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Melanie Sloan, Executive Director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Washington, DC present a lecture on "Can the Government be Trusted to Oversee Itself?" While on campus Sloan was a guest at a lunch hosted by the Rockefeller Center's discussion groups Rocky VoxMasters and PoliTALK. She was also a guest speaker in Professor Linda Fowler's government class on the "American Political System." Read a review of her lecture in The Dartmouth.
Melanie Sloan serves as CREW's Executive Director and is a nationally recognized expert on congressional ethics. Prior to starting CREW, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia where, from 1998-2003, she successfully tried cases before dozens of judges and juries. Before becoming a prosecutor, Ms. Sloan served as Minority Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, working on criminal justice issues for then-Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI). Ms. Sloan also served as Counsel for the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by then-Representative Charles Schumer (D-NY). There, she drafted portions of the 1994 Crime Bill, including the Violence Against Women Act. In 1993, Ms. Sloan served as Nominations Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, under then-Chairman Joseph Biden (D-DE). Prior to working for the Congress, she was an associate at Howrey and Simon in Washington DC. Ms. Sloan received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago and has published in the Yale Law and Policy Review, and numerous other publications. Frequently called upon by national news programs to provide analysis, Ms. Sloan has appeared on shows including: NPR's All Things Considered, CNN's The Situation Room, Larry King Live and Lou Dobbs, MSNBC's Hardball and Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, and ABC World News Tonight. Ms. Sloan also regularly provides insight to newspapers and magazines across the country including: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and Rolling Stone, which named her One of the Year's Greatest Mavericks in 2006. She has been profiled in a number of publications including: Ms. Magazine, Time Magazine and Mother Jones. Ms. Sloan has also been named one of Washington, DC’s Top Grassroots Lobbyists by The Hill for three years running and was profiled in the September 2009 issue of O Magazine as part of the O Power List.
On February 2, 2010, three Rockefeller Center Policy Research Shop students, Brendan McVeigh ’10, Elizabeth Mitchell ’10, and Ian Rorick ’10 testified in Concord before the New Hampshire House Executive Departments and Administration Committee, chaired by Rep. Anne-Marie Irwin and the Science, Technology and Energy Committee, chaired by Rep. Naida Kaen. The joint session served as a review of House Bill 1688 which proposes change to state regulations regarding the installation and operation of boilers and pressure vessels in New Hampshire. The bill considers altering state regulation to allow European biomass boilers to enter the New Hampshire market. Brendan, Elizabeth and Ian made a twenty-minute presentation to the members of the committees, and responded to questions from committee members. The group, along with Benjamin Beckerman ’10, provided written testimony in the form of a policy brief to the committees. The analysis of boiler regulation is one component of the students’ work to analyze policy options for New Hampshire in its goal to have 25 percent of its energy powered from renewable resources by the year 2025.
On January 29 Martin Dimitrov, Assistant Professor of Government, gave a presentation on "Popular Accountability under Authoritarianism: Citizen Complaints in Communist Europe and China. This presentation was in fulfillment of his most recent Rockefeller Center faculty research grant. Learn more about the Center's Faculty Research funding opportunities.
On Thursday, January 28, Joshua Young visited Public Policy 48, "Policy Analysis and Local Governance," to discuss his work as the Legislative Liaison and Deputy Director of Community Coordination for Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), New England's largest anti-poverty non-profit organization. Taught by Professor Andrew Samwick, the students in Public Policy 48 are currently analyzing the problems of racial segregation and concentrated poverty in their hometown areas. A 20-year veteran of state and local politics in Massachusetts, particularly in the field of affordable housing, Mr. Young had lunch after class with a group of students from the Center's Policy Research Shop, where they discussed their research projects in support of the New Hampshire and Vermont state legislatures.
Stephanie McHenry ’84, President, ShoreBank, Cleveland Region, Ohio presented a lecture on"Banking to Change the World: Creating Jobs and Empowering Communities, " 
as a Martin Luther King Celebration Event Sponsored by the Rockefeller Center. Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth. While on campus McHenry also was a guest at a luncheon hosted by the Rockefeller Center Women in Leadership and the Dartmouth Women in Business groups, and the Social Enterprise and Economic Development Society(SEEDS). On January 26 she participated in Professor Andrew Samwick's 'Policy Analysis and Local Governance" public policy class.
