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Post by hoyaalf on Feb 10, 2010 12:08:56 GMT -5
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Feb 10, 2010 18:58:41 GMT -5
Thanks for posting - it seems as though they've attracted some good candidates.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Feb 10, 2010 19:46:19 GMT -5
It's too bad that Ryan Crocker decided to head up the Bush School instead - he would've been an excellent pick imo.
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Post by jgalt on Feb 11, 2010 14:06:58 GMT -5
I am i the only one who thought this was about about Dan Steinberg From the Washpost Sports Bog attending to SFS to get some degree? I would have been much more excited about that
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Post by hilltopper2000 on Feb 11, 2010 14:10:32 GMT -5
pash -- did the article mention anyone who is not a practitioner? I would really like the new dean to be a heavyweight theoretician. We are already quite strong when it comes to brininging in people with great government experience. IMHO, Lancaster doesn't check either of these boxes.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Feb 11, 2010 15:26:40 GMT -5
pash -- did the article mention anyone who is not a practitioner? I would really like the new dean to be a heavyweight theoretician. We are already quite strong when it comes to brininging in people with great government experience. IMHO, Lancaster doesn't check either of these boxes. +1 There was a little consternation about this among faculty members at least a few years ago. They apparently recruited Martha Finnemore quite heavily for the position that Ikenberry vacated, to no avail. His effective replacement ended up being someone from the Rumsfeld Pentagon - Doug Feith - IIRC. That being said, who are the heavyweight theoreticians who are in a position to lead? They tend not to be out front IMO in terms of their ability as administrators. John Mearsheimer? Stephen Walt? Would he leave Harvard? Zeev Maoz? All are attractive from an intelligence point of view but perhaps too intelligent to deal with the anti-intelligent rigors of the GU red tape. |
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Post by RusskyHoya on Feb 11, 2010 16:22:35 GMT -5
The original post on The Cable is at thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/04/exclusive_is_state_dept_2_steinberg_on_his_way_outThe people named, in addition to Steinberg (who has adamantly denied the report) are: Interim Dean Carol Lancaster - SFS alum, former deputy administrator of USAID and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, tenured full professor. Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns - Masters from SAIS but no PhD. Currently a professor at the Kennedy School at Harvard. Career Foreign Service Officer. Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Ambassador to Greece and Ambassador to NATO. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Tom Christensen - Currently a professor at Princeton. PhD from Columbia. Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman (has said he's not a candidate, though he has been contacted). Masters from LSE but no PhD. Career Foreign Service Officer. Former Ambassador to Turkey, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Director General of the U.S. Foreign Service. As a rule theoreticians make terrible administrators. The Dean's job requires 1. Administrative/bureaucratic skills and 2. Public relations/fundraising skills. Ivory-tower academics typically don't have either. |
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Feb 11, 2010 18:00:39 GMT -5
I like that Lancaster is a grad of the School and her Deputy Admin of AID role gives her major gravitas.
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Post by dairishhoya on Feb 11, 2010 23:15:07 GMT -5
I know there has been mention of Abi Williams, who is currently at USIP. I think he would be a fantastic selection, but am a supporter of Carol Lancaster as well. Here's some background on Abi Williams:
Abiodun Williams is vice president of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. Previously, he served as associate dean of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. From 2001 to 2007, he served as director of strategic planning in the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. In that capacity, he advised Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon on a full range of strategic issues including U.N. reform, conflict prevention, peacebuilding and international migration. He also managed relations with the U.N.’s international research and training institutes. He held political and humanitarian affairs positions in U.N. peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, and Macedonia from 1994 to 2000.
Williams began his career as an academic and taught international relations at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, University of Rochester, and Tufts University. In 1990 he was awarded the Constantine E. Maguire Medal for outstanding service to the School of Foreign Service and its students, and in 1992, he won the School’s Teaching Award. He was the recipient of a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs in 1990.
Williams has served on the boards of the Academic Council on the U.N. System, the United World Colleges, Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Jesuit International Volunteers, and QSI International School of Skopje. He holds an M.A. (Hons) from Edinburgh University, and M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He has published widely on conflict prevention, international peacekeeping, and multilateral negotiations.
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on Feb 15, 2010 22:37:03 GMT -5
I am i the only one who thought this was about about Dan Steinberg From the Washpost Sports Bog attending to SFS to get some degree? I would have been much more excited about that I was expecting that, too, from the subject line! |
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Post by sead43 on Apr 29, 2010 15:43:24 GMT -5
Announcement made. It's Lancaster.
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is with great pleasure that I write to announce that, in close consultation with Provost James J. O’Donnell, I have appointed Carol J. Lancaster as Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, effective immediately. As you know, Dean Lancaster has served as Interim Dean of the School of Foreign Service since Robert Gallucci’s departure this past summer, and we are deeply grateful for her longstanding dedication to our community.
Dean Lancaster graduated from the School of Foreign Service in 1964 and received her Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1981, first in African Studies before joining the SFS faculty in 1989. Over the years, she has served as the Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies, Director of the African Studies Program and Director of the Masters of Science in Foreign Service Program. Dean Lancaster has also had an extensive career in government, including roles as Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1993 to 1996 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1980 to 1981.
As a Professor in the School of Foreign Service with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, Dean Lancaster has come to know a broad cross-section of our faculty and student communities. She has a deep regard for the intrinsic significance of faculty research and for the many ways that scholarship can shape policy, diplomacy, and civil society. As a Georgetown alumna herself, she appreciates the power and distinction of the SFS undergraduate and graduate traditions of education.
