Master of Public Administration

Dr. Frances Berry is Frank Sherwood Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. She has had accomplished careers in both applied and academic settings. Before assuming a faculty position in 1990, Berry worked nearly fifteen years as a practitioner, starting as a legislative analyst in Minnesota and rising to the Director of Research and Executive Development for the Council of State Governments (CSG), where she managed a staff of seventy and administered committees on management and policy for governors, legislators and other senior state officials. Professor Berry’s expertise is in policy innovation and diffusion and change, program evaluation, strategic and performance management, and public policy. She has conducted over thirty management and policy consulting studies with state and local governments since 1990. She has written over fifty articles and chapters, and her research has been published in leading public administration and political science journals. Dr. Berry was a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of China in 2009. She is the current past president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, and the president-elect of the Public Management Research Conference. On campus, she has served as Chair of the FSU Commission on the Status of Women, and as a member of the FSU Athletic Committee. Berry received a B.A. (cum laude) in political science from Washington University (St. Louis) and a Masters in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in political science from University of Minnesota.