Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: then get out of that person's way."He retired from Auburn University as professor emeritus in 1980.His primary teaching and research fields were in political theory, the legislative process, and politics and political parties.During his career, he published various monographs and articles in professional journals and coauthored with Dr. Robert B. Highsaw the first textbook on Mississippi state and local government.He also organized and conducted seminars for new members of the legislature and served as a consultant on a number of public policy issues in both Mississippi and Alabama.At Auburn he created a new department of political science almost from scratch, inheriting a small number of four able faculty members who were transferred from the history department to the new unit in 1968.By 1980, when he retired, the department was composed of 20 academic positions, 16 of which were filled with political scientists holding the Ph.D. degree; and there were 341 students majoring in programs offered by the departmentthe largest number of majors, save one, of all the departments in Auburn's School of Arts and Sciences.At that time the department presented five separate curricular offerings: the major in political science through the general curriculum; a criminal justice curriculum; a public administration curriculum; a prehospital and health services administration curriculum; and a pre-law curriculum.A masters program was approved in September 1969.Plans begun in Nolan's administration culminated in the addition of a master of public administration and a Ph.D. in public administration and public policy after his retirement.By the time of his death in 1998, the department had grown to 28 full-time professional positions, thanks in large part to the remarkable momentum provided by Nolan Fortenberry.He was preceded in death by his second son, Joseph E. Fortenberry.He is survived by his wife
Source: PS Political Science & Politics
Author: Andrzej Korbonski
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2790380705