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Jeremy F. Plant
Curriculum Vita
School of Public Affairs 825 Zermatt Drive
Penn State-Harrisburg Hummelstown, PA 17036
Middletown, PA 17057-4898
717-948-6045 717-533-3578
Employment:
1988-present
Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Penn State University Harrisburg, and Coordinator, Graduate Programs in Public Administration
Hold rank of full professor with tenure in the School of Public Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg, teaching graduate courses in public administration and public policy in the MPA and Ph.D. programs and undergraduate courses in the Public Policy program. Coordinator of the Ph. D program 1993-1995; 2006-. Coordinator of MPA program 1996-1999; 2007-
1988-1990.
Division Head, Division of Public Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg
1978-1988.
Assistant to Associate Professor of Government and Politics, Department of
Public Affairs, George Mason University
Taught graduate courses in the MPA and DPA programs. Directed the operations of the BS, MPA, and DPA programs in Public Administration 1983-1988
1974-1978.
Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Graduate School of Public Affairs, SUNY-Albany
1973-1974
Research Assistant, Institute of Government, University of Virginia. Project
Director for management improvement efforts in rural counties
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy in Government, University of Virginia, 1975
Dissertation: The Big Seven: The Role of Public Official Associations in the American Political System. Dissertation advisor: Professor Frederick C. Mosher
Master of Arts in Government, University of Virginia, 1969
Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude with high honors, Colgate University, 1967
Teaching Fields:
· Public Management
· Public Leadership
· Public Administration
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· Transportation Policy
· Public Ethics
· American Presidency
· Railroads in American Culture
Publications:
1. Books
Rail Security and Safety (with Richard R. Young). Edited volume under contract with Taylor & Francis, September 2008 publication date anticipated.
Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration (Jeremy F. Plant, editor, with Van R. Johnston and Cristina E. Ciocirlan). Taylor & Francis, 2007.
Public Official Associations and State and Local Government: A Bridge across One Hundred Years (with David S. Arnold). George Mason University Press, 1994.
2. Book chapters
The Big Questions of Transportation Policy and Administration in the Twenty-First Century. Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration, J. F. Plant, ed., Taylor & Francis, 2007: 3-7.
Enhancing Railroad Security. Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration, J. F. Plant, ed., Taylor & Francis, 2007: 595-606.
Woodrow Wilson. American Federalism: An Encyclopedia. J. R. Marbach, E. Katz, and T. Smith eds., Greenwood Publishing, 2005.
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. American Federalism: An Encyclopedia. J. R. Marbach, E. Katz, and T. Smith, eds., Greenwood Publishing.
Transportation Policy. Encyclopedia of Public Administration, J. Rabin, ed., Marcel Dekker, 2003: 1231-1235.
Standards of Conduct. Encyclopedia of Public Administration, J. Rabin, ed., Marcel Dekker, 2003: 1114-1117.
Codes of Ethics. Handbook of Administrative Ethics, 2d Ed., T. Cooper, ed., Marcel Dekker, 2000: 309-333.
Using Codes of Ethics in Teaching Public Administration. Teaching Ethics and Values in Public Administration: Program Innovations, Teaching Strategies, and Ethical Issues in Public Administration, James S. Bowman and Donald C. Menzel, eds., SUNY Press, 1997.
The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher (with Max O. Stephenson). Diplomacy, Administration, and Policy, Kenneth W. Thomson, ed., University Press of America, 1995: 43-79.
Codes of Ethics. Handbook of Administrative Ethics, Terry Cooper, ed., Marcel Dekker, 1994: 221-241.
Ethics and Public Personnel Administration (with Harold F. Gortner). Public Personnel Administration: Problems and Prospects, Second Edition, Steven W. Hays and Richard C. Kearney, eds., Prentice-Hall, 1989: 243-260.
The Use of Quantitative Analysis in the Public Sector. Ethics, Government and Public Policy, Frederick Elliston and James Bowman, eds., Greenwood Press, 1988: 247-265.
Transportation Choices for Virginia. Virginia Alternatives for the 1990s: Selected Issues in Public Policy, Joseph Fisher and Richard Mayer, eds., George Mason University Press, 1987: 59-83.
Deregulation, Bureaucracy, and Employment Discrimination: The Case of the EEOC (with Frank Thompson). Affirmative Action: Theory, Analysis, and Prospects, Michael W. Combs and John Gruhl, eds., McFarland Press, 1986: 145-164.
Woodrow Wilson and the Federal System (with Larry Walker). Politics and Administration: Woodrow Wilson and American Public Administration, James Bowman and Jack Rabin, eds., Marcel Dekker, 1984: 119-132.
Line and Staff. Organization Theory and Management, Thomas Lynch, ed., Marcel Dekker, 1983: 191-216.
