Professor Raymond Cox III receives Fulbright to study U.S.-Canada public policy

Akron, Ohio, Aug. 29, 2007 — University of Akron professor Raymond Cox III has received a Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program award to study public policy issues affecting the United States and Canada at the McGill Institute in Montreal, Quebec.

Awards in the distinguished chairs program are among the most prestigious in the Fulbright Scholar Program. Cox is the first UA professor to receive this award for senior scholars with significant publication and teaching records.

“During the fall semester, I foresee many opportunities to explore issues concerning Canadian-American relations and comparative politics and administration,” says Cox.

The award will also allow Cox to enlarge his research focus by studying ethics in Canadian municipalities. He will discuss public policy and public sector ethics as a guest lecturer at York University and McGill Institute, where he will present the annual Fulbright Lecture in November.

He will also visit the Institute of Public Administration of Canada and the Centre for Practical Ethics at York University in Toronto.

This is Cox's second Fulbright award. He received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Program award in 2003 to develop a performance measurement and training program for the government of Latvia. The senior specialist program provides short-term academic opportunities of from two to six weeks for U.S. faculty and professionals.

A professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at The University of Akron, Cox teaches several master's and doctoral courses, including public sector ethics and leadership.

He has written more than 50 academic and professional publications, 10 reports for government agencies, 40 professional papers, and he has been on the editorial boards of three professional journals.

In 2006, Cox was recognized for his service to the profession with the Donald C. Stone Award from the American Society for Public Administration; he chairs the group’s section on ethics. He is also chair of the Local Government Management Education Committee of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

During his career, Cox has been a legislative analyst for the speaker's office for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, program manager and director for the National Science Foundation, and chief of staff to the lieutenant governor in New Mexico.

He has developed training programs on a variety of management topics, most often in strategic management, performance appraisals and evaluation, and in public sector ethics. He has been a consultant to several municipal, county, state and federal government agencies.

Cox received his doctoral degree in public administration and policy from Virginia Tech.

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