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Shannon Vaughan
Professor, MPA Director and Chair
Contact
- Office
- LAW 146
- Phone
- (406)243-4702
- shannon.vaughan@mso.umt.edu
- Office Hours
Office Hours Appointments:
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science (Major Areas: Public Policy and American Government), University of Kentucky
Dissertation: Government-Nonprofit Relations and Policy Change: The Impact of Children's Advocacy Centers on State Policy Adoptions
Master of Public Administration (Concentration: Town, City, and County Management), Appalachian State University
B.S. in Public Administration (University Scholar), University of Tennessee at Martin
Courses Taught
PUAD 503 Policy Analysis
PUAD 505 Public Budgeting & Finance
Teaching Experience
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥: Professor, 2023-Present
Western Kentucky University: Professor 2022-2023; Associate Professor 2016-2022; Assistant Professor, 2012-2016
Appalachian State University: Assistant Professor, 2003-2008
Graduate courses: public budgeting & finance, public policy analysis, policy implementation & evaluation, public service ethics, collaborative governance, nonprofits & public policy, grants
Undergraduate courses: American government, public policy, government & ethics, introduction to public administration, democracy & civic engagement
Research Interests
Not-for-profit organizations and policy change; cross-sector collaboration and conflict; ethics in public and nonprofit organizations; government and foundation grant funding
Selected Publications
Vaughan, Shannon K. and Shelly Arsneault. 2021. Managing Nonprofit Organizations in a Policy World, second edition. Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh Publishers
Vaughan, Shannon K. and Shelly Arsneault. 2023. Public Policy and Nonprofit Organizations, in Kevin Kearns and Wenjiun Wang, eds., Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance. Cheltenham, UK; Edward Elgar Publishing
Arsneault, Shelly and Shannon K. Vaughan. 2020. Teaching the Public Policy Context of Nonprofit Management, in Karabi Bezboruah and Heather Carpenter, eds., Teaching Nonprofit Management. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing
Adam J. Newmark, Shannon K. Vaughan, and Giovanny Pleites-Hernandez. 2019. Surviving Political Scandals: Why Some Transgressions End Political Careers and Others Do Not. Social Science Quarterly, 100(4): 1268-1283.
Vaughan, Shannon K. and Shelly Arsneault. 2018. The Public Benefit of Benefit Corporations. PS: Political Science & Politics, 51(1): 54-60
Arsneault, Shelly and Shannon K. Vaughan. 2015. Blurred Lines: Preparing Students to Work Across the Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Sectors. Journal of Public Affairs Education 21(3): 311-314
Newmark, Adam J. and Shannon K. Vaughan. 2014. When Sex Doesn’t Sell: Political Scandals, Culture, and Media Coverage in the States. Public Integrity. 16(2):121-44.
Vaughan, Shannon K. 2010. The Importance of Performance Assessment in Local Government Decisions to Fund Health and Human Services Not-for-Profit Organizations. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration. Winter 32(4): 486-512.
Vaughan, Shannon K. and Shelly Arsneault. 2008. Not-for-Profit Advocacy: Challenging Policy Images and Pursuing Policy Change Review of Policy Research. 25(5): 411-428.
Strickland, Ruth Ann and Shannon K. Vaughan. 2008. Hierarchy of Ethical Values in Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework for an Ethical, Self-Actualized Nonprofit Organizational Culture Public Integrity Summer 10(3): 233–251.
Affiliations
American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)
- Section on Ethics & Integrity in Governance (SEIGov)
- Section on Nonprofit Policy, Practice, and Partnerships
- Section on Association of Budgeting & Financial Management
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
- Teaching Section
- Public Policy, Politics, and Law (PPPL) Section
NASPAA Nonprofit Management Education Section
Professional Experience
Nonprofit executive director responsible for the operations and program activities of small organization focused on farm family health and safety
Project director responsible for implementation of a nonprofit organization's multi-year Bridging the Gap pilot project funded through the National Action Plan on Breast Cancer
Grants specialist for two regional planning agencies; in four-year period, successful proposals generated more than $4.75 million in economic and community development funding for local governments in rural areas of Kentucky and Tennessee