Management/Administration

Richard Funderburg is an associate professor in the School of Public Management and Policy and a collaborating scholar at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, where he is a member of the Fiscal and Economic Policy working group. He earned his Ph.D. in Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Funderburg also holds a Master of Public Policy and Administration degree from California State University, Sacramento. Professor Funderburg is an expert on state and local economic development policy. He has published over 15 studies of economic development in peer-reviewed urban planning and regional science journals. Professor Funderburg has extensive experience advising state and local governments, including appointments with the California Department of Finance and the California Employment Development Department. Dr. Funderburg is actively engaged in the local community, where he serves as a commissioner on the Village of Chatham Planning Commission. Rick teaches budget and finance, economics and public policy, information for decision making, community planning and policy, community economic development, and public management.

Recent Publications:

(In Press) Funderburg, R., T. Dooley, and T. Bland. â¿¿Community Affluence as a Barrier to Housing Affordability: The Siting of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Projects and Sustained Inequality in Illinoisâ¿¿s Capital Region.â¿¿ In R. Islam, P. Kraeger, and R. Phillips (Eds.) Social (In)Equality and Community Well-Being. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.

(2022) Funderburg, R. and J. Drucker. â¿¿Why Do Local Governments Award Business Tax Incentives?â¿¿ PA Times, March 11, 2022. Available here.

(2021) Funderburg, R., J. Drucker, D. Merriman, and R. Weber. â¿¿Is Tax Competition Strategic? Spatial Distributions of Business Property Tax Abatements in the Chicago Suburbs,â¿¿ Economic Development Quarterly, 35(1), 66â¿¿83. Available here.

(2020) Drucker, J., R. Funderburg, D. Merriman, and R. Weber. â¿¿Do Local Governments Use Business Tax Incentives to Compensate for High Business Property Taxes?â¿¿ Regional Science and Urban Economics, 81, 103498. Available here.

(2019) Funderburg, R. â¿¿Regional Employment and Housing Impacts of Tax Increment Financing Districts,â¿¿ Regional Studies, 53, 874-886. Available here.

(2018) Drucker, J., R. Funderburg, D. Merriman, and R. Weber. The Use of Business Property Tax Incentives in Cook County, Illinois. Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois. Available here (PDF).

(2016) Lejano, R. and R. Funderburg. â¿¿Geographies of Risk, the Regulatory State, and the Ethic of Care,â¿¿ Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106, 1097-1113. Available here.

Google Scholar Profile

ORCID

Richard Funderburg CV (PDF)

Office Location

PAC 484

School of Public Management and Policy

Phone Number

217-206-7220

IGPA - Core Central Activities

rfund2@uis.edu

Associate Prof.

IGPA Collaborative Scholar

Area of Specialization

Travis Bland

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Area of Expertise

Ethics

Human Resource Management

Management/Administration

Psychology

Public Administration

Public Policy

Travis Bland is the Interim Dean of the College of Health, Science, and Technology. Dr. Bland received his Ph.D. from the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. Professor Bland specializes in evaluating public programs and is a strategic planning and organizational health and design consultant. His research interests include front-line behavior, social welfare policy, and behavioral science (psychology of human decision-making and employee motivation and performance). Dr. Bland is a contributing author to Community Action Leaders: Rooting out Poverty at the Local Level (New York: Routledge). His research has been published in Public Management Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Integrity, Public Organization Review, the Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, Public Administration Quarterly, The Innovation Journal, and the Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance.

