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2008 Progress in Equity Award from the American Association of University Women of Massachusetts The Program for Women in Politics & Public Policy
 On March 25th, Carol Hardy-Fanta joined Governor Deval Patrick in addressing the National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts Chapter, in the Great Hall at the State House. As part of her remarks, Carol let the audience of more than 500 know about the upcoming Women, Wages and Work Policy Conference, scheduled for June 9th at UMass Boston. To find out more about the conference, see the preliminary program, and to get on our notification list for information about how to register, click on this link: www.mccormack.umb.edu/womenwages&work | |
Open House
John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies
Invites our alumni, current students and friends to bring a colleague to learn about our exciting programs at an
 Open HouseWednesday, April 2nd
12:00-2:00PM
Grand Staircase Room,
Massachusetts State House
The McCormack Graduate School offers a broad range of degrees in public policy, public affairs, international public affairs and gerontology, the School teaches students to think and work across traditional boundaries, particularly at the intersection of the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Existing research centers within the Graduate School focus on Public Management, Social Policy, Women in Politics and Public Policy, Media and Society, Gerontology and Democracy and Development. Lunch will be served. |
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You are invited to a Public Policy Lunch Presentation
 A Participatory Action Research & Bi-National Learning Exchange Project:
Knowledge and Power in the NGO Sector, Haifa and Boston
with Professor Donna Haig-Friedman and Jennifer Cohen, Public Policy PhD Student.
Monday, April 7th
11:30 - 1:00
in the PP Classroom, McCormack 3-412
We also look forward to hearing about the conference in Israel where Prof. Haig-Friedman and Jenny Cohen presented their findings in March. Lunch will be served.
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The Forgiveness Business: Report from the Field
John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies presents:
Padraig O'Malley
John Joseph Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation will give the second of the Spring 2008 lecture series.
Northern Ireland:
The Forgiveness Business: Report from the Field
Tuesday, April 8th
4:30PM
University of Massachusetts Club
It has been ten years since the fighting stopped. There's a new power-sharing government in Northern Ireland, and still neighbors don't talk to neighbors. Is reconciliation possible? And if so, is there a roadmap?
Directions: Red line to South Station. The club is at 225 Franklin Street (Floor 33), adjacent to Post Office Square. Questions, Reservations: 617-287-5550 |
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How Cancer Crossed the Color Lines: Race and Disease in America
John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies invites you to a public lecture featuring:
Dr. Keith Wailoo
the 2008 Robert C. Wood Visiting Professor
in Public and Urban Affairs
Monday, April 28, 2008
6:00-8:00PM
Old Faculty Club Lounge
11th Floor Healey Library
University of Massachusetts Boston
 Keith Wailoo is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History and Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University. Professor Wailoo also holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers. He was recently elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, one of four learned academies that advise the US government on matters of health and medicine. His research examines the cultural politics of disease in America and his books have earned accolades for addressing questions of racial justice and inequality in medicine and health care. Professor Wailoo's work focuses principally on health care politics and the ethnic and racial relations of medicine. His research sheds light on how scientific and technological approaches to health interact with politics, society, and culture to shape individual health experiences, disease disparities, and social responses to disease. His latest work, a co-edited volume (with Julie Livingston and Peter Guarnaccia), A Death Retold: the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (University of North Carolina, 2006), explores a common theme: how scientific and technological understandings have interacted with health care politics, racial and ethnic relations, and cultural politics to inform responses to disease over time.
Direction to the UMASS Boston campus can be found at www.umb.edu. |
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The Changing World of Work in US Retail Trade
Wednesday April 30, 2008
8:30 to 10:30AM
University of Massachusetts Boston
Campus Center Ballroom C
A discussion of findings from a national study
As a sector, retail trade exemplifies the central dilemma of low wage work in modern economies. Giant retailer Wal-Mart is the largest US employer, and overall, retail is one of the largest employment sectors in the country. What happens to jobs in this industry, which is a major provider of entry-level jobs, is a key element of the broader picture of low wage employment nationwide.
Retail work is undergoing significant change in the United States. To explore these changes, and their impacts in terms of turnover, skill levels, and other key workforce variables, the authors conducted 18 case studies of food and consumer electronics retail businesses. They spoke to employees from top corporate executives to frontline employees, visited stores, and reviewed HR statistics.
The two study authors will present selected findings: Françoise Carré, Ph.D. Center for Social Policy, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston and Chris Tilly, Ph.D. Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Discussants of the study findings will include: Prof. David Weil¸ School of Management, Boston University and a representative from the retail industry.
Copies of the report will be available.
Event sponsored by the Center for Social Policy,The McCormack Graduate School at UMass Boston and the Center for Industrial Competitiveness and Department of Regional Economic and Social Development at UMass-Lowell
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The Agony of Somalia
A Film Discussion About survival, emigration, immigration and U.S. involvement in Somalia and the implications for Human Rights, Democracy and U.S. Sentiments
10:30 AM - 12 NOON
Chancellor's Conference Room, Quinn Building
with
Somali Scholar
Bashir Khalif Sudi
Along with other prominent scholars, UMB faculty, Somali students and guests including Abdullah T. Faaruuq, Imam
University of Massachusetts Boston
Bunker Hill Community College
The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences
Center for African and Caribbean Community Development
McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies
The Center for Democracy and Development
William Monroe Trotter Institute
For further information please contact: Dr. Paul R. Camacho, 617-287-5853, paul.camacho@umb.edu
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JFK/UMASS STATION Beginning April 7th, the 5:20PM Greenbush train out of South Station will stop and pick up passengers at the JFK/UMASS Commuter rail platform at 5:26PM. Currently, the only other Greenbush stop at JKF/UMASS is at 4:08PM South Shore legislators had pushed for the added stop. METRO Boston 3/28/08
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