Stephanie McHenry is the President of ShoreBank, Cleveland Region. ShoreBank is the nation's first and largest community development and environmental bank, with $2.3 billion in total assets. Since beginning work in Cleveland in 1994, ShoreBank has invested more than $300 million in Greater Cleveland neighborhoods. Prior to joining the bank, Ms. McHenry served as the Senior Director, Minority Business Development for The Greater Cleveland Growth Association, where she led its successful efforts to support minority business growth. An active board member, she is past chair of the board of the National Cooperative Bank (Washington, DC), and serves on local governing bodies, including those of the Cleveland State University, and ideastream® (public radio and television). She is a member of the Board of Visitors at the Dartmouth College Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for public policy. Ms. McHenry is a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 2003. In 2007, she was profiled in Crain's "Women of Note" feature, and received a YWCA "Woman of Achievement" award in 2008. Ms. McHenry is a 1984 graduate of Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in economics and currently resides in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
MLDP Special Session: Corporate Recruiting Super Day
The Rockefeller Center held a special MLDP session "Corporate Recruiting Superday" on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 open to all Dartmouth students. This event addressed the weaknesses/disadvantages that recruiters often find in Dartmouth students: Lack of financial technical background, An understanding of the financial market, and the ability to market yourself. After going through corporate recruiting themselves last Fall, two Dartmouth seniors - Sumiran Das and Anh Le, frequently heard employers voice these concerns and so worked together with the Rockefeller Center to organize this event.
On January 12, 2010, Thalia Wheatley, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College presented "Is morality unified? Evidence that distinct neural systems underlie judgments of harm, dishonesty, and disgust" at the Social Psychology Research Interest Group (SPRIG) faculty workshop. Learn more about the Center's Faculty Workshops.
PRS Students Testify in Concord on Third Party Ballot Access. On January 12, 2010, two Rockefeller Center Policy Research Shop students, Jeremy Kaufmann ‘12 and William Hix ’12, testified in Concord before the New Hampshire House Committee on Election Law, chaired by Rep. Jane Clemons, on a proposed third party ballot access bill. Jeremy and Will provided written testimony in the form of a policy brief, made a ten-minute Powerpoint presentation to the members of the committee, and responded to questions from committee members. Their presentation was preceded by testimony from NH Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan, Rich Tomasso, Chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, as well as representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations. Read more about PRS testimonies.
Learn more about the Policy Research Shop.
Geeta Anand '89, a former member of the Rockefeller Center Board of Visitors is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter and feature writer for the Wall Street Journal. Anand based in Mumbai, India.
In 2006 Anand published The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million--And Bucked the Medical Establishment--In a Quest to Save His Children, which has inspired Harrison Ford's latest film Extraordinary Measures.
For the past six years, Dartmouth has
partnered with URACCAN through the Tucker Cross Cultural Education and
Service Program (CCESP), which sends a 30-person team of Dartmouth
students, faculty, and staff to rural Siuna, Nicaragua, every December
for a service and educational program. This past December Alex Rivadeneria '10,
a Rockefeller Center student assistant for the Rockefeller Leadership
Program, was a participant. He writes of his experience-
"The communities around Siuna are extremely rural, and all of Nicaragua is plagued by the social and political devastation of years of upheaval and revolution. For example, the communities we worked in lacked clean running water and electricity, let alone access to the internet or even good public libraries. Even well-off people in the communities live in dirt floor houses, and a cement foundation seems luxurious. Almost every person who came to the clinic complained of chronic pain all throughout their bodies from the hard labor that they perform at home or in the fields. Most women, for instance, work as “amas de casa” (homemakers), spending all day in poorly-ventilated kitchens, breathing in copious amounts of smoke. Men, on the other hand, work in “el campo” (the fields, the countryside) where they toil in the sun, perpetually hunched over, doing agricultural work with machetes.
