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 Jeffrey
A. Raffel, PhD
CHARLES P. MESSICK PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, SCHOOL OF URBAN AFFAIRS & PUBLIC POLICY
raffel@udel.edu e-mail
302-831-1685 phone/voice-mail
302-831-3488 fax
191 Graham Hall | University of Delaware | Newark,
Delaware 19716-7380
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expertise | education | honors | memberships | experience | recent courses taught
selected publications | selected presentations
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Dr. Raffel has served in many state-based school change efforts
in Delaware including the Delaware’s School Reform Partnership
and the Accountability Working Group. Dr. Raffel has served
as a researcher, scholar, expert witness, practitioner, community
leader, and parent in the school desegregation process. He
has served as executive director of the Delaware Committee on the School
Decision (a committee appointed to work toward a peaceful
transition during court-ordered desegregation in the Wilmington
metropolitan area). He served as the initial director of the Delaware Academy for School Leadership,
a business- and publicly funded effort to provide professional
development for school principals and superintendents and has conducted numerous
studies of teacher recruitment for the Delaware Department
of Education. Dr. Raffel has also led an IPA project on privatization
in Delaware and co-authored two book chapters and an edited
journal symposium on privatization.
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PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1972, Political
Science
AB, University of Rochester 1966, Political
Science
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Fulbright Senior Specialist Grantee (Romania), 2007
National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) Delaware Region Award for “Outstanding Community Leadership,” 2002
Selected to Who’s Who in Education, and Who's Who
in America, 1992-1993 to present
Selected to Who’s Who in the East, 1990
Case study (with Kevin McGonegal) nominated
for ICMA Case Study Award, 1988
Delaware Association for Public Administration
1983 Public Service Award
Selected as Outstanding Young Man of America
by U.S. Jaycees, 1980, 1981
Greater Wilmington National Conference of Christians
and Jews, Certificate of Recognition for School Desegregation
Work, 1980
Selected as first University of Delaware Faculty
Public Service Fellow, 1979
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| 2002 - present |
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Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration, School of Urban Affairs & Public
Policy, University of Delaware
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| 2002 - 2007 |
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Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration
and Director, School of Urban Affairs & Public
Policy, University of Delaware
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| 1997 - 2002 |
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Director and Professor, School of Urban Affairs & Public
Policy, University of Delaware
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| 1994 - 1997 |
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Chair, Public Management Faculty, and Director,
Master of Public Administration Program, University
of Delaware
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| 1982 - 1997 |
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Professor and Political Scientist, College of Urban
Affairs and Public Policy and Department of Political
Science, University of Delaware
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| 1988 - 1990 |
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Director, Urban Affairs Programs, College of Urban
Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware
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| 1980 - 1986 |
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Director, Master of Public Administration Program,
University of Delaware
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| 1979 - 1980 |
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Special Assistant to Delaware Governor Pierre S.
DuPont, IV, for Intergovernmental Relations (University
of Delaware Public Service Fellow)
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| 1976 - 1982 |
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Associate Professor and Political Scientist, College
of Urban Affairs and Public Policy and Department of
Political Science, University of Delaware
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| 1978 |
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Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sussex (Brighton,
England)
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| 1971 - 1976 |
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Assistant Professor and Political Scientist, Division
of Urban Affairs; Assistant Professor, Department of
Political Science, University of Delaware
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| 1974 - 1977 |
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Staff Director, Delaware Committee on the School
Decision
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| 1970 - 1971 |
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Project Director, Parental Preferences and School
System Responsiveness in the Boston Public School System,
Joint Center for Urban Studies, M.I.T.
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| 1969 to 1972 |
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Consulting Associate: Barss, Reitzel and Associates
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Consultant: Education Education Turnkey Systems,
Urban Systems Laboratory, Industrialization for Housing
Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Elsberry
and Associates, Inc., Personnelmetrics, Inc., General
Counsel of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, U.S. Department of Education
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Expert Witness: “Coalition
to Save Our Children v. State Board of Education,”
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom, 1994; “Davis
and U.S. v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board,”
1999-2002; “City of Wilmington vs. Christina School District,” 2006–2007.
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UAPP/POSC664--Case Studies in State and Local Management
UAPP/POSC819--Management Decision Making
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Books
Historical Dictionary of School Segregation
and Desegregation: The American Experience, Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Selling Cities: Attracting Homebuyers Through
School and Housing Programs (with David Varady), Albany,
NY: Suny Press, 1995.
