Faculty Associate Program
The Faculty Associate Program appoints selected faculty and senior administrators/staff from colleges and universities in the LORL Academic Network as "LORL Faculty Associates" and provides support services and reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses for voluntary services to LORL and the General Assembly subsequent to their appointment.
Since LORL was established in 1976, many of the more than 25,000 faculty members of the colleges and universities in the LORL Academic Network have given unselfishly of their time and talents to assist the General Assembly through LORL. Their service has included such activities as coordinating LORL conferences; assisting with major LORL projects; serving on LORL advisory committees; offering presentations or briefings at LORL-related legislative workshops, or conferences; organizing student teams for semester-long course projects to research major legislative inquiries; and serving LORL as informal gatekeepers and referral points to other faculty at the home institutions. These services generally have been uncompensated, and the faculty volunteers usually have not received reimbursement for expenses. The Faculty Associate Program seeks to reduce the costs of voluntary service and provide incentives for affiliated faculty to continue to volunteer.
Faculty Associates are appointed for a two year session of the General Assembly. The appointments expire on the date the session is adjourned sine die and may be renewed. The key procedural requirement for appointment is that the faculty member, the faculty member's home institution and LORL agree to the appointment.
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- Carnegie Mellon University
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- Richard Stafford
- Professor of Public Policy, Heinz School
- Drexel University
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- Richardson Dilworth
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- East Stroudsburg University
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- Glenn Geiser-Getz, PhD
- THIS Resident Faculty Director, Dept. of Communications
- Franklin & Marshall College
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- Berwood A. Yost
- Director, Center for Opinion Research
- Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
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- Christina Dryden, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Integrative Sciences
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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- Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
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- Robert Sechrist, PhD
- Department of Geography and Regional Planning
- King's College
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- Michael Epoca, PhD
- Adjunct Professor
- Kutztown University
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- Paula Holoviak, PhD
- Associate Professor, Political Science Department
- Lincoln University
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- Virginia Smith, PhD
- Associate Professor, Master of Human Services Program
- Lock Haven University
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- Dr. Wade Seibert
- Office of the Chancellor
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
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- Stephen C. Luce, PhD
- Dept. Of Psychology
- Temple University
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- Anne Shlay, PhD
- Professor, Department of Sociology
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- Marsha Weinraub, PhD
- Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Director of the Developmental Graduate Training Program, and Director of the Personality and Social Development Research Laboratory
- The Pennsylvania State University
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- Theodore Alter, PhD
- Professor, Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
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- Todd Bacastow, PhD
- Assistant Director, Environment Institute
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- Brian K. Bumbarger
- Director, EPISCenter
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- Beverly Cigler, PhD
- Professor, Public Administration and Public Policy
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- Douglas Miller, PhD
- Director, Center for Environmental Informatics
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- Daniel Perkins, PhD
- Associate Professor, Agricultural and Extension Education
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- Brady Stroh, MRP, GISP
- Director of Geospatial Services
- University of Pittsburgh
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- Toni Carbo, PhD
- Professor, School of Information Sciences and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
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- Sabina E. Deitrick, PhD
- Associate Professor, GSPIA
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- William N. Dunn
- Faculty GSPIA - Office of the Dean
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- Judith R. Lave, PhD
- Professor and Chair, Health Policyand Management, Graduate School of Public Health
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- Terry Miller
- MSW, Director, Institute of Politics
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- David Miller, PhD
- Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
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- Bambang Parmanto, PhD
- Assistant Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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- Margaret Potter, JD
- Director, Center for Public Health Practice
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- Ravi Sharma, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
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- Kenneth Sochats, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications and Director, Visual Information Systems Center
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- Tracy Soska
- Continuing Education Director, Lecturer in the Community Organization and Social Administration Program, School of Social Work
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- Jennifer Zajac, BA
- Evaluation Manager, Office of Child Development, School of Education
- Villanova University
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- Craig Wheeland
- Professor, Political Science Department
- Wilkes University
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- Thomas Baldino, PhD
- Professor of Political Science
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- Teri Ooms
- Executive Director, Joint Urban Studies Center
- York College of Pennsylvania
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- John Altman, PhD
- Associate Professor of History and Political Science
