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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2005
Alumni donations help recruit excellent faculty
The La Follette School is pleased to welcome three new faculty members, who were successfully recruited because of benefits we could provide through the donations by our loyal alumni.
Their arrival brings to 19 the number of faculty with at least partial appointments in our small school of public affairs. The sum of these parts gives us nine full-time faculty positions, which is almost 50 percent more than we had just a few years ago.
This year we recruited two outstanding junior faculty who work on domestic issues and one who works on international issues. The new faculty in the domestic program are both graduates of the Maxwell School at Syracuse. Don Moynihan works at the core of public administration, a field in which a professional school must excel if its mission is to train good civil servants. Don, combined with Carolyn Heinrich, a recruit of two years ago, gives us enormous strength in this must-have field. Don’s appointment will be 100 percent in La Follette.
Don fills the slot vacated by Don Kettl, a nationally recognized scholar who
was lured to Penn by, among other things, a $50,000 raise in pay. After a
very careful search of the field of public administration, we concluded that
Don Moynihan
is the best young scholar in the field,
and we went after him vigorously.
The second Syracuse grad is Pam Herd, an expert in aging, women and health, and we had to battle the offers of several other universities to land her. Pam will have a 50 percent appointment in La Follette and a 50 percent appointment in the Department of Sociology. Madison’s sociology department is known for its strong quantitative work and is often ranked No.1 in the nation. Pam is an outstanding young sociologist, and we are very happy to have her join our faculty.
Pam and Don Moynihan are spouses, and given the difficulty that married couples encounter when seeking two positions in the same city, we hope to have this couple in Madison for a long time. They join us after a few years on the faculties of Texas and Texas A&M, respectively.
Our third hire, Mark Copelovitch, has accepted a 25 percent position in our international program and a 75 percent position in the Department of Political Science. He will begin his appointment in Madison in fall 2006 after completing a postdoctoral research appointment at Princeton at the Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for Globalization and Governance. Mark’s expertise in international organizations will complement the strength our economists provide in this area.
Next year, we will have a new associate director. Melanie Manion, professor of public affairs and political science, has completed her nearly three-year term, and she will be succeeded by Karen Holden. Karen will end her tenure as associate dean of graduate education and research in the School of Human Ecology when she becomes our associate director.
As associate director, Melanie oversaw the development of the international public affairs degree, upgraded the Career Development Office and advanced student services in general. She developed internships and assistantships so our students gain practical experience in public agencies, and she led the effort to attract better and better students to the program.
Melanie did this with great energy and charm, and she remains popular with students and staff as she steps down.
Index to La Follette Notes spring 2005