• B.A., Brigham Young University, 1959
  Political Science, Accounting
• M.P.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1961
  Public Administration
• Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1967
  Public Administration, Public Finance, Politics, Research Methods
• Honorary Doctor of Law, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, 1980

• 2003-2004, John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, University of Oxford and Fellow, Balliol College
  2000-to date. Director, Metropolitan Studies Center, University of Kansas.
• 1987 August to date. Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, and Courtesy Professor of Higher Education Administration The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
• 1977 January to August 1987. President and Professor of Public Affairs, Eastern Washington University, Cheney and Spokane, Washington.
• 1974 August to December, 1976. Dean, College of Public and Community Services, University of Missouri Columbia.
• 1973 August to August 1974. Associate Dean for Policy and Administrative Studies, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University.
• 1972 August to August 1974. Chairman, Graduate Program, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University.
• 1972 January August. Fellow in Higher Education Finance Administration, University of North Carolina System.
• 1971-72. Associate Professor of Political Science (tenure), Syracuse University.
• 1970-72. Associate Director, Metropolitan Studies Program, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
  1967-71. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
• 1964-66. Lecturer in Government and Politics, the University of Maryland.
• 1962-64. Lecturer in Public Administration, University of Southern California.
• 1960-61. Research Assistant, Bureau of Governmental Research, University of California at Los Angeles.
• 1960. Intern, Los Angeles County.

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Books, Monographs, Symposia and Special Issues

• Suggested Library in Public Administration: With 1964 Supplement, with David Mars, Los Angeles : International Public Administration Center , University of Southern California , 200 pages.
• Power, Public Opinion and Policy in a Metropolitan Community: A Case Study of Syracuse , New York , with Linda Schluter O'Leary, New York : Praeger, 1973.
• Editor, Neighborhood Control in the 70's, San Francisco : The Chandler Press, 1973. A collection of original essays.
• Editor, "Citizens, Politics and Administration in Urban Neighborhoods," Special Issue of the Public Administration Review, October 1972.
• Measuring the Effects of Re-Apportionment in the American States, with Yong Hyo Cho, New York : National Municipal League, 1973.
• Determinants of Public Policy in the American States: A Model for Synthesis, with Yong Hyo Cho, Beverly Hills , CA : Sage Professional Papers in Administrative and Policy Studies, 1973.
• Symposium Editor, "Social Equity and Public Administration," Public Administration Review, January/February 1974.
• Symposium Editor, "Administering Public Policy," with Charles Wise, Policy Studies Journal, October 1976.
• Editor, Public Administration and Public Policy, with Charles Wise, New York : Lexington Press, 1977. A collection of original essays.
• Editor, issue of The American Behavioral Scientist on Training Public Servants, with Robert Agranoff, Vol. 21, Number 6 (July/August 1978).
• New Public Administration, University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1980. Selected by Choice, the professional librarians review journal, as one of The Outstanding Academic Books of 1981-82. Also published in German, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian.
• Co-Editor, "Citizenship and the Public Service," with Ralph C. Chandler, Special Issue of the Public Administration Review, Volume 44, March 1984.
• Co-Editor, "Minnowbrook II," with Richard Mayer, Public Administration Review, Vol. 49, Number 2, entire.
• Editor, Ideal and Practice in Council-Manager Government, Washington , DC : The International City Management Association, 1989. Second Edition, 1994.
• Editor, Ethics and Public Administration, Armonk , NY : M.E. Sharpe, 1993.
• Editor, Public Policy and The Two States of Kansas , University Press of Kansas, 1994.
• The Spirit of Public Administration , Jossey-Bass, October 1997.
• Editor, The White House and The Blue House: Government Reform in the United States and Korea , with Yong Hyo Cho, University Press of America, 1997.
• Editor, Public Management Reform and Innovation: Research, Theory and Application, with Jocelyn Johnston, University of Alabama Press, 1999.
• Editor, The Future of Local Government Administration, with John Nalbandian, International City and County Management Association, 2002.
• The Public Administration Theory Primer with Kevin Smith. Boulder , CO : Westview Press, 2003.
• The Adapted City: Institutional Dynamics and Structural Change, with Gary Johnson and Curtis H. Wood. Armonk , New York : M.E. Sharpe. 2003.
• Ethics in Public Management, with Richard K. Ghere, editors.  Armonk, NY:  M. E. Sharpe, 2005.
• Public Administration with an Attitude.  Washington, DC: American Society for Public Administration.  2005.
• Up the Bureaucracy.  Lawrence, KS:  Better Bureaucracy Press.  2005

