The University of West Florida Annual Accountability Report, 2013-14
The University of West Florida Annual Accountability Report, 2013-14

Author: State University System of Florida. Board of Governors

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 37

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This statistical report provides data tables on the University of West Florida's (UWF's) financial resources, personnel, enrollment, undergraduate education, graduate education, and research & economic development. Highlights of UWF's achievements in the 2013-2014 academic year include: (1) In 2013-2014, UWF was Designated as a "Best Southeastern College" by the Princeton Review; (2) UWF created a standing Strategic Enrollment Planning and Management Council to monitor, evaluate, and revise strategic enrollment plans; track enrollment key performance indicators (KPIs), benchmarks, and assessments; and coordinate the work of the various units involved in enrollment planning and management; (3) More than 18% of all undergraduate degrees and more than 14% of all graduate degrees awarded at UWF were within a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) discipline; (4) UWF researchers received 81 awards totaling $23,953,028, only five less than in 2012-2013, in spite of the decrease in federal and state funding opportunities; (5) UWF posted $18.9 million in total research and development (R&D) expenditures in 2013-2014; (6) External entities funded 89% of research and development expenditures (consistent with 2012-2013 funding); (7) Through Business Enterprises, Inc., (BEI), UWF continued to work on agreements to finance, design, and construct, lease, lease-purchase, and/or purchase the operations and facilities necessary and desirable to meet UWF's mission and strategic priorities (e.g., East Campus Development, University Park, NW Retirement Village); (8) Private gifts in 2013-2014 exceeded the 2012-2013 fundraising goal ($4.1 million in total gifts); and (9) UWF's College of Business partnered with Pensacola Young Professionals and the Greater Pensacola Chamber to create Internship Pensacola, which provides students with summer internships with local businesses and industry. Seventy percent of participants were either hired by the company hosting the internship or immediately at another company via new contacts made by the Pensacola Young Professionals.

University of West Florida Work Plan, 2013-2014
University of West Florida Work Plan, 2013-2014

Author: State University System of Florida. Board of Governors

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 19

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The State University System of Florida has developed three tools that aid in guiding the System's future: (1) The Board of Governors' new Strategic Plan 2012-2025 is driven by goals and associated metrics that stake out where the System is headed; (2) The Board's Annual Accountability Report provides yearly tracking for how the System is progressing toward its goals; and (3) Institutional Work Plans connect the two and create an opportunity for greater dialogue relative to how each institution contributes to the System's overall vision. These three documents assist the Board with strategic planning and with setting short-, mid- and long-term goals. They also enhance the System's commitment to accountability and driving improvements in three primary areas of focus: (1) academic quality; (2) operational efficiency; and (3) return on investment. The Board will use these documents to help advocate for all System institutions and foster even greater coordination with the institutions and their Boards of Trustees. Once a Work Plan is approved by each institution's respective Boards of Trustees, the Board of Governors will review and consider the plan for potential acceptance of 2013-14 components. Longer-term components will inform future agendas of the Board's Strategic Planning Committee. The Board's acceptance of a work plan does not constitute approval of any particular component, nor does it supersede any necessary approval processes that may be required for each component. The 2013-14 Work Plan is presented in this report. The following contents are included: (1) Strategy; (2) Key Performance Indicators; (3) Operations; and (4) Definitions.

System Accountability Report 2013-14. Revised
System Accountability Report 2013-14. Revised

Author: State University System of Florida. Board of Governors

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 28

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Information Resource Management - State University System of Florida (IRM-SUS) is the primary collector and provider of data concerning state universities that is used to make sound education policy decisions. The office provides technical assistance to those using the information, state and federal reporting support, those supplying information, and enhancement support for the databases. The State University System (SUS) of Florida is committed to excellence in teaching, research and public service--the traditional mission of universities. This is achieved through a coordinated system of institutions, each having a distinct mission and each dedicated to meeting the needs of a diverse state and nation. This system accountability report for the year 2013-2014 was revised March, 2015, and identifies many of the accomplishments the University System has experienced in the introduction. Following the System Dashboard, and a Section on Performance Based Funding Metrics, the table of contents presents detailed statistical information provided in a tabular format on the following subjects: (1) Enrollment; (2) Degree Productivity and Program Efficiency; (3) Scholarship, Research and Innovation; (4) Community and Business Engagement; and (5) Fiscal Summary. The five year data tables are listed in the appendix of this report, however they are provided in a separate document. [To access the five year data tables in ERIC see ED565433.].

White-Collar Crime
White-Collar Crime

Author: Brian K. Payne

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1506349242

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The thoroughly updated Second Edition of White Collar Crime: The Essentials continues to be a comprehensive, yet concise, resource addressing the most important topics students need to know about white-collar crime. Author Brian K. Payne provides a theoretical framework and context for students that explores such timely topics as crimes by workers, sales-oriented systems, crimes in the health care system, crimes by criminal justice professionals and politicians, crimes in the educational system, crimes in economic and technological systems, corporate crime, environmental crime, and more. This easy to read teaching tool is a valuable resource for any course that covers white-collar crime.

