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.
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.
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.
