NASPAA - National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration

The MPA faculty appointment policy defines the nucleus faculty as those who regularly teach at least one course per year in the MPA program; participate in MPA student advisement and the supervision of MPA students on analytical papers, theses, or applied research and public service projects; and contribute to the effective operation of the program through participation in faculty meetings, area of specialization committees, and other program-building activities will be considered nucleus faculty for NASPAA accreditation purposes and as core faculty for program governance purposes. This designation refers to those individuals holding all types of faculty appointments including secondary faculty, public service faculty, tenure-line faculty, joint appointments within the School, and joint appointments with University of Delaware units outside of the School (such as faculty in the Department of Political Science and International Relations).

Of the 22 core faculty members, ten are tenure line and twelve are public service faculty. Included in those 22, one is the MPA Director (not an administrative designation), one is the IPA Director, and one is the School Director (see faculty nucleus table on next page). Previously, public service faculty members were classified as professional staff with secondary faculty appointments. However, as of September 1, 2001 the University recognized public service faculty as non-tenure faculty with a majority of their workload committed to public service and nine of the current core faculty converted to this new category at the time. (A definition of public service faculty is contained in the UD Handbook’s Personnel Policies for Faculty.) The chart on the next page contains the 22 members of the nucleus faculty.

Name	Rank & Title	Tenure Status	Administrative Unit	Degree & Field
M. Aristigueta	Associate Professor and MPA Director	Tenured	The School of UA & PP	DPA Public Administration
D. Auger	Assistant Professor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	Ph.D. Political Science
K. Curtis	Associate Professor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	Ph.D. Anthropology
K. Denhardt	Associate Professor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	Ph.D. Political Science and Public Administration
B. Dworsky	Assistant Professor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	M.A. Political Science
J. Flynn	Assistant Professor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	Ed.D. Educational Leadership
E. Freel	Instructor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	M.Ed College Counseling
E. Jacobson	Assistant Professor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	MPA Financial Management
J. Johnson	Associate Professor	Tenured	Political Science	Ph.D. Political Science
W. Latham	Associate Professor	Tenured	Economics	Ph.D. Economics
P. Leland	Assistant Professor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	Ph.D. Urban Affairs & Public Policy
J. Lewis	Associate Professor and IPA Director	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	Ph.D. Public Administration
A. Loessner	Assistant Professor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	Ph.D. Higher Education
M. Palley	Associate Professor	Tenured	Political Science	Ph.D. Political Science
J. Raffel	Messick Professor and School Director	Tenured	The School of UA & PP	Ph.D. Political Science
J. Rha	Assistant Professor	Tenure-track	Consumer Studies	Ph.D. Consumer & Textile Sciences, Organizational Leadership
P. Ross	Assistant Professor	Non-Tenure Track	The School of UA & PP	M.A. Public Administration
P. Solano	Associate Professor	Tenured	The School of UA & PP	Ph.D. Government & Politics
R. Sylves	Professor	Tenured	Political Science	Ph.D. Political Science
D. Tuttle	Instructor	Non-Tenure	The School of UA & PP	MPA Agency Management
L. Ware	Louis L. Redding Professor	Tenured	The School of UA & PP	J.D.
R. Wilson	Associate Professor	Tenured	MPA	Ph.D. Demography