Honoree
Beth Gazley
AWARDS
- Thomas Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Service Learning (2012)
- School of Public & Environmental Affairs
- Indiana University Bloomington
BIOGRAPHY
Beth Gazley received her B.A. from Middlebury College in 1983. She then earned her M.P.A. in 2001, and her Ph.D. in 2004, both from the University of Georgia. Gazley also received her C.E.P. from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris in 1982, and is a Certified Fund-Raising Executive as of 1996.
In 1983, Gazley became a Fundraising Professional & Management Consultant for public interest, cultural, and higher education institutions in Washington D.C. & Georgia, all the way until 1999. In 2004, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, a position which she held until promoted to Associate Professor and the Chair of SPEA’s Teaching & Learning Faculty Group in 2011.
Dr. Gazley demonstrates excellence in designing and teaching pedagogically strong service-learning courses, researching their impact on communities, and providing service to both the IU campus and the local Bloomington community. Her professional interests have included public and nonprofit management, trade associations, intersectoral relations and collaboration, and volunteerism. More recently, Gazley has focused on projects that examine the role of voluntary organizations in emergency planning, the capacity of community organizations to involve student service-learners, and collaborative motivations and collaborative capacity in intersectoral partnerships. She is also collaborating with Good360, and the American Society of Association Executives on national studies of their membership.
Gazley won the Emerging Scholar Award from ARNOVA in 2002, and was the Doctoral Student of the Year in 2003 at the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs. She won the William H. Newman Award for best conference paper based on a dissertation from the Academy of Management in Georgia in 2006, and the Trustee Teaching Award from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in 2007. Also in 2007, Gazley was a finalist in the Networks and Public Management Syllabus Competition, which is supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation and University of Pennsylvania, and won the Best Journal Article from the Academy of Management in the Public and Nonprofit Management Division in California. She was the recipient of the IU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Indiana University in 2009.
In 1983, Gazley became a Fundraising Professional & Management Consultant for public interest, cultural, and higher education institutions in Washington D.C. & Georgia, all the way until 1999. In 2004, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, a position which she held until promoted to Associate Professor and the Chair of SPEA’s Teaching & Learning Faculty Group in 2011.
Dr. Gazley demonstrates excellence in designing and teaching pedagogically strong service-learning courses, researching their impact on communities, and providing service to both the IU campus and the local Bloomington community. Her professional interests have included public and nonprofit management, trade associations, intersectoral relations and collaboration, and volunteerism. More recently, Gazley has focused on projects that examine the role of voluntary organizations in emergency planning, the capacity of community organizations to involve student service-learners, and collaborative motivations and collaborative capacity in intersectoral partnerships. She is also collaborating with Good360, and the American Society of Association Executives on national studies of their membership.
Gazley won the Emerging Scholar Award from ARNOVA in 2002, and was the Doctoral Student of the Year in 2003 at the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs. She won the William H. Newman Award for best conference paper based on a dissertation from the Academy of Management in Georgia in 2006, and the Trustee Teaching Award from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in 2007. Also in 2007, Gazley was a finalist in the Networks and Public Management Syllabus Competition, which is supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation and University of Pennsylvania, and won the Best Journal Article from the Academy of Management in the Public and Nonprofit Management Division in California. She was the recipient of the IU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Indiana University in 2009.
