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Friends and Colleagues: 
It's official at last! After several months of conversation among the academic and research leadership of the college and approval of the Provost and the Faculty Council, the President of the University of Massachusetts now agrees to our new name, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies.
This is our third iteration since the McCormack Institute was founded in 1983. With the addition of several new academic programs, we became the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies in 2003. Now that about a third of our academic and research programs are predominantly international in scope, we have a new name that reflects our evolving and expanding areas of endeavor. (Just this week, for example, our Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy was featured in the Boston Globe for its extraordinary leadership training for a delegation of Iranian women. And our Moakley Chair recently hosted the Boston Symposium on the Arms Trade Treaty, attended by 50 government delegations and representatives of civil society.) We will never lose our deep roots in state and local government, social policy, gerontology and dispute resolution. But we will transfer and expand those skills to the global arena, even as we add new academic and research programs that are inherently global in their focus. The words in our new name are not chosen lightly.
I'm pleased to announce that Ms. Rosemarie Day joined our college as a Visiting Fellow. Rosemarie was most recently the Chief Operating Officer of the Massachusetts Healthcare Connector, and is now a leading scholar and consultant in the area of healthcare reform. She will be working with our academic programs and our centers and institutes to involve our college more deeply in healthcare reform and healthcare policy.
You are welcome to check out Rosemarie's talk "Health Care Reform: What Lessons Have We Learned from the Massachusetts Experience?" Monday, November 1st from Noon to 1:00PM in McCormack Hall, 3rd floor room 415.
Next to this text is a picture of Rawan Qudah, a young woman I passed nearly everyday when my office was in the Healey Library where she works. With all the angst about our relationships with the world of Islam, and the frequent ominous intolerance of our Muslim guests and citizens, this picture of Rawan is a wonderful lesson. Rawan is UMass Boston; she is Boston; she is America.
Our Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs is "hosting" the 2010 fall conference of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, which will be in Boston, November 4 - 6. Please join us.
For students of policy, this is a dismal political season. In the post "Citizens United" world, in which corporate and labor money may flow in stupendous volume from unidentified sources into political campaigns, we have a political environment that is more dominated by money than ever before. Those who have it, have the biggest and most powerful voices. Surely the Founding Fathers did not see the right of a corporation to speak as the same as the right of an individual to speak.
I have deep concern for the future of our Republic, if we can't figure out a way to limit the influence of our wealthiest citizens and organizations.
Steve Crosby, Dean
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Graduate Studies Showcase
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Wednesday, November 17th 2010, 4-7:30 pm
Campus Center Ballroom
On Wednesday, November 17th, the Office of Graduate Studies will be hosting the Graduate Studies Showcase 2010 for all prospective UMass Boston graduate students.
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MGS Internship Opportunity
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UMass Boston Career Services
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Need additional assistance on your job or internship search or resume?
Visit Career Services or call 617-287-5519.
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Freelance workers reshape companies and jobs
USA Today, October 14, 2010
The Center for Social Policy's Francoise Carre notes the strain on the social safety net from a shift towards more freelance workers.
A week for the record books, full of sound, fury, intrigue, absurdity
The Boston Globe, October 9, 2010
Steve Crosby comments on the current "bizzare" political environment in Massachusetts.
Living In The Middle: Falling Behind? NPR, October 6, 2010
Professor Christian Weller comments on a story about rising income inequality and the shrinking middle class.
Include women to move the Israeli-Palestinian peace process forward
Palestinenote.com, October 5, 2010
Research by MGS Professor Darren Kew is cited in article about the need to include Palestinian women in order for peace negotiations with Israel to be successful.
Somerville High Alum Plays Give Us Your Poor Fundraiser With Band
Wicked Local Somerville, October 3, 2010
Article about a benefit concert at Somerville High School for the MGS program Give US Your Poor: The Campaign to End Homelessness.
Dan Mitchell on cutting the Dept. of Education on CNBC
CNBC, Oct 1, 2010
Professor Christian Weller debates the benefits of increased funding for the Department of Education.
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Center for Democracy & Development
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 Liao Yong'an, Vice Dean of the Xiangtan University School of Law in Hunan Province, China, has arrived in Boston to begin a one-year Chinese Government sponsored Fellowship at the Center for Democracy and Development. Dean Liao has been working closely with CDD on the Enhanced Judicial Education in China Project, funded by USAID. Dean Liao first visited Boston in March 2010 for a CDD program on U.S. rules on Evidence and Discovery. During this program, plans were initiated for Dean Liao to spend the year-long Chinese Scholarship Council Fellowship he had been awarded at UMass Boston.
Dean Liao's interest is to learn broadly about the U.S. legal and judicial systems, knowledge which he will take back to his Law School at Xiangtan and, in particular, to the new Chinese-American Legal Research and Exchange Center being developed at Xiangtan as a direct outgrowth of the Enhanced Judicial Education Project. Dean Liao will conduct his research through court records, archives, and other materials and through extended interaction with U.S. judges, legal professionals, and scholars who have been associated with CDD's programs. Dean Liao's Fellowship began on 4 October and will continue through September, 2011. Dean Liao is joined in Boston by his wife and ten year old son. They are residing in Braintree. |
 The Wait & Friends
Saturday, Dec. 4 2010
7:00 PM
Regent Theatre in Arlington
A Reunion Show of Boston-based Rock and Roll band, The Wait, featuring Mighty Sam McClain, and others to benefit Give US Your Poor: The Campaign to End Homelessness.
Reserved Seats $12 (includes facility fee);
$25 for reserved seat to show and an after show reception with all performers.
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Gerontology Institute Colloquium Series
Fall 2010 Semester Speakers
Monday, November 15th, 2010 (1:00-2:15) - Wheatley building -3rd Floor-Rm 125
Title: "How Positive Are Older Adults?"
Derek M. Isaacowitz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology Volen National Center for Complex Systems, and Health: Science, Society, and Policy Psychology, Brandeis University
Monday, December 6th, 2010, (1:00-2:15) - Wheatley building -3rd Floor-Rm 125
Title: "The Emergence of Institutional Elder Care in China."
Zhanlian Feng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Community Health Center for Gerontology & Health Care Research. The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
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Conflict Resolution,
Human Security, and Global Governance
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Upcoming Events
This Week! Don't miss this biennial conference: CONFLICT STUDIES: The New Generation of Ideas sponsored by the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution at UMass Boston, taking place October 22-23, 2010 in the UMass Boston Campus Center.
Register Now!
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Public Policy/Public Affairs
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 MGS Professor Billie Gastic's research on the role of teachers in the educational success of sexual minority youth was cited in a major legislative brief of the National Education Policy Center. Click for text |
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