be an expert to submit a comment. Use this opportunity to voice your opinion.

To quote Don Moynihan, "The proposed rule is bad and protecting nonpartisan civil servants is good." Join others posting their comments now.

Thanks to Don for writing an entire post about this issue and including helpful tips, advice and resources. View his post online here.

Trans-Atlantic Dialogue Takes Place This August!

The EGPA 2025 Conference will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, August 26-29, in association with the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Public Policy and the Glasgow Convention Bureau.

The EGPA Conference is the annual meeting of the multi-disciplinary community of Public Administration academics, researchers, and practitioners in Europe, also joined by colleagues from the IIAS network. The Conference is organized around several activities: plenary sessions, dedicated seminars (PhD symposium, French-speaking seminar, and thematic ones), panels arranged by 23 EGPA Permanent Study Groups, and side meetings (EAPAA meetings for accreditation, EGPA Steering Committee Meeting, Meeting of the Permanent Study Groups co-chairs and collaborative projects’ meetings).

It is well-established that the integrity of democratic forms of government internationally are being challenged by a variety of sources. These include the spread of disinformation and the associated erosion of trust in public institutions; the transnational nature of global threats such as the climate and biodiversity crises; the need to better engage and represent citizens in increasingly diverse societies; the spread of nativist politics and of course the challenges wrought by digital technologies on democratic processes. Within public administration research questions are being raised about the fragility of states or even the prospect of failing states due to this heightened turbulence.

In order to explore these issues, for this year’s Trans-Atlantic Dialogue we seek to address these changes as they manifest in four domains:

1. How to rethink the role of bureaucracies in the 21st century and their relationship to politics, society and the economy, particularly given changing political-administrative relationships or ‘bargains’
2. How to design new national and international public institutions to tackle the political and societal challenges of today, including new technological developments such as AI
3. How to support and reaffirm democratic values within public administrations
4. How best can administrative systems represent future generations and promote wellbeing in their current decision-making

O*Net Seeks Management Analysts

The O*NET Data Collection Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, is seeking input from expert management analysts. O*NET is a free resource and provides instant access to detailed descriptions on more than 900 occupations that drive the U.S. economy. Website visitors include counselors, human resource professionals, researchers, developers and students, to name a few. Participation in this important initiative will ensure that public administration/policy complexities are described accurately in the O*NET database. Analysts help conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplification and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively. Experts meet the following criteria: have at least one year of professional experience working in the occupation; have a minimum of five years combined in one or more of the following: practicing, training, teaching and/or supervising others; are currently actively involved in the field and based in the United States. Those interested in participating should contact Jumoke Dickson at RTI International, the O*NET data collection contractor. (A random sample of experts responding to this request will be invited to complete a set of questionnaires. Experts who are selected and agree to participate will receive a $40 VISA gift code and a certificate of appreciation from the U.S. Department of Labor.)

Public Administration Today Highlight

Public Administration Today features white papers, research and blogs from across the profession. If you're interested in more—especially your own curated news feed in your inbox every week—visit the website, create an account and check off your interest areas so you can stay up to date about the latest research being released!

Lessons for US Deputy Secretaries on Effective Federal Management
via McKinsey: Five core practices can help federal leaders handle management challenges and achieve tangible impact in their roles. These officials are tasked with developing and implementing policies to promote operational efficiency... As such, they are essential to advancing their departments' agendas and sustaining momentum on core initiatives. But they also face unique institutional dynamics that make operational transformations challenging in the federal environment.

Tips, Resources and Updates

Laid-Off Federal Employees Can Access Legal Advice Under New Union-Backed Network
Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network’s goal is to provide individual legal guidance to thousands of government workers.

Philadelphia Author Offers New Coping Guide for Federal Employees in These Uncertain Times
Millions of federal employees are preparing for another round of mass firings after directives by the Trump administration, led by Elon Musk, have already led to the departure of tens of thousands of federal workers.

Executive Order: Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
"My Administration will reform our dysfunctional accreditation system so that colleges and universities focus on delivering high-quality academic programs at a reasonable price."

Joint Statement from University Leaders Condemns Trump Administration’s “Unprecedented Overreach”
More than 170 presidents of colleges, universities, and academic societies issued a powerful joint statement condemning what they described as “unprecedented government overreach” by the Trump administration into higher education's affairs.

Student Debt Collections Restart on May 5. Here’s What to Know.
More than 5 million borrowers are in default and millions of others are projected to be on the precipice.

