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Your life is a message to the world.
Make sure it is inspiring.
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Message from Dean Ira A. Jackson
December 2014
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Dean Jackson with Lt. Governor-elect Karyn Polito and CWPPP
Director Ann Bookman
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In a recent email, I saw this anonymous quote and wanted to pass it along to you: "Your life is a message to the world. Make sure it is inspiring."
In this issue of the McCormack Impact, I present three inspiring members of the McCormack Graduate School community: Professor Donna Haig Friedman and classmates Parfait Gasana and Wade Cesar...
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Pictured on the right: Sylvia Ferrell Jones, CEO of the YWCA of Boston, and the other panelists at the New England Women's Policy Conference.
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New McCormack Publications
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New England Journal of Public Policy: More Children Left Behind
"The root of inequity in educational outcomes is growing poverty and resegregation." Padraig O'Malley, editor
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Global Leadership Dialogues
Vol. 1, Issue 1. Environmentalist Extraordinaire: James Gustave (Gus) Speth
"We need to build an economy and a politics that give priority to people, place, and planet rather than profit, product, and power."
Vol. 1 Issue 2. Climate Champion: Christiana Figueres
"Collectively, we can choose that future, and individually you will make choices at all three rungs of the choice ladder: personal, public, and planetary."
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Other Recent Publications
Our faculty and research staff have published articles and op-eds on the Affordable Care Act, Boko Haram talks, feminist theory, inequality in the world, informal worker organizations, Latinos in Rhode Island politics, unemployed youth and violence, and professional identity construction among doctoral students.
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Pictured on the right: Dean Ira A. Jackson (center) with John W. McCormack's relatives at post-lecture dinner.
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 Six McCormack Grad School Colleagues Honored for Years of Service Pictured on the right: Chancellor J. Keith Motley presents Center for Social Policy staff member Julia Tripp with award for ten years of service. |
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2014 Annual Alumni Networking Reception
December 17, by invitation only; RSVP by December 12
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EDITOR: Barbara M. Graceffa
PHOTO CONTRIBUTIONS: Harry Brett
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UMass Boston Research Assistant Plans Local World AIDS Day Event 