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Understanding Attitudes Toward Public Employment," Public Administration Review, XXVII (December 1967), pp. 411-420.
• "Human Resources in Public Organization," International Review of Administrative Sciences, Winter 1967, pp. 336-344.
• Comparing Attitudes Toward Water Pollution in Syracuse ," with Howard Magnas, Water Resources Research, October 1968, pp. 877-889. Reprinted in Dennis Thompson (ed.) Politics, Policy and Natural Resources, Free Press, 1972, pp. 264-281.
• "Self-Study Guide on Comparative Urban Politics and Administration," with Michael Gleason, The University of the State of New York, the State Education Department, Foreign Area Materials Center, June 1972, 37 pages.
• "Organization Theory and New Public Administration," in Toward a New Public Administration, Frank Marini, Ed., Chandler Press, 1971. Reprinted in Fred A. Kramer (ed.) Perspectives on Public Bureaucracy, Cambridge , MA : Winthrop Publishers, Inc. pp. 185-199. Also reprinted in Jay M. Shafritz & Albert C. Hyde (eds.) Classics of Public Administration, Oak Park , IL : Moore Publishing Company, pp. 391-405.
• "Exploring Urban Priorities: The Case of Syracuse ," Urban Affairs Quarterly, V (September 1969), pp. 32-43.
• "State Budgeting and the Federal-State Interface," Budgeting for Responsible State Government, Lexington , KY : Council of State Governments, 1969, pp. 9-16.
• "Role Occupancy and Attitudes Toward Public Labor Relations," Administrative Science Quarterly, IV (December 1969), pp. 595-606.
• "Developing Socio-Emotional Training Theory," with Kent Colton, Business and Economic Perspectives, November 1969, pp. 12-18.
• "Education for the Personnel Function," Indian Administrative Review, January 1969. Reprinted in Public Personnel Administration--Threshold or Crossroad?, Chicago : Public Personnel Association.
• "The New Public Administration: Emergence of a Social Equity Ethic," Connecticut Government , February/March 1971.
• "Sixties Reapportionment: Victory or Delusion?," National Civic Review, Winter 1971.
• "Recovery of Structure in Public Administration," Washington , DC : Center for Governmental Studies, 1970, Pamphlet #5, 17 pages. Reprinted in part in Frederick A. Thayer An End to Hierarchy! An End to Competition! New York : Franklin Watts Publishers, 1973.
• "New Public Administration and Organization Structure," with Henry Anna, Public Management, July 1971.
• "Creating Tomorrow's Public Administration," Public Management, November 1971. Reprinted in Jae T. Kim New Perspectives in Public Management, MSS Information Corporation, 1973, pp. 219-229. Also reprinted in Robert Golembiewski, Frank Gibson and Geoffrey Cornog, (eds.) Public Administration: A Reader.
• Guest Editor, November 1971, Public Management.
• "Apportionment and Legislative Responsiveness to Policy Preferences in the American States," with Yong Hyo Cho, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , Vol. 219 ( November 9, 1973 ), pp. 248-268.
• "Comments on Banovetz', Attracting and Stimulating a New Generation of Urban Administrators," in Frederick J. Cleveland and Thomas J. Davy (eds.) Education for Urban Administration, Philadelphia : The American Academy of Political and Social Science.
• "Legislative Apportionment and Fiscal Policy in the American States," with Yong Hyo Cho, Western Political Quarterly, March 1974, pp. 5-37.
• "Strategy for Development Administration," Journal of the Community Development Society, June 1975, pp. 88-101.
• "The Lineage of New Public Administration," Administration and Society, Vlll, No. 2, (August 1976). Reprinted in Joseph A. Uveges (ed.) The Dimensions of Public Administration: Introductory Readings , Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 1979, pp. 20-41.