Dean Lancaster has published numerous books and articles on the politics of foreign aid, the politics of development, and development in Africa. She has consulted for the United Nations and the World Bank, and she serves on the boards of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Vital Voices, the Society for International Development, the American University of Afghanistan, the Center for International and Regional Studies (SFS-Q), and the advisory board for the Center for Global Development.
She has been a Congressional Fellow, a Carnegie Fellow, a fellow of the American Counsel of Learned Societies, a Fulbright Fellow, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development. She is a member of the American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
I am grateful to the search committee, led by Professor Angela Stent, for its commitment to conducting an inclusive national search and identifying the very finest leader for the SFS. Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Dean Lancaster as she assumes the deanship on a permanent basis. I very much look forward to our continued work together and the dynamic leadership she will bring to the School of Foreign Service.
You have my very best wishes.
Sincerely,
John J. DeGioia
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Apr 29, 2010 19:15:49 GMT -5
Love that it is one of our own, which makes sense, since the world's preeminent program, should be led by someone who is imbued with the excellence and mission of the School.
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Post by strummer8526 on Apr 29, 2010 22:19:40 GMT -5
Love that it is one of our own, which makes sense, since the world's preeminent program, should be led by someone who is imbued with the excellence and mission of the School. I hope you're bolding of "the" is not a pompous "SFS is the best" move. I always hate that SFS arrogance. But I do agree that it's nice to have one of our own. At the Law Center, the Dean search is down to three, and two of them are in-house folks. The other is Fordham Law's current dean. |
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on Apr 30, 2010 13:23:32 GMT -5
Worked with her some while I was working for the university, and she is held in almost universally high regard, both in terms of academic/practical experience and in managing and leading teams. Should be a great move for SFS!
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Post by theexorcist on Apr 30, 2010 14:34:35 GMT -5
Love that it is one of our own, which makes sense, since the world's preeminent program, should be led by someone who is imbued with the excellence and mission of the School. I hope you're bolding of "the" is not a pompous "SFS is the best" move. I always hate that SFS arrogance. But I do agree that it's nice to have one of our own. At the Law Center, the Dean search is down to three, and two of them are in-house folks. The other is Fordham Law's current dean. Is it necessarily the best to have some incestuous in-house relationship? |
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Post by strummer8526 on Apr 30, 2010 15:18:59 GMT -5
I hope you're bolding of "the" is not a pompous "SFS is the best" move. I always hate that SFS arrogance. But I do agree that it's nice to have one of our own. At the Law Center, the Dean search is down to three, and two of them are in-house folks. The other is Fordham Law's current dean. Is it necessarily the best to have some incestuous in-house relationship? To the extent that being "one of our own" shows that the person has an existing positive relationship with the University and a long-term commitment to the school, then yes...yes it is. I like to think that someone who moves up the ranks at Georgetown will be more willing to stay long-term and really do everything possible for the good of the school. Outside talent just might not have the same commitment level to Georgetown. That being said, if someone from the outside is awesome and convincingly establishes that he or she has the same high level of devotion to this school, then I'm all for it. I just don't want someone to come in, fill in some more items on their resume, and then head for the next big position that comes along. |
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Post by rosslynhoya on Apr 30, 2010 16:19:31 GMT -5
To the extent that being "one of our own" shows that the person has an existing positive relationship with the University and a long-term commitment to the school, then yes...yes it is. I like to think that someone who moves up the ranks at Georgetown will be more willing to stay long-term and really do everything possible for the good of the school. Outside talent just might not have the same commitment level to Georgetown. Taken to an extreme however, this is how you end up justifying a DeGioia administration. Since first arriving on campus as a freshman in 1975, the man has never left. That being said, if someone from the outside is awesome and convincingly establishes that he or she has the same high level of devotion to this school, then I'm all for it. I just don't want someone to come in, fill in some more items on their resume, and then head for the next big position that comes along. So, if Carol Lancaster is taken in the NBA draft, how many years of salary should she have to pay back to the university?  |
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 30, 2010 17:55:38 GMT -5
To the extent that being "one of our own" shows that the person has an existing positive relationship with the University and a long-term commitment to the school, then yes...yes it is. I like to think that someone who moves up the ranks at Georgetown will be more willing to stay long-term and really do everything possible for the good of the school. Outside talent just might not have the same commitment level to Georgetown. Taken to an extreme however, this is how you end up justifying a DeGioia administration. Since first arriving on campus as a freshman in 1975, the man has never left. Not to take this thread in a different direction, but I think the DeGioia administration is plenty justified... I take it you disagree? |
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Post by reformation on May 1, 2010 18:00:49 GMT -5
1)A few thoughts--Lancaster seems very competent, though is already in her mid 60's--would bet that she is gone when she is 70.
2)I suspect that the next leader will be an outsider of a transformative nature--I suspect that many belive that the school could use an academic revamping, but doubt there is any consesnsus now on how to do it.
3)Re: DeGioia's admin I think that he has hired some competent people, though I think he is pretty weak in comparison to President's of other elite universities.
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Post by hilltopper2000 on May 3, 2010 10:36:27 GMT -5
Any more news on the new Law dean?
I'll be interested to see if JD goes in-house or outside. Early in his tenure, he seemed focused on bringing in outside talent (e.g., Daly, Barbari, O'Donnell), but more recently he seems to want to go internal (i.e., Lancaster and Gillis), and I do not know the last time a GULC dean was an external hire. That said, I don't see any obvious internal candidates (maybe Gostin?).
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