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Graduate Advisor for the M.S. in Public Administration (2011-13):
Dr. Greg Andranovich
Professor of Political Science
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Office Phone: (323) 343-2235
E-mail: gandran@exchange.calstatela.edu​

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• For help during the summer, please see the Department Chair.

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Graduate Secretary/Coordinator:
Ms. Claudia N. Chan
E-mail: cchan18@cslanet.calstatela.edu
Phone: (323) 343-2230/2231

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Department Office: Engineering and Technology Building, Room A-524

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Mailing Address:
MSPA Program
Engineering and Technology Building, Room A-524
California State University, Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032

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Faculty and Staff

The core faculty members include:

 

Greg Andranovich, Ph.D. (UC Riverside, 1984). Professor.

Urban and Policy Analysis. Dr. Andranovich's website.
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Naomi J. Caiden, Ph.D. (University of Southern California,
1979). Professor. Public Administration, Public Policy, Budgeting and Finance.
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Siegrun Fox Freyss, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate School, 1978)
Professor. Public Administration, Nonprofit Sector, Urban Studies, Women's
Studies. Dr. Freyss' website.
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Stephen K. Ma, Ph.D. (University of Alberta, 1994).
Professor. Public Administration, Comparative Administration, Organizational
Behavior, Comparative Development, International Relations, Comparative
Politics. Politics and Administration of Pacific Rim Nations. Dr. Ma's website.
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Ellen Shiau, Ph.D. (University of Southern California,
2012). Assistant Professor. Urban Politics and Policy, Civic Engagement,
Non-Profit Organizations, GIS Methods and Analysis.

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The public administration faculty have won national and local awards
attesting to the quality of their instructional performance, scholarship, and
professional activities.
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Dr. Andranovich's paper "Olympic Cities: Lessons Learned
from Mega-Event Politics" received the best paper award at the 2000 annual
meeting of the Urban Affairs Association. The paper was later published in the
Journal of Urban Affairs. He garnered CSULA's award for Outstanding
Professor in 2005-06. He was elected to the Urban Affairs Association Governing
Board, 2011-14

Dr. Caiden was awarded the Aaron Wildavsky Award for her
contributions to budgeting and financial management in 1993 and the William
Mosher Award for the most meritorious article by an academician to appear in the
Public Administration Review in 1980. She also received the National
Distinguished Service Award in recognition of outstanding academic contributions
and leadership by the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis in
1981 and 1991. CSU San Bernardino awarded her Meritorious Performance and
Professional Promise awards on three occasions, in 1984, 1986 and 1987. She also
received the Dean's Research Award by the CSU San Bernardino in 1986, 1987, and
1990. In June, 1993, CSU San Bernardino gave her an Outstanding Service Award
for Twelve Years of Outstanding Service to the Department of Public
Administration, the School of Business and Public Administration and to CSU San
Bernardino from 1981 through 1993.

Dr. Freyss’ paper "Who Opposes Public/Private Financial
Partnerships for Urban Renewal?” was recognized as one of the best papers
presented at the 1984 conference of the Urban Affairs Association and published
in a special issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs. She also won an
award for the best book review essay in the 1987 volume of the Public Administration Review. At Texas Tech University she received an award in
1995 as the Graduate Student Association Professor of the Year (MPA) and won the
Pi Alpha Alpha Distinguished Professor Award in 1994-1995. Her article
“"Municipal Government Personnel Systems -- A Test of Two Archetypical Models,"
published originally in the fall 1995 issue of the Review of Public Personnel Administration, was reprinted in the 2003 anthology Local Government Management -- An ASPA Classics Volume, which “includes thirty of
the most outstanding journal articles that have been published over the past
sixty years.” Dr. Freyss received the 2012 Chapter Development Award from the
Southern California Chapter of the American Society for Public
Administration.

Dr. Ma is a twice recipient of the Fulbright Senior Specialists grant by the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board, the
Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the
Council for International Exchange of Scholars.

Dr. Shiau begins her career at Cal State LA with a competitive minigrant
from the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute's Youth Leadership and Civic Engagement
program, funded by The California Endowment's funding for the Boyle Heights
Building Healthy Communities Program.

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The core faculty are augmented by a pool of part-time instructors, all of
whom have substantial experience in governmental administration. Their names,
degrees, positions, fields of expertise, and courses they have taught or will
teach are as follows:
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Gerald Bonetto, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate School). Director
of Public Affairs, Printing Industries Association of California. Public policy,
intergovernmental relations, state and local government, California government,
economic development.
William A. Bruce, MSPA (CSULA). Budget
Director, Department of Community Development, City of Los Angeles. Budgeting
and Financial Management.
Miriam H. Caiden, Ph.D. (Social Policy and
Administration, London School of Economics). Third sector and nonprofit
organizations.
Robert Dickey, MSPA (CSULA). Director, Public Works, City
of South Gate. Urban Management.
Thomas E. Lynch, MPA (CSUEB). Assistant City Manager, City
of Norwalk. Community Development.
Michael Paules. MPA (USC). City Manager, City of San
Gabriel. Public Management.