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Friends and Colleagues: 
My fourth commencement as Dean was highlighted by the
presence of commencement speaker Vicki Kennedy. UMass Boston learned that the wife
of the great Senator shares his special gift: though she walks with kings, her
connection with the rest of us is compassionate and genuine.
McCormack
Graduate School
celebrated the award of 6 doctoral degrees, 74 masters degrees and 35 certificates. It was a great day.
Many of you have followed the work of Padraig O'Malley, our
Moakley Chair on Peace and Reconciliation. This month, Padraig convened the second annual Forum on Cities in
Transition from Conflict, sponsored by Serbian and Albanian representatives
from Mitrovica, Kosovo. It was an
extraordinary achievement for the Mitrovicans, hosting an international
conference in a dilapidated city just eleven years from war, with unreliable
utilities and a conference facility which wasn't completed until the night
before we began. Eight other delegations
to the conference included Nicosia, Cyprus; Derry/Londonderry, Ireland; Belfast;
Beirut; Jerusalem; Haifa; Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina; and Kirkuk. The
conference was often moving and always fascinating, as it seemed to further
demonstrate the validity of Padraig's conviction that the best people to foster
the spirit of reconciliation in a divided community are people who share the
same experiences in other divided communities. MGS was well represented. In
addition to me and the Moakley staff we had 4 former or present students
helping the Mitrovicans staff the conference Cassidy Evans, Jeffrey Range, Pat Peterson, Rima Mahmoud, Padraig O'Malley, Nancy Riordan, Steve Crosby  | ; Richard Kobayashi from the
Collins Center led a panel on economic development and reconstruction; Rula
Deeb from the Haifa delegation is an active participant in Donna Haig
Friedman's Fulbright project with Haifa; and we offered scholarships to two of
the great young Mitrovican staff, one Albanian and one Serb.
This conference clearly had a material impact on the ability
of the Mitrovicans to work together and to enhance the prospects for
cross-ethnic collaboration in that community. And the enthusiasm of all the delegations to hold another conference next
year in Derry/Londonderry reinforced the importance of this model.
MGS Fellow and renowned biographer Nigel Hamilton has just
published American Caesars, Lives of the Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, a fascinating new look at twelve leaders of
the American empire since World War II. Nigel also hosted the first Compleat Biographer Conference, which attracted nearly
160 participants from dozens of states and from nations as far away as Chile, the United
Kingdom, and Holland. Biographers of all stripes were in
attendance, from Pulitzer Prize winners to writers beginning their first
work. At the conference, Nigel was
elected Board President of the Biographers International Organization. Congratulations Nigel.
So concludes my fourth year as Dean of the McCormack Graduate
School. I could not be more proud of the continued
impressive work of the Centers and Institutes which preceded me, or of the
potential impact of our new Centers and Institutes, or of our expanding and
increasingly rigorous academic programs. I think we have cemented our position as a leading academic, research,
and programmatic force in our city and state, even as we are moving
aggressively to expand our reach in the global policy arena. I am equally proud that all of our office
staff and graduate program administrators have made attention to customer
service the touchstone of their work. I
feel extraordinarily fortunate to have been offered this opportunity-not only to
build a new college, but also to participate in the dramatic reinvigoration and
growth of UMass Boston under the bold and visionary leadership of Chancellor
Keith Motley and Provost Winston Langley.
I wish you all a delightful summer.
P.S. I received an
overwhelming five responses to my inquiry in the last Update about the content
of my political musings in this medium. Four of the five encouraged me to stick
with it, so I probably will, perhaps muting the personal opinions.
Steve Crosby, Dean
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Price tag for Lawrence's deficit woes continues to rise
Eagle-Tribune, June 13, 2010
Article about what Lawrence is spending to manage its own finances mentions that the Edward Collins Jr. Center for Public Management has a $50,000 contract with Lawrence to help the city put together a 2011 budget. Stephen McGoldrick, deputy director of the center, is quoted in this article.
