The Marxe School Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
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The Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs Turns 25
Dear Readers:
It’s hard to believe, but the Marxe School will celebrate throughout this year a quarter-century of operations as a free-standing School at Baruch College. What a long way we’ve come in those 25 years! We have more than quintupled our enrollment, added an undergraduate program and two graduate programs, tripled the size of the faculty, and firmly established ourselves as one of the nation’s leading programs in policy and administration.
One of the most important shifts has been to recognize and support the School’s participation in global affairs. Our MPA and HEA programs began to introduce comparative policy themes into the curriculum in 2007. Over 80 per cent of the faculty we have hired since that time have research interests in at least one country beyond the USA. Study away (including both study abroad and our DC program) now involve more than 100 students each year – a number we will continue to grow. The clearest single example of our global engagement is the new Master of International Affairs, which admitted its first students in fall 2017 and will graduate its first class this June.
And of course we are enormously grateful and proud to have been renamed the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs in the wake of an extraordinarily generous gift of $30 million, the largest single gift in Baruch’s history. That has allowed us to improve the lives of our students and faculty, provide new services to enrolled students and alumni, hire Marxe Chaired Professors, and make an ever bigger impact on the communities we serve and study.
Now with more than 8,000 alumni and one of the strongest professional networks in the nation, we know the best is yet to come
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We will continue to grow, build our linkages outside of the US, engage creatively with the communities we serve, and build an outstanding body of policy-relevant scholarship informed by the diversity we are proud to embrace.
But I don’t want you to hear that just from me, I’d like you to hear it from our students and faculty, our alumni and community partners. You can do that in the pages of this newsletter, which details some of the latest accomplishments notched by members of our community. Better still, join us and Keynote Speaker Fernando Ferrer (MPA ’05) in person on the evening of March 14 when we will launch our formal 25
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Anniversary celebrations.
This School is one of the most important engines of change in the public sector in this country. A consistent champion of diversity and excellence in service, the Marxe School – your school – is gaining momentum every day. Please come back to campus, meet our students, speak with our outstanding scholars, and tell us your story!
Warm regards,
Marxe Dean, David S. Birdsell
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Introducing #Marxe25
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we'll be posting 25 facets of the School's history, including academic programs, community facts, and more from 1994 until today!
Follow along @BaruchMarxe or with the hashtag #Marxe25 on Facebook and Twitter!
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Janai Nelson, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund spoke passionately about voting rights at the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture, 'Defending Democracy and the Right to Vote' the day before the historical Nov. 6, 2018 elections. The event also featured a voter registration table staffed by the League of Women Voters of the City of New York.
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SAVE THE DATE: On
March 14 from 4:30-8:00 the Marxe School's 25th anniversary celebration will be held on-campus. We welcome the greater Marxe community to celebrate this momentous occasion with us.
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April 15 from 6-7:30 pm
the spring Ackerman Lecture will be held on-campus. The lecture will be delivered by co-founder and managing director of
United We Dream
, Cristina Jimenez. She is a national voice on immigration and the defense of Dreamers' rights.
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MSEd student, Arijit Dhillon takes in a piece of the Berlin Wall while abroad in Berlin, Germany
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Marxe Office of Global Initiatives Winter Update
In the winter session of 2019 the Office of Global Initiatives at the Marxe School offered three short-term programs to Marxe graduate students.
Three students (including Arijit Dhillon, photographed above) went to Berlin, Germany for a short-term program, "International Business Strategy" where they took a course on global market challenges and trends, visited companies and institutes, and took part in a module on German culture and society from an international perspective.
Two students journeyed to Amsterdam, Netherlands for a program on post-truth empiricism, with a focus on social media and web data. The program featured keynote speakers and hands-on storytelling with data in service of a workshop-set digital methods project.
Three students traveled to Athens, Greece for "Migrations in the Margins of Europe", a short-term program that offered an overview of current debates and research topics in relation to refugees and migration in Greece.
The spring semester will see more exciting travel and programmatic opportunities offered by the Office of Global Initiatives for Marxe graduate students.
