State of the School & Town Hall Conversation

September 3, 2014

John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies

Columbia Point ….

is the place to be!

Excellence Opportunity Impact

Examples at the McCormack Graduate School ….

Excellence

Award Winning Research

Amy Smith, PhD and Karen Monaghan: Best Paper Award American Review of Public Administration

Jeffrey Pugh, PhDBest Paper AwardAmerican Political Science Association Annual Conference

Excellence

Thought Leadership conferences:

• Society for Terrorism Research: Communication & Collaboration for Counter-Terrorism (September 17-19)

• Latinas Represent Boston (September 29)

• Conflict Studies & Global Governance: The New Generation of Ideas (October 31-November 1)

• The Unfinished Agenda:New England Women’s Policy Conference (November 7)

Excellence

McCormack Scholars, Next Generation of Leaders

Excellence

Public Affairs Alumna Mary Grant, Chancellor, University of North Carolina Asheville

Gerontology Alumna Bei Wu, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Nursing, Duke University

Opportunity

New Educational Partnerships:

• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

• University of Limerick, Ireland

Opportunity

International Relations classmates build first English-language children’s reading room in Kigali, Rwanda

Impact

TedEx Conference features Professor Darren Kew on Managing Religious Conflicts

Forum for Cities in Transition:October conference in Belfast

Environmental Conventions Initiative: Evaluating treaties and agreements on biodiversity loss, climate change, desertification, and management of hazardous chemicals and waste

Impact

• Coasts and Communities: $3.1M grant from National Science Foundation

• Interfaith mediation training in Kaduna, Nigeria

• Advisors to the United Nations: poverty and homelessness, science and policy

Impact

• Collins Center for Public Management: Making government more open, efficient, effective

• Gerontology@UMass Boston: Aging in Boston report

• Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development: Restorative justice juvenile mediation project

Strengths

Our People:Top-notch, caring faculty Passionate students

Successful alumni Dedicated staff

Our Projects that tackle “wicked hard” challenges: Global warming Immigration Government performance Inequality and social justice

Healthy aging Peace ... and more!

New People:

New Faculty: Kathrin Boerner, PhD and Len Fishman, JDJeffrey Pugh, PhD, and Karen Ross, PhDand Domingo Morel, PhD

Assistant Dean for Academic Programs Justin Maher, PhD

New administrative staff: Melissa Quashie and Kelly Ward

New Name: Gender, Leadership, and Public Policy

What’s New?

New Projects and Plans:

• Build our student body to 400 by 2015• Municipal Government Leadership

track in MPA program• Alumni engagement and fundraising initiatives• Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development policy briefs• Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration • Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership • Center on Senior Mobility

What’s New?

Formula for Success

• Everywhere!

• Get involved with recruitment efforts

• Attend our special events

• Be part of a caring, collaborative, creative community

• Share ideas and take initiative

• Be proud ambassadors: many programs, one school

Where you can help

Questions? Comments?

Ideas to share?

GO LOCAL . GO GLOBAL.GO McCORMACK!