Wednesday, December 05, 2007

In this issue:


ICMA Releases New Edition of Emergency Management Textbook

Here's a full chapter excerpt from this brand new edition of ICMA's landmark textbook on emergency management.
Read more

A Budgeting Guide: Syllabus and Other FREE Classroom Tools

If you're looking for some great Excel exercises and engaging discussion questions for your budgeting class, check out these FREE classroom tools Bob Bland developed to accompany A Budgeting Guide for Local Government, 2nd Edition.
Read more

Ethical Courage: Doing the Right Thing Even When It's Painful

A measure of an individual's ethical courage is how that person deals with problems when something goes wrong. Here are some examples from local government managers.
Read more

ICMA's 311/Centralized Customer Survey Results Available to Academics

ICMA conducted a national Local Government Customer Service Systems (311) survey that explores successful implementation of these systems and how they are being used to respond to citizen needs and strengthen local government-constituent relationships.
Read more

Adjuncts' Corner

This month in Adjuncts' Corner, Ray Cox III, Ph.D. helps you with the difficult task of deciding on reading assignments for your course.
Read more
Contacts
Editor: Allison King aking@icma.org
ICMA Press Publishing Director: Ann Mahoney amahoney@icma.org
NASPAA Marketing Director: Scott Talan talan@naspaa.org
Customer Service: customercontactcenter@icma.org
ICMA Telephone: 202-289-4262

Was this e-mail forwarded to you? If so, you can sign up to receive it monthly. If you no longer wish to receive Academic Matters, you may unsubscribe. You can also change your e-mail preferences and interest areas, and subscribe to other FREE e-newsletters by going to the Interests and Preferences page on the ICMA Web site.

The HTML version of this e-newsletter can be found at http://www.icma.org/enews/AcademicMatters/issue_0386_05_08.htm

Academic Matters is copyright 2007 by ICMA, 777 North Capitol St., NE, Suite 500, Washington, D.C. 20002. All rights reserved. Duplication of this e-newsletter in any form is strictly prohibited. You have permission to forward this e-newsletter, by e-mail, in its entirety. Please do not cut and paste articles to e-mail to others.