As a health team member, my responsibilities included doing patient intake, helping translate for providers, working in a pharmacy and doing a health presentation for local heath providers. Working and living directly in the community meant daily interaction with the local people who were extremely welcoming. The children were a particular joy to spend time with. Although their lives are also difficult, increased efforts to ensure the literacy of the country’s children has brought the gift of reading to even some of the most rural communities in Nicaragua. Many children voraciously read the books that we brought with us to the clinic, and were happy to show off their skills. If there is hope for the future of Nicaragua, it certainly lies with these beautiful and intelligent children.
Overall, the experience was not always easy, but the connections and exchanges I had with many of the people on the ground are something that I will not soon forget." Learn more about the Tucker Foundation's CCESPthe experience was not always easy, but the connections and exchanges I had with many of the people on the ground are something that I will not soon forget." Learn more about the Tucker Foundation's CCESP
Winter Term Policy Research Shop Filled with Student Researchers
Twenty-seven students are currently participating in the Rockefeller Center’s Policy Research Shop (PRS), a record number of participants. The student researchers are working on eight distinct projects for state legislators, a state commission, the judicial branch, and a consortium of non-profit organizations during the Winter 2010 term. Research projects for state legislative committees in New Hampshire include: third party ballot access (to be presented in testimony on January 12, 2010 to the NH House Committee on Elections), public funding of state parks, disability benefits, alternative energy resources, and revisions to driving-under-the-influence (DUI) law. One student research group is working with the NH Gaming Study Commission on the social costs of gambling, the impact of gambling on crime, and the financial costs and benefits of introducing casino gambling. Another PRS group is working with NH Chief Justice Broderick to help the judicial branch better serve citizens who seek to represent themselves in NH state courts (pro se cases). Finally, a student group is working with the executive directors of homeless shelters in Vermont and New Hampshire to develop standards and establish best practices for the shelters. As each of these projects is completed, the students will move on the new research projects waiting to be undertaken by the PRS.
New Public Policy Spring-Term Course PBPL 51 “Leadership in Civil Society” (course description)
Leadership in Civil Society will be taught by Professor Ron Shaiko during the Spring Term. As a means of introducing the course Professor Shaiko draws a direct connection between civil society and leadership.
Leadership in civil society is manifest in many ways, particularly at the grassroots level in American society. As Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “we are a nation of joiners.” It is through the joining of forces in collective action that citizens have a more direct impact on public policy and the more general “pursuit of happiness” in contemporary society. It is through civil society that individual thoughts, preferences, and behaviors are aggregated to create social capital. The aggregation of individual preferences, behaviors, and resources in support of collective, societal goals requires leadership.
Leadership in Civil Society will focus on those aspects of leadership that are directly applicable to the accumulation and utilization of social capital through the various organizational manifestations of civil society. Students will explore the broad literature on nonprofit leadership as well as the more targeted literatures that address grassroots mobilization, religious (lay/servant) leadership, interest group influence, organizational maintenance and political representation, and the leadership problems associated with collective action. In addition, the course will focus on the roles of political parties as aggregators of societal interests and as intermediaries between citizens and the state. The various roles of the news media in civil society will also be critically analyzed in order to evaluate the leadership capacity of news organizations in providing the information necessary to participate in American society as informed citizens.
Learn more about the Rockefeller Center's Public Policy Minor
Amrita Sankar '12 is one of eight new Rockefeller Center interns for the Winter Term. Read about our new interns and where they will be spending their internships. Learn more about the Rockefeller Center public affairs and public policy internships.
“Systems thinking is cyclical in nature, we must train ourselves to think in this manner because our education teaches us to thinking linearly,” said Marty Jacobs ‘82, Systems In Sync President. Jacobs led the MLDP session on Wednesday November 11, 2009 on strategic planning and systems thinking. Students began the night testing their systems thinking skills with a balloon exercise. Students found the exercise to be challenging despite the simple directions to keep the balloon in the air, when a weighted balloon was introduced to the system. Jacobs summarized the exercise as a teaching tool to help students remember that the best laid plans can be interrupted with a smallest change. Summaries of MLDP Fall sessions are now available. Find out more about MLDP and how you can participate.
