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Maxwell School Professor Selected to Head Prominent Washington Think Tank Arthur C. Brooks, professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, has been chosen to head the prestigious American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, beginning January 1, 2009. Brooks, who is currently the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy, has been a member of the Maxwell School faculty since 2001. Maxwell School’s International Relations Program Names New Chair. Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs announced today that it has chosen Ambassador Donald Planty as the next leader of its International Relations program. Ambassador Planty, a native of Lowville, New York, will assume his new role effective August 2008. Professor Catherine Bertini to Moderate Panel at First Annual Meeting of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Catherine Bertini, who was named a founding member of the board of the Global Humanitarian Forum by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan last fall, will participate in the first annual Forum meeting on June 24-25 in Geneva, Switzerland. Bertini is the former director of the U.N.’s World Food Programme and an international expert on food security issues. Maxwell's Policy Analysis and Public Management Training Program Taking Place in India and South Korea. Maxwell’s Executive Education Program and the Center for Public Policy at IIM Bangalore recently welcomed 114 Indian Administrative Service officers to an 8-week policy analysis and public management training program taking place in India and South Korea. Canadian Law Professor to speak about political power in the Guantánamo Bay detainment of 15-year-old Canadian citizen Omar Khadr. Audrey Macklin, professor of law at the University of Toronto, will use the case of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, who has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2002, to explore mechanisms by which citizenship, territoriality, and jurisdiction are used to exercise legally authorized political power. The talk will take place on Thursday, April 24, at 3:30 pm in 500 Hall of Languages. Maxwell School Again Named #1 Graduate School of Public Affairs by U.S. News & World Report. For the fifth consecutive time, the Maxwell School of Syracuse University sits atop U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of graduate schools of public affairs, ahead of such prominent institutions as Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, Indiana University, and the University of Georgia. Maxwell has held the number-one spot since the rankings category was created in 1995. Nursing home study finds that short-term care is on the rise in New York State. A new report on New York State nursing homes finds that short-term stays in these facilities have tripled in the past decade, and residents are increasingly more cognitively impaired. The study, titled “Changes in Nursing Home Care, 1996-2005: New York State,” was conducted by Public Administration professor of practice Tom Dennison and looks at the changing role of nursing homes as a part of the medical care delivery system since the mid ‘90s. Maxwell School Hosts 20 Emerging Leaders from Middle East. Twenty emerging leaders from 12 countries in the Middle East arrived at the Maxwell School March 17 as part of the Leaders for Democracy Fellows program funded by the U.S. Department of State's Middle East Partnership Initiative. The program, now in its second year with plans for a third under way, brings these individuals to the United States for a six-week fellowship at the Maxwell School to study the foundations of democracy before participating in six-week internships in Washington, D.C. INSCT Faculty Members Publish Book. Syracuse University’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) has released its first full-length book, Combating Terrorism: Strategies and Approaches, co-authored by William Banks, professor of law and public administration and director of INSCT; Renee de Nevers, professor of public administration; and Mitchel Wallerstein, professor of political science and public administration and dean of the Maxwell School. Bertini Joins Global Humanitarian Forum. Catherine Bertini, professor of public administration, has been named as a founding board member of the new Global Humanitarian Forum launched by former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan on October 17, 2007. NAPA Fellows Named. Public Administration Professors Stuart Bretschneider and Alasdair Roberts have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration. Thomas Ricks, Author of Best-Selling Book Fiasco, To Speak. Thomas Ricks, U.S. military correspondent for the Washington Post and author of the best-selling book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, will speak at Syracuse University’s Maxwell Auditorium on Thursday, September 20. Maxwell School Professor Arthur Brooks Named to Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy. Public Administration Professor Arthur Brooks has assumed the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, according to Maxwell Dean Mitchel Wallerstein. Maxwell Receives $5-Million Gift in Honor of Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The Maxwell School of Syracuse University has received a $5-million gift from the New York City-based Leon Levy Foundation to establish the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Policy, in honor of the late distinguished scholar and U.S. Senator from New York. School Establishes New Chair, Funded by Advisory Board. Mitchel Wallerstein, dean of the Maxwell School, announced the establishment of a new endowed chair made possible through the philanthropy of the members of the Maxwell Advisory Board. The inaugural occupant will be Distinguished Professor of Public Administration Rosemary O’Leary. Fiscal Wake-Up Tour Visits Maxwell April 4. The Maxwell School will host a forum on the nation’s budget problems, featuring the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, a joint public engagement initiative of the Concord Coalition (a nonpartisan grassroots organization), the Brookings Institution, and the Heritage Foundation. Experts will include David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, and Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition. They will be joined by two Washington think-tank