managing information in the public sector.

Information is a vital public agency resource. It should be managed with the same care and attention given to human and financial resources. Public agencies at all levels of government spend over $400 billion a year on technology and services to manage information. The management of information and its supporting technologies has emerged as a field of academic research and teaching independent of its roots in computer science, accounting, business administration, and management. It has also been recently recognized as one of the core areas within NASPAA's Guidelines for Masters Programs. This focus area will prepare students to teach and conduct research on how information and its related technologies should be managed in the public sector as well as public policy issues related to government use of information and technologies.

Faculty

Jay D. White, Reynolds Professor of Public Affairs and Community Service (D.P.A., The George Washington University), has been at UNO since 1987. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on knowledge development and use in the field of public administration. He is also an author and editor of several books including the forthcoming, Managing Information in the Public Sector, M.E. Sharpe, Inc. He teaches masters courses in organizational behavior, organizational development, and information management; and doctoral seminars in knowledge development and use in the public service professions and advanced management theory. In 2002 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Leiden , the Netherlands where he taught organizational analysis and design. His information systems interests include Information Resource Management, systems integration, procurement, contracting, and outsourcing.

B.J. Reed, Professor (Ph.D., University of Missouri), has been at UNO since 1982, having served as Chair of the Public Administration Department from 1985 to 2000, and currently as Dean of the College of Public Affairs and Community Service. He teaches strategic planning, financial management, and budgeting. He has published in numerous journals and is also the author of several books on topics including economic development, strategic planning, intergovernmental management, and with John Swain, the widely used text, Public Finance Administration, now in its second edition. Reed currently has served as President of the National Council of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) and has previously served as chair of the Council on Peer Review and Accreditation of NASPAA. He was recently elected as a Fellow at the prestigious National Academy for Public Administration. Dr. Reed's practitioner experience has been with the National League of Cities and as Director of Community Development of the City of Mexico, Missouri . He has an interest in planning and financing information systems.

Dale Krane, Professor (Ph.D., University of Minnesota), teaches and conducts research in the areas of policy design, implementation, and evaluation; intergovernmental and collaborative management; and state and local government administration. He is a co-author of Compromised Compliance: Implementation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and of From Nation To States: The Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program, and he is an editor of Home Rule In America: A Fifty State Handbook and of Mississippi Government and Politics: Modernizers versus Traditionalists. His research has been recognized with the 1998 Jeffrey Pressman Award for the best article in Policy Studies Review and the 1995 Donald Stone Award for outstanding research in intergovernmental relations. Currently, Dr. Krane is the editor of the annual issue on the state of American federalism published by Publius: The Journal of Federalism as well as chair of the APSA Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations. Long active in ASPA, Dr. Krane is the 2002 recipient of the Donald Stone Service to ASPA award. Dr. Krane has been a Fulbright professor in Brazil , and is a peer reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Specialist in public administration program. He has an interest in e-government, e-democracy, and information technology policy.

Ken Kriz, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington), teaches in the areas of public financial management and policy, economics, and statistics. His research is both international and domestic and focuses on municipal debt management, economic development policy and transportation finance, along with the use of alternative estimation techniques in public finance. He has worked in the public sector as a U.S. Navy supply officer and has consulted with several public and nonprofit organizations on financial and economic issues. Professor Kriz has also had experience in the private sector financial services industry. He is a frequent presenter at national and international budgeting and financial management conferences and has published papers in the areas of municipal bond issuance, revenue limitation initiatives, and tax increment financing. His information systems interests include financing information systems, contracting, and risk management.