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Dr. Karen Y. Palasek

Email: kpalasek@johnlocke.org

Dr. Palasek is currently the Director of Educational and Academic Programs at the John Locke Foundation. She received her B.Mus.Ed. from Hartt College of Music at the University of Hartford, the M.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut, and her Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. While completing requirements for the doctoral degree in economics, Karen also served as a legislative assistant for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX).

Since receiving the doctorate in 1989, Dr. Palasek has continued to sharpen the educational saw, beginning with the Certificate in Nonprofit Management intensive track program at Duke University (2008). She has since completed (2010) the degree of Master of Organization Development in the EMOD program at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Karen Palasek joined the John Locke Foundation in 2002, where she began working with the Carolina Journal and North Carolina Education Alliance as a writer and policy analyst in the area of K-12 education.

In 2004, Dr. Palasek became the director of Educational and Academic Programs at the Locke Foundation, leaving regular duties with Carolina
Journal and North Carolina Education Alliance to take on several new projects. One was responsibility for the John Locke Foundation student intern program and directing a weekly interns' reading and discussion group.

In 2004, Dr. Palasek launched a web-based column on the John Locke Foundation home page, titled "The Free Market Minute." That year, she also initiated an outreach effort to build a college and university Faculty Affiliate Network (www.locke.FAN.org) throughout North Carolina, and took on responsibility for presenting a weekly speaker each Monday in the informal Shaftesbury Society luncheons.

Dr. Palasek's largest project within Locke is the E.A. Morris Fellowship for Emerging Leaders program (www.eamorrisfellows.org). Begun in 2005, the E.A. Morris Fellowship selects up to 16 qualified Fellows to participate in a series of retreats and leadership development efforts. The Morris Fellowship program is about to begin its fifth year of operation. E.A. Morris e-newsletters provide updates on the program, leadership topics, and topics in organization effectiveness.

Dr. Palasek's teaching experience includes positions in economics at Tuskeegee Institute, the University of Hartford, George Mason University, Johns Hopkins University, Towson State University, North Carolina State University, Campbell University, and Peace College, among others. Upon moving to North Carolina in 1993, she spent nine years as a full-time homeschool parent before joining the Locke Foundation while maintaining an adjunct college teaching role.

Karen's articles and reviews have appeared in the Carolina Journal, John Locke Foundation Policy Reports, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, the Cato Journal, The Market Process, and numerous other print and World Wide Web sites.


Articles by Dr. Karen Y. Palasek

(3.04.11) Join The Choir
New insights challenge traditional ways of thinking about leadership.

(9.10.10) Sense and Sensibilities: 9/11 in 2010
Tomorrow’s anniversary of the terrorist attacks involves a struggle. It’s personal, political, and universal.

(8.31.10) Let’s Make a Deal
For a growing number of cities and municipalities, when fiscal times get tough, the tough go…to the market. Take recently cited examples from Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Nassau County NY, and Pittsburgh PA. All are looking for new angles to increase local revenues. They are looking for cash cows. Many are liquidating the civic assets that were supposed to be cash cows for the community in the first place.

(7.02.10) Instability, Regulatory Style
The debate today, from clearer heads,suggests that the American economy may just now be catching up with some of Keynes' most radical prescriptions. Congress continues to establish new restrictions on the decisions of private resource owners. The real fundamentals of our economy are at stake.

(5.28.10) Back to School: If Rodney Dangerfield Could Do It, So Can I
With multiple generations competing in the work force, the importance of Lifelong Learning continues to grow.

(12.19.09) How’s my driving?
The impression that your business makes on people who are not your direct clients may have more to do with your failure or success than you think. Researchers claim that consumers repeat negative stories about their contact with a business or organization eleven times more often than they repeat positive stories.

(11.19.09) New federal guidelines on mammograms are about money, not health
RALEIGH -- This is not a health science debate. It's not about the credentials of people on the new federal panel, though in a real debate it would be. It has nothing to do with the science, but is and will be repudiated soundly by same.

(11.06.09) Keeping the Menu Straight
Mixing the Qunicunx with successful habits yields an appetizing dish.

(10.06.09) The Tenth Commandment: "Get your own cow"
"We think we can dabble in freedom — allow a few of its liberties and leave our favorite constraints in place. We think we can screw around with the free market — skip its costs and get all of its benefits anyway." So writes P.J. O'Rourke in "Eat the Rich," a pointed commentary on the record of countries that have "eaten" their rich, and on the logical outcome of serving up the same policies in the U.S.

(8.28.09) Studying the possibilities
Technology has dramatically improved access to information nearly everywhere and lowered the cost of getting it. In higher ed, print-based books face tough competition from convenient, portable, and relatively inexpensive alternative formats. So why has the traditional textbook market seemed resistant to the lower prices that competition, lower-cost technologies, and Internet resources now make accessible?

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