SESSIONS
Thursday, September 11
Session I Presentations
8:15 am - 9:45 am
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--Building Bridges for Resilience through Inter/Multidisciplinary, Multi-institutional, and Community Engaged Research Teams: Lessons from a Planning Grant
--Public Service and Mismanaged Bureaucracy: Modernizing Service
--Housing Policy, Equity, and Trust: Rethinking Resilience and Opportunity
--Innovation, Education, and Public Engagement
--Co-production: Participatory Budgeting and Fiscal Affairs
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Session II Presentations
10:00 am - 11:30 am
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--From Insight to Impact: Cultivating Multi-Sector Teams
--Smart Cities and Counties: Developing Pathways to Success
--Governance Through a Gender Lens: Strategies for Inclusive Leadership
--Public Administration Journal Editors Discussion
--Governing for Resilience: Adaptive Cycles, Ecological Meaning, and Policy Impact
Session III Presentations
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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--Policing Competence: Socialization, Leadership, and Motivation
--Public Service Ethics: More Than The Minimum
--How EOCs Operate and Your Roles Before, During, and After an Activation
--Getting and Keeping Your First Academic Job
--Belonging in the Public Sector: Leadership, Identity, and the Workplace Experience
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Session I Posters
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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--A Matter of Equity and Urgency: Crisis Management and Intergovernmental Collaboration to Strengthen Education in the Mississippi Delta
--Untangling the Relationship Between Economic Competition Pressure and Regional Environmental Governance Performance: The Role of Collaborative Inertia
--A Mixed Methods Study of Well-being Barriers to Policy Implementation: EHR, Burnout, and Turnover Among Public Health Workers​
Friday, September 12
Session IV Presentations
8:15 am - 9:45 am
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--Surveillance, Security, and the State: Policy Challenges in the Digital Age
--From Crisis to Capacity: Leading Agile and Engaged Public Workforces
--International Governance: Issues of Trust, Fragility, and Response
--Collective Climate Engagement: Modifying Organizational Behavior
--Addressing Fiscal Concerns in Uncertain Times
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Session V Presentations
10:00 am - 11:30 am
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--Cultural Crisis: Public Arts Administration and Critical Systems
--From Illusion to Instability: Fiscal Fallacies in Local Government Finance
--From Merit to Modernity: Governance, Resilience, and Technological Evolution
--Highlights of Recent PA Books: Brief Presentations by the Authors
--Regulating the Future: Government Strategies for Artificial Intelligence
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Session VI Presentations
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm​
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--Delivery and Decentralization: Navigating Resilience Across Governance Scales
--Accelerating the Energy Transition: Innovation, Diffusion, and Policy Drivers
--Governing with Integrity: Exploring Trust, Legitimacy, and Civic Collaboration
--Crisis Decision-Making and Adaptive Management
--Human Resources Innovation and Efficiency
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Session II Posters
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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--Adaptive Leadership in HBCUs: Navigating Hybrid Work Dynamics in a Post-Pandemic Era
--Data-Driven Policy: The Role of AI in Evidence-Based Public Governance
--Social Inclusion and Safety Net Programs: Policy Challenges and Political Dynamics
​Session VII Presentations
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm
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--The Ground Game of Governance: Intergovernmental Collaboration in Moments That Matter
--Evolving Resilience: Local Capacity, Crisis Learning, and Adaptive Responses
--Disaster Impacts, Vulnerability, and Risk Perception
--Social Policy and Service Delivery
--Governance, Security, and Technological Power: Comparative Perspectives​
Saturday, September 13
Session VIII Presentations
8:15 am - 9:45 am
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--Governance, Collaboration, and Networked Response
--Healthcare Access and Policy Reform
--From Pluralist Knowledge to Performance: Evaluating NGOs, Tutoring, and Higher-Ed Governance
--Examining How Machine Learning Can Identify the Socioeconomic Predictors of Undiagnosed Psychological Distress
--Visualizing Crypto-mining in the Appalachian Region
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Session IX Presentations
10:00 am - 11:30 am
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--Policy, Poverty, and Public Perception: Examining Governance
--Surveillance, Security, and the State: Policy Challenges in the Digital Age
--Crisis Leadership and Governance
--Public Health, Stigma, and Vulnerable Populations
--Nonprofits in Turbulent Times: Examining Social Capital and Diversity Strategies