• "Public Administration in the 1970's: Developments and Directions," Public Administration Review, XXXVI (September/October 1976), pp. 564-576. Reprinted in Joseph A. Uveges (ed.) The Dimensions of Public Administration: Introductory Readings , Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 1979, pp. 20-41.
• "Institutional Administration in Higher Education: Statics and Dynamics," Planning for Higher Education, April 1978.
• "Planning Tomorrow's Personnel System: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It," The Journal of the College and University Personnel Association, Vol. 30, No. 1, (Spring 1979) pp. 38-41.
• "The Recovery of Civism in Public Administration," Public Administration Review, Number 6 (November/December 1982), pp. 501-508. Reprinted in Liberal Education, Winter 1982, pp. 343-358.
• "The Recovery of Civism in Public Administration," Alan H. Jones, ed., Civic Learning For Teachers: Capstone for Educational Reform (Proceedings of the Seminar on Civic Learning in the Education of the Teaching Profession, November 11-13, 1984, Hoover Institution, Stanford University), Ann Arbor , MI : Prakken Publications, 1985, pp. 130-138.
• "The Public Service and the Patriotism of Benevolence," with David K. Hart, Public Administration Review, Vol. 45, Number 5 (September/October 1985), pp. 547-553.
• "Citizenship, Social Equity and Public Administration," Robert B. Denhardt and Edward T. Jennings, Jr. (eds.) The Revitalization of The Public Service, Columbia , MO : University of Missouri Press, 1987, pp. 25-38.
• "Nursing Administration as Public Administration," Dimensions of Nursing Administration, Beverly Henry, et. al., (eds.), Boston : Blackwell Scientific Publications, early 1988, pp. 225-234.
• "The Political Context of Program Management: How Politics effects Public Programs," in Robert E. Cleary and Nicholas L. Henry (eds.) Managing Public Programs: Balancing Politics, Administration and Public Needs, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1988, pp. 11-36.
• "Minnowbrook II: Changing Epochs of Public Administration," Public Administration Review, Vol. 49, Number 2 (March-April 1989), pp. 95-100.
• "Public Administration and Social Equity," Public Administration Review, Vol. 50, Number 2 (March/April 1990), pp. 238-237. Reprinted in Robert Denhardt and Barry Hammond (eds.), Public Administration in Action, Pacific Grove , CA : Brooks/Cole Publishing, 1992.
• "Toward a Theory of the Public for Public Administration," Administration and Society, Vol. 22, Number 4 (February 1991), pp. 395-417.
• "Social Equity For Administration of Health Services," with Beverly Henry, in B. Henry, J. Negelbert and R. Hayden (eds.) Practice and Inquiry for Nursing Administration, Kansas City, MO: American Academy of Nursing, 1991.
• "Elmer B. Staats: Government Ethics as Practice," in Terry Cooper and Dale Wright Moral Exemplars in Public Service, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1992.
• "Research and Knowledge in Administrative Ethics," in Terry L. Cooper (ed.) Handbook of Administrative Ethics, New York : Marcel Dekker, 1993.
• "Can Public Officials Correctly Be Said to Have Obligations to Future Generations," Public Administration Review, Vol. 54, Number 5 (September/October 1994), pp. 457-464.
• "Some Policy Implications of the Federal Reinventing Government Report," Policy Currents, Vol. 4, Number 1 (February 1994), pp. 1-3.
• "Total Quality Politics: TQP," Spectrum: The Journal of State Government, Vol. 67, Number 2 (Spring 1994), pp. 13-15. Also appeared in Government Executive, December 1993.
• "Public Perceptions of Ethics in Government: The Problems of Distance and Role Differentiation," with David G. Frederickson, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences , Spring 1995.
• "The Public Poems of Howard Nemerov," with Ronald Q. Frederickson, Public Voices, Vol. 1, Number 3 (Fall 1994/Winter 1995).
