Institutes

The Maxwell School is home to two institutes and co-sponsor, with other Syracuse University colleges, of two more. The institutes complement the work of the school's degree-granting programs and multidisciplinary research and graduate training centers. They emphasize the school's broad vision of education, sponsoring interdisciplinary symposia, seminars, research, and nondegree-granting programs that help bridge the worlds of theory and practice.

Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute
The Institute is an interdisciplinary research organization dedicated to linking the worlds of scholarship and public affairs.  The Institute supports the study and analysis of public programs and actions, citizenship and participation, public management and public administration, policy processes, governance, civil society, the politics and history of public policy creation, and public affairs research in general.

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
The Moynihan Institute was created to integrate and focus Maxwell's international programs, research, service and training activities in an interdisciplinary setting that promotes global awareness. The Moynihan Institute supports interdisciplinary, topical programs; and regional programs, such as the South Asia Center, the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA), and the European Union Center. It is named in honor of long-time U.S. Senator and former Maxwell faculty member Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
INSCT, launched in 2004, is a multidisciplinary center for research, publication, community service, and teaching on matters of national and international security, and the closely related topic of terrorism. INSCT is a cooperative venture of SU's College of Law and the Maxwell School, tapping faculty strength in the policy-development and legal aspects of these issues.

Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media
Launched in 2006, the IJPM comprises a partnership of Maxwell, the College of Law, and SU's Newhouse School of Public Communications. and the Maxwell School. IJPM is a first-of-its-kind academic institute devoted to the interdisciplinary study of issues at the intersection of law, politics, and the media.

Research Centers

The Maxwell School's multidisciplinary research centers involve graduate students and faculty members in study, research, conferences, and publications. Although each center has its own topical focus, all address provocative issues of public concern in domestic and international arenas. Much of the research is undertaken as team projects and reflects the cross-disciplinary character of the Maxwell School. (Prospective students who wish to be involved with one of these centers must first apply to and be accepted by one of the school's degree-granting programs.)

Center for Environmental Policy and Administration
A central purpose of the Center is to guide policy actions by preparing current and future generations of students and professionals to more effectively address the challenges of governance and citizenship in a world in which environmental concerns are increasingly important and complex.

Center for Technology and Information Policy
CTIP focuses on the technical dimension of public policy. The center specializes in technology assessments, research-and-development policy, the use of technical information in decision making, computers in public policy making, computer management of public organizations, and similar topics.

Center for Policy Research
The Center encompasses Maxwell's Metropolitan Studies and Aging Studies programs and is also the administrative home of the University Gerontology Center. It conducts a broad range of interdisciplinary research and related activities in aging, urban and regional studies, education finance and accountability (EFAP), entrepreneurship and public policy (PREPP), income security, poverty, public finance, public policy, and social welfare.

Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC)
The mission of PARC is to further the theory and practice of the analysis of conflict, the resolution of conflict, collaborative problem solving, and collaborative governance.

This page current as of: September 18, 2006