Politics of School Desegregation: The Metropolitan
Remedy in Delaware, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University
Press, 1980.
Systematic Analysis of University Libraries:
An Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to the M.I.T. Libraries (with Robert Shishko), Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press,
1969.
Book Chapters
“Public Management of Privatization and
Contracting” (with Deborah Auger) in The Public Productivity
Handbook, Marc Holzer and Seok-Hwan Lee, Eds., 2nd ed.,
N.Y.: Marcel Dekker, 2004, pp 107-137.
“History of School Desegregation” in School Desegregation in the 21st Century, Christine
Rossell, David J. Armor, and Herbert J. Walberg, Eds., Westport,
Conn.: Praeger, 2002, pp. 17-39.
“State-Local Relations In Delaware: Ad
Hoc Responsiveness in the First State” (with Jerome Lewis,
Kathy Denhardt, Deborah Auger) in Home Rule In America:
A Fifty-State Handbook, Dale Krane, Platon N. Rigos, and
Melvin B. Hill, Jr., Ed., (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2001),
pp. 86-93.
“Public Safety Promotional Systems and
Minority Officers” (With Kevin C. McGonegal) in Managing
Human Resources: Local Government Cases, James M. Banovetz,
Ed., (Washington, DC: ICMA, 1998), pp. 10-16.
“Introduction To Urban Education” in Exploring Urban America, Roger Caves, Ed., (Thousand
Oaks, CA: SAGE, 1995), pp. 447-453.
“Public Management of Privatization” (with Timothy K. Barnekov) in The Public Productivity Handbook,
Marc Holzer, Ed., (Monticello, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1992),
pp. 99-116.
“Goodbye Sampson, Inc.?” (with Kevin
C. McGonegal) in Managing Local Government: Cases In Decision
Making, James M. Banovetz, Ed., (Washington, DC: ICMA,
1990), pp. 212-222 and in 1998 edition.
“From Economic to Political Analyses of
Library Decision Making” in Management Strategies
For Libraries: A Basic Reader, Beverly P. Lynch, Ed.,
(New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. 1985), pp. 521-537.
“Wilmington, Delaware: Merging City and
Suburban School Systems” (with Barry R. Morstain) in Community Politics and Education Change: Ten School Systems
Under Court Order, Charles V. Willie and Susan L. Greenblatt,
Ed., (New York City: Longman Press, 1980), pp. 82-128.
“The City and Its Children” (Chapter
1) and “Roles and Responsibilities” (Chapter 3)
in Organizing An Urban School System for Diversity,
Joseph M. Cronin And Richard M. Hailer, Ed., (Lexington, KY:
Lexington Books, 1973), pp. 1-11 and 31-39.
Articles
“Why Has Public Administration Ignored Public Education and Why Does It Matter?” Public Administration Review, Vol. 67, No. 1, January/February 2007, 135-151.
“Attracting Middle-Income Families in the HOPE VI Public Housing Revitalization Program” (with David P. Varady, Stephanie Sweeney, and LaTina Denson), Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2005, 149-164.
“Change the World While Earning an MPA” (with Christina Mason Johnston), PA Times, October 2003, 28.
“After the Court Order: The Changing Faces of School Desegregation in the
Wilmington Metropolitan Area,” Widener Law Symposium Journal, Volume 9, No. 1, 2002, 81-120.
“Teaching Techniques of Analysis in the MPA Curriculum: Research Methods, Management Science, and ‘The Third Path’” (with Maria Aristigueta), Journal of Public Affairs Education, Vol. 7, No. 3, July 2001, 161-169.
“After the Court Order: The Changing Faces
of School Desegregation in the Wilmington Metropolitan Area,” Widener Law Symposium Journal, Vol. IX, Issue 1,
pp. 81-120.
“Should Politics Be Kept Out of Education” in Education Misconceptions: Policies And Politics, Robert
Hampel, Ed., Delaware Public Affairs Reports, pp 27-32,
No. 3, 2001.
“Privatization and Contracting: Managing
for State and Local Productivity” (Symposium Edited with
Deborah Auger and Kathryn Denhardt), Public Productivity
and Management Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, June 1999.
“Integrating Theory and Practice: The
Delaware Model” (with Robert Denhardt, Daniel Rich, and
Jerome Lewis), Journal of Public Administration Education,
Vol. 3, No. 2, May 1997, 153-62; Reprinted in PA Times, Educational
Supplement, ASPA, October 1997, pp. 5-7, and shortened version
in SPAE Forum, Vol. 6, No. 4, June, 1996.
