Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Joan Gibran, Assistant Professor ( jgibran01@tnstate.edu)
Dr. Gibran is a graduate of the University of Kent at Canterbury and Tennessee State University.She received her Masters in Development Economics from UKC and her Ph.D. in Public Administration from TSU in 2006.Dr. Gibran joins the College of Public Service and Urban Affairs after over 10 years of service as a manager with Tennessee state government. She currently teaches courses in Public Administration, Urban Studies, and Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
Arie Halachmi, Professor (Ahalachmi@tnstate.edu)
B.A., 1964, M.A., 1970, Hebrew University: Ph.D., 1972, State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dr. Halachmi is a renowned scholar in the area of public productivity and quality improvement and management. One article concerning international approaches to Best Value recently appeared in Policy and Politics. In addition to publishing dozens of books and articles in public administration, he has received national and international awards including the Don Stone, Donato Pugliese, and Harold Lasswell awards. Dr. Halachmi teaches courses ranging from information technology and organization theory to public policy implementation.
Ann Marie Rizzo, Professor (Arizzo@tnstate.edu)
M.A., 1971; Ph.D. 1974, Syracuse University. Dr. Rizzo teaches organization theory, administrative ethics and public policy. Research interests include moral reasoning of public administrators and public administration education. Dr. Rizzo coordinates the doctoral, master's and certificate programs at the Institute. As a graduate student at Syracuse Maxwell School, Dr. Rizzo became interested in the fall-out from Watergate. That bellweather event spurred her research interest in ethics in public service, moral development of public servants and government reform efforts. In general terms she has been interested in the question of how public sector managers attempt to resolve moral issues when confronted with ethical dilemmas and how to improve their ethical choice making. She has co-authored two books and published articles in refereed journals on public sector ethics, women in management, public administration education, and organizational and management development. Journals include Public Integrity, Administration and Society, Praxis: The Journal of Administrative Theory and Practice, American Review of Public Administration, Public Personnel Management, the Journal of Public Administration Education, Teaching Public Policy, Exchange: The Organizational Behavior Teaching Journal, the Southern Review of Public Administration, the Journal of Politics, Public Policy, as well as book reviews and essays in the Journal of Politics, Social Change, Bridging the Gap and Public Integrity. She has also contributed several dozen conference papers to regional, national and international conferences. Her most recent publication was a training manual prepared for the new Tennessee Ethics Commission regarding Ethics for Lobbyists with Curtis Nolen in September of 2006.
Dr. Rizzo consults on public service ethics. She has consulted with organizations such as Florida Power and Light, American Bankers Insurance Group, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, to name a few, and in March of 2007 conducted a workshop in Ethics for Corrections Supervisors for the Tennessee Community Corrections Association.
Chester Robinson, Assistant Professor (Crobinson29@tnstate.edu)
MLA John Hopkins, 1975; MPA University of Maryland, 1980; DPA George Mason University, 1989. Dr. Robinson teaches health policy and administration, research methods and public administration. He comes to TSU after 15 years as a senior program manager in Federal civil service. His most recent assignment was directing the Division of Community for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(formerly the Health Care Finance Administration). Among numerous honors, Dr. Robinson received both the DHHS Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service(1999) and the HCFA Administrator's Achievement Award in 2000.
Bruce Rogers, Interim Dean of The College of Public Service and Urban Affairs (Brogers@tnstate.edu)
M.A. Brooklyn College, CUNY, 1967; Ph.D. Indiana University, 1973. Dr. Rogers teaches research methods, public policy, statistics as well as the non-profit courses in marketing and strategic planning. His most recent publication dealt with time series analysis and appears in the 2002 Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration. Dr. Rogers is also the lead professor in the Institute's non-profit courses and has designed these courses for delivery via the web and interactive TV, earning him the 2001 Tennessee Board of Regents' Innovations Award.
A. Dexter Samuels, Interim Assitant Dean ( asamuels01@tnstate.edu )
Dr. A. Dexter Samuels currently serves as the Interim Assistant Dean in the College of Public Service and Urban Affairs as well as an assistant professor in the department of health administration and health sciences at Tennessee State University. He formerly served as the Director of the Title VI Program for the Tennessee Department of Transportation. Additionally, Dr. Samuels served as the Program Director of the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in the Division of Mental Health Services.
Dr. Samuels academic background includes a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from
Rodney Stanley, Department Chair, Public Administration (Rstanley1@tnstate.edu)
B.S.in Political Science, Tennessee Temple University, 1994; MPA, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1997; Ph.D., Mississippi State University, 2001. Dr. Stanley's dissertation dealt with an impact assessment of the effect of casino gaming on financing education in Mississippi. His latest publications appear in Public Administration Quarterly and Public Budgeting, Financial Management and Accounting. Dr. Stanley teaches organization theory, public policy, budgeting and the seminar in public administration. For additional information about Dr. Stanley view his webpage at www.angelfire.com/tn3/rstanley/.
Megan Streams, Assistant Professor (mstreams@tnstate.edu)
Meg Streams joined the College of Public Service and Urban Affairs as Assistant Professor in Public Administration in August, 2008. She is a 2007 graduate of the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky, from which she received the MPA and PhD. Her area of interest is public finance and budgeting, with a policy interest in education. Prior to her studies at UK, she received a B.S. and M.S. in biology from Penn State. She has experience teaching undergraduates and graduate students, and has taught at a range of institutions from her alma maters Penn State and UK to Swarthmore College, outside Philadelphia. Dr. Streams professional experience is in higher education administration and budgeting. A native of Pennsylvania, she resides in Nashville with her husband, John Niedzwiecki, an assistant professor of biology at Belmont University.
Minzi Su, Assistant Professor ( msu@tnstate.edu)
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