Creating Meaning for Employees Sounds Easier Said Than Done—But Every HR Leader Can Do It
“These things are important no matter what business you work in, and the same things that we teach to folks at Microsoft and at Black Rock work at businesses like Chick-fil-A, Zaxby’s or Marriott.”

In the News

Today's headlines contain plenty of news coverage of some of our nation's most pressing public administration challenges. ASPA has curated some of the most important stories from recent weeks. If you have not seen these yet, make sure you read them now!

Infrastructure

• Trump Builds on Biden Efforts to Modernize Permitting Technology
• "Agencies Must Be Where the People Are:" Trump Alters Priorities in Relocating Federal Buildings
• HUD Headquarters Up for Sale, as Trump Administration Downsizes Federal Office Space
• Transportation Consolidates IT Personnel and Decisionmaking
• Trump Unveils Sweeping Order to Bring AI into U.S. Education
• Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down
• Key Piece of Trump Administration Plan to Expand Migrant Detention Space Appears to Have Fallen Through
• South Dakota CIO to Become Deputy Director at CISA
• People Should Be "Outraged" by Efforts to Shrink Federal Cyber Teams, Former CISA Head Says
• DOGE Employees Gain Accounts on Classified Networks Holding Nuclear Secrets
• U.S. Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car
• How Lost Radar and Silent Radios Have Upended Newark Air Travel
• Trump Administration Unveils Multi-Billion Dollar Plan to Modernize Air Traffic Control System
• Trump Tightens Control of Independent Agency Overseeing Nuclear Safety
• The Hidden Ways Trump, DOGE Are Shutting Down Parts of the U.S. Government
• Federal Retirement Applications to Go Fully Electronic Next Month

• NSF Begins Terminating Select Grant Funding
• Federal Employees Facing 2025 Federal Budget Cuts
• USPS Falling Short on Processing Facility Work Hour Reduction Goals, Says Audit
• What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
• Collections on Millions of Student Loans Risk Slowing the Economy, Experts Say
• GSA Unveils New Unified Procurement Strategy
• The First 100 Days of DOGE: "Not Successful by Any Means”
• The Biggest Takeaways from Trump's Cut-Filled FY26 Budget
• "Gimmicks": GOP Lawmakers Slam Trump’s "Trillion-Dollar" Defense-Spending Proposal
• GSA’s New Procurement Strategy Challenges the Reseller Ecosystem
• NPR and PBS CEOs Say They’ll Challenge Trump Administration over Federal Funding Cuts
• Federal Cost Cutting Leads Cyber Contractors to Rework Ties with Government
• What Medicaid and Other Safety Net Cuts Could Mean for U.S. Poverty
• Trump Faces Bipartisan Pressure to Restore Public Funding Tracker

• Air Force’s Acting CTO Officially Assumes Permanent Position
• Homeland Security CTO Announces Departure
• Treasury’s Acting CIO to Depart
• SpaceX Alum Tapped as Interior CIO
• Senate Confirms Bisignano to Lead Social Security
• Kirsten Davies Tapped to be DOD CIO
• Leader of FEMA Is Dismissed as Trump Administration Takes Aim at the Agency
• Palantir Alum Appointed to Top Tech Role at HHS
• OPM Proposes Rule to Formally Revive Schedule F
• Agencies Will Still See Strict Limits on Recruitment Once Hiring Freeze Expires in July
• VA Officials Acknowledge the Need for Privacy for Telehealth Therapy
• Unions, Lawmakers Attempt to Block Trump Administration’s Civil Service Overhaul
• Connolly, Top Democrat on Oversight Panel, Will "Soon" Leave Post Due to Worsening Cancer Diagnosis
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sues Trump after He Tries to Fire Board Members
• Majority of Public Holds Favorable View of Federal Employees, Survey Shows
• Reforms Eyed for Federal Hiring Process, Freeze or No Freeze
• Postal Service Selects FedEx Board Member as Next Postmaster General

• Scientists Worry About Free Speech Rights under the Trump Administration
• Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Passport Changes Affecting Some Transgender Americans
• US Justice Department Reassigns About a Dozen Civil Rights Attorneys amid Shakeup, Say Sources
• Courts Block Trump from Withholding School Funds Over DEI, for Now
• NIH to Halt Grants Over DEI Programs and Boycotts, Raising Alarms across Research Community
• The Trump Administration Just Made Catastrophic Cuts That Will Affect You or Someone You Know
• Trump Administration Slashes Research into LGBTQ Health
• Trump Wants to Erase Black History. These Digital Archivists Are Racing to Save It
• Supreme Court Lets Trump Enforce Transgender Troop Ban as Cases Proceed
• Trump’s Order to Sanitize Black History Meets Institutional Resistance
• Agencies with Majority Women and Minority Workforces are Some of the Hardest Hit in Trump Staff Cuts, New Report Finds
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
• Policy That Let Federal Employees Use Preferred Bathroom Formally Overturned by Trump Administration
• Stockholm City Council Rejects U.S. Embassy Demands to End DEI Programming

