Sally Coleman Selden

Sally Coleman Selden is an associate professor of management at Lynchburg College. Selden’s teaching and research interests include public management, human resource management, and nonprofit management effectiveness. She is also a Principa Investigator for the Government Performance Project (GPP), a study of public management systems in all fifty states funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. She was responsible for leading the academic team that graded the human resource management systems of the U.S. state governments. The GPP project is a collaborative effort among five universities and Governing magazine. She is the author of over 50 articles, books, or book chapters and serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Partnership for Public Service and on Human Resource Management Executive Committee of the American Society of Public Administration. She won the James A. Huston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in 2004 and received the Syndor Teaching Award in 2003. She has taught at Syracuse University and the University of Oklahoma. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and her M.P.A./B.A. from the University of Virginia.