PMRA
On the PMRA website, you will see some important news for Association members. First, we have listed the call for paper proposals for the May 25-27, 2012 conference at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, titled:”Public Management Research Conference: Seeking Excellence in a Time of Change.” Please consider submitting a proposal by the due date, December 20, 2011.
Second, the free virtual issue of the collection of papers honoring H. George Frederickson is available for download at the web page.
In addition, there is a reminder and specific dates listed for the 2013 PMRC in Madison, Wisconsin.
Finally, a special thanks to all of you who responded to the PMRA survey that was fielded this fall. We have initial results and will be looking at the best format for distributing them to members. We would like to take some time to synthesize what we see in them and prepare a summary of the findings for members as well. One thing we do know from our initial review is that there continue to be many challenges with renewing JPART subscriptions/memberships. Even drawing only from those of us in formal leadership roles in the association, we have assembled quite a number of “horror” stories about our problems. Feel free to add yours to the collection (if you didn’t already do so through the survey) by sending them directly to me. We are going to be taking this up with Oxford *very* soon.
Thanks and best wishes,
Carolyn Heinrich
PMRA President
