David Van Slyke

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David Van Slyke
Dean of Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Assumed office
July 2016
Preceded byJames Steinberg
Personal details
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Beacon, New York
Alma materRockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy

David Michael Van Slyke (born 1968) is an American academic and the Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the professor of government and policy affairs and Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy.[1][2] He previously taught at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

Early life and education[edit]

Born in Beacon, New York, Van Slyke first received his undergraduate degree in 1990. For the next 10 years, he worked in both New York state government, private, and nonprofit organizations.[2] He received a master's degree and a PhD in Public Administration and Policy from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at University at Albany, SUNY in 2000.[3][4]

Career[edit]

Georgia State University[edit]

Van Slyke taught on the faculty at Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in Atlanta from 1999-2004 as an assistant professor, where he was the Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program.[5] Van Slyke's research and teaching focused on nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, Public-Private Partnership, and Contracting.[6] In addition, he worked as a consultant with a variety of community organizations, including the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta and United Way Worldwide.

Syracuse University[edit]

Since 2004, Van Slyke has been a faculty member in the Public Administration and International Relations department at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute and the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

He is known for his research on Public Administration, public Contracting, strategic contracting, and Nonprofit Organization, public-private partnerships, policy implementation, and public administration.[7][8]

In 2016, Van Slyke was appointed the 10th Dean of the Maxwell School, succeeding James Steinberg.[9] He leads the school of more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students in all the social sciences.[10]

In 2020, Van Slyke was appointed to the Defense Business Board by the United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.[11][12][13]

In addition to his scholarship, Van Slyke has traveled globally, working with foreign governments, nonprofit, and business organizations on performance measurement, strategic planning, and executive education. His travels have taken him to five continents. From 2008-2016 Van Slyke served on the faculty of UNU-MERIT as a Non-Resident Visiting Faculty Member.[14] In addition, he has worked with senior government and military officials in the Government Accountability Office, the Office of Management and Budget, the United States Coast Guard, and the World Bank, among many others. He is currently Director and Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (United States) and a co-editor of the "Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory" and the "Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation." Van Slyke has also written op-eds and has been featured by media outlets like NPR,[15] The Washington Post,[16] Politico,[17] and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Honors[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Complex Contracting: Government Purchasing in the Wake of the U.S. Coast Guard's Deepwater Program, Trevor Brown, Matthew Potoski, and David M. Van Slyke, Cambridge University Press (2013), ISBN 1107038626 [**Best Book Award from the American Society for Public Administration (2014) and an Honorable Mention from the Public and Nonprofit Section of the Academy of Management best book award (2016)]
  • The Future of Public Administration Around the World: The Minnowbrook Perspective, ed. Rosemary O'Leary, Soonhee Kim, and David M. Van Slyke, Georgetown University Press (2010), ISBN 1589017110

References[edit]

  1. ^ "David Van Slyke". IBM Center for The Business of Government. 20 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b "David Van Slyke". Robertson Foundation for Government. Archived from the original on 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
  3. ^ Van Slyke, David Michael (1999). Managing the government-nonprofit contracting relationship for social services in New York State (PhD). State University of New York at Albany . OCLC 1049740774. Retrieved 23 March 2023 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ a b "University at Albany - SUNY - Rockefeller College Alumni Awards". Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. Archived from the original on 2018-01-20. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
  5. ^ Van Slyke, David M. (2003). "The Mythology of Privatization in Contracting for Social Services". Public Administration Review. 63 (3): 296–315. doi:10.1111/1540-6210.00291.
  6. ^ "Individual Philanthropy Patterns in Metro Atlanta". IssueLab.
  7. ^ "Conversations with Authors Series with Trevor Brown & David Van Slyke". Federal News Radio / IBM Center for The Business of Government. 20 November 2017.
  8. ^ "David Van Slyke scholarship". ResearchGate.
  9. ^ "Syracuse University taps professor David Van Slyke to lead Maxwell School". Syracuse Post Standard. 16 June 2016.
  10. ^ "The Power of a Skills-and-Scholarship Mix". Foreign Affairs. 2018-10-30.
  11. ^ Smith, Jessica (May 27, 2020). "Dean Van Slyke Appointed by US Secretary of Defense to Defense Business Board Task Force". SU News. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  12. ^ "Statement on New Appointments to the Defense Business Board". U.S. Department of Defense (Press release). December 4, 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  13. ^ Seligman, Lara; Lippman, Daniel; Feldscher, Jacqueline (December 4, 2020). "White House fires Pentagon advisory board members, installs loyalists". POLITICO. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  14. ^ "UNU-MERIT » Abstract".
  15. ^ "Groups Behind Trump Resistance Look To Use Recent Windfall Wisely". NPR.
  16. ^ DeBonis, Mike (23 March 2018). "How a Trump power play upended the $30 billion Gateway project" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  17. ^ "The Coast Guard's flawed icebreaker plan". Politico. 19 August 2016.
  18. ^ "High Table 2016". sites.google.com.
  19. ^ "Board of Directors - National Academy Of Public Administration". National Academy Of Public Administration.

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