2004 ASPA Awards Honorees

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2004 ASPA Awards Honorees

ASPA annually honors individuals and organizations for excellence in public service. ASPA is proud to recognize the following winners for this year. For more information on ASPA's awards, visit the awards information page. View the previous winners for all awards.

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Elmer B. Staats Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Public Service
This award honors a public administrator's career accomplishments and contributions to the public service and ASPA over a lifetime.

Robert H. (Tex) McClain, Jr.

Dwight Waldo Award
This award is presented to persons who have made outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended career. To be eligible the nominee must have had at least one article published in Public Administration Review and a minimum of 25 years of active scholarship that has furthered the discipline of public administration.

Robert B. Denhardt

Paul P. Van Riper Award for Excellence and Service
The Paul P. Van Riper Award for Excellence and Service will be awarded to an ASPA member who has made significant contributions to both the academic and practitioner communities of public administration. Awardees will have distinguished themselves through their current active engagement in and contributions to developing the public service of the future.

Joseph Cayer

Gloria Hobson Nordin Social Equity Award
This annual award recognizes lifetime achievement and effort in the cause of social equity and is open to all nominees.

Malcolm Costa

International Award
This award honors a distinguished foreign scholar or practitioner for significant contributions to public administration in other nations.

Oscar Oszlak

Public Integrity Award
This award acknowledges an organization that has made outstanding contributions to responsible conduct in public service.

Unified Government of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Kansas

James E. Webb Award
This award is presented to the person(s) who gave the most outstanding paper at ASPA's previous National Conference.

Yilin Hou

ACADEMIC RECOGNITION

Conference Scholarship for Graduate Students
Each year, ASPA presents four student conference grants in the amount of $250 each. ASPA chapters are invited to nominate a student for this award. This year's recipients were selected based on their outstanding academic records and their commitment to a public service career in practice or research.

Kimberly Hughes, University of Central Florida (Nominated by Central Florida Chapter)

Meili Niu, University of Nebraska at Omaha (Nominated by Nebraska Chapter)

Toby Quinn, Evergreen State College (Nominated by Evergreen Chapter)

Kevin Vonck, University of Delaware (Nominated by Delaware Chapter)

Wallace O. Keene ASPA Conference Scholarships
The Wallace O. Keene ASPA Conference Scholarships are awarded to students in the fields of public administration and public policy. The scholarships are intended to provide students financial assistance to attend the ASPA national conference, and thereby expand their knowledge of the field and their acquaintance with others in the field. The $250 scholarships are also intended to emphasize the impact of ethical leadership on the public's trust in government.

Meili Niu, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Walter W. Mode Scholarship
Managed by the ASPA Endowment, Inc., the Mode Scholarship is awarded out of a special fund named in honor of Walter W. Mode (the 30th National President of ASPA, with a distinguished record of public service at the federal and international levels). One $2500 scholarship is given each year for graduate study in public administration to a student who is an ASPA member and who demonstrates a commitment to a career in the public service.

Bathsheba Everett

SOCIETY AWARDS

Oveta Culp Hobby Training Award
This award recognizes chapters and sections that provide professional development to members through planned
activities.

CenTex Chapter

Donald C. Stone Service to ASPA A ward
The Stone Award pays tribute to ASPA members who have contributed outstanding services to the Society.

Wendy Haynes

Presidential Citations of Merit
The Presidential Citation of Merit recognizes the most effective activities by a chapter or section directed toward improved public perception of the public service and advocacy on behalf of public service. The ASPA President selects the recipients.

Massachusetts Chapter

Public Administration Review Editorial Team

Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations

Chapter/Section Newsletter Awards
These awards are given annually to recognize newsletters as a vital means of communication and a valuable service offered to chapter and section members.

Chapter Newsletter Award

Division I - Greater Cincinnati Chapter, Roger Miller, Editor

Division II - CenTex Chapter, Paul Sanchez, Editor

Division III - New York Metropolitan Chapter, Michael Jameson, Editor

Section Newsletter Award
Section on Ethics, R.M. Bittick, Editor

Center for Accountability and Performance CAP) Awards

Annual Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award
This award is presented for outstanding scholarship on performance in public and nonprofit organizations.

Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. and Kenneth J. Meier for their article "Plus ca Change: Public Management, Personnel Stability, and Organizational Performance" published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Harry Hatry Distinguished Performance Measurement Practice Award
This award is presented to an individual whose outstanding teaching, education, training and consultation in performance measurement has made a significant contribution to the practice of public administration. The award winner must have spent the primary part of his/her career in public service.

Michael F. Brown

CAP Organizational Leadership Award
Awarded to an organization, it recognizes outstanding applications of a systems approach to performance measurement that has resulted in a culture change, sustained improvements, and demonstrated positive effects on government performance and accountability.

Prince William County, VA

Public Administration Review (PAR) Awards
PAR awards honor various individuals for work that has been published during 2003 (Vol. 63).

Editor's Choice

Susan Baugh
Sandford Borins

Marshall E. Dimock Award
This award is presented for the best lead article in Public Administration Review during a volume year.

Elizabeth K. Keating and Peter Frumkin - Reengineering Nonprofit Financial Accountability: Toward a More Reliable Foundation for Regulation (January/February)

Louis Brownlow Award
This award is presented for the best Public Administration Review article written by a practitioner.

Réjean Landry, Moktar Lamari, Nabil Amara - Extent and Determinants of Utilization of University Research in Government Agencies (March/April)

Laverne Burchfield Award
The writer of the best book review or TOPS article in Public Administration Review is honored with this award.

Thomas D. Lynch and Cynthia E. Lynch - Corruption, Reform, and Virtue Ethics (May/June)

William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award
This award is presented for the best Public Administration Review article written by an academician.

Andrew Kakabadse, Nada K. Kakabadse, and Alexander Kouzmin - Reinventing the Democratic Project through Information Technology: A Growing Agenda for Debate (January/February)

PA TIMES Award
PA TIMES presents an award for the outstanding article written during the previous calendar year.

James D. Carroll, "The Right to Privacy vs. the Right to Protection: The Question of Countervailing Power" (January 2003 issue)

JOINT AWARDS

National Public Service Awards
ASPA and the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) have established the National Public Service Awards (NPSA) program to pay tribute to public service practitioners, to provide recognition for outstanding individuals, and to underscore the need to have creative and highly skilled individuals as career managers of complex and demanding government functions.

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Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Administration
This award, presented by ASPA and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), recognizes a public administration faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in three major areas of the field of teaching, research and service to the wider community.

Edward T. Jennings, Jr.