Steven Maynard-Moody, Kansas University professor of public administration, has been elected to the National Academy of Public Administration.

With his election, the KU department becomes the first in the country to boast having all of its full professors in the academy.

Maynard-Moody joins George Frederickson, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration; Marilu Goodyear, associate professor of public administration; John Nalbandian, professor and chairman of the Department of Public Administration; and Barbara Romzek, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of public administration.

Maynard-Moody is director of the Institute for Policy and Social Research.