Sir Mark Malloch Brown

Hey Policy Majors!

The next Student Policy Tea and Discussion is scheduled for Monday, October 1st, from 4:00-5:15pm in the Graham Memorial Lounge. Our guest, Sir Mark Malloch Brown, is a very influential global policy figure. The Roosevelt Institution is co-sponsoring this with PPMU.

He will also be speaking at 7:30pm in Memorial Hall the same evening, and he will present the 2007 Frank Porter Graham Lecture in Memorial Hall on the subject "Making Private Capital Work for the Poor."

Sir Mark Malloch Brown was until recently Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, and previously Director General of the United Nations Development Programme. In both positions he was a leading advocate for the Millennium Development Goals, whose twelve point agenda seeks to radically reduce world poverty by 2015. In June 2007 he joined British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Cabinet as Minister for Africa, Asia, and the United Nations, where he will focus on the role of private capital in alleviating the suffering of those living in poverty around the globe. He also advises the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on human rights and other global issues.

For additional information including background materials on Malloch Brown and his initiatives, see http://www.johnstoncenter.unc.edu/events/fpg_0708.htm .

Faculty Meeting 09-05-07

Both Shamelle and I attended the first faculty meeting this past Wednesday. As Undergrad Representatives, one of our responsibilities is to attend those meetings, relay any student concerns/ideas to the faculty, and then report back to you. If you have an issue you would like to address, please alert us before the next faculty meeting which is held on the first Wednesday of each month. Here's a brief synopsis of what was discussed:

• Dean Gil, the new Senior Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences, attended the meeting to become more familiar with the public policy department. She is a liaison between the Dean's Office and the Social Science departments.
• A main concern of the department was growth. We currently have approximately 225 public policy undergraduates. The department sees the potential to grow significantly in the next few years. There is demand, as seen by the following trends--more students declaring public policy as a major earlier in their academic career, more double majors with public policy, and active policy students (ex. Roosevelt Institution & PPMU). However, a lack of departmental resources is hampering that growth, and they're hoping that the Dean's office will help with that.
• The Washington Policy Semester will be starting again this Spring 2008, and Dr. David Podoff will be leading the domestic policy track of the program. Ambassador William H. Itoh will lead the foreign policy track.
• The department is tentatively considering establishing three new degrees: (1) a joint Ph.D. program with the Government School, (2) a M.A. degree program, (3) and a B.A./M.A. degree combo.
• The department is in the process of renewing the Hubert Humphrey Fellows program. The program brings talented mid-level professionals from all over the world to universities in the U.S. Fellows engage in graduate-level work, receive leadership development and professional training, and participate in workshops and conferences.
• Prof. Gail Corrado has been revamping the senior practicum course.

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