The 2008-09 Rockefeller Center Annual Report is now available online. Read about our new leadership initiatives, public policy classes, faculty grants, and much more. The new Rocky By the Numbers page is also included.
The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has named Dartmouth economist and Rockefeller Center Director Andrew Samwick New Hampshire Professor of the Year. Read the press release from Dartmouth College's Office of Public Affairs, and the article in The Dartmouth.Listen to the podcast "Innovation and Impact in Teaching" by Professor Samwick. The announcement of Professor Samwick's award was noted in the following media outlets in New England: The Boston Globe [11/18/09], WBZ-TV, Ch. 38, Boston [11/18/09], WMUR-TV, Ch. 9, Manchester, NH [11/18/09] its 2009 New Hampshire Professor of the Year. Read the full
Dr. Timothy Hoff, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, University at Albany presented "Practice Under Pressure: Saving Primary Care Medicine in the Age of Health Reform" at the Rockefeller Center’s Health Policy Faculty Workshop on Wednesday, November 11. Professor Hoff’s book Practice Under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century (Rutgers, 2009) is soon to be released. Learn more about the Center's faculty workshops.
Joshua L. Hurd ‘08 graduated with a minor in public policy along with a major, with high honors, in environmental studies. In addition to his minor in public policy, Josh worked in the Policy Research Shop and co-authored several policy briefs. He also was a recipient of Rockefeller funding for an internship at a nonprofit conservation advocacy group in Montana. Upon graduation Josh returned to that organization as a full-time research associate. This fall he began his graduate work toward a master’s degree in public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. Josh was awarded a full academic fellowship from the Harris School for the two-year program that includes full tuition remission and a $10,000 annual stipend.
The Center was one of several sponsors of the conference "The Ethics of Patriotism." This conference was organized by Michelle T. Clarke, a recipient of a Rockefeller Center faculty research grant. Learn more about the conference at the The Ethics of Patriotism website. Read a review of the conference in The Dartmouth.
William Cahill ’75 met with students in Professor Shaiko’s PBPL 45 class. Cahill described his experiences as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and as a member of the Governor’s Executive Council. Cahill spoke about the current budget process in Concord, as well as his current role in state policymaking as owner and manager of Cahill Public Affairs, a strategic communications and lobbying firm. He represents a variety of healthcare advocacy groups in Concord, including the American Cancer Society.
On Nov. 13-14th, the Rockefeller Center sponsored two Dartmouth students, Kunal Arya '12 and Connie Hu '11 to attend the Net Impact Conference held at Cornell University. This conference brought together 2400 undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals to discuss the hopes and challenges facing the clean energy, sustainable business, international development, and social entrepreneurship sectors. Key topics discussed included public policy intervention in clean energy, the innovation social ventures have brought to the development sector, international aid's ability to meet the needs of the base of the pyramid, intrapeneurship by corporate leaders to promote socially responsible business, and where the role of the private sector ends and the public sector begins in promoting sustainability and global social justice. In addition to learning about these cutting edge issues from prominent speakers (including Dartmouth Trustee and GE Chairman Jeffrey Immelt '78, who explained how volatility in the price of oil reduced GE Energy's ability to do R&D in renewable wind energy) and discussing them in small breakout sessions with industry professionals, the students also discovered new best practices relating to climate advocacy, social enterprise, delivering clean water, and applying for foundation or corporate support that they hope to share with campus leaders that are passionate about social justice and environmental issues at an upcoming event held by the Rockefeller Center and Net Impact's local Dartmouth chapter.
Vipin Narang, a Research Fellow, International Security Program/Projecton Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. presented "Posturing for Peace? Pakistan's Nuclear Postures and South Asian Stability" at the International/Foreign Policy faculty workshop. This workshop was supported by the John Sloan Dickey Center and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center.
