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Public Administration
Public Administration faculty conduct research on management and policy in the public and
nonprofit sectors, including government agencies at all levels, as well as organizations such as
community development corporations, nonprofit social service agencies, and planning and consulting
organizations. Faculty expertise spans areas of public finance and debt, public and nonprofit
management, civil society and civic engagement, e-government, public sector human resources,
and program planning and evaluation. Their research has been funded and commissioned by the
California legislature, IBM, the U.S. EPA, and many public and nonprofit organizations, and has been
published in top journals in public administration, public policy, and in the nonprofit sector.

Student Honors
Chris Rosenlund
Distinguished Student Award
Chris completed an elective emphasis in Public Management.
His research project in our two semester research sequence
was “Examining Possible Effects of Telework Upon Career
Advancement.” His research won first place the statewide CSU
Graduate Research Symposium, in its division of business,
economics, and public administration. Chris is has completed his
MPA degree with a 4.0 GPA and was elected to Pi Alpha Alpha,
the national honor society for public administration. Chris is a
rising star in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics within the US
Department of Labor and was promoted to Assistant Regional
Commissioner at the San Francisco office while studying for his
MPA.
Jill Talmage
Distinguished Student Award
Jill began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria,
working with nongovernmental organizations to build the business
capacities of local communities. Since her return to the U.S.,
she has worked for PRBO Conservation Service, a bird and
ecosystem conservation research nonprofit in the Bay Area, where
she manages the finances of that organization. Jill was recently
selected to Deloitte’s prestigious post-graduate internship in their
San Francisco office. The highly competitive internship grooms
her for a permanent position in their public sector operations,
where she hopes to broaden her roles in program development
and evaluation, policy analysis, and strategic planning and
management. Jill completed her MPA degree with a GPA of 3.94,
and was elected to Pi Alpha Alpha, the honor society for public
administration.

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