Welcome to the 2004 SCUPSO Annual Conference Site

This Year’s Conference

This year’s conference theme, Celebrating University—Community Partnerships, not only corresponded with several hot topics surrounding university-based public policy institutes but also commemorated the strong partnerships that such organizations maintain with their states and local governments.

The University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), which celebrated its 30th year in 2003, hosted the 2004 Annual SCUPSO Conference on April 14–16, 2004, at the John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center in Newark, Delaware (located on the University of Delaware’s main campus). The approximately 70 attendees included public administration professionals from leading southern universities in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Southern Consortium of University Public Service Organizations

Organized in 1979, the Southern Consortium of University Public Service Organizations (SCUPSO) supports university-based public service institutes in their efforts to assist state and local governments on a range of issues such as healthcare, welfare reform, and urban sprawl. SCUPSO facilitates networking, information exchange, and collaboration among its 40 member institutions. SCUPSO’s strategic focus is aimed at improving policy decision-making through quality research and technical assistance, while promoting best practices and leadership skills among government officials and administrators.

SCUPSO provides the opportunity for members to address current public policy issues pertinent to their states and local governments at an annual conference hosted by one of its member universities.

For more information on the Southern Consortium of University Public Service Organizations, contact Linda Hoke.

Institute for Public Administration

The Institute for Public Administration (IPA) is a public service, education and research center that links the resource capacities of the University of Delaware with the complex public policy and management needs of governments and related nonprofit and private organizations. IPA provides direct staff assistance, research, policy analysis, training, and forums while contributing to the scholarly body of knowledge. Program areas include civic education, conflict resolution, health care policy, land use planning, organizational development, school leadership, state and local management, water resources planning, and women's leadership.

IPA’s main office is on the University’s Newark campus in 180 Graham Hall. Jerome Lewis is the director of the Institute and can be reached at 302-831-8971 or by e-mail at jlewis@udel.edu. To learn more about IPA, please visit our website.
 

conference contact
Bernard Dworsky
bdworsky@udel.edu

Southern Consortium of University Public Service Organizations
2004 Annual Conference
hosted by the Institute for Public Administration at the University of Delaware