DR. DAVID S. C. CHU, President and CEO, Institute for Defense Analyses, former Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, Department of Defense presented a public lecture on "The Challenge of Managing Defense" as part of the Brooks Family Lecture series. Read a new of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
Dr. Chu is President of the Institute for Defense Analyses. IDA's mission is to assist the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Commands, and the Defense Agencies, in addressing important national security issues, particularly those requiring scientific and technical expertise He served in the Department of Defense as Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness (2001-09), and earlier as Assistant Secretary and Director for Program Analysis and Evaluation (1978-93). From 1978 to 1981 he was the Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office for National Security and International Affairs. Dr. Chu served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1970. He was an economist with RAND from 1970 to 1978, Director of RAND's Washington Office (1994-98), and Vice President for its Army Research Division (1998-2001).
Dr. Chu received his BA in Economics and Mathematics, and his Ph.D. in economics, from Yale University. He is the recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service with Gold Palm, the Department of Veterans Affairs Meritorious Service Award, the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, and the National Public Service Award of the National Academy of Public Administration, of which he is a Fellow.
The 2009 First-Year Fellows met over dinner on Nov. 9 to discuss Sophomore Summer. One of the responsibilities for the First-Year Fellows is to prepare and execute Rockefeller Center activities for Dartmouth’s Sophomore Summer Program. Learn more about the Center's First-Year Fellows Program.
"Governing a State During a National Recession", a discussion between governors John Hoeven '79 (ND) and John H. Lynch (NH). "As governors, we need to do what we can to promote an environment that will allow businesses to compete and to prosper, because ultimately, if businesses are successful, they will make more money, they will grow their revenues, and it will create more jobs,” Governor Lynch was quoted as saying. Both governors discussed how their states were coping with financial challenges and business initiatives aimed at improving the economy in each state. Read a review of the discussion in the Valley News and The Dartmouth. This program will not be available on the Dartmouth YouTube channel, but a DVD is available for check-out from the Jones Media Center.
At the recent Rockefeller Center Board of Visitors' dinner Alicia Modeen '10 and Steven Cheng '12 [shown here] discussed their experiences as the Center's first Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO) interns.
Alicia Modeen is from Vernon, Connecticut, and attended Rockville High School, where she was the president of the Class of 2006 and participated in several student organizations. At Dartmouth, she is Geography major and a Public Policy minor with a focus in public health. Modeen served as the assistant photography and graphics editor for The Dartmouth, is a member of the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health, and acts as a tutor for the Academic Skills Center. She is a member of the Delta Delta Delta sisterhood and was elected the Vice President of Member Development for the Summer 2008 term. Modeen is also an intern at the Upper Valley Housing Coalition, a local non-profit organization dedicated to bringing affordable housing to the area. Upon her graduation in June of 2010 she hopes to enroll in a dual degree program offering a Masters of Public Health and Juris Doctor.
Steven Cheng is from Austin, Texas, where he graduated from Westwood High School. He is currently pursuing a double major in economics and psychology, with a minor in public policy. His activities at Dartmouth include serving as a business manager for The Dartmouth newspaper, working at the Collis Student Center, and conducting research through the Policy Research Shop. He was also a member of the Orientation Team for the Class of 2012. For his off-campus terms, he interned with the Corporation for National and Community Service the summer following freshmen year, then had the opportunity to live and learn in Lyon, France as a language study abroad participant during his sophomore spring. He continues to be highly interested in issues of civic and political engagement.
WIBO was founded in 1966 as a private non-profit organization that is committed to assisting men and women with the drive to become successful entrepreneurs. The WIBO internship opportunities are funded through a generous gift from Michael C Jackson '62, a former chair of the Rockefeller Center Board of Visitors.
PRS Policy Brief 0809-11 "Participant Outcomes of the Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO) Program" by Steven Cheng and Alicia Modeen contains a full report on their experience.
