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Publications
An article by CPCS Professor Dennis Stevens of the Criminal Justice Program, "College Educated Officers" was published in the journal Law and Order (vol. 47, no. 12). Stevens also has a contract with Prentice Hall for the publication of Policing and Policing Partnerships, which will include 12 original research articles from scholars and practitioners. Stevens himself will contribute an article on how civil liabilities against police officers affect arrest rates. Twenty eight agencies across the U.S. have agreed to participate in the research for his study.
Public Policy Program alumna Maria Elena Letona's book, State Government Provision of HIV/AIDS Programs: Towards a Partnership Model of the Contractual Relationship Between State Government and Community Agencies, has been published by Garland Press.
Randy Wilson, a student in the Public Policy Ph.D. Program has written a paper, "Health Care Coverage: Are we Shortchanging Those who Care for our Children?" for the McCormack Institute's Center for Social Policy. He also wrote a case study for a recent conference at the Ashridge Management Cente, UK, sponsored by the New Deal Task Force and the Rockefeller Foundation. The conference was a US/UK seminar called "Improving Low Income Job Seekers Employment Prospects: The Role of Labor Market Intermediaries;" his presentation focusing on one such intermediary program, was titled "Common Ground Community and the Times Square Job Training Program."
Professor Margaret Driscoll of the Instructional Design Program has written the following articles: "Web-Based Training: What to look for in 2000" published in Women's Business, January, 2000, and with T. Keating, "Ten Reasons why Webbased training is different: The old rules don't apply" (Part I) in Technology for Learning Newsletter a Lakewood publication.
Colin Rule, a graduate student in the Dispute Resolution Program, had an article, "Online Mediation: The Next Frontier for Dispute Resolution" published in SPIDR News, a newsletter of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
Professor Lawrence Franko of the College of Management wrote the December 1999 "Speaking Out" feature for the Advocate, a higher education publication of the National Education Association. Franko focused on the mission of higher education, particularly the role of business education, in support of the idea that a college education can teach students useful skills to help them become gainfully employed outside of academe or politics upon graduation. For the full text, go to www.nea.org/he.
Two analytical articles on the 2000 presidential election have been published by the McCormack Institute's Center for State and Local Policy as part of its ongoing election coverage: "No Early Knock-out in the Gore-Bradley Battle" was published as an op-ed in the November 27 Boston Globe, and "Don't Place your Bets on the Iowa Results" appeared in the Concord (NH) Monitor on January 8. Both were prepared by Lou DiNatale, director of the UMass Boston Poll, and Garrison Nelson of the University of Vermont and senior fellow, McCormack Institute.
Conferences and Presentations
Professor Nina Silverstein, director of the Undergraduate Program in Gerontology, and Gerontology Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Moorhead spoke at the January 25 meeting of the Commonwealth's Women Veteran's Network on the topic "Raising Awareness About Aging Women Veterans in Massachusetts."
Target Marketing's annual conference in Jackson, NH featured presentations by Sherry Thomas, director of Enrollment Marketing and Information Services on "Managing Recruitment: Behind the Scenes of an Integrated Marketing Plan," and "Team Building" by Liliana Mickle, director of Undergraduate Admissions. Also attending the conference was Jon Hutton, assistant director of Enrollment Marketing and Information Services.
Professor of Marketing Peter McClure presented a slide lecture, "China from East to West: A Fulbrighter's Journey" at the Harvard Law School on January 23. His presentation was sponsored by the Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the Fulbright Association.
Professors Rajini Srikanth (English Department) Larry Blum (Philosophy Department) and Lois Rudnick (American Studies Program) co-lead a workshop on the WGBH and Culture Shock Presentation, "Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" which aired television on January 26. The professional development workshop was held on February 1 in the Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, on February 1.
Over the January break, Professor David Matz, director of the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution, presented a one-week course at Hebrew University in Jerusalem on conflict in organizations. The course was part of Hebrew University's new Master's Program in Conflict Resolution.
Honors and Awards
Professor Nina Silverstein of the Gerontology Program, CPCS, has been elected a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America in recognition of her "outstanding achievement and exemplary contributions" to the field.
Professor Zong Guo Xia of the Department of Earth and Geographic Sciences was recently invited to serve on the editorial board of the journal Geospatial Information Science.
Grants and Projects
The Center for Social Policy, McCormack Institute, has been awarded a $143,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to assess the impact of welfare reform on trends in emergency services. This project, one of two projects funded and the only statewide study of its kind, involves collection and analysis of statewide data and case studies of emergency service providers and recipients in six Massachusetts communities. The study will be conducted with The Institute for Asian American Studies, The Gaston Institute and The Trotter Institute.
The Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership, based at the College of Management, has received two grants to continue a study of the impact of manufacturing on Boston's econony: a $20,000 grant from the City of Boston's Office of Business Development and a $10,000 grant from NStar.
On December 13, 1999, the night of the City of Boston one-night census of homeless persons, the McCormack Institute's Center for Social Policy staff worked with staff at the Pine Street Inn and Long Island Shelters to gather information on a random sample of individuals who seeking emergency shelter. The information collected from this snapshot was then analyzed in comparison to other statewide homeless information collected by the Center for Social Policy through the ANCHoR Project.
Appointments
Paul K. Oíleary has been appointed acting director of the Division of Continuing Education's Center for Occupational Education. Oíleary was previously superintendent and director of the Southeast Regional Technical School in South Easton, Massachusetts. He is filling in for Center director Sumner Rotman, who is on leave.
Professor David Patterson of the Music Department has been appointed to the Steering Committee on World Music by the Music Teachers National Association. This committee will be setting the agendas for two upcoming national meetings of the Association, in Minneapolis this year, and in Washington, D. C. in 2001.
College of Management Dean Philip Quaglieri has been appointed to the board of directors of the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership. Three other individuals have also been appointed to the board: Katherine O'Neil, professor, Wentworth Institute, Alan Soyster, dean of the College of Engineering at Northeastern University, and Michael Tamasi, president, Accuround Company of Avon.
In the News
On January 18, James Jennings, political science professor and senior fellow, Trotter Institute, was interviewed for a National Public Radio report on the lawsuit against the Boston Public School System's use of affirmative action in teacher hiring. Jennings commented that for all students, a racially and ethnically diverse teacher workforce is important and that such diversity is a prerequisite for the adequate preparation of all our students to live in a diverse society.
Professor Zong Guo Xia of the Earth and Geographic Sciences Department was quoted in a State House News Service article on how the State Department of Transitional Assistance has used geographic information systems to decide where to place new local offices.
Elizabeth Sherman, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy of the McCormack Institute, provided commentary on Lt. Governor Jane Swift and family leave for National Public Radio the week of January 10. On January 19, Sherman appeared on CBS Nightly News with Dan Rather on the New Hampshire primary, the Iowa caucus, and the gender gap.
On Stage
Theatre Arts Professor John Conlon directed Anton Chekov's A Marriage Proposal for the Black Box Theatre on January 20, 21 and 22 at North Quincy High School.