Office Location

HSB 303

College of Health, Science, and Technology Administration

Phone Number

217-206-7816

Publications

Bland, J. T., & Kriz, K. (2025). Supervisor autonomy support and the PSM¿employee engagement relationship. Public Management Review. Published Online. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2025.2488940
Bland, J. T., Dooley, T., & Williams, A. M. (available online first, 2025). Trauma-informed HR: The work-life interface and the adverse spillover effects of nonwork, anti-black discrimination. Public Personnel Management. Published Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/00910260251320389
Sprong, M.E., Hollander, H. Blankenberger, B., Rumrill, S., Lee, Y., Bland, J.T., Bailey, J., Weber, K., Gilbert, J., Kriz, K., Buono, F. (2024). The road to reintegration: Evaluating the effectiveness of VA Healthcare in Vocational Rehabilitation Retention for Veterans with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders. Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation, 15, 107-123. https://doi.org/10.2147/sar.s462882
Funderburg, R., Dooley, T., Bland, J. T., Dooley, T. (2024). Community affluence as a barrier to housing affordability: the siting of low-income housing tax credit projects in Illinois' capital region. In Kraeger et al.'s Social (In)Equality, Community Well-being and Quality of Life. United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bland, J. T., Williams, A. M., Albertson, N. (2023). Empowerment and discretionary HR practices: Moderators of the PSM-organizational commitment relationship. Public Management Review, 25(3), 575-600. DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2021.1985317
Manuel Roman-Basora & Bland, J.T. (2021) Separate and unequal: A sample of disparities in five American unincorporated territories, Public Integrity, DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2020.1859241
Williams, A. M. & Bland, J.T. (2020). Drivers of social engagement: Investigating the employee voice-advice sharing relationship. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 40(4). 669-690. Available here.
Bland, J. Travis and Williams, A. M. (2018). Collaborative ties within: Public organizations and the latent capacity for advice network formation. Public Organization Review. Available here.
Bland, J. T. (2018). Authentic participatory engagement: Community Action and the foundational principle of maximum feasible participation. Public Administration Quarterly, 42(2). Available here.

Researchgate Profile

School of Public Management and Policy

jblan7@uis.edu

Involvement

Faculty Advisor, Christian Student Fellowship
Jobs for Life Instructor
Volunteers at West Side Christian Church.

Teaching

PAD 657. Advanced Public Management Seminar, PAD 652. Public Management Seminar, PAD 502. Organizational Dynamics, PAD 505. Public Sector Human Resource Management, PAD 538. Public Service Ethics and Leadership, PAD 552. Strategic Planning and Management, PAD 541. Nonprofit Sector Human Resource Management

Interim Dean CHST

Associate Prof.

Area of Specialization

front-line behavior, social welfare policy, behavioral science (psychology of human decision-making and employee motivation and performance), behavioral ethics

Peter Boltuc

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Area of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Ethics

Machine ��ý (ML)

Management/Administration

Online Education

Philosophy

Poland

SPECIALIZATION: philosophy of AI; machine consciousness

COMPETENCE: philosophy of mind, applied ethics (computer, business, healthcare, environmental), political philosophy, social capital; managemenr theory at the age of AI

SPECIAL INTEREST: cognitive science; e-learning; Artificial General Intelligence

The Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Endowed Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences, a three-year endowed professorship, University of Illinois, Springfield 2013 â¿¿ 2016

Outstanding Service to the University of Illinois Senates Conference, Urbana-Champaign, 2017

Erskine Professor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, June-August 2016

Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, June-August 2014

Faculty Excellence Award, University of Illinois Springfield, 2011

Academic Leadership Training, University of Illinois Springfield, Fall 2011

Board Member, African American History Museum of Springfield IL, 2003-2014

Member, Committee on Ethics and Human Values at the Memorial Medical Center, Springfield Illinois 1999-2002

Princeton University, Department of Philosophy Fulbright Graduate Fellow, 1991-92

Oxford University, St. Johnsâ¿¿ College, SCR member, Soros, Faculty Fellow, June-July 1988

MAIN EDITORIAL BOARDS

Computation in Neural Systems, Taylor & Francis, Board of Associate Editors, 2021 â¿¿ present

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, 2020 board memberâ¿¿ ongoing

APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Editor, 2007- 2020

E-Mentor, board member, Warsaw School of Economics, 2004 â¿¿ ongoing

International Journal of Machine Consciousness, World Scientific, co-editor NY, 2009 â¿¿ 2014

