Meyner Center

The Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government educates students about the importance of state and local governments and encourages them to participate in state and local affairs as volunteers, interns, and future leaders.

It engages in local, regional, national, and international public service, training, and outreach to state and local governments and civic organizations. It also promotes scholarly and applied research.  The Center is directed by Prof. John Kincaid.

 

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Government and Civic Services

View the municipal and county governments and organizations for which the Meyner Center has provided services, programs, studies, and training to help them be efficient and productive.

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John Kincaid, Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government, Lafayette College in Easton hosted international journalists Monday to talk everything elections. The group, sponsored by the Department of State, is traveling the country.

“Down here is very rural,” John Kincaid, a government and public service professor and the director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government, said as he pointed at a map of Pennsylvania.

Kincaid taught 18 journalists from 18 different countries about America’s elections and the importance of Northampton County in the presidential election.