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"Academia is not immune to gender bias, and in many public affairs programs, inequities persist in faculty academic rank, salary, career length, job security, leadership roles, professional recognition, resource allocation, and role stereotypes. Managing Gender Inequity in Academia is the first book to provide an evidence-based guide for university administrators and faculty interested in building all-important gender equity in public affairs and related programs. Drawing on both secondary and primary data, the book offers a comprehensive perspective on public affairs faculty career paths, the obstacles to advancement in the academy, and how the COVID-19 pandemic further contributed to existing inequities. Each chapter of the book presents evidence-based research derived from interviews, surveys, existing statistics, and documents, offering guidance to public affairs programs, departments, and schools on ways to strengthen the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women in the academy. Ultimately, author Gina Scutelnicu Todoran demonstrates the ways in which gender equity can strengthen institutions of higher learning. Managing Gender Inequity in Academia is a guide for building gender equity in public affairs programs for faculty, higher education administrators, and graduate students in public affairs and related disciplines"--

As the local government sector in the United States has become extremely fragmented with the proliferation of many special districts in the last seven decades, monitoring the financial condition of special districts should be a priority for both state and local governments. Although financial condition indicators of general-purpose local governments have been widely developed, such indicators for special district governments are currently emerging. This study draws on a conceptual framework adapted from the works of Crosby and Robbins (2013) and Trussel and Patrick (2013) and proposes a 9-point financial condition system to monitor and assess the fiscal health of special districts in the state of Illinois. Such a system could be easily applied to other states that want to monitor the fiscal condition of their special-purpose entities.