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 Message from the Dean
I'm very pleased to announce that this week we have commenced the MGS Strategic Planning process as we continue to build a McCormack Graduate School culture, community, set of values, and sense of shared mission. The process will be led by a 13 member planning committee with representatives of all of the campus constituencies of the school. I expect that this process will continue well into next year, and there will be organized opportunities for participation by everyone affiliated with McCormack Graduate School.
I do hope you will be able to join us for our annual Robert C. Wood Visiting Professor Lecture on Monday evening, April 28th. The details are below. This is McCormack's most prominent annual recognition. This year's Visiting Professor, Dr. Keith Wailoo, is a leading-and fascinating- scholar in the cultural politics of disease in America.
What a pleasure to again be able to say in late April, "Go Celtics!"
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| Job Opportunities of Interest
New posting of the week:
Political Director
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Marine Spatial Planner
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MGS Senior Fellow Nigel Hamilton and the UMASS Boston History Club Presents:The 12 American Caesars
From: Roosevelt to Bush
A Lecture held by Distinguished Biographer: Nigel Hamilton
Author of such titles as: Monty: The Man Behind the Legend; JFK, Reckless Youth; Bill Clinton, Mastering the Presidency; and Biography: A Brief History.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
McCormack Hall, Second Floor
Room 423, from 2:30 to 3:45 pm
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Political Economy and Public Policy Lecture Series: Progressive Income Taxation as a Tool for Economic Development
Prof. Christian Weller and Manita Rao (PPOL doctoral student) will be speaking on Progressive Income Taxation as a Tool for Economic Development
Thursday April 24
4:00PM-5:30PM
McCormack Hall, 3rd Fl. Rm. M3-415
How can progressive income taxation be linked to economic development for industrializing nations? This paper explores a possible solution to the dilemma that industrializing economies often find themselves in: trying to attract more capital into their economies from overseas while having to manage the growing economic and financial risks that often are associated with greater capital mobility.
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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
A discussion of findings from a national
study
Wednesday April 30, 2008
8:30 to
10:30AM
University of Massachusetts
Boston
Campus
Center - 3rd Floor - Ballroom
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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.
Discussantsof
the study findings will include: Prof. David Weil¸ School
of Management, Boston University
and Mr. Joel Boone, Vice President
for Labor Relations, Stop and Shop Supermarkets.
Copies of
the report will be available. The
research was sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation.
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:Mr. Ibrahim Iman -
781-526-0563 or Dr. Paul R. Camacho, 617-287-5853, paul.camacho@umb.edu
Refreshments will be served.
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The 3rd Annual Give US Your Poor Auction in Wayland, MA Please join us...
Thursday, May 1, 2008
7:00-9:30pm
Sandy Burr Country Club, in Wayland
We are honored to present a special live performance by Kyla Middleton, a 13 year-old formerly homeless singer and speaker and Michael Sullivan, both of whom appear on the recently released Give US Your Poor benefit music CD featuring formerly/currently homeless artists and celebrity musicians.
Wayland native Ted Wayman, executive producer at boston.tv and former CBS reporter, will be our Master of Ceremonies. Ted has graciously served as MC since this annual event started! |
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SAVE THE DATE - June 9, 2008
Women, Wages and Work Conference
On June 9th, the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy will be hosting the Women, Wages and Work Conference at UMass Boston. Scheduled for June 9th, this conference will bring together those interested in closing the wage gap, ensuring retirement security for women, increasing job training opportunities. Featured speakers include: Lilly Ledbetter, whose gender discrimination lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court; a number of U.S. Congresswomen, Suzanne Bump, Secretary of the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, and many more. 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 |
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