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SPIA Chair - Dr. Richard C. Kearney
Richard C. Kearney is a Ph.D. in Political Science, earned at the University of Oklahoma, and also has a background in Public Administration and Business Administration. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1968 to 1971 in Vietnam. Dr. Kearney has maintained the position of Professor and Director in School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University from 2006 to the present. His research interests include Human Resource Management, State and Local Government, and Public Policy. He has written numerous journal articles and has been coauthor and editor to several books. He teaches Public Policy Process.
Program Director - Ali O Ozturk
Ali Osman Ozturk received his B.A. in Public Management from the School of Political Sciences and his M.A. in Social Politics and Industrial Relations of European Union from the School of Economics at Istanbul University (Istanbul, Turkey). Ali Ozturk received his Ph.D. from the Department of Public Administration at North Carolina State University. He has been teaching a number of online courses within the Leadership in the Public Sector B.A. Online Degree Completion program. His research interests include new public management, results-based management, organizational culture, public opinion research, and European Union administration.
You can contact with Ali Ozturk via aoozturk@chass.ncsu.edu (phone: 919-513 0881). His office is located at Winston Hall 010. (Click here for an online campus map and locate building number 23 for Winston Hall).
Program Associate Director - Dr. Michael L. Vasu
Michael L. Vasu Ph.D., Director of the Leadership in the Public Sector Program, He is the author of Politics and Planning and the co-author of Organizational Behavior and Public Management and Effective Program Practices For At-Risk Youth: A Continuum of Community –Based Programs, among other books and monographs. In addition, he has published numerous articles in the areas of public policy, social-science computing and public-opinion research. Dr. Vasu is one of the authors of the award-winning software package SocSatSim. He has been qualified, and has served, as an expert witness in the U.S. Federal Courts and North Carolina State Courts. He teaches Public Opinion Research Methods and, Leadership in the Public Sector.
To discuss the program or to obtain answers to questions, please use our contact form or use the following contact information:
- E-mail: lps@ncsu.edu
- Phone: (919) 513-0881
- Fax: (919) 515- 0941
- Leadership in the Public Sector B.A. Online Degree Completion Program
- School of Public and International Affairs
- Campus Box 8102
- NC State University
- Raleigh, NC 27695-8102