[Photo by Tilman Dette '10]
ANNE MULCAHY, Chairman, Xerox Corporation spoke on "Leadership Lessons Learned on the Firing Line." Anne Mulcahy is chairman of Xerox Corporation. From August 2001 through June 2009, she was also chief executive officer of the corporation. Mulcahy retired from the CEO post effective July 1, 2009 and retains the position of chairman. Prior to serving as CEO, Mulcahy was president and chief operating officer of Xerox from May 2000 through July 2001. She has also served as president of Xerox’s General Markets Operations, which created and sold products for reseller, dealer and retail channels.
Mulcahy began her Xerox career as a field sales representative in 1975 and assumed increasingly responsible sales and senior management positions. From 1992 through 1995 Mulcahy was vice president for human resources, responsible for compensation, benefits, human resource strategy, labor relations, management development and employee training.
She became chief staff officer in 1997 and corporate senior vice president in 1998. Prior to that, she served as vice president and staff officer for Customer Operations, covering South America and Central America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and China.
Mulcahy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/journalism from Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y. In addition to the Xerox board, she is a board of director of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., Fuji Xerox Company, Ltd., Target Corporation, and The Washington Post Company.
This lecture was presented in cooperation with the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), was the Rockefeller Center's Portman Lecture in the Spirit of Entrepreneurship. Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
Faculty Workshop
Dr. Rose McDermott, Professor of Political Science, Brown University, presented "Individual Differences in Fear Dispositions and Their Relationship to Political Preferences" at the International/Foreign Policy Faculty Workshop on Wednesday, October 28, 2009. This workshop was supported by the John Sloan Dickey Center and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center. Learn more about the Center's faculty workshops.
A special homecoming weekend event. The Rockefeller Center hosted a panel discussion on "Leadership: Past, Present and Future." The panel discussed the way leadership has traditionally been developed in the past, how we are developing it today and what we need to do to be ready for the leadership challenges of the future. Comparing the lessons of leadership across generations were Scott Creelman '64, retired CEO of Spaulding Sports and captain of the 1963 Ivy Champion football team; Ron Schram '64, trustee emeritus and current chair of the Board of Visitors of the Rockefeller Center; Andrew Samwick, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center: and J.R. Santo '10 and Derikka Mobley '10, both Rocky Leadership Fellows.
David Pierce - NH State Representative (Grafton- District 09) visited Professor Ron Shaiko’s PBPL 45: Introduction to Public Policy Research class on October 21 to discuss with students the NH legislative policy making process. He will be sponsoring a student project on third party ballot access. Students will be analyzing the varying levels of difficulty in granting third parties access to ballot positions across all of the states and assessing the current New Hampshire ballot access laws in comparison to the standards set in other states. Last year Rep. Pierce sponsored a Policy Research Shop (PRS) project on voter suppression [policy brief 0809-02]; three PRS students testified on the issue before the Election Law Committee in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in March of 2009. Learn more about the Center's Policy Research Shop.
Dr. Ron Simons, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia spoke on "Human Nature, Morality, and Crime: Test of a Social Schematic Theory of Antisocial Behavior” at a recent SPRIG faculty workshop Attendees included members of SPRIG as well as faculty from the Sociology Department. Learn more about the Center's faculty workshops.
MLDP Update
On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Professor John Garvey presented the MLDP session entitled " Problem Solving, Decision Making and Negotiation." This session introduced students to the basic tools and processes involved in systematically: identifying problems (or wants or needs); identifying the desired outcome; deciding what options are available to best achieve the desired outcome, and; negotiating with those who must be included in the process of obtaining the desired outcome. Read more about this session, and how you can participate in the MLDP.
Dr. Joan Martinez-Alier, Professor of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona spoke on"Social Metabolism and Ecological Distribution Conflicts,” as part of a joint program of the Environment/Development Faculty Workshop group and Professor Christopher Sneddon’s class on the Environment and politics in Southeast Asia (Geography/Environmental Studies 44). Learn more about the Center's faculty workshops.
