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• RaJade M. Berry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at the University of Akron (http://gozips.uakron.edu/~rmberry). She is currently the PhD Coordinator, the Graduate Assistantship Coordinator and..

  RaJade M. Berry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at the University of Akron (http://gozips.uakron.edu/~rmberry). She is currently the PhD Coordinator, the Graduate Assistantship Coordinator and the Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society Advisor in the department. Jade is an active member in ASPA and COMPA, having served on ASPA’s National Council from 2000-2005 and as a regional representative for COMPA (2001-2003). Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Akron, Jade served as the MPA Coordinator/Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia (1999-2000) and established a Pi Alpha Alpha chapter there. For more than twelve years, she was an administrator at Kean University and formerly served as the Assistant to the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts (1993-1999) and the Associate Director of Institutional Research (1987-1993). Jade also worked as a research assistant for Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) Program within the Department of Higher Education in New Jersey (1985-1987). Jade received her Ph.D. in Public Administration from Rutgers, The State University. Her dissertation, “Implementing Affirmative Action: The Critical Role of the Affirmative Action Officers in Higher Education” was written under the direction of Marc Holzer and focused on factors that contribute to effectiveness in public and private colleges and universities. Jade received a Master of Public Administration degree from Kean University in 1993 and her master’s thesis was entitled, “The Doctrine of Comparable Worth: Beyond Equal Pay for Equal Work. She completed the Certified Public Manager Program in New Jersey (1991), after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Rider University (1987). Jade’s purpose in life is reflected by an old Ethiopian Proverb: "S/he who learns, teaches." Less

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