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Scott Lee

Coordinator of Community Engagement
Associate Professor, Political Science
Chair of Political Science and Criminal Justice
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IU East

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Selected Presentations 

  • “Incorporation of NACE career readiness competencies into public administration courses:  Helping prepare public administration graduates for their future.” Paper presented at the 2024 World Social Science Association Conference, San Antonio, TX. 

  • “Amending the Constitution: When, How, and Why.”   Keynote speaker at the 2023 IU East Constitution Day activities. 

  • "The Continuing Western Showdown at Utah’s Antiquities Act Corral: A Modest Proposal to Modify the 1906 Antiquities Act."  Paper presented at the 2023 World Social Science Association Conference, Tempe, AZ. 

  • “COVID and Battling Misinformation.”  Panel discussion for 2022 Media Literacy Week, IU East. 

  • “An essential public administration teaching intersection: Listening to learn and critical thinking.”  Paper  presented at the 2022 World Social Science Association, Denver, CO. 

  • “Collaboration stories – A theoretical application of the Narrative Policy Framework to collaborative policy making.”  Paper presented at the 2021 Western Social Science Association Conference, held virtually. 

  • “The propriety of current guerrilla government: When public administrators trump Trump.”  Paper presented at the 2019 Midwest Public Affairs Conference, Indianapolis, IN. 

  • “Jumping the gun in California: What happens to existing stakeholder groups when the Antiquities Act is used prematurely?”  Paper presented with Monica Argadoña at the 2019 Western Social Science Association Conference, San Diego, CA. 

  • “Presidential Power Under the Antiquities Act: Trump's Western Showdown at the Antiquities Act Corral.” Paper presented at the 2018 Western Social Science Association Conference, San Antonio, TX. 

Selected Offices Held in National/International Professional Organizations 

  • Executive Board Member, World Social Science Association, 2024-present. 

  • Co-Chair, Public Administration Section, World Social Science Association, 2017-present. 

  • Member, Advisory Consortium for the Bert & Phyllis Lamb Prize in Political Science, 2019-present.  

Selected Awards/Recognitions 

  • Member, Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (Inducted in 2020) 

  • Idaho State University Doctoral Student of the Year Award (2014-2015) 

  • Teaching Fellowship, Department of Political Science, Idaho State University, (2012-2014) 

  • Lead Article Editor - Idaho Law Review, University of Idaho College of Law, (1983-1984). 

Teaching

Collaborative Decision/Policy Making, Public Policy Process, Public Policy Ethics 

Research

Collaborative Decision/Policy Making, Environmental Policy Making, Antiquities Act, Policy Analysis, Public Policy, SoTL

Education

D.A. in Political Science

Idaho State University, 2014

M.P.A.

Idaho State University, 2011

J.D.

University of Idaho, 1984

B.A. in Political Science

University of Utah, 1981

Publications & Contributions