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Tom Ridge to give keynote at Public Administration Celebration
Tom Ridge is president and CEO of the international consulting firm Ridge Global, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Tom Ridge became the first Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and, on January 24, 2003, became the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He was Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1995 through October 2001 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 through 1995.
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Shaun Gabbidon named distinguished professor
Penn State Harrisburg criminal justice faculty member Shaun L. Gabbidon has become the second scholar in the college’s history to be named a Distinguished Professor by the University’s Office of the President.
Since joining the School of Public Affairs faculty and its undergraduate and graduate programs in Criminal Justice in 1999, Gabbidon has built a national and international reputation for his research and writing on criminal justice issues, including race and crime, security administration, and pedagogical issues in criminology/criminal justice.
Diversity series features daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.
A March 2 appearance by the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. highlights Penn State Harrisburg’s five-installment 2010 diversity lecture series.
Bernice A. King, the youngest daughter of Rev. King and the late Coretta Scott King, will highlight the second annual Women for Diversity Award Dinner at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center. Tickets for the dinner and lecture are $90. For information on the 5:30 p.m. reception and 7 p.m. lecture, phone 717-948-6180.
Book revisits U.S. efforts at establishing democracies
The prospects for success in the U.S. effort to introduce democracy to the Middle East remain bleak, a Penn State Harrisburg researcher says.
Director of the college’s School of Public Affairs Steven A. Peterson and co-author Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University Albert Somit have just updated their 2005 analysis in The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution and suggest little has changed.