2006-2007 Past Events

Fiscal Challenges and Options for Budget Process Reform
The Bedrosian Center hosted a luncheon event in partnership with the New California Network on May 22, 2007.

David Abel Colloquium: "Rethinking Governance in the Age of MySpace.com"
The Bedrosian Center hosted the inaugural David Abel Colloquium on Thursday, March 8, 2007, which featured a roundtable dialogue on politics in the digital age with experts from the media, technology sector, and government.

Bedrosian Center Mini-Grant Luncheon, March 8, 2007
Jefferey Sellers presented “Local Cross-Sectoral Governance and National Institutions: A 14 Country Comparison.” Susan Webb Yackee presented “Agency Rulemaking: Responsiveness Reevaluated.”

Bedrosian Center Mini-Grant Luncheon, February 15, 2007
Richard F. Callahan presented "Analyzing the Performance of the Alameda Corridor Public-Private Partnership." Eric Heikkila presented "Information Footpaths as Neighborhood Networks."

Bedrosian Center Mini-Grant Luncheon, January 18, 2007
Clara Irazábal and Siri Eggebraten presented "The Emperor's New Clothes: Governance, Planning, and Participation in the LA River Revitalization Process." Priscilla Wohlstetter and Ally Kuzin presented "Collaborative Governance in Education: Lessons from K-12 Public Schools."

Bedrosian Center Luncheon: "Urban Theory: LA, Chicago, and Transcending Schools," December 14, 2006
Terry Nichols Clark, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Coordinator, Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project, University of Chicago presented his research. To link to slides, click here.

Meeting with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), December 12, 2006
Members of the USC E-Governance Lab met with members of KAIST's Knowledge based e-Government Research Center to formalize a working partnership allowing for information exchange, international dialogue and cooperative education and research.

Meeting with Taiwan's Congressman Julian J. Kuo
The Bedrosian Center's Gregory Curtin and Leah Oliver met with Taiwan Congressman Julian J. Kuo and Ivan Chen, Division Director for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, on November 7, 2006. Dr. Curtin presented information on the UN Program on E-Government. Congressman Kuo discussed e-government advancements in Taiwan.

Bedrosian Center Mini-Grant Luncheon, October 5, 2006
Elizabeth Graddy presented “The Consequences of Partner Selection in Public-Private Service Delivery Collaborations.”

SPPD Celebrates the Inaugural Alumni Guardian Awards
Sheriff Leroy D. Baca, John Bedrosian, and the Honorable Joyce L. Kennard were honored as Guardians by the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the SPPD Alumni Association at the Inaugural SPPD Alumni Guardian Awards on October 24 at Town & Gown on the USC campus. More than 250 attendees were on hand to fete the honorees.

Created to recognize alumni and friends of the school whose work advances SPPD's mission to help improve public problem solving and work toward the betterment of communities here and abroad, the Guardian Awards recall the work of Plato, who proposed a class of men and women –known as guardians– who would be raised from birth to employ wisdom, virtue and knowledge, creating a just and good society. "In The Republic, Plato emphasized that, beyond acquiring information and skills, Guardians must develop strength of character and share a commitment to community," said Jack H. Knott, SPPD's C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean. "The Guardians that we honor tonight epitomize these virtues that he described some 2,400 years ago."

Baca holds two degrees from SPPD - an MPA received in 1973 and a Doctor of Public Administration that he earned 20 years later. Bedrosian, who earned his law degree from USC, serves on the SPPD Board of Councilors. In 2004, he and his wife, Judith, made a gift of $10 million to the school to create the Judith and John Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise. Kennard earned an MPA from SPPD and a JD from the USC Gould School of Law. She has served as an associate justice on the California Supreme Court since 1989.