Members in the News:

Evergreen Chapter:
Letter: Kimsey Answers Call to Service

Juliette Kayyem:
Mullin Faces Backlash over "Naive or Dumb" Plan to Pull CBP from Blue-City Airports

Roseanne Mirabella and Malcolm Oliver:
Behind the Scenes, N.J.’s Public Workforce Delivers Every Day

Don Moynihan:
The Lie Behind the SCOTUS Attack on Democracy

New Jersey Chapter:
NJ ASPA Honors Ten Public Servants and Eight Graduate Students at Its 2026 Annual Awards Reception

Howard Risher:
Federal Reform Efforts Keep Repeating the Same Pattern. Tennessee Offers a Different Model

Steve Rolandi:
Long-time ASPA member and New York Metro Chapter leader Steve Rolandi recently was honored with the 2026 Arnold L. Steigman Excellence in Service and Teaching Award from the New York Academy for Public Administration (SAPA). Find more information about this award on the SAPA website.

Here are the most recent updates from across the profession. Did we miss you? Send us your news and we'll include it in the next round!

• Call for Proposals: Journal of Health and Human Services Administration
  The Journal of Health and Human Services Administration (JHHSA) invites submissions for a special symposium titled "Building Healthy Communities: The Nexus between Public Administration and Public Health." This symposium seeks articles that examine how public administration shapes the health of the public through policy design, governance, leadership and delivery of health and human services. We are particularly interested in locally grounded work that addresses practical challenges facing communities in urban, rural, tribal and other local settings, with attention to how administrative systems respond to social, economic, environmental and infrastructural conditions affecting population health. Submissions may include applied research, policy or administrative analyses, program evaluations and practice oriented reports that offer actionable insights for practitioners and decisionmakers in health departments, human services agencies and policy environments. Contributions should clearly articulate implications for practice and governance and may include recommendations for improving public systems, cross-sector collaboration and community outcomes. The symposium welcomes work that centers accountability, equity and effectiveness in advancing the capacity of public institutions to promote community health and well-being. Initial submissions are due June 15. Click here for more information.
  
  
• Call for Nominations: ABFM Scholarly Engagement Award
  ABFM's Scholarly Engagement Award recognizes outstanding public budgeting and/or finance scholarly engagement in the previous calendar year (CY 25). Scholarly engagement is defined, for the purpose of this award, as an intellectual endeavor with a commitment to improving or informing public practices. This should entail an effort or product of scholarship whose primary purpose is public and/or community service and the audience is public servants and practitioners. This award is open to all ABFM members in good standing at academic institutions including tenured or tenure track faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students and teaching and research faculty and staff. Only products where there is clear authorship are eligible. The products of scholarly engagement can represent a variety of work including, but not limited to, advising or consulting projects, courses/seminars/workshops, databases, webtools, books or published workbooks, and white papers or reports. Nominations should be made for a single scholar for a specific product whose intended audience was practitioners. For collaborative works, the committee encourages nominations of individual members, but may choose to award the prize to multiple scholars for a single collaborative product. The nomination letter should include information on the scholar being nominated, their organization and contact information, an abbreviated CV and details of the scholarly engagement product. If the committee selects a recipient, the winner will be recognized at the awards luncheon at the 2026 ABFM conference and presented with a commemorative plaque. Nomination letters and associated materials should be sent as an attachment in an email (in a pdf file) by June 20 to committee chair Craig Maher.
  
  Other awards also are open for nomination. Visit the ABFM website for all details, awards chairpeople and deadlines.
  
  
• Call for Papers: Special Issue on Accounting for What Matters (Financial Accountability & Management)
  Public sector organizations are navigating economic instability, climate crises, inequities and political pressures, often forced to balance financial sustainability with the equally vital goals of social sustainability and equity. This special issue invites research that rethinks public sector accounting and accountability, not only as tools for fiscal management but also as frameworks that foster inclusion, fairness, resilience and long-term public value. Editors welcome conceptual, empirical and comparative studies addressing how accounting can better embed social sustainability, manage value trade-offs, strengthen organizational resilience and challenge existing power dynamics. Case studies, longitudinal analyses and critical perspectives across diverse contexts (health care, education, social services, etc.) are encouraged. Click here for more information. Submissions are due June 30.
  
  
• Call for Editors: Journal of Health and Human Services Administration
  JHHSA is seeking to expand its editorial board. They are welcoming inquires for the following roles: managing editor, associate editor, social media editor and social media intern. Statements of interest are requested by August 15. They may be sent to: [email protected] and [email protected].
  
  
• Call for Papers: Public Money & Management (PMM) Theme
  For this theme issue the publishers are looking for disciplinary eclecticism. They seek contributions that bring together insights from several disciplines including law, social sciences, public management and the study of politics. Traditionally public management has not engaged in "constitutional’ conversations." However, the rise of what has been identified within the political landscape as "populism" calls for a cross-disciplinary perspective to understand whether, and how, it is impacting public management and administration. Contributions of 8,000-word research articles, 1,000-word debate pieces and 3,500-word new development articles are asked to consider, but are not limited to: are we facing the limits of traditional thinking in public management? Is there a problem, incipient or actual, facing public managers if they are becoming answerable to politicians (1) with a value set that is antagonistic to the values of public management (if such exist); (2) antagonistic to the liberal, law-based state; (3) who may be poised to break the law—or make decisions that are likely to be challenged in courts? What is "extremism"/populism? Do public managers observe/answer to a code that protects them against orders (short of law-breaking)? How far do existing doctrines of accountability accommodate answerability for extremist policies? What lessons could public managers learn from international and comparative perspectives from the rise of populism in different political systems and architectures? The publishers are seeking both conceptual and case examples to address the questions above. All submissions should follow the PMM author guidelines and be submitted via ScholarOne. Find more information online. All submissions are due October 1.