发布时间：2019-04-19
College of Management and Economics
March 12th
From March 8th to 12th, 2019, Professor Li-ping Fu, Dean of the College of Public Administration of Tianjin University, led the teachers and students to Washington to attend the ASPA Annual Conference.
1. What is ASPA?
The annual meeting of the American Society of Public Administration is one of the most important academic conferences in the United States, presenting the hot spots of global public management research, and is a vane that the academic community pays close attention to.
This year is the 80th annual meeting of ASAP. It is jointly organized by American University and more than 1,000 Public Management experts, scholars and politicians from more than 40 countries and regions around the world participated in the conference.
The theme of this annual conference is "A call for action-advancing public service". The conference covers more than 100 topics, with more than 20 different topics every day. Members of the next ASPA Bureau was also elected. Jane Pisano, President of 2018-2019, has officially stepped down. Paul Danczyk, the newly elected President of 2019-2020, officially took up the post at this meeting. Former US Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech about "The Civil Servant Is the Lifeline of Democracy." at the meeting.
This conference covers issues related to cooperation between government and social organizations, public-private partnership and public service outsourcing in the field of public management. The conference also highlighted national management practices, introduced new approaches to public administration, and discussed innovation in the government and nonprofit sectors. This year's conference has five main sections: public finance, infrastructure, social equity, public services and global public management, which represent the most important challenges and opportunities in the field of public management.
The teachers and students of the College of Public Administration of Tianjin University reported on the research results of “Public transportation service innovation challenges to government supervision: How to balance public demand and urban governance costs”. The sub-forum also addressed the preference of English journal editors in two aspects of “scientific nature of the data collection" and "innovative research topic". During the conference, they also communicated with professors of public management colleges at home and abroad on the development of public management discipline and the construction of talent team.
2. What actions did the faculty and students of the College of Public Administration take after the meeting?
Professor Li-ping Fu led the team to the College of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, where he was received by Professor Chao Guo, Vice Chairman of the Fox Leadership Center and Director of the Master of International Public Administration Program. Professor Ram Cnaan, former President of ANOVA, Scott Moore, the Director of the Global China Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Joseph Tierney, Executive Director of the Fox Leadership Center, and staff and doctoral students from the center participated in the panel discussion.
Li-ping Fu introduced the history, discipline development and teaching research of the CoME and the College of Public Administration of Tianjin University. Researchers from the Pennsylvania introduced the cooperation projects with China in recent years. The two sides exchanged in-depth views on China's aging population, the development of elderly care services, the development of survey projects and other academic issues as well as future project cooperation.
Later, Li-ping Fu and her entourage went to New York to visit the College of Social Work and the China Social Policy Center of Columbia University. Dr. Jin-yu Liu, an assistant professor of the center, received the visit. Jin-yu Liu shared her own research experience and academic interests, and introduced the main research directions of the College of Social Work of Columbia University. Li-ping Fu introduced the progress of health pension research and micro-data surveys of the College of Public Administration of Tianjin University in recent years. Besides, data sharing, academic exchanges and cooperation and other issues have been discussed in depth.
