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Patricia Shields, Nandhini Rangarajan, and Lewis Stewart TEXAS STATE EXPERIENCE At the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Levin and colleagues (2005) used a faculty grading system as a quality control to determine whether their Master of Education students’ “white papers” are posted to the Internet. MPA capstone quality is controlled through a formal oral defense, and the paper is defended at Texas State. 3 The exam committee consists of two faculty members and a practitioner. The oral examination and paper are also part of the Texas State MPA Program student learning outcomes assessment process. In addition, significant independent evidence supports claims of quality. For example, in 1995, six students presented their work at the San Antonio American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) conference. In November (1995), the PA Times designated 21 of these papers “cutting edge” and provided a way for members to purchase them. Texas State students presented two of the 21 cutting-edge papers (Jane McFarland and Jeff Kaufman). Subsequently, five Texas State papers have won the Pi Alpha Alpha award for best master’s student paper in Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. 4 Further, the Texas State two-course system for writing capstone papers has been explained in JPAE (Shields, 2003; Shields & Tajalli, 2006) and other journals (Shields, 1998; Shields & Heichelbech, forthcoming). When the Texas State library approached the Texas State University MPA Program, instructors were ready to move the digital ARPs to the Texas State Institutional Repository. Beginning in 2003, Texas State began posting ARPs to a faculty website. This was done because most of our students work fulltime, and they wanted to review other students’ work but did not have time to drive to the library. While the students were now able to review other papers and see how their fellow students crafted methodology chapters or developed a practical ideal type of conceptual framework, the faculty website space was fast reaching exhaustion. Further, the posting and other website management issues were taking increasing amounts of time. When the library collected the digital inventory and began to post new papers, faculty time was minimal and the papers were preserved using the latest standards and technology. The magnitude of the surprisingly high number of downloads is documented in Table 1. Using data easily accessible through a Berkeley Press website, institutions using digital commons are ranked by average download as of November 30, 2009. 5 The 294 ARPs had over 154,000 downloads, for an average of 525.4 downloads per paper. The Yale Law School was the only group of papers with higher average downloads (569.9). Cornell Law Library is third (382.8). The average number of downloads drops off fast. For example, average downloads of the University of Pennsylvania (ranked ninth) was 110.0, and the University of Georgia Law School, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Connecticut College (ranked 10th to 12th) all averaged under 100 downloads. 160 Journal of Public Affairs Education
Table 1. Downloads of Papers at Selected Educational Institutions Institution Number of Papers* Sharing Student Research with the World Total Downloads* Average Downloads Yale Law School 168 95,740 569.9 Texas State University MPA applied research projects 294 154,465 525.4 Cornell University Law Library 416 159,256 382.8 Texas State University 1,151 367,988 319.7 Cornell University 10,057 1,840,605 183.0 Pace University 2,934 404,298 137.8 Thomas Jefferson University 2,376 298,254 125.5 Georgetown University Law Center 410 48,625 118.6 University of Pennsylvania 12,503 1,375,559 110.0 University of Georgia School of Law 1,249 119,827 95.9 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 37,788 3,217,745 85.2 Connecticut College 595 47,192 79.3 Note. The starting date for Texas State University ARP downloads is January 23, 2006. The starting dates for the other institutions are unknown and should be assumed to vary. *As of August 27, 2010. Data drawn from http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/ institutions.html. The top 10 most downloaded papers are presented in Table 2. This table illustrates that five of the top 10 most downloaded ARPs deal with issues pertinent to Texas. Closer scrutiny of these ARPs show that they deal with contemporary issues of interest to citizens, legislators, and administrators. A 2003 ARP on domestic partner benefits is one of the top five most downloaded ARPs; it may have generated high download activity in recent years given the country’s general interest in cohabitation issues, gay rights associated with marriage, civil unions, and domestic partner benefits. West Texas was in the news in 2008 when Child Protective Services arrived at the ranch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It might be reasonable to speculate that download activity associated with a 2007 ARP on Journal of Public Affairs Education 161
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