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About Dan Williams
Dan Williams taught at Baruch College from 1995 through 2024 after nearly 20 years with the Virginia Medicaid program at the local and state levels. From the mid-1980s through early 1995 he was the budget director for the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services.
Beginning fall 2026, I may begin teaching a citizen awareness workshop through the Creative Retirement Institute at Edmonds College. If successful, I may expand to additional venues.
At Baruch, Professor Williams taught budgeting, performance measurement, ethics, and topics related governmental culture. He has primarily taught budgeting. He has innovated methods for teaching online using videos and spreadsheets to help students succeed in the partly self-directed online environment. He taught an online course that focuses on the portrayal of government in film and an undergraduate course that uses special resources from the IPA Archive and the Maker Hub. In his last year at Baruch, he designed and taught a course in Civic Engagement, with a significant focus on Participatory Budgeting.
Professor Williams’ research focuses primarily on forecasting, budgeting, participatory budgeting, performance measurement, and the history of public administration. In 2009, Professor Williams negotiated the donation of the historical archives from Institute of Public Affairs (formerly, the National Institute of Public Affairs, the Bureau of Municipal Research, and the Bureau of City Betterment) to Baruch College. Baruch is now processing the archives to make them available. More information is available on the IPA Archive blog.
In 2006, he and co-author Don Miller were awarded the Outstanding Paper Award from the International Institute of Forecasters for the 2003 paper, “Shrinkage estimators of time series seasonal factors and their effects on forecasting accuracy” in the International Journal of Forecasting 19(4), 669-684. In 2011, he received the Abraham J Briloff Prize in Ethics for “Is it Mutiny?” In 2014, he and co-author Joseph Onochie received the Jesse Burkhead Award from the Board of Directors of Public Finance Publications, Inc., for “The Rube Goldberg machine of Budget Implementation, or Is There a Structural Deficit in the New York City Budget?” Public Budgeting & Finance, 33(4), 1-22. In 2023, he received the Steven D. Gold Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management for significant contribution to the study of public finance. In 2025, he received the Paul Posner Pracademic Award from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management for significant contribution to the understanding of practice and study of public budgeting and finance.
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Beginning fall 2026, I may begin teaching a citizen awareness workshop through the Creative Retirement Institute at Edmonds College. If successful, I may expand to additional venues.
At Baruch, Professor Williams taught budgeting, performance measurement, ethics, and topics related governmental culture. He has primarily taught budgeting. He has innovated methods for teaching online using videos and spreadsheets to help students succeed in the partly self-directed online environment. He taught an online course that focuses on the portrayal of government in film and an undergraduate course that uses special resources from the IPA Archive and the Maker Hub. In his last year at Baruch, he designed and taught a course in Civic Engagement, with a significant focus on Participatory Budgeting.
Professor Williams’ research focuses primarily on forecasting, budgeting, participatory budgeting, performance measurement, and the history of public administration. In 2009, Professor Williams negotiated the donation of the historical archives from Institute of Public Affairs (formerly, the National Institute of Public Affairs, the Bureau of Municipal Research, and the Bureau of City Betterment) to Baruch College. Baruch is now processing the archives to make them available. More information is available on the IPA Archive blog.
In 2006, he and co-author Don Miller were awarded the Outstanding Paper Award from the International Institute of Forecasters for the 2003 paper, “Shrinkage estimators of time series seasonal factors and their effects on forecasting accuracy” in the International Journal of Forecasting 19(4), 669-684. In 2011, he received the Abraham J Briloff Prize in Ethics for “Is it Mutiny?” In 2014, he and co-author Joseph Onochie received the Jesse Burkhead Award from the Board of Directors of Public Finance Publications, Inc., for “The Rube Goldberg machine of Budget Implementation, or Is There a Structural Deficit in the New York City Budget?” Public Budgeting & Finance, 33(4), 1-22. In 2023, he received the Steven D. Gold Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management for significant contribution to the study of public finance. In 2025, he received the Paul Posner Pracademic Award from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management for significant contribution to the understanding of practice and study of public budgeting and finance.
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