Institutional Problems of Public Administration Programs: A House Without a Home (with James Bowman). Public Administration Education in Transition, Thomas Vocino and Richard Heimovics, eds., Marcel Dekker, 1982: 37-53.
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Ethics and Public Personnel Administration. Public Personnel Administration: Problems and Prospects, Steven W. Hays and Richard C. Kearney, eds., Prentice-Hall, 1982: 289302.
The Lincoln County Welfare Program. Strategy and Policy: Concepts and Cases, A. J. Strickland and Arthur Thompson, eds., Business Publications, 1981.
The Biography: An Untapped Resource in Teaching Public Administration. Innovations in Teaching Public Affairs and Administration, Richard Heimovics and Ann-Marie Rizzo, eds., Syracuse University, 1981: 91-100.
3. Refereed Articles:
Irony and Public Administration Ethics: An Examination of Niebuhr’s The Irony of American History and Its Relevance to Contemporary Ethical Problems. Public Integrity, 10, 3, 2008: 273-285.
Introduction to the Symposium on Transportation Management and Policy. International Journal of Public Administration, 28, 13-14, 2005: 1031-1034.
Terrorism and the Railroads: Redefining Security in the Wake of 9/11. Review of Policy Research, 21, 3, 2004: 293-305.
Intermodal Transportation in the New Millennium: Introduction to the Symposium (with Van Johnston). Review of Policy Research, 19, 2, 2002: 6-12.
Railroad Policy and Intermodalism: Policy Choices after Deregulation. Review of Policy Research, 19, 2, 2002: 13-32.
Transportation and Growth Management. Public Works Management & Policy, 6, 2, 2001: 91-101.
Public Official Associations and Professionalism (with David S. Arnold). International Journal of Public Administration, 16, 12, 1993: 1885-1909.
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Public Official Associations and Public Administration: A Shared History. International Journal of Public Administration, 16, 2, 1993: 211-235.
The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher (with Max O. Stephenson, Jr.). Public Administration Review, 51, 2, 1991: 97-113.
Statistics, Discrimination, and the Law (with Donald Gantz). American Review of Public Administration, 18, 4, 1988:389-400.
Beyond the Beltway: Urban Transportation Policy in the 1980’s. Journal of Urban Affairs, 10, 1, 1988: 29-40.
Decision-Making in Taxation and Expenditures by Charles Lindblom. Edited by J. Plant with comments. Public Budgeting and Finance, Summer 1986: 76-86.
The DPA: Perspectives on Its Past and Present (with Richard J. Stillman II). International Journal of Public Administration, Summer 1985: 207-237.
Mass Transit as Development Stimulus: The Case of Metrorail (with Louise G. White). Southern Review of Public Administration, 6, 4, Winter 1983: 504-522.
The Ethical Dimension of Executive Leadership. Virginia Social Science Journal, November 1982: 17-26.
The Politics of Cutback Budgeting: An Alliance-Building Perspective (with Louise G. White). Public Budgeting and Finance, 2, 1, Spring 1982: 65-71.
Planning Under New Federalism: Coping with Conflicting Roles (with Louise G. White). Journal of the American Planning Association, 47, 2, April 1981: 175-184.
Ethics, Personnel Management, and the Civil Service Reform Act (with Harold F. Gortner). Public Personnel Management, Spring 1981: 3-10.
Supervising Student Interns as a Management Problem. Municipal Management, Spring 1981: 6-10.
Before Metro: A Brief History of Rail Commuter Service in Northern Virginia. Northern Virginia Heritage, Winter 1981: 11-16.
3. Reports to Sponsors
Securing and Protecting America’s Railroad System (with Richard R. Young). Citizens for Rail Safety, Inc., January 2007.
Themes in Public Sector Management (with Ellen Roberts and Nancy Harding). Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, United Kingdom, On-line masters level course in Public Management, September 2004.
High Speed Rail in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State Data Center, January 2001.
Railroads in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State Data Center, June 2000.
Transportation and Population Change. Pennsylvania State Data Center, April 1999.
4. Non-Refereed Articles and In-House Publications:
Rail Action around Rutherford Yard. Milepost: A Publication of the Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, 25, 2, July 2007: 16-21.
Competing Models for Enhancing Railroad Security. Public Manager, 2005, Fall, 13-19.
Rail Security in the Wake of 9/11 and the Madrid Bombing. Intermodal Fare, Winter 2005: 8-11.
Prisoner Abuse: The Stain that Won’t Fade with Time. PA Times, 28, 7, July 2005: 7.
Railroading’s Response to Terrorism. Intermodal Fare, Spring 2003: 2-9.
The Connection of Growth and Transportation. Intermodal Fare, Fall 2002.
The Implications of Terrorism for Railroads: Critical Policy Choices. Intermodal Fare, Fall 2001: 2-16.