“Two Approaches to School Desegregation
and Their Impacts on City-Suburban Choice” (with David
P. Varady), Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993,
pp. 259-274.
“Policy Dilemmas in Urban Education: Addressing
the Needs of Poor, At-Risk Children” (with Several Members
of The NASULGC Committee on Urban Education), Journal of Urban
Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 3/4, 1992.
“Changing Demographics and Life Styles:
What are Recent Homebuyers Really Like?” (with David
Varady), Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 14, 1992, 161-172.
“Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Teacher
Moonlighting” (with Lance Groff), Educational Evaluation
and Policy Analysis, Vol. 12, No. 4, Winter 1990, pp. 403-414.
“Public Management of Privatization” (with Timothy K. Barnekov), Public Productivity Review, Vol.
XIV, No. 2, Winter 1990, pp. 135-152 and reprinted in Case
Studies in Productive Public Management, Marc Holzer and Vatche
Gabrielian, Ed., (Burke, Va: Chatelaine Press, 1996), pp.
301-309.
“Urban Education Today” (with Members
of NASULGC Working Group on Urban Education Policy), Journal
of Planning Literature, Vol. 5, No. 1, August 1990, pp. 22-28.
Essay Review
“Educational Productivity,” in Review
of Books by Chubb and Moe/Witte and Clune, Public Productivity
and Management Review, 1992.
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“The Future of Public Affairs Education” Plenary session, NASPAA Conference, Seattle, Wash., October 14, 2007.
“What the NASPAA Accreditation Process Can Do for You,” School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, October 9, 2007.
“Initiation, Implementation, and Integration: A Case Study Evaluation of the Delaware New Teacher Mentoring/Induction Program,” Delaware New Teacher Mentoring/Induction Program Summer Workshop, Dover, Del., June 28, 2007.
“Initiation, Implementation, and Integration: Evaluation of the New Teacher Mentoring/Induction Program” (with Rachel Holbert). Institute for Public Administration Workshop, Rehoboth Beach, Del., June 5, 2007.
“What We Know and What We Don’t Know about Teacher Retention in Delaware” Institute for Public Administration Workshop, Rehoboth Beach, Del., June 4, 2007.
“Transforming Public Affairs Education through Accreditation” (with Crystal Calarusse), Third Transatlantic Dialogue Conference: Leading the Future of the Public Sector, University of Delaware, Newark, Del., June 1, 2007.
“Charter Schools in the Content of Brown: Panacea or Faustian Bargain,” Louis L. Redding Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: Celebrating the Past, Considering the Present, Contemplating the Future, April 23, 2004, Newark, Del.
“Changing Faces of School Desegregation in the Wilmington Metropolitan Area,” First Louis L. Redding Civil Rights Symposium, University of Delaware, Newark, Del., October 5, 2001.
“Foundations of Success for University Engagement: Building
a Public Education University Partnership at the University
of Delaware,” International Conference On The University
as Citizen: Engaging Universities and Communities, February
21-24, 2001, Tampa, Fla.
“The University of Delaware’s Internship
Program in the Context of ‘The Delaware Model’: Lessons Learned
Over 25 years,” NASPAA Conference, October 20, 2000,
Richmond, Va.
“The Delaware Model of Public Service
Education” (with Robert Denhardt, Daniel Rich, and Jerome
Lewis), Teaching Public Administration Conference, 1995, Savannah,
Ga.
“State and Local Relations in Delaware” (with Jerome Lewis, Kathryn Denhardt, and Deborah Auger),
Urban Affairs Association meetings, 1995, New York, N.Y.
“Two Approaches to School Desegregation
and Their Impacts on City-Suburban Choice: Cincinnati, Ohio
and Wilmington, Delaware,” Urban Affairs Association
Conference, April 30-May 1, 1992, Cleveland, Ohio.
“Influences on City-Suburban Choice: A
Study of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Wilmington, Delaware” (with
David P. Varady), Ohio’s Urban University Program 10th Anniversity
Colloquium Collection, April 8, 1991, Deer Creek State Park.
“Changing Demographics and Life Styles:
What are Recent Homebuyers Really Like?” (with David
P. Varady), Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting, Urban Affairs
Association, April 1991, Vancouver, B.C.
“Factors Affecting the City-Suburban Choice:
A Comparison of Wilmington/New Castle County and Cincinnati/Hamilton
County Home-Buyers” (with David P. Varady), Urban Affairs
Association Conference, April 1990, Charlotte, N.C.
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