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Legacy Program Faculty
"The program's emphasis on cultivating organizational and community dimensions of leadership is crucial for building effective solutions in times of change" Senator Mark O. Hatfield, Distinguished Professor at the Hatfield School of Government, PSU
Faculty for The Legacy Program consist of a variety of senior level elected officials, experienced career administrators, and distinguished resident and visiting scholars who possess special expertise on the issues examined during the week.
Case Presenters
Each program will begin with senior level administrators and elected officials who will present the case problem that will serve as the focal point for the week-long seminar discussion. (At right) Case study panel for the April 2000 program, left to right: Pete Grundfossen, Executive Director of the Assn. of Oregon Housing Authorities; Frank Brawner, past Executive Director of the Oregon Banker's Association Bob Repine, Director of the Oregon Housing & Community Services Dept. and Susan Wilson, Director of Washington County Housing Services
Political Leaders
Each program will host several distinguished elected officials who will share the lessons they have learned for successful transformational change. (At left) Former Congressman Les Aucoin addresses the September 1999 Legacy Program.
Resident Faculty
The Legacy Program will draw on a variety of scholars who have extensive experience in sharing their expertise with experienced leaders. The Resident Faculty for 2000-2001 include:
Henry "Budd" Kass 
Henry D. Kass, Ph.D. has recently retired as chair of the Ph.D. Program in the Hatfield School of Government. He has written widely on ethics and public service and has hosted several national conferences focusing on the changing face of public service. He is an expert on citizen service and is a seasoned trainer. In 1991 he was voted the "Consultant of the Year" for the State of Oregon.
Alison Kelley 
Alison Kelley, J. D. is an attorney, mediator and facilitator from Salem, Oregon. Alison uses a wide range of styles and collaborative options to assist parties in developing practical, logical and cost-effective solutions to conflict. Her primary areas of interest include public policy, administrative law, transportation planning, workplace relations, organizational change and development, and dispute resolution systems design. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar, the American Arbitration Association, the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR), the Oregon Mediation Association (OMA), and the joint Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission/OMA Public Education and Awareness Committee.
Devorah Lieberman 
Devorah Lieberman is currently the Vice Provost and Assistant to the President for Campus Initiatives. She has also been a professor in the Speech Communications Dept. at PSU since 1987. She received the 1999 PSU Distinguished Faculty Service Award for outstanding teaching and service to both the university and the community. Devorah was appointed by the Governor to the Oregon Ed-Net board and has founded the Northwest Higher Education Faculty Development Consortium. In 1996 she published "Public speaking/Public listening in the multicultural environment" in SA Beebe's Public Speaking.
Doug Morgan 
Doug Morgan, Ph.D. is the Director of the Executive Leadership Institute in the Hatfield School of Government. He has extensive experience in offering professional development programs to senior level leaders at the federal, state and local levels of government. His articles on ethics and public service have appeared in a variety of books and journals. His article on "The Limits of Reinventing Government: What Middle Mangers do in Local Government" received the Brownlow Award in 1994 for the best article published by practitioners in the Public Administration Review.
Barbara Roberts 
Barbara Roberts joined the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University as Associate Director of Leadership Development in December of 1998. For the 3 years prior, Governor Roberts was the Director of the Kennedy School's State & Local Executive Program at Harvard University, where she remains a Senior Fellow to the Women and Public Policy Program. In November of 1990, Barbara Roberts was elected as Oregon's first woman Governor. During her four-year term (1991-1995), Governor Roberts was recognized as a strong advocate for environmental management, a state and national leader for human and civil rights and one of America's foremost "reinventors" of effective government.
Craig Shinn 
Craig Shinn, Ph.D. has twenty years of experience in teaching, research and management concerned with leadership training and development as well as natural resource policy and administration. He has been an Associate Professor of Public Administration at PSU since 1996 and was an Assistant Professor at Lewis and Clark College, 1992-96. In 1994 Craig co-published Rural Resource Management: Problem Solving Tools for the Long Run. He has been heavily involved in the Executive Leadership Institute at PSU and has led many of its Leadership Development and Training programs.
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