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April 25, 2008
The MGS Update
In This Issue
Job Opportunities of Interest
MGS in the News
How Cancer Crossed the Color Lines: Race and Disease in America
The Changing World of Work in US
The Agony of Somalia
The 3rd Annual Give US Your Poor Auction
Cinco de Mayo
SAVE THE DATE: Women, Wages and Work Conference
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 Dean Steve Crosby Picture    Message from the Dean
 

Dear Colleagues:

 
This is a momentous week for the McCormack Graduate School, and hopefully for the Middle East as well.  As I write these words, Padraig O'Malley, our Moakley Distinguished Professor on Peace and Reconciliation is sequestered in a secret site near Helsinki with 39 leaders from Shia, Sunni and Kurdish groups from Iraq, attempting to facilitate their process of reconciliation.  Attached is today's front page article from the Boston Globe describing this remarkable event.  Also, in Helsinki are three of our International Relation Track MSPA Students as well as Pat Peterson from the Dean's staff.
Bringing Iraqis to The Table Article
 

Also this week, invitations have begun to go out for the public launch of the Commonwealth Compact, the first external initiative I undertook when I came to the McCormack Graduate School.  This initiative is a bold attempt by the civic leadership of this Commonwealth to address the reality and reputation of our community as less than inclusive for people of color.  Attached is the invitation; I hope you will join us.  Commonwealth Compact Save the Date Invitation

 

And I have attached several new job opportunities for our students and alumni.

 

Have a beautiful spring weekend.

 

Steve Crosby


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Steve Crosby

Dean

Job Opportunities of Interest
New posting of the week:
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Boston-based Project Director
 
University of Connecticut
Associate Professor/Assistant Professor/Instructor
 
Public Consulting Group, Inc.
Business Analyst
Consultant
 
Click here for job postings
MGS in the News
 

Boston Globe (April 25, 2008)

Bringing Iraqis to The Table

 

Center for American Progress (April 22, 2008)

Record Gas Prices Add Pressure to Already Squeezed Consumers

 

Boston Globe (April 22, 2008)

Ethnic Heath News Effort

 

New York Times (April 20, 2008)

Whatever You Do, Call it Work

 

Boston Globe Op-Ed by David Sparks (April 19, 2008)

A Gamble for the Super Delegates

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 WailooKeith 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.

The Changing World of Work in US

Retail Trade

 A discussion of findings from a national study
Carr
 
Wednesday April 30, 2008

8:30 to 10:30AM

 

University of Massachusetts Boston

Campus Center - 3rd Floor - Ballroom C

 


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:  Fran�oise Carr�, 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 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

 

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
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Wednesday, April 30th  

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

                                               

 
Sponsors:

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, [email protected]
 
Refreshments will be served.
 

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

 
Kyla Middleton

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!

 

Enjoy Hors D'Oeuvres & Desserts

Raffles

Silent Auction

Live Auction with VIPs

Live Performance

 

For more information about the event or Give US Your Poor, visit: www.giveusyourpoor.org/events/dinner_auction.php

or contact Jennifer Bonner via email: [email protected]

Cinco de Mayo Image
 
Take a break from the end of semester craziness - Join fellow McCormack Graduate School students and faculty from the Public Policy, Public Affairs and Gerontology Graduate programs as we celebrate

CINCO DE MAYO

May 5th - 4pm to 6pm - Faculty Lounge (11th Floor Healey Library) UMass Boston

Free food
Fantastic conversation
Fun and prizes guaranteed

RSVP by May 2, 2008 to: 
Kerstin Gerst (Gerontology)
[email protected]
OR
Felicia Sullivan (Public Policy & Public Affairs)
[email protected]

SAVE THE DATE - June 9, 2008

CWPPP Mind The Gap Picture
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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