Bruce Perlman was appointed director of the School of Public Administration (SPA) at the University of New Mexico recently said Richard Holder, deputy provost, Academic Affairs. Perlman has been an associate professor in the SPA for 15 years. Holder also said the school has been reassigned to the Office of the Provost. It was previously under the guidance of the ASM.
“I am honored to be named director of the School of Public Administration and hope that I can play a small part in supporting UNM’s excellent academic leadership,” Perlman said. “Through its Masters in Public Administration (MPA) program, the SPA has a nearly 40 year history of training New Mexico’s public sector leaders and numbers some of the state’s most respected and prominent government officials among its graduates. I hope to continue and strengthen this tradition as we near our 40th anniversary.”
Perlman, who specializes in several areas including public management, organizational behavior, and institutional reform, has several goals he’d like to achieve as director.
They include using innovative programs to enhance the SPA’s role in carrying out UNM’s strategic commitment of responsiveness to New Mexico’s public sector; identifying and collaborating with faculty and student resources throughout UNM to ensure that the SPA continues to be the university’s principal professional program for educating public managers; capitalizing on the SPA’s considerable existing strengths and recognition in international and development administration, human resources management, and public sector financial management; and boosting SPA efforts to support government policy implementation and evaluation in general and especially in those areas of public administration that are vital for the New Mexico public sector.
Those areas include economic development, science and technology policy management, and the administration of environment and natural resources programs.
The SPA provides graduate professional education for individuals preparing for, or engaged in, public service careers, in public agencies at various levels of government and in organizations that contract or substantially interact with public sector institutions.
Its mission is achieved through the integration of teaching, research, and service pursuant to the theoretical, methodological, substantive and practical preparation of public sector managers in the administrative sciences.
Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821
Posted by scarr at November 1, 2004 09:29 AM