UMass Study Suggests Regionalization of Some Services, in the Interest of Efficiency
Martha's Vineyard Times, June 3, 2010
Article looks at a report on the delivery of public services in Martha's Vineyard prepared by the Edward Collins Jr. Center for Public Management at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies.
Govt. Paycheck Pain Ahead
CNBC, May 28, 2010
Big government is getting bigger, with MGS Professor Christian Weller and Chris Edwards, Cato.
Divided Cities Meeting in Kosovo
The Sofia Echo, May 25, 2010
Article on the first-ever conference of the Forum for Cities in Transition in Mitrovica, Kosovo, which was organized by Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation Padraig O'Malley.
Mario Frangoulis & Friends in New York
NEO Magazine, May 2010
Article recapping the April 30 Mario Frangoulis concert in New York City benefiting homeless advocacy organization Give Us Your Poor, which is housed at UMass Boston's McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies.
Massachusetts Judges Promote Rule of Law in Central China
Usembassy-china.org.cn, May 18, 2010
Retired Judge Peter Anderson, a Visiting Fellow with MGS's Center for Democracy and Development, lead 13-member delegation representing Massachusetts Superior Court, Massachusetts Appeals Court, Massachusetts District Court and Northeastern University Law School As part of Consulate General Wuhan's rule of law outreach program.
Actor/Activist John Ratzenberger to Keynote AIM's Annual Meeting
Business Wire, May 5, 2010
Article about an upcoming Associated Industries of Massachusetts Annual Meeting mentions that Steve Crosby, dean of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, will lead a panel titled "What Now? Rebuilding the Common-Wealth."
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Collins Center for Public Management
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 Summer course on Your Terms!
The Collins Center is offering their online course Performance Management in Governments and Non-Profits this summer from July 12th -August 20th. You can complete this six module course before, after, or during your vacation. The students completing the course last month noted that they got two benefits from the course, not only did they receive great content material, they also got to learn online learning technology. Improve your skills over the summer and be more valuable by fall. Sign up now!
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 CRSCAD has announced the winners of the International Student Essay Competition on "Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with the Elderly and Disabled People after Disasters"
The Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters recently organized an international student competition as an integral part of its forthcoming July 2010 conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with the elderly and disabled people after disasters.
The five winners of the contest are from Austria, Brazil, Canada, and the USA (UMass Boston).
CRSCAD congratulates all of them and look forward to their presentations at the July 12-15, 2010 conference at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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 John McGah, MSPA '05, Director of McCormack Graduate
School's campaign to end homelessness, Give US Your Poor, will be presenting a
workshop at the 2010 National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference on July
14 in Washington, D.C. John will co-present with David Peter Stroh of
Bridgeway Partners a session entitled, "A Systemic Approach to Ending Homelessness" applying systems dynamics view to understanding interconnected forces
contributing to homelessness and indentifying leverage points for change.
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The Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy
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The Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy co-hosted Mrs. Victoria Kennedy at UMass Boston's Commencement this year. Here she is wit h students from our graduate program's Class of 2010 (l to r) Teresa Jenkins, Carla DeFosse, Mrs. Kennedy, Joyce Holt, and Director Carol Hardy-Fanta.
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 Congratulations to Donna Stewartson, Associate Director of the Program for Women in Politics and Public Policy and Michael MacPhee, Graduate Program Administrator for the Dept. of Public Policy and Public Affairs, on being nominated by their colleagues for the Chancellor's Achievement Award for professional staff for 2010.
Professor Amy Smith is co-chairing the Doctoral Student Consortium for the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management at their Annual Meeting this summer in Montreal. The Academy of Management Annual Meeting is an academic conference that includes professional development workshops and scholarly presentations of research.
 Associate Professor Darren Kew of the Dispute Resolution Department was interviewed on the BBC/Public Radio International program "The World" on May 6, 2010, about the death of Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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