CATHARINE MACKINNON, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan presented The William H. Timbers '37 Lecture entitled "Women's Status, Men's States." This lecture was presented in cooperation with the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association. The lecture will not be available on Dartmouth's YouTube channel, but a copy is available at the Jones Media Center. Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, specializes in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation. The Supreme Court of Canada largely accepted her approaches to equality, pornography, and hate speech. Her scholarly books include ex Equality (2001, 2007), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), and Are Women Human? (2006). She is published in journals, the popular press, and many languages. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities, she won with co-counsel a damage award of $745 million in August 2000 in Kadic v. Karadzic, which first recognized rape as an act of genocide. She works with Equality Now, an NGO promoting international sex equality rights for women. Professor MacKinnon holds a B.A. from Smith College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale. She has taught at Yale, Chicago, Harvard, Osgoode Hall, Stanford, Basel (Switzerland), and Columbia, spent a year at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and practices and consults nationally and internationally. She is one of the most widely-cited legal scholars in English.
Health Policy Faculty Workshop
On October 8 Dr. Bruce Landon, MD, MBA, MSC, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School & Associate Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center presented a very well-attended workshop on "The Patient-centered Medical Home: Thinking Ahead to Implementation." This was part of the Health Policy Faculty Workshop series. Learn more about the Center's faculty workshops.
MLDP Session
“Creating a collective us will help motivate others to join you.” Kate Hilton ’99, of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, hosted a session Wednesday, October 7, 2009 on communicating with others using narratives. Hilton began the session with a version of her personal narrative about her experience at Dartmouth and how it has shaped her work and passion now. Read more about this session of MLDP.
Environment and Development Faculty Workshop
Dr.James McCarthy, Associate Professor of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, presented "From Tree-huggers to Terrorists: a Genealogy of Eco-terrorism” at the recent Environment and Development faculty workshop. Learn more about the Center's faculty workshops.
Faculty Research
Martin Dimitrov, Assistant Professor of Government recently published "Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China." Support for research on the book was provided through a Rockefeller Center Faculty Research Grant. Read about the book on Amazon.com.
WILLIAM FISCHEL,Patricia F. and William B. Hale ‘44 Professor in Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College presented a lecture on"Making the Grade: The Economic Evolution of American School Districts." In the lecture Professor Fischel argued that “Schools were established by local people.“It wasn’t the legislature that created them.” Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
Most public discussions of school reform regard local school districts as putty in the hands of policy-makers at the state and national level. "Making the Grade" argues that this view is mistaken. The most important line on the map for most homebuyers is the school district. A home in a favorable district can generate a price premium of ten to twenty percent. This lecture will explain how modern districts evolved from the rural one-room school districts of the nineteenth century. As high-school education became important to children's success in life in the twentieth century, states sought to consolidate the one-room schools into larger districts. Local voters rejected plans to form districts along county and township lines. They agreed to consolidation only along lines that included the "organic communities" that residents had formed for themselves. Far from being "accidents of geography," modern school districts represent the best examples of consensual local governments in the United States. Their evolutionary history suggests that they will be able to adapt to the education demands of the twenty-first century in spite of the "top down" approach to education reforms that are currently in vogue.
SPRIG Faculty Workshop
On October 6 Dr. Joseph Bafumi, Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College presented a very well-attended workshop on " "Prejudice, Black Threat and the Racist Voter in the 2008 Presidential Election." This was part of the SPRIG Faculty Workshop series.
DR. PAUL STOCKTON ‘76, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs presented a lecture on "When the Worst Things Happen - Preparing for Catastrophes." "The system that we have is exceptionally tuned to deal with what I call ‘normal’ disasters. We need to capture the wisdom of states and localities, not only in implementing disaster response, but in shaping it," he said. Read the review of the lecture in The Dartmouth. This lecture was also covered by C-Span.
Assistant Secretary Stockton received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1976 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1986. From 1986-1989, Assistant Secretary Stockton served as legislative assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, advising the senator on defense, intelligence, counter-narcotics policy, and served as the senator's personal representative to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 1989 - 1990, Assistant Secretary Stockton was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, University. During his graduate studies at Harvard, he served as a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
While visiting Dartmouth Dr. Stockton also met with PoliTALK, a Rockefeller Discussion Group, and other invited students.
