Geoffrey Gonsher has no doubt collected his fair share of accolades during a public-sector career that has spanned more than five decades serving four Arizona governors and several Phoenix mayors. But a recent teaching award, granted at the urging of his ASU public policy students, may be among his most treasured.

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A book co-written by an ASU professor about how inequalities in the criminal justice system have roots in bail and pretrial detention issues has been recognized by the Vera Institute of Justice as one of its best books of 2019.

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Thanks to the hard work of faculty and student researchers, the School of Public Affairs in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University was recently ranked #3 in the U.S. and #7 globally for research on public administration in the 2019 ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects — ranking above institutions such as Harvard, Oxford and UC-Berkeley. The 2019 results demonstrate an increase from #5 in the U.S.

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