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A. Lee Fritschler
A. Lee Fritschler
Professor of Public Policy

Curriculum Vita

Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fall 2003 –

Member, Steering Committee, European University Association, Brussels, Belgium, 2005 - 2009

Vice President and Director, Center for Public Policy Education, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 2002 -- 2003

Assistant Secretary for Post Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education,  1999-2001

President, Dickinson College, 1987-1999

Co-Founder, Chair and Treasurer, Annapolis Group, 1991-1999

Director, Center for Public Policy Education, The Brookings Institution, 1981-1987

Chairman, U.S. Postal Rate Commission, July 1979-September 1981

Dean and Professor, College of Public and International Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C., July 1977-July 1979

Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration

Lecturer in Executive Programs
Frequent lecturer on business-government relations, regulation and postal matters before professional societies and regularly in the executive development programs of the following organizations:

President's Class and other executive development programs
IBM Corporation
Advanced Management Program, AT&T
General Electric Management Training Program, Croton-on-the-Hudson
Gulf Corporation Management Institute
The Brookings Institution government-business relations programs, Washington, D.C.

Academic Appointments
President, Emeritus, Dickinson College, 1999

Professor, American University, Washington, D.C., 1964-1979

Visiting Professor, Union College, Schenectady, New York, spring 1984

Guest Professor, University of Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany, Spring 1971

Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, January 1971

Faculty Fellow, Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, fall 1970

Faculty Fellow, International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO), Paris, summer 1969

Faculty Associate, Public Service Manpower Plan for Metropolitan Washington, Washington Center for Metropolitan
Studies, 1969

Lecturer, National War College, spring 1969

Lecturer, Industrial College of the Armed Forces

Assistant Professor and Academic Director of the Washington Semester Program, School of Government and Public Administration, The American University, 1964-1967

Administrative Assistant to the Director of Graduate Overseas Training Program and to the Associate Dean of Maxwell Graduate School, 1961-1963

Academic Degrees
Montgomery College, Maryland, Associate of Arts in Public Service (Honorary), 2000

University of Illinois Doctor of Humane Letters (Honorary), 2000

The Dickinson School of Law, LL.D.    (Honorary), 1993

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Ph.D. (Political Science), 1965

Syracuse University, M.P.A. (Public Administration), 1960

Union College, B.A. (Economics and Political Science), 1959

Abridged List of Publications

Books
Closed Minds?  Politics and Ideology in American Universities.  Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press, 2008, Co-Authors Bruce L.R. Smith and Jeremy D. Mayer.

Smoking and Politics:  Bureaucracy Centered Policy Making, Sixth edition (with new subtitle) New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2007.  Co-Author Catherine E. Rudder.

Business Regulation and Government Decision-Making (text edition); Executive's Guide to Government: How Washington Works (trade edition), with Bernard H. Ross (Boston:  Little, Brown and Company, 1980).

How Washington Works:  The Executive's Guide to Government, with Bernard H. Ross (Cambridge, Mass.:  Ballinger Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1987).  This is a completely rewritten and revised version of the above cited work.

Articles and Book Reviews
A. Lee Fritschler, Paul Weissburg and Phillip Magness ,”Growing GovernmentDemandsfor Accountability vs. Independence in the University”, In Alberto Amaral, et al., eds. Essays on Supportive Peer Review. Hauppage, NY: New Science Publishers, Inc., 2008.

A. Lee Fritschler, “Do International Indicators Properly Reflect U.S. Educational Achievements?”, Trusteeship, Washington, DC., Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, March/April, 2008.

R. Sam Garrett, James A. Thurber, A. Lee Fritschler and David H. Rosenbloom,  “Assessing the Impact of Bureaucracy-Bashing From Electoral Campaigns”,  Public Administration Review, March/April, 2006.

"Accountability: The Diminishing Vision in US Government", in Eberhard Bohne, C.F.B., Kenneth M. Spencer, Ed.). Transatlantic Perspectives on Liberalization and Democratic Governance. Transatlantic Public Policy Series. London, Transaction Publishers, 2004. pp. 407-422.