• "Social Equity," International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, New York : Henry Holt and Company, pp. 2073-2075.
• "Comparing The Reinventing Government Movement with the New Public Administration," Public Administration Review, Vol. 56, Number 3 (May/June 1996), pp. 263-270.
• "City and Community in American Life," National Civic Review, Vol. 85, Number 3 (Fall 1996), pp. 29-37.
• "Democracy and Public Administration: The Minnowbrook Perspective, Part I," Special Issue Editor, with Ralph Clark Chandler, International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 20, Numbers 4 and 5, 1997, pp. 817-1155.
• "Bureaucracy and Democracy: Essays in Honor of Dwight Waldo," Symposium Editor, with Frank Marini, Public Administration Review, Vol. 57, Number 3, 1997.
• "Modern Comparative Administration: Essays in Honor of Dwight Waldo," Symposium Editor, with Frank Marini. Public Administration Review, Vol. 57.
• "Facing the Community," The Kettering Review , December 1997, pp 28-37.
• "Dwight Waldo and Public Administration Education," Journal of Public Affairs Education, January 1999.
• "Ethics and the New Managerialism," Public Integrity, Vol. 1, Number 2, 1988, pp. 4-22.
• "The Repositioning of American Public Administration," PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 32, Number 4 (December 1999), pp. 701-711.
• "Can Bureaucracy Be Beautiful," Public Administration Review, Vol. 60, Number 1, 2000, pp. 47-53.
• "How the Community Works: Officeholder Perspectives on Democratic Self-Government and the Community," Occasional Paper, The Kettering Foundation, 1999, 42 pages.
• "The Adapted American City : A Study of Institutional Dynamics," with Gary Alan Johnson, Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 36, Number 6, 2001, pp. 872-884.
• "The Patriotism of Exit and Voice: The Case of Gloria Flora," with Meridith A. Neuman, Public Integrity, Vol. 3, Number 4, 2001, pp. 347-362.
• "Getting Ranked," Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, January/February 2001, pp. 49-60.
• "Reflections on Ranking Master’s Degrees in Public Affairs: The Search for Reputational Capital," Journal of Public Affairs Education, Vol. 7, Number 2, 2001, pp. 65-71.
• "How American City Governments Have Changed: The Evolution of the Model City Charter," with Curtis Wood and Brett Logan, National Civic Review, Vol. 90, Number 1, 2001, pp. 3-18.
• "Confucius and the Moral Basis of Bureaucracy," Administration and Society, Vol. 3, pp. 610-625, January 2002.
• H. George Frederickson, Brett Logan and Curtis Wood, "Municipal Reform in Mayoral-Council Cities," State and Local Government Review. Vol. 35, No. 1, Winter 2003 .
• H. George Frederickson, Gary Alan Johnson and Curtis Wood, "The Changing Structures of American Cities: A Study of the Diffusion of Innovation," Public Administration Review. Vol. 64, May/June, No. 3, pp. 320-331..
• H. George Frederickson with Todd LaPorte, "Airport Security, High Reliability and the Problem of Rationality," Public Administration Review. Volume 62 Issue Special Issue, September, 2002.
• H. George Frederickson, Gary Alan Johnson and Curtis Wood, " Type III Cities ," in The Future of Local Government Administration, edited by H. George Frederickson and John Nalbandian. Washington , D.C. : The International City/County Management Association, 2002.
• H. George Frederickson and Michael W. Manske , " Building a Strong Local Government Ethics Program," Public Management (PM) Magazine, June, 2004, pp. 18-22.
• H. George Frederickson, "The Journal of Public Affairs Education at Age Ten: History, Content, And Prospects, Journal of Public Affairs Education, Vol. 10, No. 2, April, 2004, pp. 83-89.
• H. George Frederickson, "Transcending the Community:  Local Leadership in a World of Shared Power,"  PM: Public Management, November 2005. pp. 8-15.: 

