The Flowing Valued Information (FVI) project seeks to enhance the effectiveness of a commander to accomplish his/her mission by anticipating what, where and when information is needed in accordance with the commander’s stated intent and providing support for commander’s decisions to share information with non-traditional parties (e.g. local mayors, police chiefs, and non-government organization...

In this Work in Progress, we describe the „my Learning Community‟ application design principles and theoretical foundation. The application is a learning community support tool, which we implement in a peer mentoring project in the Department of Computing and New Media Technologies at the University of WisconsinStevens Point. Combining different learning frameworks, we implement location-based ...

Previous scholarship on American federalism has largely focused on the national government’s increasingly conflictual relationship with the states. While some studies have explored the rise of mandates at the state level, there has been comparatively less attention on state-local relationships. Using a new survey of mayors, we explore variations in local government attitudes towards their state...

Nearly four years after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, vulnerabilities remain in homeland security preparedness both nationally and in the commonwealth. A national survey of city mayors found, for example, that only one in 10 cities had received first-responder funding by Aug. 1, 2003, which at the time confirmed that “the long-sought federal funding for our cities’ first responders has been bot...