Following a long and distinguished career in the United States Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan will join the faculty of The Maxwell School of Syracuse University as a University Professor in January 2001.  As a University Professor -- the highest faculty rank -- Senator Moynihan will spend his time writing and teaching, meeting with undergraduate and graduate students on campus in Syracuse as well as in Maxwell programs taught in Washington, D.C.   The Senator will have offices at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the nation’s official memorial to the 28^th president. 

            “I am hugely honored and gratefully accept.  It will be just 40 years since I left Maxwell to join the Kennedy Administration.  I return older, possibly wiser, and vastly enthusiastic,”  says Senator Moynihan of his appointment.

             The Senator has a long relationship with The Maxwell School, where he first served as an assistant professor from 1959 until he began public service at the Department of Labor in Washington in 1961.  A member of the Cabinet or sub-Cabinet of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, he is the only person in American history to serve in four successive administrations.  During the 1970s, Senator Moynihan was the U.S. Ambassador to India  and U.S. Representative to the United Nations.  He was elected to the United States Senate in 1976. 

 Senator Moynihan has been a regular visitor to campus, returning to Syracuse numerous times to speak and to share his perspectives with Maxwell faculty and students.  In 1986, he established the Moynihan Prize, an annual award to honor outstanding Maxwell junior faculty members.  He has served as a member of The Maxwell School Advisory Board since 1992 and received an honorary degree from Syracuse University in 1984.