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• "The Determinants of Attitudes Toward Public Employment," 1967 ASPA Conference, San Francisco.
• "Public Employee Militancy: Attitudes, Politics and Bargaining," 1968 ASPA Conference, Washington , DC .

• "Is the Minnowbrook Perspective Representative?" with Frank Marini, 1969 ASPA Conference, Miami .

• "Education for the Personnel Function," 1969 Public Personnel Association National Conference, Detroit .

• "Legislative Appointment and Public Policy in the American States," with Yong Hyo Cho, 1970 ASPA Conference, Los Angeles .

• "New Public Administration: Its Relevance for Schools and Curricula," with Frank Marini, 1971 Conference on the National Association of Schools of Public Administration and Affairs, Boulder .

• "A Re-Evaluation of the Concept of Community in American Thought," 1971 ASPA Conference, Chicago.

• "Theory and Meta-Theory in New Public Administration, May 1973 conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago.

• "Strategy for Development Administration," University of Witeswaterstrand , Johannesburg , South Africa , December 1974.

• "Value Premises for Public Policy Planning, University of Akron , May 1975.

• "The Future of Public Service Education," University of California-Irvine and Kent State University. Distinguished lecturer in Public Administration, University of Alabama , October 24-27, 1977.

• "Manpower for an Uncertain Future," Mexico City , February 18-20, 1979. Conference on Issues in International and Comparative Manpower Studies sponsored by the National Institute of Public Administration of Mexico and the National Institute of Public Management, Washington, D.C.

• "The Future of Public Management," Fall 1980, Indiana University , Florida International University and the University of Alabama at Montgomery .

• "The Regulatory Process in the United States ," Paris , France , December 7-11, 1980. Conference on American and French National Administration sponsored by the French International Institute for Administration and the National Institute for Public Management, Washington, D.C.

• "Citizenship, Social Equity and Public Administration," National Conference on the Revitalization of the Public Service, Lake of the Ozarks , Missouri , Oct. 25-28, 1984.

• "Public Administration and Patriotism," Annual Frank Church Symposium on Public Affairs, Boise State University , Spring 1984.

• "Public Administration and Social Equity," at 13 universities in Seoul , Korea , Spring 1990.

• "Housing Policy as an Issue in Social Equity," Paper presented at the Conference on Housing and Community, Brigham Young University , Provo , Utah , September 26-27, 1991.

• "Changes in American Local Government," Plenary Speech, Conference on Governing Local America . Cleveland State University , April 1993.

• "The Reinventing Government Perspective," Opening Plenary Speech, Annual Conference, National Association of State Budget Officers, Reno , Nevada , August 1993.

• "Patient Outcomes Research: Issues of Power, Policy and Results," Opening Keynote Address, Annual Conference on Nursing Research, San Diego , CA , April 1974.

• "Political Transformation and Public Administration in South Africa: Issues of Both Temporal and Generational Equality," Keynote Paper, Conference on Public Administration and Political Transformation, University of the Western Cape and University of Capetown, South Africa, September 1994.

• "The Architecture of Democratic Government: The Type III City ," Conference on Local Autonomy, Keio University , Tokyo , Japan , May 1996.

• Public Ethics and the New Managerialism," 1997 Conference on Public Ethics, The Borchard Foundation, Missillac , France .

• "The Repositioning of America Public Administration," The John Gaus Lecture, The American Political Science Conference, Atlanta, August 1999.

• "The State of Social Equity in American Public Administration," Cleveland State University, September, 2004.

