Department News and Projects 

Graduate Student Elected to Massachusetts Legislature

Graduate Student Elected to Massachusetts House of Representatives (Suffolk University, March 7, 2008)

"From college to the state legislature" (Boston Globe, March 13, 2008)

Initiative for Diversity in Civic Leadership-Second Session Begins January 14, 2008

The Initiative for Diversity in Civic Leadership

5:30pm – 8:30pm, Mondays
January 14 – July 16, 2008

Munce Conference Room
Archer Building
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02108

The second class of the Initiative for Diversity in Civic Leadership has been selected and will begin regularly scheduled sessions that will develop a new generation of leaders of color committed to public service in order to ensure a more representative democracy and a diverse civic community in Boston.

The Initiative for Diversity in Civic Leadership provides education and nonpartisan training opportunities to help individuals from diverse political backgrounds to successfully run for elected office, manage and run political campaigns, and serve in all levels of government.

Collaborative partners include Oiste, MassVOTE, and Suffolk University.  Major funding is provided by The Boston Foundation, The Hyams Foundation, New Community Fund, Access Strategies, and The Herman and Frieda Miller Foundation.

For more information, contact
Dr. Teri Fair
IDCL Suffolk Partner
Department of Government
Phone: 617-573-8569
tfair@suffolk.edu

New courses on post-basic education with the World Bank Institute (WBI)

Dr. L. Renée Dankerlin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government will be co-leading in 2008 and the coming years with Jonathan Haughton, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, a series of courses on post-basic education with the World Bank Institute (WBI). Professor Dankerlin, whose work in international development led to this collaboration, received notification from the World Bank last month of this series of global education courses of which a significant number will be delivered for the first time, beginning in 2008, by Suffolk’s Government and Economics Departments.

The planned courses on education and competitiveness not only will help those working in low and middle-income countries, but also will enable Suffolk faculty staff and students to integrate theory with practice in international development more closely, through courses focused on innovations in education, specifically innovations in the education of the majority of the workforce; education in governance and international development (e.g., higher education in political science/international relations); and the education of private and public sector actors in education finance/policy. These courses will lead to a series of other learning events and publications with WBI.