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SYLVES ON-CAMPUS SERVICE ACTIVITIES

This was a strong year of departmental service for me, as I know it must have been for many others in the department.

Over the spring of 2006, I worked with you and my colleagues in the Academic Performance Review of the department.

In January 2007 Prof. Biliana Cicin-Sain invited me to join her in preparing a pre-proposal to Department of Homeland Security, paired with the General Dynamics Corporation.

I served on, and continue to be a member of, the Department’s Graduate Committee and though I volunteered to serve on the Undergraduate Committee, I have not been listed as a member of the latter. I chair the Public Policy and Administration field and I am the assigned faculty mentor of Jason Mycoff. I thoroughly enjoy working with Prof. Mycoff and I was happy to be of modest help to him in getting one of his articles into State and Local Government Review for a symposium I edited. However, I feel awkward claiming any credit as Prof. Mycoff’s mentor, as I know Prof. Pika has worked with him at least as much if not more than I.

I also served as the Department’s representative to the University Faculty Senate in the spring evaluation period of 2006.

April 17, 2006, I was the featured speaker at the Spring Contemporary Issues Series of the School of Urban Affairs, hosted by Ed Freel. There I gave a two hour presentation on the politics and policy issues of Hurricane Katrina.

Since July 2006 I have attended monthly meetings and have done considerable work on the Provost’s Committee to Develop a Disaster Studies Graduate Program. Dr. Sue McNeill has chaired the monthly, and sometimes twice a month, meetings. Our charge is to develop a full fledged Master’s and Doctoral degree program in Disaster Studies. At this point my Politics and Disaster course is one of four required courses in both degree programs.

I have also invested considerable effort and time in interviewing Disaster Research Center candidates, three of them, over the fall and winter. I have attended their job talks, gone to lunch with each of them at the B&G, and given them tours of town and the campus.