• "The Changing Structues of American Cities," The Local Government Academy of Pittsburgh, November, 2005. Top

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• Board of Editors, Public Administration Review, 1968-70.
• Research and Reports Editor, Public Administration Review, 1970-76.
• Editor, SAGE Professional Papers in Administrative Sciences, 1972-1976.
• International Editor Advisory Board, SAGE Public Administration Abstracts, Present.
• Editorial Board, Policy Studies Journal, Present.
• Editorial Board, International Journal of Public Administration, Present.
• Editorial Board, Annals of Public Administration, Present.
• Editorial Board, Education and Urban Society, Present.
• Chairman, Advisory Board, Public Administration Times, 1978-1983.
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 1991-date. JPART is the journal of the Public Management Research Association, published by Oxford University Press.
• Founding Editor, Journal of Public Affairs Education.
• Board of Editors, PS: Political Science. 2003-2005.

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• President, 1976-1977, American Society for Public Administration.
  • Reorganized the dues structure putting ASPA on a sound fiscal footing
  • Established the Public Administration Times, the semi weekly newspaper for people in public administration
  • Redrafted the ASPA constitution and had it approved by ASPA membership
• National Council, American Society for Public Administration, member 1970-1973, 1975-1981.
• Executive Committees
• ASPA Goals Committee
• Committee on Minority Group Concerns in Public Administration
• Organized "The Unconvention" at 1970 and 1971 ASPA Conferences
• Speeches to several ASPA Chapters on New Public Administration
• Chairman, Program Committee, 1972 ASPA Conference, New York City
• Chairman, Proposals and Plans Committee, 1972
• Member, Nominating Committee (Chairman 1980), 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982
• Member, Public Administration Centennial Agendas Committee, 1986 88
• Member, ASPA Awards Committee, 1986, 1987
• Member, ASPA Commission on the Future, 1990
• Chairman, Policy Committee, Consortium on Education for Public Service, 1974-1977.
• Chairman, ASPA Committee on University/Government Relations, 1973-1975.
• Co Host, 1968 Minnowbrook Conference on New Public Administration.
• Host, with the Center for Governmental Studies, Conference on Neighborhood Control and New Public Administration, Boulder, Colorado, 1970.
• Task Force for Education for Personnel Administration, Public Personnel Association, 1971.
• Executive Committee, National Institute of Public Management, 1977-date.
• Member, Council for Postsecondary Education, State of Washington, 1978-1979 and 1984-1985.
• Organizer and Host, National Conference on Citizenship and Public Service, New York City, April 14 16, 1983.
• Member, Washington State Interagency Economic Development Coordination Council, 1984.
• Member, Urban Universities Committee, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 1981-1987.
• Member, Commission on Peer Review and Accrediting, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, 1985-1988.
• Commissioner, Government Ethics Commission. 1988 1992.
• Organized Minnowbrook II, a Conference on the Future of Public Administration, sponsored by Syracuse University, University of Akron and the University of Kansas, September 1988.
• Organized the first Conference on the Study of City Management and the Council Manager Plan, sponsored by the International City Management Association and the University of Kansas, November 1988.
• Chairman, Executive Committee, Section on Public Administration Research, American Society for Public Administration, 1989-90. Secretary-Treasurer, 1989-date.
• Co organizer, with Bayard Catron and Shirley Wester, National Conference on Government Ethics, sponsored by American Society for Public Administration, November 1989.
• Organized, First Annual Symposium on Public Administration Research, Los Angeles, April 1990.
• Chairman, Organizing Committee, National Conference on the Study of Government Ethics, Park City, Utah, June 1991.
• Chairman, 1991, Herbert Kaufman Award Selection Committee, Section on Public Administration, American Political Science Association.
• Organized, Berkeley Symposium on Public Management Research, co-sponsored by the Section on Public Administration Research of ASPA, the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, July 1993, Berkeley, California.
• Organized, Trinity Symposium on Public Management Research, co-sponsored by the Section on Public Administration Research of ASPA, Trinity University, the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, July 1995, San Antonio, Texas.
• Organized, Third National Conference on Public Management Research, sponsored by the Department of Public Administration, University of Kansas and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, October 1995, Lawrence, Kansas.
• Organized, Festschrift for Dwight Waldo, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, June 1996.
• Chair, Program Committee, Section on Public Administration, American Political Science Association, August 1996, San Francisco.
• Chair, Section on Public Administration, American Political Science Association, 1997-98.
• Treasurer, Public Management Research Association, 2001-date.

