ABOUT THE PROGRAM
HISTORY
PARC was established in 1986 with a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Its founding director was Professor Emeritus Louis Kriesberg, who continues to make important intellectual contributions to PARC and to the field of conflict resolution. Professor Robert A. Rubinstein was director from 1994-2005. Under Robert’s leadership, PARC expanded both its domestic and international reputation in the field of conflict resolution. In July 2005, Rosemary O'Leary and Catherine Gerard became Co-Directors of the PARC program.
PARC CO-DIRECTORS
Rosemary O'Leary
PARC Co-Director,
Maxwell Advisory
Board Endowed Chair
Distinguished Professor of Public Administration
J.D., University of Kansas
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Class website:
Summer 2008
PPA753 Executive Leadership
Rosemary O'Leary is Distinguished
Professor of Public Administration and Maxwell Advisory Board
Endowed Chair. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of
Public Administration, she was a senior Fulbright scholar in
Malaysia in 1998-1999 and the Philippines in 2005-2006. Previously
O'Leary was professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana
University and co-founder and co-director of the Indiana Conflict
Resolution Institute.
O'Leary is the author or editor of six books and more than 100
articles on public management and public policy. She has won nine
national research awards, including Best Book in Public and
Nonprofit Management for 2000 (given by the Academy of Management),
Best Book in Environmental Management and Policy for 2005 and 1999
(given by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)),
and the Mosher Award, which she won twice, for best article by an
academician published in Public Administration Review. Her
research has been funded by the Hewlett Foundation (9 years), the
International City/County Management Association, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, the American Bar Association, and
the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
She is the only person to win three awards from the National
Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
(NASPAA): Distinguished Research (2004), Excellence in Teaching
(1996), and Best Dissertation (1989). In 2007, O'Leary won the
Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in teaching,
Research and Service, given jointly by NASPAA and ASPA. In
2003, O'Leary was awarded the Syracuse University Chancellor's
Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement, the highest research
award at the university.
She has won eight teaching awards and was the recipient of the
Distinguished Service Award given by ASPA's Section on Environment
and Natural Resources Administration. O'Leary has served as national
chair of the Public Administration Section of the American Political
Science Association, and as the national chair of the Section on
Environment and Natural Resources Administration of ASPA.
From 2003-2005, O’Leary was a member of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration's Return to Flight Task Group assembled in
response to the Columbia space shuttle accident. In 2004, she
also served as a member of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
O'Leary has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of the
Interior, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S.
Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, the National
Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the Indiana
Department of Environmental Management, and the International
City/County Management Association. She has worked as an
attorney and as an administrator in Kansas state government.
Catherine
Gerard
PARC Co-Director
Associate Director, Executive Education Programs
M.A., University of Toronto
M.P.A., Rockerfeller College
Catherine M. Gerard serves as Associate
Director of Executive Education Programs and Co-director of the
Program on Analysis and Conflict Resolution at Syracuse University’s
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. In that role, she
manages the Master of Arts in Public Administration degree program,
serves as graduate course professor for the Department of Public
Administration, and designs and delivers executive education
programs for domestic and international customers.
Before joining Syracuse, she was Assistant Director for the New
York State Governor’s Office of Employee Relations where she led a
consulting and training organization devoted to statewide training
and organizational effectiveness. Throughout her State government
career, she specialized in assisting leaders with organizational
change and in the design and development of training programs.
In addition, Ms. Gerard was a key architect of the State’s total
quality management program and served as adjunct faculty member at
the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs at SUNY Albany.
Ms. Gerard teaches leadership for managers at many levels.
Her graduate course at the Maxwell School is targeted for
mid-careers managers from public and nonprofit organizations in the
United States and abroad. She recently conducted leadership
training for Senior Executives in the Department of Defense and New
York State government. She co-developed and delivered a
workshop, entitled, “Leadership and Learning,” for almost 8,000
managers in federal and New York State agencies. A recent
project was leadership development for school superintendents and
Board presidents through the Central New York School Boards
Association.
Ms. Gerard has consulted with public and non-profit organizations
in the areas of strategic planning, leadership/management,
organizational change, team-building and conflict resolution,
labor-management partnerships, and total quality management.
Her current government customers include the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office and the New York State Department of Health.
Her most recent public sector projects include curriculum
development of a multi-day leadership program and a year-long
Certificate Program in Advanced Public Management. Selected
strategic planning clients include Arise and Child and Family
Services, Onondaga Citizen’s League, Rape Crisis Center, Fabius-Pompey
School District, Jordan-Elbridge Central School District, the City
of Syracuse Board of Education, and Onondaga Central School
District. She recently completed a major facilitation project
for the Salvation Army.
PARC STAFF
Elizabeth S.
Mignacca
Administrative Assistant: Responsibilities include program
budgets, payroll, reimbursements, travel and speaker arrangements,
grant writing, grant administration, coordinating the Summer
Institute for Creative Conflict Resolution, assisting PARC
co-directors with the day-to-day administration of the Institute,
and assisting PARC faculty with various research and course related
activities.
Carin
D.
McAbee
Records and Publications Coordinator: Responsibilities include
keeping PARC records, running the certificate of advanced study in
conflict resolution program, advising students in the certificate
program, serving as webmaster for PARC, and crafting the institute's
annual report. In addition, she assists the PARC co-directors
with the day-to-day administration of the Institute, and assists
PARC faculty with various research and course related tasks.
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