Members in the News

John Bartle:
University of Nebraska at Omaha Aviation Institute Honors Student Excellence and Industry Leadership at 2025 Honors Convocation

Francis Fukuyama:
Regulatory Tyranny Makes Both the Private and Public Sector Inefficient

Phil Joyce:
Is Trump Taking the U.S. Back To The 1970s? An Interview with Phil Joyce

Don Kettl:
FEMA: The Federal Agency We Don’t Like Until We Need It

Janice Lachance:
AGU Board of Directors Selects New Executive Director and CEO Janice R. Lachance

Don Moynihan:
Trump’s New Classification May Mean More Mass Layoffs for Federal Workers
The Death of Direct File
and
Budgets as Propaganda

Alan Shark:
Doing Less with Less: Coping with Federal Cutbacks and Fiscal Uncertainty

Stan Soloway:
The President’s Procurement Order Offers a Real Opportunity. Let’s Not Squander It

Tom Stanton:
OMB Revamping A-123, Removing Many Enterprise Risk Concepts

Vicky Wilkins/American University:
Announcing American University's New Provost

Around Public Administration

Here are the most recent updates from across the profession. Did we miss you? Send us your news and we'll include it in the next round!

Upcoming Events:

• 33rd NISPAcee Annual Conference
  Bratislava, Slovakia | May 22-24
  Theme: Polycrisis and Multilevel Governance: Impacts, Lessons Learned, Challenges and Opportunities
  Registration is open
  
  
• 2025 Midwest Public Affairs Conference (MPAC)
  Kansas City, Missouri | June 4-6
  Theme: Rebuilding Community Trust in Turbulent Times
  
  
• 2025 PA Theory Networking Conference
  Virtual | June 12-15
  Theme: Navigating Democracy’s Promise: Merits, Values, and the Complexities of Governance
  The Call for Proposals is open
  
  
• EGPA2025 Conference/Trans-Atlantic Dialogue
  Glasgow, Scotland | August 26-29
  Theme: EGPA at 50: Prospects for Public Administration across Europe
  The Call for Proposals is open; conference details are available
  
  
• 2025 UKAPA Annual Conference
  Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK | September 11-12
  Theme: The Future of Public Administration
  The Call for Proposals is open (email address)
  
  
• ABFM 37th Annual Research Conference
  Atlanta | October 23-25
  Theme: Collaborative Budgeting: Fiscal Relationships and Financial Networks to Advance Government Work
  The Call for Proposals is open
  
  
• 2025 NECoPA Conference
  Union Township, New Jersey | November 7-8
  More details coming soon!

• Special Issue: Public Budgeting and Finance—Adversarial Collaborations in Public Budgeting and Finance
  Adversarial collaboration, an approach proposed by Nobel Prize Laureate Daniel Kahneman, is a method for resolving scientific disputes that arise from conflicting theoretical or ideological views. Authors or teams with opposing views work together on a research project to enhance or clarify understanding of a disputed knowledge area in a mutually satisfying manner. The project is designed to eliminate clear biases or weaknesses that could skew the conclusions. The participation of adversaries throughout the study ensures shared accountability and careful communication of the research. Furthermore, there's typically a pre-commitment to publish the results, irrespective of the findings. Despite their potential, adversarial collaborations aren't as prevalent as other open science innovations aimed at enhancing credibility through transparency, like data sharing, open materials and study preregistration. Public Budgeting & Finance intends to address this shortfall with a special issue (set for late 2026 or early 2027) focused on publishing and recognizing adversarial collaborations. This initiative is open to all topics relevant to public finances. Proposed projects will be evaluated and accepted on a rolling basis through May 2025. Accepted proposals are expected to complete manuscripts by April 1, 2026. Selected teams will be invited to present results at a special conference or dedicated session on the theme of Adversarial Collaborations in Public Finance, and travel funding will be extended to invitees. For more information, contact co-editors-in-Chief Craig Johnson and Justin Ross. Click here for more information.
  