Polish Journal of Philosophy, board member, 2007 â¿¿ ongoing

Philosophies; MDPI board member, 2016 â¿¿ ongoing

Humanities, MDPI board member, 2012 â¿¿ ongoing

Information, MDPI board member, 2010 â¿¿ ongoing

Philosophy and Science, Polish Academy of Science, 2009â¿¿ ongoing

Dialogue and Universalism, international co-editor, 2001, consulting editor - ongoing,

Office Location

University Hall

Mathematical Sciences and Philosophy

Phone Number

217-206-7422

Publications

MAIN PUBLICATIONS IN AI THEORY'

â¿¿Alien Versus Natural-Like Artificial General Intelligencesâ¿¿ H. Shneider; P..Boltuc: Artificial General Intelligence: proceedings 16th International Conference, AGI 2023, Stockholm, Sweden, June 16â¿¿19, 2023, Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series 2023 Pages 233â¿¿243 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33469-6_24
â¿¿Industry 5.0: Theoretical Limitations and Ethical Chancesâ¿¿ in. J Wielgorska-Leszczynska; M. Matusewicz: 30 Years in the Social Sciences. New Thoughts and Ideas; SGH Press, Warsaw Poland 2023 p.55-74
"Moral Space for Paraconsistent AGI", in Ben Goertzel, Matthew Ikle, Denis Ponomaryov, Alexey Potapov. Artificial General Intelligence Chapter 16 series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 13539, Springer Science, Switzerland p 83-97; 2022
â¿¿The Fourth Space in the Fourth Revolutionâ¿¿ In: Felix Francisco Ramos Corchado and Alexei V. Samsonovich (Eds.). 2022 Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence: The 13th Annual Meeting of the BICA Society. Procedia Computer Science, Volume 213C, Pages p. 89-95. 2022. ISSN: 1877-0509 Nov. 2022
â¿¿Non-Reductive Physicalism for AGIâ¿¿ Filozofia i Nauka 10 June 2022 p. 33-48 https://filozofiainauka.studiafilozoficzne.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Bo%C5%82tu%C4%87_33.pdf
â¿¿Philosophy and Computing Conference at IS4SI 2021â¿¿ From the Editor Proceedings 2022, 81(1), 149;
â¿¿The Fourth Space as Realityâ¿¿ Proceedings MDPI June 2022, 81(1), 151;
â¿¿Uncanny Robots of Perfectionâ¿¿ (with Thomas P. Connelly), in: (Gudwin R. et al) Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence: BICA*AI 2020, Springer Science, p. 56-68, 2021
â¿¿BICA for AGIâ¿¿ (with M. I. Boltuc) Cognitive Systems Research vol 62 (August 2020), p. 57-67 [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389041719304863?via%3Dihub]
â¿¿Conscious AI at the Edge of Chaosâ¿¿ Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness Volume 07, Issue 01 (March 2020) p. 25-38
â¿¿Consciousness for AGIâ¿¿ Procedia Computer Science (2019) Postproceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, BICA 2019 (Tenth Annual Meeting of the BICA Society), ed. by A.V. Samsonovich and V.V. Klimov. Procedia Computer Science, 2020, pp. 349-356. ISSN 1877-0509
â¿¿Semantics beyond Languageâ¿¿ (with M. I. Boltuc) in: Samsonovich A. V. (ed.) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2019 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 948; Springer Science 2020 p. 36-47
â¿¿Subject is no Objectâ¿¿ in: M. Burgin; Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (eds) Epistemic Basis of Information, Philosophy of Information, World Scientific 2019 p. 3-39
â¿¿AI Consciousnessâ¿¿ in (ed.) A. Chella, TOCAIS 2019 Towards Conscious AI Systems, AAAI CEUR Springer, 2019 [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2287/paper3.pdf] 1-8 (no generalized page numbers)
â¿¿Identity Translationâ¿¿ in L. Harmon (ed.) Identity in Translation, Peter Lang (2019) p. 79-91
â¿¿BICA a Reboursâ¿¿ in: A.V. Samsonovich (ed.) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Springer Aug. 2018 p. 27-43
Strong Semantic Computing, Procedia Computer Science 123 Feb. 2018 p. 98â¿¿103 [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050918300176]
â¿¿Cognitive Agents: Is There a Moral Gap Between Human and Artificial Intelligence?â¿¿ in Tzfestas S. (ed.) Information, Communication and Automation Technology Ethics in the Knowledge Society. NOVA Science Publishers 2018.
â¿¿Church-Turing Lovers.â¿¿ In: Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence; Lin, P., Abney, K., Jenkins, R., Eds.; Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, 2017; p. 214â¿¿228
"The Power of Online Educationâ¿¿ in: (Zacher, L. ed.) Potentials and Power Relations in Digitized Society (Pol.) Poltext, Warsaw Jan. 2018
â¿¿Metacomputableâ¿¿, Entropy, Oct. 2017 [https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/11

