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Karen Evans, PhD, MPA
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| EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts Cleveland State University, Cleveland,
Ohio 1989
Master of Public Administration Levin College of Urban Affairs
Doctor of Philosophy Public Administration and Public Affairs Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State
University
January, 2006 to present: Interim Assistant Dean, SPEA; Interim Director SPEA Northwest August 2004 to present: Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University Northwest August 1998 to 2004: Assistant Professor of Public and
Environmental Affairs August 1997 to May 1998:
Managing
Service Delivery - a graduate level advanced topics course in - developed
syllabus.
Public Administration Theory - a required Ph.D. foundation course. - assisted
with the development of syllabus.
Poverty and Welfare Policy- upper level undergraduate course - revised
course and developed syllabus
Public Administration - upper level undergraduate course on public administration, required for criminal justice majors in the political science department. - revised course and developed syllabus - responsible for all lectures, activities, and evaluation OTHER APPOINTMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANTSHIPS: Field Associate, Institute for Family and Social Responsibility, Indiana University, January 1999 - November 1999.
HONORS: Golden Key National Honor Society, Cleveland State University, 1990 Pi Alpha Alpha, Cleveland State University, 1994 Indiana University Northwest: Undergraduate
Courses: V263 (formerly V360) Public
Management Introduces students to the elements and complexities of public management. This course is offered every Fall. Students unable to attend afternoon classes due to work schedule, or who need to take public management in the Spring, may sit in with the graduate level public management course with instructor permission. Typical enrollment is approximately 35 students. Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, and Fall 2004. V366 (Y380)
Managing Behavior in Public Organizations Introduces students to individual, group, and structural influences on behavior in the workplace. Students are required to reflect on their actual experiences in organizations, and to apply theory learned in class to those experiences. This course is offered every Spring and is cross-listed in Political Science. Typical enrollment is approximately 35 students. Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, and Spring 2004. V264 (Y308) Urban
Structure and Policy Introduces students to government operations at the local level, urban problems and policy alternatives, regional issues and intergovernmental relations. Spring 1999.
Graduate Courses: V502 Public ManagementThis is a survey graduate course that introduces students to the elements of management as they are experienced in public organizations, and to the complexity of the environment in which public policy is implemented. Students are exposed to organizational behavior and design, public budgeting and human resource management, ethics and decision making, policy planning, implementation, and evaluation, and leadership. A typical class numbers 25 students. As this is an MPA core course, it is offered in two semesters each year. Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, and Fall 2004. V504 Public
Organizations This course introduces the students to a variety of theories through which organizational situations can be diagnosed and resolved. It challenges the student to break away from her typical, instinctive view of organizational life so that she can bring stronger managerial leadership to organizations of which she is a member. A typical class numbers 20 students. As this course is required in most of the MPA concentrations, it is offered in two semesters each year. Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Summer 2000, Spring 2001, Summer 2001, Spring 2002, Summer 2002, Spring 2003, Summer 2003, Spring 2004, and FAll 2004. V566 Executive LeadershipThis course invites the student to reflect on his career or career goals, to differentiate between management skills and leadership, and to approach leadership from a new perspective. The student is put on the path of lifelong learning in development of leadership skills and in recognition of leadership opportunities. This course is required for the MPA public management concentration and recommended as an elective for the Public Management post-baccalaureate certificate. A typical class numbers 20 students, and is offered once a year. Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, and Summer 2004. V550 Professional
Development Practicum This course was developed for the Fall of 2002 to assess and develop research, computer, presentation, and writing skills of students who are entering the program, especially those who initially apply for admission into the department’s post-baccalaureate certificate programs. The course is taught partially in Oncourse. Twelve students enrolled in the first offering in 2002. The course was offered again in Fall 2003, with four students enrolled. V512 Public Policy This course introduces students to the role of public organizations and managers in the policy process, including policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. It focuses on the relation between public managers and political actors in a variety of policy arenas. Course was prepared for Spring 1999, but low enrollment canceled the class. Subsequently, I have offered the course as independent study to eight students who needed to complete it to earn their degrees. Previous teaching assignments listed in Academic Appointments (above). University committee service: Member, SPEA Dean's Review Committee, 2006. Member, Search and Screen Committee, IUN Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, 2004 Member, SPEA University-wide PTR Committee, 2004 Member, SPEA University-wide Policy Committee, 2004. Member, SPEA Dean's Research Cabinet, 2003-present. Member, American Democracy Project, IUN, 2003-present. Facilities Planning Committee, IUN, 2002-present Member, Search and Screen Committee, Political Science, IUN, 2003. Chair, Search and Screen Committee, SPEA, IUN, 2002. Member, Advisory Board to the College of Education's Project Team, IUN, 2001-present. Webmaster, SPEA, IUN, 2000-present. Chair, Task Force for Building Campus Capacity for Collaboration, IUN, August 2000-August, 2002. Grants and Research Development Committee, IUN, 2000-2001. Academic Affairs Committee, IUN, 2000. Steering Committee for Strategic Planning, IUN, June 1999-May 2000. Graduate Programs Committee, SPEA, IUN, 1998-present; Interim Chair; 2002, 2003-present. Library Liaison, SPEA, IUN, 1998-present. College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Research Advisory Committee, VPI&SU, 1994-1995. College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Dean Search Committee, VPI&SU, 1996-1997. Student service: Public service: President, Northwest Indiana Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration, 2002 Member, Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Northwest Indiana Community Action, Inc., 2002- Served in varying capacities with the Cuyahoga County Department of Human Services, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1974 to June 1993. Served as mid-level manager in the agency from January, 1982 through June, 1993. Service to Colleagues: Editorial Assistant, Administration & Society, 1993-1996.
