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Kimberly Collins

Kimberly Collins

Professor , Executive Director
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Professor
Public Administration
Email kimberly@csusb.edu
Office Phone(909) 537-5737
Office LocationJB-551
Executive Director
UEC - Miscellaneous Projects & Grants
Email kimberly@csusb.edu
Office Phone(909) 537-5737
Office LocationJB-551

Bio

Kimberly Collins, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Barbara and William Leonard Transportation Center (LTC) at California State University, San Bernardino. The LTC is a regional transportation center focused on improving innovation in transportation administration and policy through data driven decision making. In addition to her role at the LTC, she is a Professor of Public Administration at CSUSB. Kimberly’s current research focuses on technology integration, social equity, sustainability, networks, and democracy in communities, particularly borderlands. She was appointed to the Good Neighbor Environmental Board (a U.S. EPA Presidential Advisory Commission) in 2018 and is the North American Regional Editor for the Journal of Borderlands Studies.  Kimberly received her Ph.D. in 2006 from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Baja California and a MA in Political Science with a focus on International Relations from San Diego State University.

Education

Ph.D., Public Administration from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Dissertation Title (completed in English and Spanish): Local Government Capacity and Quality of Life in the U.S.-Mexican Border: The Case of Calexico and Mexicali / La Capacidad de Gobierno Local y La Calidad de Vida en La Frontera de Los Estados Unidos y Mexico: El Caso de Calexico y Mexicali

Certificate in Rural Development, Cornell University

MA in Political Science, International Relations from San Diego State University Thesis Title: Direct Foreign Investment and Labor Conditions: Case Study of the Mexican Maquilas

BA in Political Science, University of California, San Diego

Courses/Teaching

PA3800 - Introduction to Public Administration

PA3150 - Government-Business Relations

PA5200 - Water Law & Policy

PA5730 - Public Transportation Systems 

PA6110 - Public Administration Theory and Practice

PA6800 - Public Policy Analysis

Research and Teaching Interests

Democracy and local governance in a global world; new technologies and transportation policy; sustainability, social equity, and network governance; development and growth along the U.S.-Mexican border region

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