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Jerome R. Lewis, PhD

DIRECTOR OF IPA AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

jlewis@udel.edu e-mail
302-831-1709 phone/voice-mail
302-831-3488 fax

180 Graham Hall | University of Delaware | Newark, Delaware 19716-7380

Dr. Lewis is the Director of the Institute for Public Administration and holds a faculty appointment as an Associate Professor with the School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy and the Department of Political Science and International Relations. He is also a member of the Delaware Faculty Senate.

He is currently a member of the American Society for Public Administration and the American Planning Association. He specializes in state and local government management, policy analysis, planning and civics education. He provided leadership in establishing the Institute for Public Administration, the Delaware Association for Public Administration, the University of Delaware Masters Program in Public Administration, the Delaware Legislative Fellows Program, and the Delaware Management Fellows Program. Under his direction, the Institute for Public Administration has grown from a staff of three people to its current size of 30 staff members and faculty. The Institute employs an additional 25 graduate and undergraduate students on an annual basis.
 

 
PhD, New York University 1968, Public Administration (comparative public administration and urban economics) and Political Science

MPA, New York University 1966, Public Administration (housing and metropolitan development)

BA, University of Minnesota 1962, Sociology
 

 

1973 - present		Director, Institute for Public Administration, CHEP, University of Delaware
1969 - present		Faculty member, School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware
1975 - 1980		Director, MPA Program, University of Delaware
1979		Consultant, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Urban and Public Management Program (Paris, France)
1968 - 1969		Policy Analyst/Public Administration Fellow, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce (Washington, DC)
1968		Research Fellow (local property tax and urban development), New York University; Ford Foundation Project on Urban Economics, New York University Graduate School of Public Administration

 
UAPP687--State Government: Management and Policy,

UAPP803--Seminar in Public Administration