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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes Fall 2004
Poverty expert honored with national award
La Follette School faculty contribute to APPAM leadership
La Follette School faculty member David Weimer was elected president-elect of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management at its October conference in Atlanta.
Weimer is one of several La Follette School faculty members who provide leadership to the association, which brings together policy practitioners and researchers to address substantive public policy problems. Maria Cancian is secretary. Carolyn Heinrich serves on the Policy Council, which is APPAM's board of directors. Barbara Wolfe just completed her term on the Policy Council.
Several University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni are among APPAM's leaders, including Rebecca Maynard of the University of Pennsylvania, who has been elected president.
Carolyn Heinrich of the La Follette School has been recognized with a major award for her research that advances the empirical study of public management and performance evaluation, particularly as applied to social welfare and labor market policies.
Heinrich received the David N. Kershaw Award on Oct. 27, from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management at its fall conference.
Heinrich is an associate professor with the La Follette School, and associate director of research and training at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The $10,000 Kershaw award honors people younger than 40 who have made a distinguished contribution to public policy analysis and management.
“Carolyn builds on the La Follette School's tradition of being one of the top-ranked institutions for research and scholarship in public affairs,” says Donald Nichols, La Follette School director.
Heinrich is working with the state of Wisconsin on a child-support demonstration program, with the U.S. Department of Labor on its performance management system, and with the governments of Argentina and Brazil on their social and human capital development programs.
Index to La Follette Notes fall 2004