Dr. Tyrone R. Baines was inducted as a
fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) at its
annual meeting on November 16, 2006 in Washington, DC. The Academy is
an independent, non-partisan organization chartered by Congress to
assist federal, state, and local governments in improving their
effectiveness, efficiency and accountability.
Federal agencies, Congress,
state and local governments, academia, and foundations frequently seek
the Academy's assistance in addressing both short-term and long-term
challenges-including budgeting and finance, alternative agency
structures, performance measurement, human resources management,
information technology, devolution of federal programs, strategic
planning, and managing for results. Its membership consists of 550
fellows who include current and former cabinet officers, members of
Congress, Governors, Mayors, Diplomats, local Public Managers,
Foundation Executives, Business Executives and Scholars.
Dr. Baines has provided
distinguished service in the areas of Elected Official, University
Administrator, Foundation Executive, Public Manager and Scholar. He
was elected to the Battle Creek, MI City Commission; served as
Vice-Chancellor for University Relations at N.C. Central University in
Durham, NC and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. Paul’s College
in Lawrenceville, VA; served 15 years as Program Director at the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation in the areas of Youth Development and Higher
Education; served as a Program Manager and Consultant for many federal
agencies including the Office of Economic Opportunity; Office of
Personnel Management, The Central Intelligence Agency, The Department
of Defense; The Environmental Protection Agency and several others.
He has been a professor at N.C.
Central University, the University of Southern California, the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Southern Illinois
University, and the University of Virginia and has published scholarly
articles in the areas of housing relocation, positive youth
development and designing internships.
His civic activities include
former Chairman of the Battle Creek Goodwill Industries Board; former
Chairman of Battle Creek YMCA Board; former Chairman of the National
Resource Center for Healing Racism and numerous boards which focus on
economic development and the academic achievement of African-American
males. He was a member of the National NAACP’s Brown vs. Board of
Education Commission.
Baines is a graduate of Morgan
State University in Baltimore and holds the Masters of Social Work
degree from the University of Pennsylvania; the Masters of Political
Science and the Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of
Maryland at College Park. He also holds a Certificate in Educational
Management from The Harvard Business School. He has been awarded
three honorary doctorate degrees. Baines has been a Woodrow Wilson
fellow, an American Council on Education fellow and a W.K. Kellogg
Foundation fellow.
Dr. Baines is
a Senior Fellow and Professor of Public Administration at North
Carolina Central University.
Reprinted Courtesy of the Carolina Times
National Academy of Public Administration
(NAPA) website
http://www.napawash.org/resources/news/news_10_26_06.html
