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Bruce Rogers has spent the bulk of his career as a tenured professor
in the
Department of Public Administration at Tennessee State University's
Institute of Government.
Outside the classroom, he has used his expertise in consulting for
government agencies at all levels, from the police department of Nashville,
to Tennessee's state agencies, to the federal government's Tennessee Valley
Authority.
Bruce has done volunteer work
with the Nashville Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of
Nashville for over 20 years.
In 1996, he was a consultant for the Parliamentary Democracy Project, the
intergovernmental relations program that enabled him to host 35 Ukrainian
legislators in Nashville and help them work out the structure of their new democracy.
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Above right:
Bruce receives an award for decades of service as director of the
Robert A. Taft Institute of Government Seminars for Teachers. For 20
summers, the 30 teachers Bruce selected for Taft fellowships would
arrive in Nashville for his three-week seminar in "practical politics."
His guest lecturers included the Governor, U.S. Senators such as Al Gore
before he became Vice President, the Speaker of the Tennessee House, the
Lieutenant Governor, members of the U.S. Congress,
state chairpersons of the two political parties, lobbyists, judges, and
newspaper editors. Attendees "learned how a
bill becomes a law, how lobbyists try to influence legislators, and how the system works," said Bruce.
"They were immersed in the issues." |
