Management Assistant

J ACOB T. FOWLES

Assistant Professor Department of Public Administration University of Kansas

**** ******* *********, **** ****** Hall Lawrence, KS 66045

785-***-**** abpqeu@r.postjobfree.com

E DUCATION

Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration, Mar tin School of Public Policy and

Administration, University of Kentucky, May, 2010

Master of Political Science, University of Louisville, 2005

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, University of Kentucky, 2003 (Cum Laude)

R EFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

School Finance Reform: Do Equalized Expenditures Imply Equalized Teacher Salaries?

(with Meg Streams, J.S. Butler, Joshua Cowen and Eugenia Toma). Forthcoming in

Education Finance and Policy.

Accounting for Natural D isasters: The Impact of Earthquake Risk on California

Municipal Bond Pricing. with Gao Liu and Cezar Brian Mamaril, Public Budgeting and

Finance, 29(1): 68-83.

B OOK CHAPTERS

"State Fiscal Constraints on Local Government Borrowing: Effects on Scale and Cost" (with

Wie Yusuf, Gao Liu and Cleopatra Grizzle) in Jonathan Justice, Helisse Levine, and Eric

Scorsone (eds.), Handbook of Fiscal Health (Jones and Bartlett, forthcoming)

T ECHNICAL REPORTS

Higher Education Policy Profiles with Kelli Parmley and Takeshi Yanaguira. State

Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO): July, 2007 .

Offshore Outsourcing of Kentucky State Government Services: Direct Contracting Is

Limited but the Amount of Subcontracting Is Unknown with Greg Hager, Wayne

Linscott and Jonathan Roenker (Legislative Research Commission Research Report 325) .

Kentucky Can Improve the Coordination of Protective Services for Elderly and Other

Vulnerable Adults with Greg Hager, Cindy Upton, Lynn Aubrey, Kara Daniel, Rick

Graycarek, Van Knowles, and Erin McNees (Legislative Research Commission Research

Report 237).

C ONFERENCE PAPERS A ND PRESENTATIONS

Inter-Institutional Competition and Graduation Rates: The Impact of Market Pressure on

Public Higher Education. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Public

Policy Analysis and Management. Boston, MA: November, 2010.

Funding and Focus: Resource Dependence in Public H igher Education. Presented at

the annual meeting of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management. Omaha,

NE: October, 2010.

An Introduction to Stata . Invited presentation for the Center for Research Methods and

Data Analysis, University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS: October, 2010

State Decentralization of Higher Education Governance: A Hazard Model Approach.

Presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Finance Association.

Richmond, VA: March, 2010.

Teacher Mobility in Rural and non -rural Schools: The Impact of Statewide Finance

Reform in Kentucky with Joshua Cowen (presenting), Eugenia Toma, Megan Streams

and JS Butler. Presented at the annual mee ting of the American Education Finance

Association. Richmond, VA: March, 2010.

Teacher Characteristics and Statewide Education Reform: The Case of Kentucky with

Eugenia Toma (presenting), Megan Streams, JS Butler, and Joshua Cowen. Presented at

the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

Washington, DC: November, 2009 .

New York State Fiscal Institutions and Municipal Borrowing Costs: Do Debt and

Taxation Limits Really Im pact Capital Costs? with Gao Liu (prese nting) and Wie Yusuf.

Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Budgeting and Financial

Management. Washington, DC: September, 2009 .

Teacher Career Trajectories in Urban and Rural Kentucky: The Impact of the Kentucky

Education Reform Act with Megan Streams (presenting) and Eugenia Toma. Presented

at the annual meeting of the American Education Finance Association . Nashville,

Tennessee: March, 2009 .

Basic Conditions in the Market for Higher Education and the Tuition -Setting Process.

Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Jacksonville, Florida: November 2008 .

Linking Institutional Expenditures to Student Success: An Analysis of Public Institutions

of Higher Education. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Budgeting

and Financial Management. Chicago, Illinois: October 2008 .

The State of Higher Education Finance in Fiscal 2006 with Kelli Parmley and Takeshi

Yanaguira. Presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast Association for Institutional

Research. New Brunsw ick, New Jersey: November 2007 .

Natural Disaster Risk and Municipal Bond Pricing in California (presenting) with Gao

Liu and Cezar Mamaril. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Budge ting

and Financial Management. Washington, DC: October 2007 .

Public Participation and the Power of Information (presenting) with Wie Yusuf and

Lenahan O Connell. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association annual

meeting in Chicago, Illinois : April 2007.

W ORKING PAPERS

Funding and Focus: Resource Dependence In Public Higher Education

Teacher Mobility in Rural and Appalachian Schools: Evidence from Teaching Careers

over Two Decades in Kentucky (with Josh Cowen, Meg Streams, J.S. Butler, and

Eugenia Toma)

Connecting Governance to Institutional Performance: The Market for Higher Education

and Student Degree Completion

The Role of State Economic Characteristics in Privatization of Higher Education

Governance: Explaining Governance Change

Predicting Institutional School -as-Lender Participation: An Analysis of Decision

Making in Higher Education

New York State Fiscal Institutions and Municipal Borrowing Costs: Do Debt and

Taxation Limits Really Impact Capital Costs? (with Gao Liu and Wie Yusuf)

Gaining Public Acceptance for Transportation Finance Policy Solutions (with Wie

Yusuf and Lenahan O Connell )

P ROFESSIONAL EXPERIE NCE A ND S ERVICE

Assistant Professor (tenure -track), Department of Public Administration, University of

Kansas (July, 2010 to present)

Investigator (sub-contract), Spencer Foundation Grant #201000055: Teaching Careers in

Rural Schools: School Finance Reform and Teacher Recruitment and Retention (July,

2010 to present)

Graduate Research Assistant, Spencer Foundation Grant #201000055: Teaching Careers

in Rural Schools: School Finance Reform and Teacher Recruitment and Retention .

Eugenia Toma, Principal Investigator (August, 2009 to July, 2010)

Student Advisory Committee Member, Governor Steve Beshear s Workgroup on Higher

Education (October, 2008 to January, 2010)

Graduate Research Assistant to Eugenia Toma, James W. Martin School of Public Policy

and Administration, University of Kentucky (August, 2007 to August, 2009)

Policy Fellow, State Higher Education Executive Officers, Boulder, Colorado (May, 2007

to August, 2007)

Graduate Fellow, Program Review Committee of the Kentucky Legislative Research

Commission, Frankfort, Kentucky (January 2002 to June 2003 )

C OURSES TAUGHT

PUAD 835: Financing Public Services (Spring, 2011, University of Kansas )

PUAD 935: Advanced Quantitative Methods in Public Administration ( Fall, 2010,

University of Kansas)

POLS 390: Political Science Research Methods ( Summer, 2006, University of Louisville)

A CADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

Pi Alpha Alpha Best Doctoral Student Manuscript Award, National Association of

Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (October, 2008)

Association for the Study of Higher Education Graduate Student Policy Seminar

Participant (November, 2007)

Kentucky Opportunity Graduate Fellowship (August, 2005 to August, 2007)

Israel Naamani Award for outstanding service to the political science department,

University of Louisville (2005)

Dean s List, University of Kentucky (1997 to 1998)

Honors Program, University of Kentucky (1997 to 2001)

P ROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS A ND AFFILIATIONS

Affiliated faculty, Institute for Policy and Social Research, University of Kansas

Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

Member, Association for Education Finance and Policy

Member, Association for Budgeting and Financial Management

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