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Mary O'Malley Borg is a Professor of Political Economy
in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the
University of North Florida. Mary was born and reared in Little Rock, Arkansas.
She received her B.A. with Honors in Economics from Randolph-Macon Woman's
College in 1979 and her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985. She came to the University of North Florida
in 1984 and in 1989 received one of the University's Outstanding Teacher
Awards. In 1990, she was named a Business Affiliates Professor by the College
of Business Administration in recognition of her achievements in teaching,
research, and service to the community. In 1992, she was named a Richard
D. Irwin Fellow by Beta Gamma Sigma, the National Honor Society representing
Colleges of Business in the United States. In 1993, she was one of the
first recipients of a TIP award for excellence in undergraduate teaching,
and in 1998 she received a second TIP award. In 2001, she transferred
from the Economics Department in the College of Business Administration
to the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in the
College of Arts and Sciences to reflect her growing interest in public
policy issues. She has published several scholarly papers and a book
on the economic consequences of state lotteries. She is currently engaged
in a new research project through the Florida Center for Public Policy
and Leadership that evaluates the efficacy of using Florida Comprehensive
Assessment Test (FCAT) scores to evaluate school effectiveness.
In addition to her teaching and research duties, Mary has been the Director
of the Undergraduate Academic Enrichment Program at UNF since 1995. In
this capacity, she directs the Undergraduate Research Program and helps
talented UNF students prepare for prestigious national scholarship competitions
such as the Rhodes, Marshall, and Truman scholarships. UNF has been very
successful in these competitions in recent years, achieving two Truman
Scholars, a USA Today Academic First Team Member, twelve Rotary
International Ambassadorial Scholars, two Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellows,
and four Rhodes Scholarship State Finalists in the last five years.
Mary has been involved in the community as a guest speaker for numerous
civic organizations on the topic of the Florida Lottery, and she has also
served as a resource for the media on this subject. In addition, she served
on the Health and Human Services Board, a citizen's advisory board to the
District Four Department of Children and Families, the Healthy Start Coalition,
and the WAGES Coalition from 1993-2000. In 1995, she chaired the Family
Transition Task Force, a group of civic and business leaders who designed
a welfare reform pilot project for Duval county.
Mary
is married to Jacksonville native, Rody Borg, Professor
of Economics at Jacksonville University. They have three daughters, Rebecca,
14, Kellie, 11, and Christina, 6.
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