Sandra Emerson, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1984. Research and teaching interests: human services, utility deregulation, public finance, and public/private cooperation. Publications include "Corruption in Bulgaria" for Public Integrity, "The Public, Politics and Ethics of Public Officials: Corporate Scandal of 2002 for Public Money and Management and "Promises and Pitfalls of Contracting for Public Services" in Case Studies i in Public Budgeting and Financial Management. She has experience as a consultant to Department of Labor's WIN program, Office of Economic Opportunity's Legal Services, as fiscal analyst for Community Development Block Grants, and as operations manager to the Health Care Finance Administration Medicare Part B program. Currently she serves as the coordinator for the MPA program.
Charles W. Gossett, PhD, Stanford University, 1986. Research and teaching interests include public personnel management, civil service reform, intergovernmental relations, and gay and lesbian politics. He is the author of “Civil Service Reform in Georgia” and “Domestic Partnership Benefits,” both of which were published in the Review of Public Personnel Administration, and he has authored book chapters “Lesbians and Gay Men in the Public Sector Workforce” (in Ban and Riccucci, Public Personnel Management) and “Dillon’s Rule and Gay Rights” (in Riggle and Tadlock, Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process). He has also worked for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the District of Columbia city government.
John L. Korey, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1971. Research and teaching interests include Congress, the President, and the electoral process. Korey is the author of California Government (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1995; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999 and 2002). He teaches in the areas of research methods and American politics. He is Cal Poly's representative on the CSU Social Science Research and Instructional Council and is currently (2000-2004) serving on the Council of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
Lisa S. Nelson, Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1993. Research and teaching interests: public management, environment and public lands, intergovernmental relations, public administration theory. Recent publications include chapters in Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics, Charles Davis, Ed., 2nd ed. and in Getting Results Through Collaboration, Myrna Mandell, Ed., and a book review essay, "Community Sustainability and Land Use" in Public Administration Review 61/6, 2001.
Renford Reese, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1996. He received a Master's in Public Policy from the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy in 1990. He is the director and the founder of the Colorful Flags program. His research interests include civil rights issues, race and the criminal justice system, and public sector leadership. His is the author of American Paradox: Young Black Men (2004) and Leadership in the LAPD: Walking the Leadership Tightrope (2005).
David M. Speak, Ph. D., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 1979. Research and teaching interests include Public Law, Political Theory and American Government. Speak is the author of American Democracy, 2/e & 3/e (NY: St Martins Press, 1989 and 1993) (with Lewis Lipsitz); Living Law: The Transformation of American Jurisprudence in the Early Twentieth Century, (NY: Garland, 1987); and the editor (with Creighton Peden) of The American Constitutional Experiment, (Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991). He has taught administrative law, ethics, and American government courses to MPA students.
Barbara Way, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1983. Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. Her fields of study include American and state politics, public policy, gender and politics, and public administration with a major emphasis on energy conservation policy.