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• University of Kansas:
  • Director, Kansas Policy Forum, 1990 1992
  • Organize, Spring Managers Conference, 1989-1997
  • Member, Policy Committee, Environmental Studies Program
  • Organize, IBM Local Government Workshops, 1990-1995
  • Member, Search and Screen Committee for the Director, Robert Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy
  • Member, University Research Committee
• University of Missouri:
  • Chairman, Executive Policy Committee, Older Missourian Programs
  • Member, Policy Committee, Center for Aging Studies
  • Member, Executive Committee, Rural Development Program
  • Member, Graduate Faculty
  • Member, Doctoral Faculty
  • Member, Policy Advisory Board, Alcoholism Program
• Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs:
  • Member, Executive Committee, Poynter Project on the Media and the Credibility of American Institutions
  • Chairman, Promotion and Tenure Committee
  • Chairman, Graduate Committee
  • Co Chairman, Task Force on Faculty & Staff Search
  • Member, Administrative Council
  • Member, Research Committee
  • Member, Teaching/Learning Excellence Committee
  • Member, Urban Affairs Executive Committee
• Syracuse University:
  • Academic Senate, 1970-71
  • Placement Coordinator, Department of Political Science,1967-70
  • Member, MPA Curriculum Revision Committee
  • Member, PH.D. in Public Administration Curriculum Revision Committee

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• Pi Sigma Alpha, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Kappa Psi, Pi Alpha Alpha, Phi Beta Delta.
• National Defense Education Act Fellow, Title IV, 1961 1963.
• John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation Fellow, 1963 1964.
• Who's Who in the United States, 1978 date.
• Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration, 1979 date. (Chartered by the Congress of the U.S., 1984).
• Distinguished Alumnus, Brigham Young University, 1980.
• Silver Beaver, Inland Empire Council, Boy Scouts of America, 1983.
• Benjamin P. Cheney Medal, Eastern Washington University, 1987.
• President Emeritus, Eastern Washington University, 1987.
• Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer, South Korea, Spring 1990.
• Honorary Member, International City Management Association, 1990.
• Distinguished Research Award, co sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration and the National Association of Public Affairs and Administration, 1990.
• Dwight Waldo Award, presented by the American Society for Public Administration for outstanding contribution to the professional literature of public administration over a career, 1992.
• Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Administration, 1997, co-sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• The Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, Republic of Korea, 1998.
• The John Gaus Award, The American Political Science Association, 1999.
• The Mark O. Hatfield Award, The Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, February 2000.
• The Youngberg Award for Excellence in Applied Sciences. University of Kansas. 2005.

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• 1992, from USIA. A program of briefings, observations and training for recently elected city council members and other public officials from the Ukraine. $135,000.00.
• 1994, from USIA. A program of briefings, observations and training for recently elected city council members from Korea. $120,000.00.
• 1996, from USIA. A program of briefings, observations and training for recently elected mayors from Venezuela. $140,000.00.
• 1994 to date. Continuing grants from IREX and ACTR/ACCELS to support graduate study in the United States for students from the newly independent states. Approximately $40,000.00 per year.
• 1998. Principal Investigator on a grant from the Kettering Foundation to study the perspectives and attitudes of mayors and city managers regarding the civil society movement and toward citizens groups and activities. $40,000.00.
• 1998. Principal Investigator on a grant from the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas to provide ethics training, consultation and investigations. $50,000.00.
• 2000. Co-Principal Investigator, I-35 Corridor and U.S.-Mexican Relations, the U.S. State Department, $130,000.

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• * Vice President, Inland Empire Council, Boy Scouts of America, 1980 1984.
• Executive Committee, United Way of Spokane, 1978 1980.
• Chairman, Spokane Century II (a citizen's committee on economic development and governmental effectiveness in Spokane County), 1980 1985.

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