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Release
David Liebschutz Honored
by State Academy for Public Administrations
Contact: Catherine Herman (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (July 15, 2005) -- David S. Liebschutz,
Rockefeller College assistant dean for career
and alumni programs and public service professor
has received the first-ever Arnold L. Steigman
Excellence in Teaching Public Administration
Award from the State Academy for Public Administration.
The Steigman award honors the late Arnold
Steigman, who spent 40 years as a government
official in 11 different agencies until his
retirement in 1995. In addition, he taught
public administration on a part-time basis
at the City University of New York, Long Island
University and Empire State College.
Rockefeller College Dean Frank Thompson said, “David
has had extremely high student ratings since
he began teaching for us five years ago and
this award makes public what many of us have
known for a long time--that he is a skilled
teacher and mentor to our students.”
Liebschutz, who holds law and policy degrees
from Duke University and an economics degree
from Yale, has taught budget and finance classes
in the College’s public administration
and policy department since January 2000. He
joined the college full-time last July on an
interim basis and was appointed permanently
as assistant dean in May 2005.
Prior to joining the College, he was the executive
director of the University at Albany Hillel
for four years and received two community awards
for his work there. Before his service at Hillel,
he was the 1999 Ian Axford Fellow in Wellington,
New Zealand and spent fifteen years in government-related
work in Albany and Washington D.C.
Rockefeller College provides educational
preparation for academic and public service
careers, to undertake research on significant
public problems and issues, and to assist in
the continuing professional development of
government executives. Rockefeller College
is composed of the departments of political
science and public administration and policy
and has an enhanced interdisciplinary approach
to its public policy mission. It is currently
ranked tenth among schools of public affairs
by U.S. News & World Report.
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