Courses taught:

Professor Israel teaches the MPNA Public Administration Foundations course and the Capstone: Seminar in Community Oriented Management.

Short Biography:

Roger Israel is a Professor in the Metropolitan State University College of Management. He is also Coordinator for Metropolitan State’s Public Administration and Nonprofit Management Programs. Previously, Dr. Israel was on the faculty at Hamline University’s Graduate School of Public Administration and Management and has taught online for Walden University.

Before coming to academia, he worked in state, local and regional government for 26 years. He spent 20 years with the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council where he held several senior management positions including; Director of Human Services Planning, Deputy Chief Administrator for Planning, and Director of Research and Long Range Planning, his last position there. In the latter capacity, he was responsible for all of the Metropolitan Council’s research and data functions as well as the metropolitan review of local government plans.

Dr. Israel has also been a community activist, serving on several boards and commissions in his home community of St. Louis Park, for more than 30 years. He is a past President (2 times) of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration.