Hometown: La Salle-Peru

Undergraduate Institution and Major: Illinois State University, Psychology

Graduate Institution and Major: Illinois State University, MBA

Hometown: Greenview, Illinois

Undergraduate Institution and Major: University of Illinois – Springfield, Business Administration

Graduate Institution and Major: University of Illinois – Springfield, MBA, Certificate in Entrepreneurship

Dissertation: “Assessing responsibility in professional street-level bureaucrats.”

Bio: John Petter graduated in 2002, one of the first four DPA graduates at UIS. He is retired from the State of Illinois nearly 20 years of that time as an administrator in the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Human Services. His research interests have been in public service motivation and organizational dynamics, as well as in understanding and applying research findings in administrative settings in the public sector.

Dissertation: "Home rule and local government autonomy: The determinants of fiscal health of Illinois municipalities"

Dissertation: "The impact of state capital budget and management programs on state capital budget decisions and economic performance"

Dissertation: Organization and democracy: Mary Parker Follett and the science of administration.

Dissertation: "Gender and governors’ policy agendas"

Dissertation: "Evaluation of the quality of drinking water sources and obstacles to potable drinking water in west point and suburban Monrovia, Liberia"

Dissertation: "Public safety radio communications: A case study of a metropolitan county of southwestern Illinois"

Bio: Nancy L. Huyck graduated in 2012 and is a member of the 2006 cohort. Dr. Huyck is an associate professor in the MPA program at SIUE where she teaches both core and elective courses. Her research interests include radio interoperability, public HR management and program evaluation.

Email: nelling@siue.edu

Dissertation: "Examining the private applicator community: Applying social science to improve IPM adoption and pesticide safety education the rational egoist ratio, game tenure, field crop scouting, and Illinois private applicator communities"