Reviewer, Administration & Society, 1995 to present. Reviewer, Public Administration Review, 2003- Reviewer, Global Virtue Ethics Review, 2003- Organized and Chaired a Panel of IUN/SPEA colleagues at two National Conferences:
2006 The Impact of Visual and Expressive Art on Public Policy and Public Voice, with Daniel Lowery, presented at Drawing the Lines: International Perspectives on Urban Renewal Through the Arts, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN, November 2-4, 2006. The Scholarship of Elegance and Significance: Expressive and Aesthetic Truth in Public Administration, with Daniel Lowery, presented at the 19th annual Public Administration Theory Network Conference, Olympia Washington, February 8-10,2006. Changing Power in the Classroom, presented at the 29th annual Teaching in Public Administration Conference, Olympia, Washington, February 11-12, 2006. Practitioners Entering Academia, a collaborative panel presented at the 29th annual Teaching in Public Administration Conference, Olympia, Washington, February 11-12, 2006. 2005 Subject-Centered Education and the Learning Conversation: Personal Reflection on Parker Palmer and Teaching Public Administration, presented at the 28th Annual Conference on Teaching Public Administration, Troy State University, Fort Walton Beach, FL, February 10-12, 2005. This paper was part of a panel of SPEANW faculty members reflecting on Palmer’s book, The Courage to Teach. 2004 Attendance and participation in the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Public Administration Theory Network, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, June 10-12, 2004. Administrative Spaces and Contemporary Times, panel discussant and facilitator. Balancing Outputs and Outcomes: A Survey of MPA Graduates, with Daniel Lowery, presented at the 27th Annual Conference on Teaching Public Administration, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, February 12-14, 2004. This paper was part of a panel, Pedagogy in the Classroom at Indiana University Northwest, of IUN SPEA faculty convened by Susan Zinner. 2003
Technology as Both Means and End, presented at the 26th
Annual Conference on Teaching Public Administration, University of
Dayton/Wright State University, Dayton, OH, February 6 to 8, 2003, in the
panel, Public Administration on Regional Campuses, convened by Karen Evans,
solely comprised of IUN faculty. Prescriptive Thinking: Normative Claims as Scholarship, with Daniel Lowery, presented at the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Public Administration Theory Network, Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, May 30 - June 1, 2002. Attendance and participation in the 2nd Annual Indiana University Scholarship of Engagement Conference, February 22, 2002, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN. The Interplay Between University Strategies of Engagement and Faculty Identities, a panel presentation at the Tenth American Association for Higher Education Conference on Faculty Roles and Rewards, Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Civic Plaza, January 25-27, 2002. 2001 The Iron Cage of Methodology: The Vicious Circle of Means Limiting Ends Limiting Means... with Daniel Lowery, presented at the Sixth National Public Management Research Conference, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, October 18-20, 2001. Citizens, Volunteers, and Governing in Northwest Indiana, with Lou Martinez and Daniel Lowery, presented at the 62nd National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, March 10-13, 2001, in the panel, Gary, Indiana: Rebuilding the Old City into the New, convened by Karen Evans. 1999 Democracy and Community: Can Public Administration Build a Bridge Between Them? presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Public Administration Theory Network, Portland State University, Portland, OR, March 4-5, 1999. Attendance and participation at the 22nd Annual Conference on Teaching Public Administration, Portland State University, Portland, OR, March 6-7, 1999. 1998 Attendance and participation at the North Carolina Political Science Association Annual Conference; Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, April 3-4, 1998. 1997 Reclaiming John Dewey: Democracy, Inquiry, Pragmatism, and Public Management, presented at the Fourth National Public Management Research Conference, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, October 30- November 1, 1997. with Larkin Dudley, Three Level Learning Without an Escalator: Balancing Theory and Practice in a Two-tiered Program, presented at the Twentieth National Conference on Teaching Public Administration, Richmond, Virginia, March 6-8, 1997. with Suzanne Beaumaster, Women and Information Technology: The Future of the Public Space, presented at the annual conference of the North Carolina Political Science Association, Pembroke, North Carolina, March 22-23, 1997. 