  
• Call for Applications: APPAM 2025 Innovation Day
  With sponsorship from Arnold Ventures, APPAM is thrilled to present Innovation Day, an external convening bringing together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to discuss pressing research and policy questions to facilitate partnerships and lay the foundation for high-impact, causal research in the higher education and/or career education and training policy areas. This day will be held November 12, prior to the start of the 2025 APPAM Fall Research Conference in Seattle, Washington. This event will be limited to 40 participants, with priority given to policymakers, practitioners and policy-adjacent individuals who include staff in local, state or federal education agencies, including researchers embedded in education agencies, school administrators, and teachers; individuals working in the legislative branch of local, state or federal governments, including elected officials; institutional researchers in public colleges and universities; individuals working in nonprofit organizations whose primary role is developing policy or supporting policymakers; researchers in organizations that have a research relationship with an educational institution. Accepted participants will be notified in summer 2025. Thanks to support from Arnold Ventures, APPAM is pleased to offer two nights' hotel stay and subsidies to cover travel costs for accepted participants. Applications are due June 6. Click here for more information.
  
  
• PMM Special Issue Call for Papers
  Public Money and Management announces a special issue: The Politics and Management of Policing. The policing of society is a core feature of the modern state, lying at the heart of relationships between citizens and the state, with questions of legitimacy, equity, power, authority, governance as well as the effectiveness and efficiency of organizational performance as central matters of interest. Policing has some distinctive features, yet also offers insights to other public services. While police organizations are of particular scholarly and professional interest, the analysis of policing may include other groups, organizations and institutions concerned with order and safety in society, hence the focus is on policing not only police. With many countries contemplating or implementing reforms to police organizations, this topic is of wide interest to both academics and practitioners. The audience for readers of this themed issue is an interdisciplinary and broadly defined community of academics and professionals who share an interest in the research of policing, law enforcement and the provision of public safety from an organizational, managerial, governance and/or public policy analysis perspective. Editors invite articles exploring questions of policing and public management, for example concerning the legitimacy, equity, power, authority, governance and organizational performance in policing; the analysis of organizational functions such as strategic planning, human resource management, budgeting and evaluation, coordination of operations, control of accountability of policing, cooperation with public and private partners; whether and how policing is value-creating or value-destroying in different settings and social environments; changing roles and expectations of police at points of political and societal change and/or stress and austerity; comparative analysis of policing values, operations, consequences in or across different locales; political governance systems and their implications for the provision of an effective, fair and accountable police service—in both its ideal forms and its practical manifestations—for policing. All submissions are due June 16, 2025. Click here for more information.
  
  
• Call for Articles: Special Issue, Administrative Theory and Praxis
  Administrative Theory and Practice (ATP) is publishing a special issue: Critical Public Administration and the Environment. Governing the environment has become an increasingly urgent challenge in public administration. Yet, despite the critical role of public administration in implementing environmental policies, the field of public administration has been slow to fully embrace environmental governance and administration as a key area of study. Compared to other administrative areas such as healthcare, criminal justice, housing, and education, environmental administration remains underexamined. At the same time, scholars within critical public administration have challenged the traditional views of bureaucracy and governance and called for greater citizen participation, re-examining power structures and challenging status quo, developing administrative critical consciousness, incorporating cultural competence by integrating diverse perspectives, and re-distributing knowledge and influence in policy making between administrators and citizens. Across disciplines, research has firmly established that pre-existing systemic inequities and discrimination influence access to public services and programs. This especially holds true in the case of environmental policies and programs. The critical public administration scholarship lends itself well to the examination of environmental policies and programs. ATP has long shaped the field of public administration theory, pushing conversations in new conceptual and theoretical realms and “pushing the boundaries of theory and praxis in public service." Thus, ATP is a fitting venue to elevate and organize critical perspectives in public administration to the study of the environment and have these critical perspectives be in communication with each other. We invite contributions that represent varied socio-economic, political, geographical and cultural contexts, especially from the Global South. This special call focuses on how critical public administration engages with and how its principles are applicable to the environmental realm. All abstracts are due no later than June 20, 2025. Click here for more information.
  
  

PA TIMES Online

Here's a selection of current pieces on PA TIMES Online, covering a range of issues within the profession. We accept individual articles on a rolling basis; if you have a piece you think would fit our publication, submit it to [email protected] for consideration. (Please review our submission guidelines in advance!)

• Memorial Day: More Than Just a Parade
  By Richard Keevey
  
  
• DEI is Dead OR Long Live DEI?
  By Ian Coyle
  
  
• Hitchhiking for Inclusion
  By Sarah Sweeney