Bringing Ethics and Values into Transportation and Infrastructure Policy Planning. PA Times, 24, 12, December 2001: 3.
Railroading in the New Millennium. Intermodal Fare, Spring/Summer 2000: 4-16.
The Last Season of Conrail: Implications for National Transportation Policy. Intermodal Fare, Summer 1999: 1-10.
The Metrorail System in Virginia. University of Virginia Newsletter, September 1982.
Implementing the Legal Services Program: The Case of Arlington County, Virginia. Monograph 1-80, Citizens Applied Research Institute, George Mason University, 1980.
The Impact of the CETA Program on Indochinese Refugees. Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Indochinese Refugees, George Mason University, 1979: 47-56.
Representing the Generalist in Washington. University of Virginia Newsletter, February 1974.
5. Reviews and Review Essays:
Rail Safety: Targeting Oversight and Better Assessing Results. Public Administration Review, 68, 1, 2008: 137-140.
A Classic Work Revisited: Democracy and the Public Service by Frederick C. Mosher. Public Administration Review, 68, 1, 2008: 181-184.
Review of Changing Classes by Martin Packer, (with David Kumar). Review of Policy Research, 21, 1, 2004: 137-138.
Review of Constructing Sustainable Development by Neil E. Harrison. Public Integrity, Spring 2002: 188-190.
Making Sense of the New Millennium: Religious Revival and the Reform of Public Management. Review of Policy Research, 19, 1, 2002: 238-246.
Review of King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild. Public Integrity, Fall 2001: 397-399.
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The War That Never Ends: Vietnam and the Ethics of the Johnson Administration. Public Integrity, Fall 2000.
Review of Manning Local Government by Richard D. Bingham, et al. Journal of Urban Affairs, Summer, 1992.
Review of The Future of the Oceans by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Environmental Review 11, Summer 1987: 160-161.
Public Administration and Phenomenology: Strange Bedfellows (with Harold Gortner). Policy Studies Review, May 1983: 795-802.
6. General Interest Books:
The Penn Central Railroad in Color Volume Two. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2009 (forthcoming).
The Penn Central Railroad in Color Volume One. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2008 (forthcoming).
Western Maryland in Color Volume Two. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2008 (forthcoming).
Norfolk & Western Steam in Color (with William G. McClure III). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2007.
Trackside around Charlottesville, Virginia. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2006.
Trackside on the Reading in Anthracite Country. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2005.
The Virginian Railway in Color (with William G. McClure III). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2005.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in Color Volume Three (with William G. McClure III). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2004.
Trackside on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Central Pennsylvania. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2004.
The Delaware & Hudson Railway in Color Volume Three (with Jeffrey G. Plant). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2004.
Trackside Massachusetts in Color. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2004.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in Color Volume Two (with William G. McClure III). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2003.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in Color Volume Two. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2003.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad in Color (with Stanley Short and William G. McClure III). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2003.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in Color Volume One (with William G. McClure III). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2002.
Trackside Sayre-Waverly-Towanda in Color. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2002.
Trackside Western Maryland. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2002.
Trackside Allentown. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2001.
Trackside Under Pennsy Wires. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2001.
The Central Vermont Railway in Color (with George F. Melvin). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 2000.
The Maine Central Railroad in Color Volume Two (with George F. Melvin). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1999.
Pennsylvania, The Standard Railroad of the World Volume One (with Robert J. Yanosey). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1999.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad in Color Volume Three (with Richard T. Steinbrenner). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1999.
Trackside New Haven. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1998.
The Maine Central Railroad in Color Volume One (with George F. Melvin). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1998.
The Reading Company in Color Volume One. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1998.
Trackside East of the Hudson. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1998.
The RS-3: Alco’s Classic Roadswitcher. New York, NY: H&M Productions, 1997.
The Boston & Maine in Color (with Jeffrey G. Plant). Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1997.
Blue Ridge Railroading. Vintage Rails, Spring 1997: 72-82.
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Reading Company Steam. Edison, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1996.
The Delaware & Hudson in Color Volume Two (with Jeffrey G. Plant). Edison, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1994.
7. Conference Presentations and Roles:
Rail Megaprojects. Annual Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Dallas, TX, March 9, 2008.
Convenor, panel on Supply Chain Security, Supply Chair Forum, Middletown, PA, October 30, 2007.
Convenor, panel on Transportation and Homeland Security, Annual Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Washington, DC, March 27, 2007.
Towards Increasingly Collaborative Transportation Security: The Case of Rail Security (with Van Johnston). Annual Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Washington, DC, March 27, 2007.
Irony and Public Administration Ethics: An Examination of Niebuhr’s The Irony of American History. Transatlantic Workshop on Public Ethics, College Park, MD, March 22, 2007
Rail Security and Homeland Security. State Data Center Users Conference, Grantville, PA, September 14, 2006.