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Marxe Alumna, Natalie Madeira Cofield Named 2018 Advocate of the Year by Minority Business Development Agency
The
Minority Business Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce has named Natalie Madeira Cofield (
MPA-National Urban Fellow '06), entrepreneur, philanthropist and economic activist as the recipient of its Advocate of the Year Award. The Award is presented to an individual or organization that has demonstrated significant accomplishment in advocating minority business enterprise as an economic force in the global economy and is the highest level of recognition in the nation bestowed to a minority-owned business or firm by the Department.
Cofield is the founder and CEO of
Walker’s Legacy, the largest digital business platform for multicultural women, and the Walker’s Legacy Foundation, its nonprofit sister arm which encourages entrepreneurship and financial empowerment amongst economically challenged women and girls of color.
“The Minority Business Development Agency is the only agency within the Federal Government whose sole mandate it is to ensure economic and business opportunities for minority communities. It is an amazing honor to be recognized for our work to empower multicultural women in business the nations most critical and growing economic driver,” said Cofield about the honor.
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Marxe Alumna, Aisha Glover Becomes CEO of the Newark Alliance
Newark Alliance, a leading nonprofit dedicated to the ongoing economic revitalization of Newark into a better place to work, live, learn, play, and do business, today announced Aisha Glover as its new CEO. “Aisha is a Newark rock star, and her commitment, experience, and record of achievement makes her the perfect leader to realize our vision of Newark as an economic engine for the region", said Board of Trustees Chair, Dennis Bone.
Aisha Glover (
MPA '05) has over 15 years of experience as a convener, champion and agent for economic empowerment and social responsibility. Prior to working at the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation, she served as the VP of External Affairs at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, dubbed the nation’s model for urban industrial development, where she oversaw strategic partnership development, community engagement, public affairs and fundraising and played a key role in supporting the Yard’s growing economic development initiatives. Ms. Glover’s impact at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was informed by her tenure at the Center for the Urban Environment, where she led a team that furthered the Center’s environmental justice and education initiatives, helped create the first urban chapter of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies and was instrumental in launching Green Brooklyn, the borough’s first and largest green event addressing issues of environmental access and justice. Before joining the nonprofit sector, Ms. Glover spent eight years in corporate America at Morgan Stanley.
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Spotlight on Distinguished Lecturer and Faculty Director of the Higher Education Administration Program, Jim McCarthy
We welcome back Distinguished Lecturer and newly appointed faculty director of the HEA program, Jim McCarthy with a spotlight about his love of higher education, plans for the Marxe higher education administration program, and returning to the Marxe School. McCarthy is Former Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of Baruch College and Former President of Suffolk University.
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Associate Professor, Cristina M. Balboa Publishes
The Paradox of Scale
on NGOs and Environmental Governance
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"The Paradox of Scale" is an examination of why NGOs often experience difficulty creating lasting change, with case studies of transnational conservation organizations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Cristina M. Balboa examines NGO authority, capacity, and accountability to propose that a “paradox of scale” is a primary barrier to NGO effectiveness. This paradox—when what gives an NGO authority on one scale also weakens its authority on another scale—helps explain how NGOs can be seen as an authority on particular causes on a global scale, but then fail to effect change at the local level.
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Professor
Héctor Cordero-Guzmán
Selected as a 2018 Fellow by the National Academy of Public Administration
Selection of the Academy’s new Fellows follows a rigorous review of the individual’s contributions to the field of public administration and policy. The 2018 class joins nearly 900 Academy Fellows -- including former cabinet officers, members of Congress, governors, mayors and state legislators, as well as prominent scholars, business executives, nonprofit leaders, and public administrators.
Chartered by Congress to provide non-partisan expert advice, the Academy is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization established in 1967 to assist government leaders in building more effective, efficient, accountable, and transparent organizations.
President of Baruch College, Mitchel Wallerstein is a NAPA Fellow, as is Marxe Dean, David S. Birdsell.
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