“A Taxing Situation", Trusteeship, September/October 1995 (with Brian C. Mitchell):  Association of Governing Board of Universities and Colleges, Washington DC.

"Colleges and the Numbers Game:  Guidebooks, Rankings Prompt Hard Look at Intellectual Honesty," Global Ethics published by The Institute for Global Ethics, Camden ME,  Vol. 5, No. 6, July/August 1995.

Ingraham, Patricia W., and Kettl, Donald F., "Agenda for Excellence:  Public Service in America," Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 1993, pp. 92-93.

"Can U. S. Executives Compete Abroad?", Educational Record, Vol. 68, No. 2, Spring 1987 (with Karhryn Mohrman).

"Supply‑Side Management in the Reagan Administration," Public Administration Review, November/December, 1985 (with James D. Carroll and Bruce L. R. Smith).  Brookings General Series Reprint #422, 1986.

"The Changing Face of Government Regulation," Maxwell Lecture Series, published by Syracuse University, 1981.  Reprinted in Federal Administrative Agencies: Essays on Power and Politics, Howard Ball, ed., (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:  Prentice‑Hall, Inc., 1984).

"Les Implications du Changement dan les Relations National‑Local:  La Redistribution des Competences" (with Sylvester Murray, Carl Stenberg, Jean Clauzel, Maurice Pourchon, and Jean Gicquel), Revue Francaise d'Administration Publique, Paris, France:  Institut International d'Administration Publique, No. 21, January through March 1982.

The Characteristics Required in Tomorrow's Public Servants, an essay from the discussions of the XVIII International Congress of Administrative Sciences, Madrid, Spain, 1980. (Institute of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, 1982).

"Regulation of the Postal Service," in Electronic Mail and Message Systems, Technical and Policy Perspectives, Robert E. Kahn, Albert Vezza, and Alexander D. Roth (eds.), Arlington, Virginia:  American Federation of Information Processing Societies, Inc., 1981.

"Policy Analysis in Public Administration," (with Michael C. Wilson), Contemporary Public Administration, Thomas Vocino, (ed.) (New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1981).

1976 Directory of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (with A. J. Mackelprang), published by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Washington, D. C.  (Also 1978 Directory.)
"Grant System Assessment," The Bureaucrat, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1977.

"Graduate Education in Public Affairs and Administration" (with A. J. Mackelprang), Public Administration Review, September/October 1977.

"The U. S. Federal Structure Two Hundred Years Later:  Is the Balance of Power Shifting?" for the Kenyon Forum, Gambier, Ohio, 1976.

"A View from the Top:  Comprehending the Public Policy Process Through Simulated Internships," Teaching Political Science (with Dan Fritz, Vol. 3, No. 4, July 1976.

"Intergovernmental Relations and Contemporary Political Science:  Developing an Integrative Typology" (with Morley Segal) Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Daniel J. Elazar (ed.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1972.  (Reprinted in Urban Administration:  Management Politics and Change, Alan E. Bent and Ralph A. Rossum (eds.), Kennikat Press, Port Washington, New York, 1976).

Urban Affairs Bibliography:  A Guide to the Literature in the Field (with Bernard Ross), 3rd Edition, Washington, D. C.:  School of Government and Public Administration, College of Public and International Affairs, The American University, 1974.

"Federal/State/Local Relationships:  The Dynamics of Federalism" (with Coralie Bryant), Public Management, November 1974.

Graduate School Programs in Public Affairs and Public Administration (as chairperson of the Surveys Committee), a Survey Report of the Member Institutions of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Washington, D. C., 1974.

"Federal Legislative Actions on Metropolitan Problems in 1968" (with Douglas Harman and Morley Segal), Urban Data Service, Washington, D. C.:  International City Management Association, Vol. 1, No. 12, December 1969.  Reprinted: Douglas M. Fox (ed.), The New Urban Politics:  Cities and the Federal Government (Pacific Palisades, California: Goodyear Survey published by ICMA, June 1972).

"Science‑Technology Advice in Local Governments" (with James E. Underwood), Urban Data Service, Washington D. C.: International City Management Association, Vol. 2, No. 11, November 1970.  (Supplement on State Government Survey published by ICMA, June 1972).