Discovery Partners Institute

pbolt1@uis.edu

Involvement

Conference Chair, Philosophy and Computing; Virtual Conference on Zoom, 12-19 September h2021, contributing to the 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) administered from Japan in collaboration with Zoom administered through AGI Laboratory /Uplift/, USA. Organized by: Association on Philosophy and Computing (APC) affiliate of the APA; PHAEDE Philosophy of Engineering and Artifact in the Digital Era); philosophy interest group within BICA; Philosophy and Science PAN (journal of the Polish Academy of Science)

Coordinating committee member; Association for Philosophy and Computing (APC), 2020 - ongoing

Chair Committee on Philosophy and Computers, American Philosophical Association, 2019-20

Lectures

MAIN LECTURES related to AI

â¿¿AI2AGI: Socio-economic, Legal, and Humanistic ramificationsâ¿¿ Simuli: Towards Safe AGI, expert forum: Invited Talk, Oct 14-17, 2023 Eugene OR, Mount Tom House
â¿¿Alien Versus Natural-Like Artificial General Intelligencesâ¿¿ (with Howard Schneider), 2023 AGI congress, June 16-18 Stockhom, Sweden
European Academy of Management; EURAM 2023 Transforming Business for Good: Lab for Ph.D. students, with Daniel Hardegger and two others â¿¿DISCOVERING THE â¿¿4TH SPACEâ¿¿: IDENTIFYING RESEARCHABLE TOPICS ON THE HYBRID SOCIETY AND HYBRID COMMUNITIESâ¿¿ June 13, 2023 Trinity College of Business, Dublin, Ireland
â¿¿Deflationary nonreductive physicalism. May awareness be 'creature consciousness', and may AIs have it?â¿¿ The Science of Consciousness 2023, May 23-37 Taormina, Sicily
â¿¿Beyond Digital Transformation 4.0. AI, New Applications and Opportunities" Inaugural Speech, Abu Dhabi Technology Week UAE University, Computer Technology, Business and Economics Departments Feb. 01, 2023
â¿¿Beyond Industry 4.0, but not very far.â¿¿ Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA-2022) #165 Guadalajara, Mexico September 22-25 (plenary panel)

Teaching

Teaching Advanced Classes on AI:

Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ: offering MA/Ph.D seminar in AI Consciousness July-August 2022l; June-July 2016

UIS: PHI/CSC470- Philosophy of AI (Fall 2018-2022)

UIS: PHI460 Philosophy of Digital Transformation Summer 2023

SGH: AI: Values and Strategies Summer 2022

SGH: Digital Transformation, Winter 2021

UIS: Ethics for IT Professionals, 2018

Poznan University: Visiting senior professorâ¿¿s Ph.D. Seminar: Consciousness Studies, 2014

UIUC School of Engineering, Computer Ethics (guest teaching in Keith Millerâ¿¿s class), Spring 2013

Professor

DPI Affiliate

Area of Specialization

Team member::SIMULI.AI. An eight member AGI research team, lead by Rachel St. Clair; Ben Goertzel; Binoy Sayed; members include L. Andrew Coward and Peter Sutor Jul.2023 - ongoing https://www.simuli.ai/team/  

Primary Investigator, US DoD, Army Research Lab, Philosophy of Visual Processing administered through UIS Sept. 2017- Sept.2019