Building the Prison State
Building the Prison State

Author: Heather Schoenfeld

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 022652101X

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The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world—about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people—while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison system also reinforces race and class divisions. How and why did we become the world’s leading jailer? And what can we, as a society, do about it? Reframing the story of mass incarceration, Heather Schoenfeld illustrates how the unfinished task of full equality for African Americans led to a series of policy choices that expanded the government’s power to punish, even as they were designed to protect individuals from arbitrary state violence. Examining civil rights protests, prison condition lawsuits, sentencing reforms, the War on Drugs, and the rise of conservative Tea Party politics, Schoenfeld explains why politicians veered from skepticism of prisons to an embrace of incarceration as the appropriate response to crime. To reduce the number of people behind bars, Schoenfeld argues that we must transform the political incentives for imprisonment and develop a new ideological basis for punishment.

The Watchdog Still Barks
The Watchdog Still Barks

Author: Beth Knobel

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0823279359

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Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog role—its ability to monitor the work of the government. It is easier for politicians to get away with abusing power—wasting public funds and making poor decisions—if the press is not shining its light with what is termed “accountability reporting.” This need has become especially clear in recent months, as the American press has come under virulent direct attack for carrying out its watchdog duties. Upending the traditional media narrative that watchdog accountability journalism is in a long, dismaying decline, The Watchdog Still Barks presents a study of how this most important form of journalism came of age in the digital era at American newspapers. Although the American newspaper industry contracted significantly during the 1990s and 2000s, Fordham professor and former CBS News producer Beth Knobel illustrates through empirical data how the amount of deep watchdog reporting on the newspapers’ studied front pages generally increased over time despite shrinking circulations, low advertising revenue, and pressure to produce the kind of soft news that plays well on social media. Based on the first content analysis to focus specifically on accountability journalism nationally, The Watchdog Still Barks examines the front pages of nine newspapers located across the United States to paint a broad portrait of how public service journalism has changed since 1991 as the advent of the Internet transformed journalism. This portrait of the modern newspaper industry shows how papers of varying sizes and ownership structures around the country marshaled resources for accountability reporting despite significant financial and technological challenges. The Watchdog Still Barks includes original interviews with editors who explain why they are staking their papers’ futures on the one thing that American newspapers still do better than any other segment of the media: watchdog and investigative reporting.

Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance
Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

Author: Ali Farazmand

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-04-05

Total Pages: 13623

ISBN-13: 3030662527

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This global encyclopedic work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration, public policy, governance, and management. Written and edited by leading international scholars and practitioners, this exhaustive resource covers all areas of the above fields and their numerous subfields of study. In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of these fields and subfields, the entries make use of various theoretical, empirical, analytical, practical, and methodological bases of knowledge. Expanded and updated, the second edition includes over a thousand of new entries representing the most current research in public administration, public policy, governance, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, and management covering such important sub-areas as: 1. organization theory, behavior, change and development; 2. administrative theory and practice; 3. Bureaucracy; 4. public budgeting and financial management; 5. public economy and public management 6. public personnel administration and labor-management relations; 7. crisis and emergency management; 8. institutional theory and public administration; 9. law and regulations; 10. ethics and accountability; 11. public governance and private governance; 12. Nonprofit management and nongovernmental organizations; 13. Social, health, and environmental policy areas; 14. pandemic and crisis management; 15. administrative and governance reforms; 16. comparative public administration and governance; 17. globalization and international issues; 18. performance management; 19. geographical areas of the world with country-focused entries like Japan, China, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe, North America; and 20. a lot more. Relevant to professionals, experts, scholars, general readers, researchers, policy makers and manger, and students worldwide, this work will serve as the most viable global reference source for those looking for an introduction and advance knowledge to the field.

The Judicial Function
The Judicial Function

Author: Joe McIntyre

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 981329115X

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Judicial systems are under increasing pressure: from rising litigation costs and decreased accessibility, from escalating accountability and performance evaluation expectations, from shifting burdens of case management and alternative dispute resolution roles, and from emerging technologies. For courts to survive and flourish in a rapidly changing society, it is vital to have a clear understanding of their contemporary role – and a willingness to defend it. This book presents a clear vision of what it is that courts do, how they do it, and how we can make sure that they perform that role well. It argues that courts remain a critical, relevant and supremely well-adjusted institution in the 21st century. The approach of this book is to weave together a range of discourses on surrounding judicial issues into a systemic and coherent whole. It begins by articulating the dual roles at the core of the judicial function: third-party merit-based dispute resolution and social (normative) governance. By expanding upon these discrete yet inter-related aspects, it develops a language and conceptual framework to understand the judicial role more fully. The subsequent chapters demonstrate the explanatory power of this function, examining the judicial decision-making method, reframing principles of judicial independence and impartiality, and re-conceiving systems of accountability and responsibility. The book argues that this function-driven conception provides a useful re-imagining of some familiar issues as part of a coherent framework of foundational, yet interwoven, principles. This approach not only adds clarity to the analysis of those concepts and the concrete mechanisms by which they are manifest, but helps make the case of why courts remain such vital social institutions. Ultimately, the book is an entreaty not to take courts for granted, nor to readily abandon the benefits they bring to society. Instead, by understanding the importance and legitimacy of the judicial role, and its multifaceted social benefits, this books challenge us to refresh our courts in a manner that best advances this underlying function.