Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study evaluates and compares several alternatives for increasing efficiency in Kent State University (KSU) Police Department. The KSU Police Department provides money escort services despite the recent decrease in the number of personnel allocated to routine police services. The community the department serves expects the campus police to be more visible and respond to calls for service more swiftly. In order to increase efficiency in terms of visibility and rapid response on campus, this study recommends contracting out the money escort services to a private company and redeploy police officers to foot patrol and community policing activities on campus. Moreover, the department can expand its dispatching services to other local law enforcement agencies by providing regular dispatching service to Brimfield Fire Department and computer aid (CAD) service to Kent City Police Department. As a result, the department could earn money in order to hire more officers to cover the increasing demand for service as the number of students and requests has increased dramatically in 2003-2004 fiscal year.

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: Kent State University's Political Science Department sponsors two unique and innovative semester-long off-campus programs for junior and senior students. The Washington Program in National Issues (WPNI) has been in continual existence for over thirty years. A faculty member accompanies 20-25 students who spend the fifteen-week semester in Washington, D.C., serving in internships, attending briefings, and engaging in research. The overwhelming success of WPNI stimulated the Department to develop a similar program for the fall semester in the state capital city of Columbus, Ohio, the Columbus Program in Intergovernmental Issues (CPII), and the third class of 20-25 students is currently in Columbus.We propose to present a paper on these two programs that will be divided into four parts. After a brief introduction, the first major section of the paper will be an administrative overview of the programs by Tom Hensley, who was Chair of the Department the past four years. He will discuss such issues as curriculum development, the financial structure of the programs, and the recruitment of faculty directors. The second part of the paper will be a discussion of all aspects of WPNI by Rick Robyn, who has served as the faculty director for the past three years. The third part of the paper will be a description of CPII by Vernon Sykes, the faculty member who has directed each of the programs in Columbus. The final major section of the paper will involve each author in contributing to an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the programs. We think this paper will be of interest to political scientists whose schools already sponsor semester-long off-campus programs as well as professors from schools who might want to consider developing such programs.