WMU Professor To Research In Canada

“Our two governments are more interconnected than any other two nations in the world,” Mingus said. “And ours is the largest trading relationship by far, at over $1.2 billion of trade each day.” Mingus was awarded the 2005-06 Fulbright Research Chair in Public Policy, Governance and Public Administration at the University of Ottawa’s Center on Governance. In addition to the Fulbright program, Mingus was also awarded a grant from WMU’s Faculty Research and Creative Activities Support Fund. “I could not be doing the research that I am doing without the funds provided by the FRACASF grant,” Mingus said. “The Fulbright research chair position and WMU’s FRACASF grant are working together nicely. One gives me a place to be and a strong title to help arrange interviews with senior members of parliament, while the other is helping to fund the travel and analysis. I owe a real debt to both organizations for their support,” he said. Mingus will focus on Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Democratic Action Plan through extensive research and interviews with notable officials and executives. Mingus said Canada worries about being engulfed by American media and values, but have stood strong in their individuality. “Canada is more group oriented, more liberal and more European in its outlook,” he said. “They quickly give up a bit of democracy for a more efficient government.” Mingus teaches public administration at the master’s and doctoral levels at WMU. He thinks his research in Canada will be beneficial to students when he returns because he’ll be able to teach his qualitative research course with a more urgent sense of the advantages and challenges of the research itself. “WMU is developing a Canadian studies program and my work simply augments our developing strength in this area in history, environmental studies and the business school,” he said. Mingus said he represents WMU as a large regional university. “WMU will get some visibility to the whole group of Canada-U.S. Fulbright scholars this year because I am doing one of six presentations on my research at a three-day orientation where the Fulbright foundation is bringing them all to Ottawa,” he said. http://www.westernherald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/14/43276d82cd110

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