APPENDIX A
University of Massachusetts Boston Ph.D. Program in Public Policy
Student Progress
July 2006-June 2007
Doctoral Degrees Awarded (3):
Alix Cantave, PhD
Dissertation: “Non-Governmental Organizations and Local Development in Haiti”
Phillip Granberry, PhD
Dissertation: “Individual, Institutional, and Environment Determinants of Social Captial and Its Influence on Earnings and Health of Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles Country”
Michelle Portman, PhD
Dissertation: From Land to Sea: The Application of Land Protection Tools to the Marine Environment"
Dissertation Proposals Accepted (6):
Dale Allen: “The Effect of PILOTs and GILOTs on the Relationship Between Municipalities and Institutions of Higher Education.
Robert Kramer: "Policy Glass Half Empty?" Why Massachusetts College Students Drink and Drive: Do the Policies in Place to Stop Them Make Sense?"
Charles Ndungu: “The Effect of Contextual Influences on the Sexual Behavior of Kenyan Youth at Risk for HIV Infection”
Jennifer Raymond: “From Our House to the State House: Understanding the Impacts of Goodridge v. Public Health on the Attitudes, Lived Experiences and Political Participation of LGBTQ Individuals in Greater Boston"
Jennifer Shea: “The Black Box of Devolution: ExplainingInstitutional and Organizational Change inHigh-Risk Youth Service Provision”
Jean Winsor: “Increasing Integrated Employment Outcomes: How are States Using Commitment, Capacity Building, and Choice to Impact the Distribution of People in Day and Employment Services?"
Committees Established (3):
Robert Kramer
Susan Kelley
Jean Winsor
Completed Comprehensive Examinations/Entered Candidacy for PhD
[summer 2006] (3):
Brandynn Holgate
Kimberly Puhala
Shelly Tinkham
Completed Quantitative Comprehensive Exam [June 2007]: 9 students
Sitting for Qualitative Comprehensive Exam [June-July 2007]: 10 students
APPENDIX B
University of Massachusetts Boston Ph.D. Program in Public Policy
A Sample of Student and Alumni Awards, Appointments, Honors, Fellowships, Grants, and Scholarships
July 2006-June 2007
Nicole Agusti is a research assistant on a new grant awarded by the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, US Dept of Health and Human Services, working with Dharma Cortes, a research associate at the Gaston Institute. The research project, done in collaboration with the Joslin DiabetesCenter inBoston, willevaluatediabeteseducation approaches for low literacy populations.
Talia Bermon-Kishony received the first annual Public Policy Scholarship Award at the McCormack Graduate School Commencement Awards Ceremony (June 2007).
First year student Faye Cohen was selected by the Massachusetts Service Alliance to be a Community Grant Reviewer of proposals submitted for AmeriCorps funding.
Caroline Coscia and recent alumnus Dr. Phillip Granberry received the first annual Public Policy Service Awards at the McCormack Graduate School Commencement Awards Ceremony (June 2007).
Alumna Dr. Emily Douglas began a new tenure-track faculty position at
Bridgewater State College last fall.
Phil Granberry served as the student representative to the Search Committee to hire two new faculty members for the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs.
Phil also presented a paper at the Southern Demographic Association’s annual meeting in early November and was selected as the outstanding graduate student paper.
Phil was also selected to go Notre Dame’s Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR). The title of this year’s workshop was: Latino Obesity: Using Research for Understanding and Action.
With his mentor Professor Enrico Marcelli, Phil earned a grant from the UMass Boston Institute for Asian American Studies to study U.S. and foreign-born Asian health outcomes.
Phil also received the Bollinger Doctoral Dissertation Support Grant for $1000 from UMass Boston’s Office of Graduate Studies and a $1500 dissertation grant from UMB for the third chapter of his dissertation on diabetes among Mexican immigrants.
With Professor Enrico Marcelli, Phil won an $11,000 grant to produce a demographic profile of Native Americans in New England; funding is provided by the deans of UMB’s College of Liberal Arts and College of Public and Community Service.
