Marvin K. Hoffman

• Professor of Political Science/Criminal Justice. Director of the MPA Program. Graduate Faculty.
• B.A., Rutgers University, M.A., Ph.D., University of Georgia.
• Joined ASU in 1990.
• Office located in Whitener Hall, second floor, room 102.
• Phone- 828-262-3075
• E-Mail: hoffmanmk@appstate.edu

• MPA Capstone Course (graduate-level)
• Public Budgeting and Financial Administration (graduate-level)
• Internship in Public Affairs
• National Government
• State and Local Government
• Introduction to Public Administration
• Local Government Administration
• Public Management
• Research Methods
• Public Sector Management (Poland)
• Economic and Political Philosophies in America (Poland)
• Developing Small Business (Poland)
• American Political Thought

RESEARCH:

• “NASPAA Faculty and Their Involvement in Distance Education”, with Dragan Stefanovic’, Public Voices, Volume 3 (in press).

• “Current Trends in the Use of Technology for Improved Teaching And Access to Non-Traditional University Students in the United States”, with Dragan Stefanovic, a chapter to appear in a book, Distance Education Techniques, authored by Professor Stanslaw Wrycza to be published by the University of Gdansk Press, Gdansk, Poland (in press).

• “Wzmacnianie roli samorzdau localnego w procesie rozwoju ekonomicznego”, with Marian Turek, in Stanyslawa Dolata, Funcjonowani Samorzad Terytorianlego – Diagnozy I Perpektywy (Opole: University of Opole Press, 1997), pp. 407- 417.

• “Prywatyzacja drog w USA.  Tendencje I doswiadczenia” with Marian Turek in M. Miecznikowski (ed) – Przemiany wlasnocieowe w transprocie. GTN, Gdansk, 1997). ISBN82-85843-73-6.  This chapter dealt with constructing and financing toll highways as a means of meeting Poland’s infrastructure needs.

• "A Cross-National Survey of Public Opinion on the Environment, Government, the Media and Education:  The United States, East Germany, Poland and Hungary”, with Daniel B. German, in Geogy Cspeli, Laszlo Keri, Istvan Stumpf, and Daniel German, editors, Subject to Citizen: Options and Trajectories of Political Socialization and Education in Eastern Europe, (Budapest, Hungary: Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Science, 1994).

• “A State-Wide Survey of North Carolina Public Opinion Toward the Environment, Government and the Media:  The Effects of Educational Attainment, Educational and Political Education, and the Media”, with Daniel B. German, in Russell F. Farnen, editor, Reconceptualizing Politics, Socialization and Education:  International Perspectives for the Next Century (Oldenburg, Germany:  Bibliotheks und Informations-system der Universitat Oldenburg, 1993).

• “North Carolinians’ Concerns About the Environment”, with Daniel B. German, Popular Government, Volume 57 (Spring, 1992), pp. 15-20.

• “Symposium on Urban Architecture, Planning and Politics: Structuring Human Environments”, edited with Daniel B. German, in Occasional Papers From Appalachian State University, Volume 1 (1991), Boone, NC: Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies and Research.

• Graduate School Dean Evaluation Committee, 2002.  Member appointed by Faculty Senate to assess and report on faculty evaluations of the Dean of the Graduate School.
• Dean’s Advisory Committee, College of Arts and Sciences.  Member, elected by College Faculty, 2000-2002.
• University Safety and Health Committee.  Member, appointed by the Chancellor, 1998-2001.
• University Disaster Preparedness Committee.  Member, appointed by the Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs, 1998-present.  Chair, Plans Review Committee.
• University Eastern and Central European Committee.  Member, appointed by the Senior Associate Provost, 1995-present.
• Department Personnel Committee. Member, elected by the Department Faculty.  Member (Tenured)  1998-2001
• Alternate Member (Tenured) 1997-1998, Secretary   1993, Member (Untenured)  1992-1994
• Department Strategic Planning Committee.  Chair, appointed by Department Chairperson, 1999-2000.  Prepared the Department Strategic Plan for 2001-2006.
• Departmental Unit-Level Planning Committee.  Chair, appointed by the Department Chairperson, 1992.  Prepared the Department Unit Plan for 1992-1997.