The University of Baltimore's College of Public Affairs Hosts NECoPA 2018
DATE: Nov. 2-4, 2018
LOCATION: Lord Baltimore Hotel
THEME: Blind Spots in Public Administration: Looking Inward to Improve Responses to Changing Landscapes
SOCIAL MEDIA: #NECOPA2018
About NECoPA
The Northeast Conference on Public Administration, Inc.(NECoPA) was founded in October 2010 at the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University – Newark. As an organization, NECoPA provides support for universities in the northeast region as they work to plan and host the annual NECoPA conference. This event, the annual regional conference of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), is intended to provide educational opportunities for scholars (faculty and students), practitioners (administrators and policymakers), and others interested in public service in a collaborative environment by educating the general public and members of the organization on current issues, research, and practice in public and nonprofit organizations.
The primary NECoPA region encompasses ASPA Districts 1 and 2. This region covers 16 states and the District of Columbia, which includes 19 local ASPA Chapters and 57 higher education institutions with NASPAA accredited programs.
Past conferences have featured more than 100 presentations of academic papers, workshops, and discussion of best practices, and have been attended by several hundred participants from the Northeast region, across the United States, and from a number of foreign countries. Past NECoPA conference locations include:
- University of Vermont (2017)
- Penn State Harrisburg (2016)
- George Mason University (2015)
- University of New Hampshire (2014)
- University of Delaware (2013)
- University of Massachusetts-Boston (2012)
- John Jay College-CUNY (2011)
- Rutgers University-Newark (2010)
Rutgers SPAA serves as the official secretariat for NECoPA, playing an integral part in the development of this important regional organization which is dedicated to furthering the education of public administration practitioners and academics.
NECOPA 2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: alasdair roberts
Alasdair Roberts is the director of the School of Public Policy at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a professor of political science.
Professor Roberts writes extensively on problems of governance, law and public policy. His next book, Can Government Do Anything Right? was published by Polity Books in April 2018. His last book, Four Crises of American Democracy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. His other books are: The End of Protest: How Free-Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent, (Cornell University Press, 2013); America’s First Great Depression (Cornell University Press, 2012); The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government (Oxford University Press, 2010), which received an honorable mention from the Best Book award committee of the American Society of Public Administration’s Section on Public Administration Research; and The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government (New York University Press, 2008). Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, received the Brownlow Book Award from the US National Academy of Public Administration, and three other academic book awards. Professor Roberts has also won several awards for his journal articles.
Professor Roberts was elected as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration in 2007. From 2009 to 2017, he was co-editor of the journal Governance. He serves on the editorial boards of several other journals in the field of public administration, as well as the board of the Section for International and Comparative Administration of the American Society for Public Administration.
Professor Roberts was a member of the public administration faculty of Queen’s University in Canada from 1990 to 2001, and of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University from 2001 to 2008. He was the Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University from 2008 to 2014, and a professor of public affairs, political science, and law at the University of Missouri from 2015 to 2017.
Professor Roberts received a J.D. from the University of Toronto in 1984, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1994.
His web address is www.aroberts.us.
Professor Roberts’ 2018 NECoPA keynote address is sponsored by Canada Research Chair in Comparative Public Management.
NECOPA 2018 PLANNING COMMITTEE
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Lyndsay Bates (co-chair)
academic program specialist
Klein Family School of Communications Design, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences
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Latrina Bowman
academic program specialist
College of Public Affairs
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Ann Cotten
director
Schaefer Center for Public Policy
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Stephanie Dolamore (co-chair)
research analyst
Schaefer Center for Public Policy
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Mariglynn Edlins (co-chair)
assistant professor
College of Public Affairs
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Roger Hartley
dean
College of Public Affairs
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Mary E. Lovegrove
assistant director
Schaefer Center for Public Policy
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Monica Queen
college communications coordinator
College of Public Affairs
Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences
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Ivan Sascha Sheehan
executive director
School of Public and International Affairs, College of Public Affairs
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Laura Wilson-Gentry
associate dean
College of Public Affairs