UMass McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies

 

 

The McCormack Graduate School offers a broad range of degrees in public policy, public affairs, and gerontology, the School teaches students to think and work across traditional boundaries, particularly at the intersection of the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Existing research centers within the Graduate School focus on Public Management, Social Policy, Women in Politics and Public Policy, Media and Society, Gerontology and Democracy and Development.
Lunch will be served.

Padraig O'Malley

 

Northern Ireland:

The Forgiveness Business: Report from the Field

Tuesday, April 8th

4:30PM
University of Massachusetts Club

It has been ten years since the fighting stopped. There's a new power-sharing government in Northern Ireland, and still neighbors don't talk to neighbors. Is reconciliation possible? And if so, is there a roadmap?

Directions: Red line to South Station. The club is at 225 Franklin Street (Floor 33), adjacent to Post Office Square. Questions, Reservations: 617-287-5550.

 

April 10 -

 

April 28 -

John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies presents:

Dr. Keith Wailoo
the 2008 Robert C. Wood Visiting
Professor in Public and Urban Affairs

Monday, April 28, 2008
6:00PM
Old Faculty Club Lounge
11^th Floor Healey Library
University of Massachusetts Boston

Keith Wailoo, the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers, and the Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers, and  jointly appointed in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research and the History Department of Rutgers. He is author of richly awarded books examining the cultural politics of disease in America have earned accolades for elucidating questions of racial justice and inequality in medicine and health care. His work focuses principally on health care politics, the ethnic and racial relations of medicine, and the ways scientific and technological understandings have interacted with politics, society, and culture to shape health experiences, disease disparities, and social responses to disease in the 20th century and into the 21st century. His latest work, a co-edited volume, A Death Retold: the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (University of North Carolina, 2006) - explores a common theme: how scientific and technological understandings have interacted with health care politics, racial and ethnic relations, and cultural politics to inform responses to disease over time.

 

April 30 –

Please Save the Date

Wednesday April 30, 2008
8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston Campus Center, Ballroom C

 

The Changing World of Work in US Retail Trade

 

A discussion of findings from a national study

As a sector, retail trade exemplifies the central dilemma of low wage work in modern economies.  Giant retailer Wal-Mart is the largest US employer, and overall, retail is one of the largest employment sectors in the country. What happens to jobs in this industry, which is a major provider of entry-level jobs, is a key element of the broader picture of low wage employment nationwide.Retail work is undergoing significant change in the United States.  To explore these changes, and their impacts in terms of turnover, skill levels, and other key workforce variables, the authors conducted 18 case studies of food and consumer electronics retail businesses.  They spoke to employees from top corporate executives to frontline employees, visited stores, and reviewed HR statistics.  The two study authors will present selected findings:  Françoise Carré, Ph.D. Center for Social Policy, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston and Chris Tilly, Ph.D. Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, University of Massachusetts Lowell.Discussantsof the study findings will include:  Prof. David Weil¸ School of Management, Boston University and a representative from the retail industry.Copies of the report will be available.

Event sponsored by the Center for Social Policy, J. W. McCormack Graduate School at UMass Boston and the Center for Industrial Competitiveness and Department of Regional Economic and Social Development at UMass-Lowell

May 7 – Moakley Peace and Reconciliation Chair Padraig O’Malley public lecture The Helsinki Talks Time and Place TBA

May 15/16 – Graduate Recruiting Conference Faculty Club Lounge 11 th floor Healey Library

May 29 – McCormack Grad School Convocation 4-6 PM Campus Center Ballroom followed by reception 6-7 PM 1 st floor Student Dining Room

May 30 – UMB Graduation at Campus Center Circle and MGS Graduation in Ryan Lounge

 

For more information call the McCormack Graduate School at 617-287-5550.