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 The McCormack Update
January  19, 2010
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I am pleased to say that the McCormack Graduate School is off to a pretty impressive start of 2010:

�    The Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management is offering its first online course, Performance Management for Government and Non-Profits.  I hope you will take a look at the prospectus and consider taking the course.  Performance management standards and metrics are increasingly being mandated by both federal and state government, and understanding its principles is an increasingly important element of successful management in the public sector.  

�    Programs in our Gerontology Institute continue to be much in the news; our New England Pension Assistance Project has recovered $36M worth of pension benefits over the past 15 years and was prominently featured in the Boston Globe; recent media star Dr. Beth Dugan has been awarded a $20,000 grant in support of her Older Driver Safety and States Licensing Policies project.

�    The Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy is offering 2 fascinating new online courses, Women's Political Leadership in a Global Perspective taught by Dr. Fatemah Haghighatojoo from Iran, and Women in Public Policy Decision-Making in a Global Perspective, taught by Ban Al-Mahfodh, of the Joiner Center.  Additionally, Center Director, Carol Hardy-Fanta has been a prominent commentator on today's historic U.S. Senate election; Los Angeles Times: "Senate race in Massachusetts comes down to wire," Sirius Satellite XM Radio: "Morning Briefing," and tune in tonight at 8:00 PM forWBUR with Bob Oakes.

�    The Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities After Disasters is holding a one day conference on rebuilding Haiti.   Please check it out.


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BTW, sad to say we are losing our terrific Administrative Assistant, Daniel St. John, to the Sociology Department.  Many of you know how helpful and cheerful he has been, and we will miss him very much.

The Super Bowl won't be much fun this year, but the NBA play-offs seem promising.

Job Opportunities of Interest

New Postings

1/12/10 Manager
Inner City Entrepreneurs

1/8/2010 Editor/Writer
UMass Boston Government Relations and Public Affairs office

1/7/10  Coord. of Coast & Marine Systems
Battelle

1/6/10 Survey Specialist
Silverlink Communications, Inc.

12/15/09 Transportation Planning Intern
Metropolitan Area Planning Council

11/24/09 Community-Based Research Intern
Crittention Women's Union


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MGS in the NEWS

Hope remains for a better country
Boston Herald, January 17, 2010
Adenrele Awotona, founder and director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities After Disasters at UMass Boston, is quoted in this article on the estimated $5 billion cost to start to rebuild Haiti in the wake of last Tuesday's earthquake.

Affairs of State: Kennedys endorse Coakley
NECN, January 7, 2010
Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, discusses the race for U.S. Senate on NECN's "Affairs of State."

Port ahead of trend on women in mayor's office
The Daily News, January 6, 2010
Article on women mayors in Newburyport uses data from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy.

Home Mods: Where Did the $75B Go?
CNBC's The Kudlow Report, January 5, 2010
Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs Christian Weller talks with host Larry Kudlow about where the money went in President Obama's $75 billion mortgage modification program.

Obama must speak out on Iran, ex-adviser says
CNN International, January 5, 2010
Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy visiting scholar Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, a former reformist member of the Iranian Parliament, is interviewed by host Christiane Amanpour on what lies ahead for Iran.

A pension found, with a little help
Boston Globe, December 24, 2009
Article highlights the work of the Gerontology Institute's New England Pension Assistance Project, a federally funded organization that works to connect retirees with lost pensions. The organization has helped about 5,100 people get $36 million worth of pension benefits in the past 15 years.

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 Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

Business LunchDr. Carol Hardy-Fanta, Director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy offers commentary on today's election:

Los Angeles Times: "Senate race in Massachusetts comes down to wire," 19 January 2010.

Sirius Satellite XM Radio: "Morning Briefing," 6:35am, 20 January 2010.
Gerontology
Eilon Caspi, a PhD Candidate in Gerontology successfully defended his dissertation on January 6, 2010.

The title of the defense is: "Preventing agitative behaviors and encouraging positive emotions among elders with memory loss who live in an assisted living residence."
Business Lunch
Congratulations to Eilon.  His dissertation committee consisted of Francis G. Caro and Jeffrey A. Burr from Gerontology, Donna Haig Friedman from Public Policy and Ann Hurley from Brigham and Women's Hospital.

 Dispute Resolution

DisRes Colloquium I    
February, 2  Tuesday 5:30 PM - 7 PM
Michael Keating: Media and Conflict

Join us for a discussion on the topic of International Media Assistance to Conflict, Post-Conflict and Developing Countries, with Professor Michael Keating, the Associate Director and Senior Fellow at MGS Center for Democracy & Development, who will discuss why media assistance is critical, what the issues are, which organizations are involved and what type of assistance they provide.

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Associate Professor Eben Weitzman, Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution at MGS is the author of "Integrating Software and Qualitative Analysis", an online chapter on qualitative data analysis now available on the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) new e-Source online resource for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. 

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