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  • No One Cares What Color The Fire Truck Is: A Case Study of Interagency Cooperation In Fire Management in Central Oregon

    Creator:
    Gregory, Sarah
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    The purpose of this study is to identify the aspects of successful collaboration within an inter-organizational context. This essay is a case study of a tightly niched network of fire chiefs in central Oregon situated within multiple contiguous boundaries of federal and state agencies, county and municipal governments, industrial forests,...
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    Sarah_Gregory_MPP_Essay No One Cares What Color The

  • Examining Community Narratives of Keep Virginia Beautiful’s “Green Grants” Initiative

    Creator:
    Bailey, Jessie
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    This essay examines community narratives around Keep Virginia Beautiful's Green Grants initiative. Green Grants is a signature annual program that awards grants to organizations throughout Virginia in support of projects aligned with one of Keep Virginia Beautiful’s three pillars: recycling, litter prevention, and community beautification. The primary research questions are...
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    of single-sentence impact statements; there are no significant differences to the final report

  • Exploring a Mental Health Crisis : An Examination of Mental Health Arrests in Benton County, OR

    Creator:
    Lanfear, Charles C.
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    Benton County, Oregon is presently experiencing a crisis level of police contacts with mentally ill suspects. The cause of this sudden increase is currently unknown and local law enforcement is not adequately equipped or funded to respond to this development. This report summarizes the recent literature on law enforcement encounters...
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    enforcement is not adequately equipped or funded to respond to this development. This report summarizes the

  • Public Perceptions of Oregon’s K-12 and Higher Education Schools

    Creator:
    Henthorne, Ryan
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    This study explores Oregonians’ attitudes about and perceptions of public education. Specifically, perceptions about education quality were analyzed, looking at the perceived quality of education today and how it has changed over the last 5 years. Questions posed to respondents about education funding, explored views on additional state funding needed...
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  • Unsubstantiated fears : assessing the effects of recent immigration on part I index crimes

    Creator:
    Stansfield, Richard
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    In this paper I examine the impact of recent immigration, in addition to other community predictors on community counts of violent and property crimes in Austin, Texas, a multi-ethnic city. I combine data from the 2000 US census of population and housing with census tract level uniform crime report data...
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    population and housing with census tract level uniform crime report data from the Austin police

  • Experiences and Expectations of Youth Correctional Facility Teachers

    Creator:
    Stevens, Katelyn Ann
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    Youth corrections teachers are an under-researched group of individuals who have much to lend to the discussion surrounding youth corrections including teaching methodologies, challenges, and benefits. This report summarizes the available academic literature of the characteristics of effective youth corrections teachers in comparison with teachers who work in traditional public...
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    corrections including teaching methodologies, challenges, and benefits. This report summarizes the available

  • Examining Permanent Supportive Housing on Chronic Substance Abuse Populations in Oregon

    Creator:
    Harmon, Catalina
    Abstract:
    Oregon has one of the five highest homeless occupancy rates in the U.S., according to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (2021). Using the current governor of Oregon’s (Tina Kotek) plan to decrease homelessness, which focuses primarily on housing developments and strategies, this study will first examine the merits of permanent...
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    occupancy rates in the U.S., according to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (2021). Using the current

  • The Melamine Milk Scandal and Its Implication for Food Safety Policy in China

    Creator:
    Chen, Zhe
    Abstract:
    China suffered its biggest food-safety crisis in 2008 when it was discovered that melamine had been illegally added to the milk formula. More than 290,000 children were poisoned and at least six infants were dead. Chinese citizens and the governments around the world gave the Chinese government a lot of...
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    will receive lots of burdens and no beneficial policies (Schneider and Ingram 1993

  • Exploring the Rationale For and Role of Public Financing for Food Hubs

    Creator:
    Anselm, Marie E.
    Abstract:
    Food hubs are a key solution to advance local and regional food systems by providing aggregation, storage, and distribution services to small and mid-sized farmers and thereby help them to access local and regional markets. By performing these functions, food hubs produce valuable services to not only farmers but to...
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    studies report that many food hubs obtain government funding, they do not examine the role of public

  • The Case for Remote Monitoring: Evidence from Kenya

    Creator:
    Dunn, Zachary A.
    Abstract:
    International development projects aimed at alleviating poverty often fall short when it comes to capacity for operation and maintenance. As a case in point, today it is estimated one-third of all African wells have fallen into disrepair due to lack of effective management, corresponding to as many as 250,000 broken...
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    that report data in near real-time, has the potential to provide critical data to facilitate e↵ective