1996 Attendance and participation in the Roundtable Panel on Postmodern Theory and Political Science, Annual Conference of Virginia Political Scientists, Lynchburg, Virginia, December 7, 1996. 1995 with Gary L. Wamsley, Where’s the Institution? Neo-Institutionalism and Public Management, presented at the Third National Public Management Research Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, October 5-7, 1995. Three Concepts in Public Administration: A Critique from Feminist Theory, Center for Public Administration and Policy, VPI & SU, Blacksburg, Virginia, March 31, 1995. 1994 with Aaron D. Schroeder and Gary L. Wamsley, Policy Subsystems and the New Physics: Policy Development and Implementation at the Edge of Chaos, Network Analysis and Innovations in Public Programs Conference, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison Wisconsin, September 29 - October 1, 1994. Attendance and participation at the Fifth Biannual Directions and Implications of Advance Computing Symposium, Developing and Equitable and Open Information Infrastructure, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, April 23-24, 1994. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Member of the Graduate Faculty of Indiana University, 2000 to present. Cunningham Doctoral Fellow of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993 to 1996. Co-recipient of the Laverne Burchfield Award for the best book and TOPs review essay published in Public Administration Review in 1996-presented July, 1997. Co-recipient of Oral Parks Award presented
by the North Carolina Political Science Association for the best faculty
conference paper for 1997-Women and Information Technology: The Future
of the Public Space.
2006 Evans, Karen G. and Lowery, Daniel (2006) Prescriptive Thinking: Normative Claims as Scholarship, Administration & Society, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 147-165. * 2004 Lowery, Daniel and Evans, Karen G. (2004) The Iron Cage of Methodology: The Vicious Circle of Means Limiting Ends Limiting Means..., Administration & Society, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 306-327. * 2002
Evans, Karen G. (2002) Virtual Dialogue and Democratic Community, (pp. 157-177) in Nancy Roberts, ed., Transformative Power of Dialogue, Elsevier Press. 2001 Evans, Karen G. (2001) Dewey and the dialogical process: Speaking, listening, and today's media, International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 24, No. 7, pp. 771-798. * Evans, Karen G. (2001) More Democracy, Not Less, in Twenty-first Century Governance: Dewey's Ethics vs. the New Public Management, Public Integrity, Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 262-276. * 2000 Evans, Karen G. (2000) Lake County Social Services: A Case Study, (pp.195-206) in The Institute for Family and Social Responsibility, The Social Service Provider Study: Part III of the Impacts of Welfare Reform on Community Social Services in Indiana, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University. Evans, Karen G. (2000) Response to Stever and Garrison, Administration & Society, Vol. 32, No. 4, September 2000, pp. 482-486. Evans, Karen G. (2000) Reclaiming John Dewey: Democracy, Inquiry, Pragmatism, and Public Management, Administration & Society, Vol. 32, No. 3, July 2000, pp. 308-328. * Evans, Karen G. (2000) Imagining Anticipatory Government: Quantum Theory and Visualization, (pp. 195-219) in, Goktug Morcol and Linda F. Dennard, eds., New Sciences for Public Administration and Policy: Connections and Reflections, Burke, VA: Chatelaine Press. 1999 Evans, Karen G. and Gary L. Wamsley, (1999) Where's the Institution? Neoinstitutionalism and Public Management, (pp. 117-144) in. H. George Frederickson and Jocelyn M. Johnson, eds, Public Management Reform and Innovation: Research, Theory and Application, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. 1997 Evans, Karen G. Imagining Anticipatory Government: A Speculative Essay on Quantum Theory and Visualization, Administrative Theory and Praxis , 19 (3), pp. 355-367. * Evans, Karen G. and Gary L. Wamsley, The Blacksburg Manifesto, and Agential Leadership, in Jay M. Shafritz (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration. Henry Holt and Company, Inc. 1996 Evans, Karen G., Chaos as
Opportunity: Grounding a Positive Vision of Management and Society in the
New Physics, book reviews of L. Douglas Kiel (1994) Managing
Chaos and Complexity in Government (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass) and Danah
Zohar and Ian Marshall (1994) The Quantum Society (New York:
William Morrow and Company), Public Administration Review, 56,
5, pp. 491-4. Karen G. Evans, Ph.D. Website: http://www.iun.edu/~speakge |
