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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2005
Keep in touchAlumni and friends, let us know what you are up to ... Support La Follette School students ... Questions? E-mail alumni@lafollette.wisc.edu. |
Alumni, faculty, students network at receptionAssociate Professor Carolyn Heinrich, left, and public affairs student Alison Bergum talk with La Follette School alumnus Eric Stanchfield at a January 2005 reception for alumni organized by the La Follette School Student Association and funded in part by donations from La Follette alumni. Stanchfield is secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds. More than 50 alumni and students conversed and heard from professors about their research at the evening gathering. |
From Director Donald Nichols:
Alumni donations help recruit excellent faculty
The La Follette School
welcomes three new faculty members recruited because of benefits
the school provides thanks to donations by alumni.
Director challenges alumni to support school
Support from alumni and friends helps school attract faculty, reach out
to alumni, support students
Parents' gift to La Follette demonstrates appreciation for
daughter's opportunities
The ability of the La Follette School and its faculty to support their
daughter's academic and professional pursuits is one reason Jim
and Marie Oldani have contributed money to the La Follette
School of Public Affairs.
Lockheed
Martin gift assists interns in D.C.
The cost of living in Washington, D.C., for the summer is dropping for
some La Follette School students, thanks to generous support from Lockheed
Martin Corp.
Board of
Visitors hears about student, faculty achievements, concerns
Fund-raising, student internships and job placement, committee work and
new faculty were considered in March by the Board of Visitors, an advisory
alumni group the La Follette School shares with the Department of Political
Science.
Alumni news
La Follette School alumni are working for accounting firms, the Minnesota
departments of Finance and Human Services, and they are involved in
politics.
Alumni needed
to help students with job searches, mentoring
Finding work after graduation can by difficult and time-consuming.
Alumni
are needed to help students. Contact careerdev@lafollette.wisc.edu.
Student wins
prestigious internship
La Follette School student Bryan Gadow is off to Kansas City, Missouri,
as an intern
with the L.P. Cookingham Management Internship Program with the
city manager's office.
Legislative Council picks student for internship
The Wisconsin Legislative Council has selected La Follette School
student Melissa Schmidt
to receive the Bonnie Reese internship this year.
Student news
During spring semester, students interned with state agencies and
private organizations.
Professor
elected to organization's governing council
Faculty member Geoffrey Wallace has been elected to a four-year term,
2005-08, on the
Association for Public Policy Analysis and
Management's Policy Council.
Faculty news
Faculty are meeting with the Federal Reserve, publishing books, doing
research in China,
analyzing charter schools and speaking around
the world.
La Follette hosts 2 influential conferences
In January, La Follette School faculty and staff sponsored the two
largest conferences
in the school's history.
Research available on the Web
The Spring 2005 issue of the La Follette Policy Report and the school's Working Paper
Series are available on the Web. To subscribe to the printed version of
the Policy Report, e-mail publications@lafollette.wisc.edu.
PDF of
spring 2005
newsletter
PDF of fall
2004 newsletter
E-mail version of fall 2004 newsletter