Marxe School's 25th Anniversary Celebration
On Marxe 14, 2019, the Marxe School held our 25 th Anniversary Celebration where students, alumni, faculty, and friends of Marxe came together for the event. Here are some memories from the celebration.

The theme of the anniversary celebration was study away opportunities. The Marxe School is committed to meeting the growing needs of our students, and, studying away has proven to be one of the most effective means for students to develop the necessary skills to succeed in the future.  This video is a small sample of some of the student experiences.
Marxe Semester Highlights
by Baruch College Faculty
For the Spring 2019 semester, the Marxe School sent four faculty members from all three schools at Baruch College to teach seminars at our partner institution, UADE .

The seminars covered topics like "Strategy & Analytics Making Companies of the Future", "Real News, Fake News and Disinformation: The Assault on Truth and How We Fight Back", "Big Data Technologies and Evaluation of Big Data enabled Business Analytic IT Projects", and "Innovation Trends".

The Marxe School will continue to send Baruch faculty members to teach seminars at UADE for the Fall 2019 semester.
Marxe Issues Forum o n Philanthropy in Higher Ed, US-Mexico-Canada Relations,
and American National Security Post-9/11
The first Marxe Issues public policy panel of the semester focused on the ethical dangers of politically motivated philanthropy in higher education. The panel included expert commentary from Chief Operating Officer, Judith A. Wilde and Professor Emeritus James H. Finkelstein of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University along with Marxe Distingushed Lecturer, Michael Seltzer .

The second Marxe Issues , titled 'Mistrust Thy Neighbor: US-Mexico-Canada Relations in the Age of Trump', featured commentary on NAFTA from the President of the Migration Policy Institute, Andrew Selee; Professor in the Dept. of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and Interim Director of the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement, John Shields; and Marxe Chair of Western Hemisphere Affairs and Professor, Desmond Arias .

The final Marxe Issues panel of the semester was titled 'Lessons from the Forever Wars: A Conversation with US Army War College Fellows'. The panel featured Colonels Trina Rice, Mike Baim, and Vylius M. Leskys who discussed the challenges of US national and international security in the years since 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was moderated by Marxe Dean, David Birdsell .

Inaugural Global Insights Series on Integration Processes
in Latin America and the Caribbean
This semester, the Marxe School launched its first Global Insights program. The first event in the series covered integration processes in Latin America and featured government officials from the Dominican Republic, including Minister for Regional Integration Policies, Miguel Mejia; Vice-Minister of the Interior and Police, Washington Gonzalez Nina; Former Minister of the Environment, Omar Ramirez Tejada; and Baruch Associate Professor of Political Science, Stephanie R. Golob. The discussion was moderated by NAPA Fellow and Marxe Professor, Hector R. Cordero-Guzman .

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Students at Baruch
The Marxe School hosted a 4th cohort of students from our partner institution in China, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) , for the Marxe Global Leadership Institute (MGLI) , a 2-week short-term program in public administration at the end of January. UESTC students had a unique opportunity to learn the role of government in a local, state, and federal locality, and how public and nonprofit organizations are involved in the policy process, as well as how municipalities and organizations are managed, and the differences in management styles in China and U.S.

Marxe Spotlights
Jeemin Cha ( BSPA ’20) has been selected to participate in the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute at Princeton University, one of 30 undergraduates chosen among 500 applicants nationwide. For Cha, this opportunity to study during the summer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School will contribute to his plans for a career in public service. His goal is to help those in the immigrant communities, after obtaining a Master’s in Public Policy and a Juris Doctor degree.
Marc Boyd ( MPA ’19) was selected from more than 4,000 applicants for the 2019 Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) program . As part of the two-year fellowship, Boyd will begin working at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base this fall as an acquisition program manager. Boyd is optimistic this experience will mark the beginning of a long career working for a federal agency.
Victoria Tsang ( MSEd-HEA ’16) has been offered a 2019-20 Fulbright U.S. Student English Teaching Assistant Award to Hungary that begins in September and lasts nine months. The grant allows her to work at the Hungarian Fulbright Commission’s EducationUSA Advising Center in Budapest where she will advise Hungarian students who wish to study in the United States. Tsang will also teach two to three courses per week at one of the country’s universities, where she will also learn about Hungary’s education system.
Cohort 34 of the Executive MPA program flew to Leuven, Belgium in February 2019 to participate in a leadership symposium hosted by KU Leuven Public Governance Institute . This group of Marxe students attended lectures taught by Marxe and KU Leuven faculty about migration policy and leadership alongside KU Leuven students. The students also had the opportunity to tour the city to visit government institutions and historical landmarks.
Six Marxe graduate students from the MSEd-HEA , MPA , and MIA programs participated in the ERASMUS intensive program hosted by the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Berlin, Germany. The program, titled “Gentrification as Challenge of Urban Development and Social Housing”, tasked students with working in groups to give presentations on the effects of gentrification and urban development in their home countries. Other participants included students from Ghent University (Belgium) and Linnaeus University (Sweden).