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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Fall 2006
Madison area alumniSave Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007, for the annual reception at Inn on the Park on Madison's Capitol Square, 5 to 8 p.m. Information and to RSVP: alumni@lafollette.wisc.edu |
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Fightin Bobs uphold La
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The intellectual life at the La Follette School is especially rich this year with opportunities for students, alumni and faculty to engage in discussion on a range of public policy issues.
'97 grad joins Congressional Budget
Office as deputy general counsel
If the policy analysis Mark Hadley worked on in spring 1996 as a La Follette
School student had been for his current employer, the Congressional Budget
Office, he and his team most likely would have lost their jobs.
California alum gives to expand
opportunities for students
Hardly a work week goes by when Kristin Hershbell Charles isnt reminded
of the value of her La Follette School of Public Affairs education.
Alumni run for
office
When the fall issue of La Follette Notes went to
press, two La Follette School alumni were campaigning for state
office in the November 7 election.
More alumni news
Catch up on what alumni in Nigeria, Canada and the United States are up
to.
Faculty news
Faculty are traveling Wisconsin and the world sharing their research.
Copelovitch joins faculty
Mark Copelovitch has joined the La Follette School as an assistant
professor of public affairs and political science.
Students spend summers in Indonesia, El Salvador, Peru and Wisconsin
Second-year La Follette School students spend their summers
around the world applying what theyve learned.
Four
students win language fellowships
Four international public affairs students have won Foreign Language and
Area Studies Graduate Fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education.
Two join schools student services staff
Elisabeth McInnis and Mary Treleven have joined the
La Follette Schools student services staff.
Journals edited by La Follette faculty highly
ranked
Two journals edited by La Follette School of Public Affairs faculty are the
two top-ranked journals in public policy and administration, while a third
is highly ranked for economics.
Student works on California lawsuit against Schwarzenegger
Callie Gray spent the summer of 2006 suing California governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger well, actually, her employer, the Drug Policy Alliance in
San Francisco sued him, but Grays boss told her she should write that on
her rsum.
Ex-career services coordinator honored
Wisconsin Assembly member Terese Berceau, who served as La Follette
School career services coordinator in the mid-1990s, was named 2006
Stateswoman of the Year by the Wisconsin Womens Network.
Student puts La Follette experience to work at home in Denmark
Former La Follette School student Maja Bejbro Andersen reports she is
back home in Denmark, working for the Danish Ministry of Finances Division
of Administration Policy and Modernization of the Public Sector.
Lyalls book explores university
privatization
Since retiring as president of the University of
Wisconsin System president in 2004, former La Follette School faculty member
Katharine Lyall has published a book on the de facto privatization of
Americas public universities.
Fall 2006-Winter 2007 e-mail newsletter