JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS EDUCATION - naspaa

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Information for Contributors
Affairs and Administration (NASPAA)
Marvin Mandell, President
Jeffrey Raffel, Vice President
Kathleen M. Beatty, Immediate Past President
Laurel McFarland, Executive Director
JPAE Oversight Committee: Kathleen Beatty,
Melvin J. Dubnick & Charles E. Menifield
Heather E. Campbell
Editor-in-Chief, Arizona State University, School of Public Affairs
Iris Geva-May, Simon Fraser University, Public Policy Program Associate Editor for International
and Comparative Education
Michael O’Hare, University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, Associate
Editor for the Assessment and Practice of Teaching
Production Editor: Wendy Paulson Editorial Assistant: Jeffrey Callen
EDITOR’S COUNCIL
H. George Frederickson, Founding Editor, University of Kansas,
Marc Holzer, Rutgers University
Edward T. Jennings, University of Kentucky
James L. Perry, Indiana University, Bloomington
Mario A. Rivera, University of New Mexico
Danny L. Balfour, Grand Valley State University
Frances Stokes Berry, Florida State University
Stuart Bretschneider, Syracuse University
Jonathan Brock, University of Washington
John Bohte, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
John M. Bryson, University of Minnesota
Beverly Bunch, University if Illinois, Springfield
N. Joseph Cayer, Arizona State University
Cal Clark, Auburn University
Barbara Crosby, University of Minnesota
Robert B. Cunningham, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville
BOARD OF EDITORS
Lee Friedman, University of California, Berkeley
Nicholas Giannatasio, University of North Carolina,
Pembroke
Stephen P. Osborne, University of Edinburgh
Laurence J. O’Toole, Jr., University of Georgia
Patricia M. Shields, Texas State University
James Svara, Arizona State University
Barton Wechsler, University of Missouri, Columbia
David Weimer, University of Wisconsin
Howard Whitton, Griffith University
Blue Wooldridge, Virginia Commonwealth
University
CORRESPONDENTS
Charlene M. L. Roach, University of the West Indies, Khalid Al-Yahya, Dubai School of Government
St. Augustine Campus
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