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New Directors at McCormack and Trotter Institutes

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Two faculty members, both with many years of experience in their respective fields and in public service have been tapped to direct the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs and the William Monroe Trotter Institute.

Political Science Professor Edmund Beard, who played a primary role is the establishment of the McCormack Institute in 1983 and served as its first director until 1991, will head the institute on an interim basis. He assumed the role in June when Robert Woodbury stepped down as director after four years. Since 1991, Beard has been a McCormack Institute senior fellow and during that time founded the Institute's Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), created to apply the resources and skills of the Institute to the needs of developing democracies. He will continue to head up the CDD during his tenure as director. Beard's areas of expertise include American political institutions, public policy, political behavior, and the development of democratic institutions in emerging democracies.

Professor Philip Hart of the College of Public and Community Service, a sociologist with expertise in inner-city economic and community development, will lead the Trotter Institute during the coming year. Hart assumes the director's role from James Jennings, who stepped down from the directorship this summer after eight years. Jennings will continue his long affiliation with the Institute as a senior fellow, and continue on as editor of the Trotter Review. As well as supporting the Institute's present activities, Hart plans to explore the possibilities inherent in aligning the Institute more closely with the University's academic units to take advantage of combined resources. Hart spent the 1998-99 academic year on sabbatical in Los Angeles, where he was project manager for the West Angeles Cathedral, which is slated for completion in the year 2000.