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 October 20, 2009
Friends and Colleagues:                                                                                                                                                                   Dean Steve Crosby - 09

If you are a political junkie or a public policy junkie-never mind if you are both-it don't get much better than this.  In Boston, we have the first meaningful race for Mayor in 16 years.  In Massachusetts, we have a 5 way competition for Senator Kennedy's seat, and an emerging free for all in the Governor's race.  And nationally, we have the incredible saga of the Obama Administration fighting two wars, fighting the worst economic downturn since the great depression, and trying (with all his spare time?) to radically transform our healthcare system and our carbon and energy policy.  It is overwhelming and exhilarating, at the same time.

Meanwhile, we at McCormack Graduate School keep chugging along, doing our part:

  • I had an opportunity on Emily Rooney's  "Greater Boston" to talk about the report on "Quasi-public" salaries I gave to the Governor.

  • Dr. Shelley Metzenbaum, the founding Director of the Collins Center, has started her cool new job in the White House.                                                                                                                                                       Business Lunch
  • Dr. Donna Haig Friedman, Director of the Center for Social Policy, announced the Center has received a $100,000 annual grant from the Boston Foundation (matched by MGS and UMB) to lead a comprehensive rethinking of America's poverty policy. (A modest goal that only Donna would have the nerve to undertake.)  And you might be interested in CSP's conference on the 20th "Counting on Care Work: Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts."
  • The Edwards J. Collins Center was awarded $500,000 of stimulus money (American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) by the Governor's Office to help guide smaller cities and towns through the arduous process of applying for their own stimulus money.  This is a remarkable vote of confidence in the Center and particularly its Deputy Director, Steve McGoldrick.
  • The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute has signed up a number of great speakers including former Senate President and UMass President William Bulger.
  • Please note the faculty search that we are conducting for our new Global Policy Studies department.  I hope you will distribute these job descriptions as widely as possible to friends and associates; this is a tremendously exciting opportunity both for MGS and UMass Boston, as we follow our new permanent Provost's lead in the development of the University's Human Security and Globalization initiative.

On Wednesday November 4th, the day after the Mayoral election, I'll be hosting a brown bag lunch for political and policy junkies to think about election returns and speculate about the upcoming Senate race.  Details to follow.  I hope you will join us.

 
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Steve Crosby, Dean
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MGS in the NEWS

Kennedy Without Tears
Boston Globe, October 16, 2009
Nigel Hamilton, Senior fellow in the McCormack Graduate School, is featured in this article.

Transportation Awareness Day
Billerica Minuteman, October 9, 2009
Elizabeth Dugan, professor in the Gerontology Institute and  The Complete Resource Guide for Older Drivers and theitook part in a program that was part of the Council on Aging's [COA] Transportation Awareness Day, held in September at the Billerica Senior Center.

Women in New England Politics
NECN, October 1, 2009
"Affairs of State" with Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at MGS.

Street Signs
CNBC,  September 28, 2009
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs Christian Weller discusses whether the Fed or the Treasury should be in charge of regulating risk.

End TARP Now!
CNBC, September 25, 2009
The Kudlow Report, with Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs Christian Weller.

Appointment of Paul Kirk
NECN, September 24, 2009
"Affairs of State" with Bob Turner, the director of the Commonwealth Compact at the MGS.

OMB will create new performance management framework for agencies
Government Executive.Com, September 24, 2009
Shelley Metzenbaum, of the Collins Center for Public Management at MGS is mentioned in this article.

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Thursday October 22, 2009
Douglas Thompson, Senior Associate-Keystone Center Science and Policy Program
The Role of the Neutral: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same (Or Not)
5:30 - 7:00 PM UMass Boston Campus Center, 3rd flr, Room 3540

Tuesday November 17, 2009
Larry Fox, Consultant
Mediating in the Labor Movement - Anatomy of a Failed Mediation Effort: The Case of Unite Here
5:30 - 7:00 PM  UMass Boston Healey Library, 11th flr, Room 11B

Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

Center for Homeland Defense & Security
CRSCAD is very pleased to announce that it is now a partner of the Center for Homeland Defense & Security at the Naval Postgraduate School and The U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

A paper which was co-authored by Grace Adenrele AwatonaOyebola Adetula, an affiliate of CRSCAD, and Professor Adenrele Awotona, the Director of CRSCAD was presented at the 4th Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (WAAD) International Conference on "Education, Gender & Sustainable Development in the Age of Globalization." The conference  was held at Abuja, Nigeria, from August 3 to 8, 2009.  The paper was titled, The role of demobilized girl soldiers in participatory community development after wars in Africa.

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 Center for Democracy & Development

University of Liberia
Micheal Keating .In August, Michael Keating, Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Development participated in a foundation funded assessment of the University of Liberia, the primary institution of higher learning in that country. Working along with a colleague from Simon Fraser University, the assessment resulted in a 5 year strategic plan, a management development plan as well as recommendations regarding curriculum development and technology. If you would like information about how you might contribute to the rebuilding efforts at a post-conflict University please contact:
michael.keating@umb.edu

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