David Van Slyke | |
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Dean of Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs | |
Assumed office July 2016 | |
Preceded by | James Steinberg |
Personal details | |
Born | 1968 (age 54–55) Beacon,New York |
Alma mater | Rockefeller 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.
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]
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.
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.
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