experts: Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution and Alison Fraser of the Heritage Foundation. Folk Arts Events Showcase Refugee Cultures. The Anthropology Department of the Maxwell School will host events on March 29 and 31, and on April 12, to celebrate the cultures of four groups of refugees who are exiled from their homelands. The largest event, “Folk Arts Soul of Syracuse,” will feature three traditional performances, including the Sudanese DiDinga, who will perform their harvest celebration dance, “Nyakorot”; the Ahiska Turks of Russia, who will perform “Haliy,” a celebratory dance; and the Karen of Burma, who will sing and dance to traditional music. Many other events and presentations are planned. Maxwell Will Train Senior Policy Officials in India. The Maxwell School’s Executive Education Program has been awarded a three-year, multi-million-dollar contract by the Government of India to design and deliver public policy analysis training to senior officers in the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Bolton Scheduled to Speak. Ambassador John Bolton, former U.S. representative to the United Nations, will discuss “U.N. Reform and U.S. Priorities” during his talk on Friday, February 2, at in Maxwell Auditorium. Maxwell and Newhouse Offer Public Diplomacy Degree. Two of Syracuse University's most renowned schools have teamed to create a new dual master's degree program in public diplomacy, combining elements of international relations and communications. Syracuse is one of only two universities to offer such a program. Maxwell to Host Middle East Leaders. Under a program funded by the U. S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative, 25 emerging leaders from 15 countries in the Middle East are headed to the United States for a month-long fellowship at the Maxwell School. Maxwell and WTVH-TV Co-Host Town Hall Meeting. Maxwell Auditorium will be the setting for a debate between Republican Congressman Jim Walsh and his Democratic opponent, Dan Maffei, on Monday, October 23. The event will be broadcast live from 6 to 7 p.m. on WTVH-TV, Channel 5, and will also be available live via webcast.
Maxwell Receives Grant for New I.R./Religion Program. The Maxwell School has received a $370,000, three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to create an interdisciplinary initiative on “Religion, the Media, and International Relations.” South Asia Center Receives Grant. The South Asia Center (SAC) at Syracuse University, in consortium with Cornell University's South Asia Program, was awarded a $1.936-million dollar grant under the Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship program administered by the Department of Education, for academic years 2006-2010. SAC is a U.S. Department of Education-designated National Resource Center housed in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School. Long-Time Faculty Member Robert McClure to Occupy New Endowed Professorship. The Maxwell School has received a $1.5-million gift from John H. Chapple, an alumnus of the School, to establish and endow the Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy in the Department of Political Science. Long-time Maxwell political science professor Robert D. McClure has been named as the inaugural Chapple Family Professor. Palmer Appointed to Second Term as Medicare/Social Security Trustee. The White House appointed John L. Palmer, University Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, to an unprecedented second term as a Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. Palmer was first appointed to the Board in 2000, along with Thomas Saving, an economist at Texas A&M. President Bush reappointed both April 19.
Maxwell To Host International Journalists. The Maxwell School and SU's Newhouse School of Public Communications will host a delegation of 17 journalists from Europe and the Middle East as part of the U.S. Department of State’s inaugural Edward R. Murrow Journalism Program in April. SU is just one of a number of American institutions taking part in the program, which will bring a total of 130 journalists from independent media outlets around the world to U.S. soil. The goal is to expose journalists to the rights and responsibilities of a free press in a democracy; to give them insight into the social, economic and political structures of the United States; and to have them visit leading academic institutions in smaller delegations for interactive sessions with faculty and students.
May 2006 Professor Montgomery Meigs Will Head Anti-Insurgency Task Force October 2005 Maxwell Poll Focuses on Public Opinion of Federal and State Judiciary; Judicial Independence. / Poll results (PDF) July 2005 New co-directors named for well-regarded Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict May 2005 December 2004 Maxwell researchers publish study on poverty and social exclusion of Europe's Roma minority October 2004 Maxwell Poll explores issues of social and economic inequality in citizen engagement April 2004 March 2004 September 2003 Former Fed Chief Volcker Speaks at Maxwell. Post-event coverage: Archived streaming video available. August 2003 U.S. Department of Education Funds European and South Asian Centers May 2003 Mitchel Wallerstein Named Eighth Dean of the Maxwell School April 2003 Former Dean John L. Palmer Named University Professor January 2003 Maxwell Professor Douglas Holtz-Eakin Approved to Head Congressional Budget Office November 2002 Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter to Speak at the Maxwell School October 2002 Conference on Public Policy and the Future of the Family April 2002 Maxwell Dean John L. Palmer to Step Down in June 2003 January 2002
Campbell Public Affairs Institute sponsors Governance and Public Security
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01/10/02 Sean O’Keefe, Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Maxwell, to head NASA. 11/15/01
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Maxwell
Receives $5-Million Gift From Alumnus.
The Maxwell School has received a $5-million gift -- the largest in the School's
82-year history -- from alumnus and Advisory Board member Howard Phanstiel. The
gift will establish the Howard and Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic
Management and Leadership. 
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Co-authors Report on Internet and Political Fundraising. 
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