First Year Forum, The Rockefeller Center's weekly informal discussion group for freshmen, started the year off with a bang, as 52 members of the class of 2013 turned out for the first meeting of the year. In order to facilitate meaningful discussions, the First Year Forum student leaders split the participants into two groups – with one in Morrison Commons and one in Hinman Forum.
The lively discussion centered on the current health care reform debate, with students exchanging their views on the role that government should, or should not, play in providing its citizens with health care. During the Fall 2009 term, First Year Forum is led by Melissa Saphier '12, Lucy Pollard '10, and Ben Gonin '12. Learn more about the Rocky Student Discussion Groups.
Professor Ronald Shaiko, Senior Fellow and Associate Director, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences presented the Constitution Day Lecture "Petitioning Government: Interest Groups, Lobbying, and the First Amendment." Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
The New MLDP is Launched
On September 23 the Rockefeller Center's new Management and Leadership Development Program (MLDP) was launched. Dr. Elizabeth Winslow, (Dartmouth ‘83) of Tuck Business School hosted the first session, "What Makes a Good Leader? Vision, Confidence, Training and Commitment." Read more about session 1, as well as viewing the list of current participants, and learning more about the exciting new MLDP. You can also read more about the program in the The Dartmouth article. (Sept. 15, 2009)
Rockefeller Center Policy Research Shop
A Rockefeller Center Policy Research Shop study was cited in The Citizen of Laconia (online ed.) editorial "Don't forget counties in prison study"(September 17, 2009). Read the complete PRS Policy Brief "Coordinating the New Hampshire corrections system" Learn more about the Policy Research Shop.
On September 17th the Rockefeller Center held its annual open house. Specifically aimed at first year students, this year’s event drew over 200 students.
Director of the Rockefeller Center Reappointed
Andrew A. Samwick, professor of economics, has been reappointed director of Dartmouth’s Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, for a second five-year term. Read more in the September issue of the VoX . [Photo by Joseph Mehling ’69]
Civic Skills Training (CST) celebrated its 5th anniversary during the Fall 2009 CST program in Washington, DC. during the alumni reception. Learn more about Civic Skills Training and the Current Participants in the program.
Summer Newsletter - Our Summer newsletter is also available as a printable Pdf. This newsletter contains the most up-to-date Rocky Roadmap
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On August 31 our dear friend and colleague Judy Forthergill retired from Dartmouth College (and the Rockefeller Center). Many people from both around campus and beyond knew Judy as our Events Administrator extraordinaire. She will be sorely missed. In her place the very capable Sarah Morgan has become our Coordinator of Public and Special Events. Learn more about Sarah Morgan.
Dartmouth-Oxford Exchange Summer Barbecue
[back row: Catriona Witcombe (from Keble College), Erik Landgraff '11, Graham Healy-Day ‘11, Riddhi Dasgupta (from Keble College), Tomas Jagelka '11, Vlad Dobru '10, Joel Stockton (from Keble College) Front row: Richard Yates (from Keble College), Duc Mai '11, Brian Freeman '11, Jonathan Choi '11, Reyad Allie '11, and Elena Falloon '11, not pictured:Lillian Xia '11, Peter Keshtkar '11, Cacey Tang '11, Lindsey Beckett '11, and Michael Fields '11 ]
Among the attendees was Graham Healy-Day ‘11, who shared his experiences as a recent participant in the program. Learn more about the Dartmouth-Oxford Exchange.
Anna Post speaks on "Business Etiquette for the Digital Age"
[Shown here are Karen Doster '11, Lindsey Beckett '11 and Anna Post]
Anna Post is Emily Post's great-great-granddaughter and an author, spokesperson and presenter for The Emily Post Institute. A graduate of the Emily Post Business Etiquette Train the Trainer Program, Anna gave a lecture on Tuesday in the Rockefeller Center titled "Business Etiquette for the Digital Age," which was part of the Dartmouth Professional Student Workshop, a three-week program designed to help students hone their business skills during the Summer term. Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
