1. State of the School & Town Hall Conversation September 3, 2014 John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies

3. Columbia Point …. is the place to be!

4. Excellence Opportunity Impact Examples at the McCormack Graduate School ….

5. Excellence Award Winning Research Amy Smith, PhD and Karen Monaghan: Best Paper Award American Review of Public Administration Jeffrey Pugh, PhD Best Paper Award American Political Science Association Annual Conference

6. Excellence Thought Leadership conferences: Society for Terrorism Research: Communication & Collaboration for Counter-Terrorism (September 17-19) Latinas Represent Boston (September 29) Conflict Studies & Global Governance: The New Generation of Ideas (October 31-November 1) The Unfinished Agenda: New England Women’s Policy Conference (November 7)

7. Excellence McCormack Scholars, Next Generation of Leaders

8. Excellence Public Affairs Alumna Mary Grant, Chancellor, University of North Carolina Asheville Gerontology Alumna Bei Wu, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Nursing, Duke University

9. Opportunity New Educational Partnerships: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia University of Limerick, Ireland

10. Opportunity International Relations classmates build first English-language children’s reading room in Kigali, Rwanda

11. Impact TedEx Conference features Professor Darren Kew on Managing Religious Conflicts Forum for Cities in Transition: October conference in Belfast Environmental Conventions Initiative: Evaluating treaties and agreements on biodiversity loss, climate change, desertification, and management of hazardous chemicals and waste

12. Impact Coasts and Communities: $3.1M grant from National Science Foundation Interfaith mediation training in Kaduna, Nigeria Advisors to the United Nations: poverty and homelessness, science and policy

13. Impact Collins Center for Public Management: Making government more open, efficient, effective Gerontology@UMass Boston: Aging in Boston report Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development: Restorative justice juvenile mediation project

14. Strengths Our People: Top-notch, caring facultyPassionate students Successful alumniDedicated staff Our Projects that tackle “wicked hard” challenges: Global warmingImmigration Government performance Inequality and social justice Healthy agingPeace... and more!

15. New People: New Faculty: Kathrin Boerner, PhD and Len Fishman, JD Jeffrey Pugh, PhD, and Karen Ross, PhD and Domingo Morel, PhD Assistant Dean for Academic Programs Justin Maher, PhD New administrative staff: Melissa Quashie and Kelly Ward New Name: Gender, Leadership, and Public Policy What’s New?

16. New Projects and Plans: Build our student body to 400 by 2015 Municipal Government Leadership track in MPA program Alumni engagement and fundraising initiatives Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development policy briefs Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership Center on Senior Mobility What’s New?

17. Formula for Success

18. Everywhere! Get involved with recruitment efforts Attend our special events Be part of a caring, collaborative, creative community Share ideas and take initiative Be proud ambassadors: many programs, one school Where you can help

19. Questions? Comments? Ideas to share? GO LOCAL. GO GLOBAL. GO McCORMACK!