Brandynn Holgate was elected to sit on the Executive Committee of PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts), a coalition of faculty, staff, and students from the 29 state public colleges and universities.
Berna Kahraman was accepted to the International Summer Institute on Diversity and Democracy to be held in Guadalajara from June 3 to 29, 2007. This award includes free room and board at the University of Guadalajara in Chapala during her studies. Berna was nominated by her advisor, Professor Ramon Borges-Mendez.
Rob Kramer works as a Research Fellow at the Education Alliance, a policy consultant group in Framingham, MA.
With Professors Miren Uriarte and Lorna Rivera of CPCS, Nicole Lavan served as Co-Principal Investigator for the evaluation of the Toyota Family Literacy Program in Chelsea.
The following students were elected as 2006-07 officers of the Public Policy Forum, the Public Policy graduate student organization: Mandira Kala, President; Jennifer Shea, VP; Nicole Lavan, Treasurer and Sarah Hogue, Secretary.
Nominated by Assistant Director Barbara Graceffa, Mandira Kala and Nicole Lavan received UMass Boston Student Leadership Awards this spring.
Last fall Carlos Maynard taught the CPCS course, Community Portraits, to thirty students on-line.
Kudos to alum Dr. Jim McIntyre who was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Boston Public Schools in May. Jim recently completed the Broad Foundation's Urban Superintendent's Academy. And finally, he was named to Governor-Elect Deval Patrick's Transition Team Work Group on Pre-K-12 Education.
Rebecca Moryl has been working as a fundraising consultant to the City Mission Society.
Charles Ndungu has accepted a position with the United Nations working in Africa to collect and analyze data on HIV/AIDS in Kenya.
Michelle Portman was again awarded a Quebec Labrador Foundation Sounds Conservancy Grant for her dissertation research.
Kudos to Michelle for also earning a Dissertation Research Grant from the Provost’s Office.
Michelle Portman was awarded the McCloy Fellowship in Environmental Policy sponsored by the American Council on Germany which supports a one month trip and stay in Germany for conducting research on environmental policy. Michelle’s research proposes to conduct a comparative study of Massachusetts/USA and German policy on the development of off-shore wind power generation facilities from an environmental protection policy perspective.
Also, Michelle has accepted a post-doc fellowship at the Marine Policy Center at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod.
Michelle Portman received the Public Policy book award for academic excellence at the May 31st Convocation this year.
Many thanks to Kim Puhala for her dedicated work as the student representative on our Public Policy Admissions Committee.
Kudos to Jennifer Raymond who earned a $1000 Craig R. Bollinger Memorial Research Grant for fall 2006 from UMass Boston’s Graduate Student Assembly.
In her faculty role at Clark University’s Department of International Development, Community, and Environment as a Coordinator of the Community Development and Planning Program, alumna Dr. Laurie Ross has had a busy year writing and managing grants and contracts:
· Project Director on Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety Local Action Research Partnership grant, started July 2006. Received $30,000 to conduct action research oncity's efforts at gang and youth violence reduction through employment.
· Through a contract with UMass Memorial Health Care, she continues to coordinate the Healthy Options for Prevention and Education (HOPE) Coalition. [HOPE is a youth-adult partnership coalition consisting of 18 organizations in Worcester, including youth serving organizations, mental health agencies, community based health care centers, the City of Worcester, and the Worcester Public Schools. Twenty diverse teenagers form the HOPE Coalition Peer Leadership program are integral members of this Coalition, participating in data collection, program design, and community outreach.]
· Funded grants written for HOPE in 2006-2007:
$10,000 from The Medical Foundation in Boston for an Action Research project on Tobacco Advertising.
$24,000 from the Greater Worcester Community Foundation to support HOPE Coalition Mental Health Model.
$51,000 to support HOPE Coalition’s Mental Health Model.
$25,000 from Common Pathways/UMass Memorial to fund HOPE Peer Leaders Teens Tackle Tobacco Action Research project.
Michael Tuttywas the faculty advisor for a group ofstudents from the University of Massachusetts Medical School at this year’s Massachusetts Health Policy Student Forum. The student forum is an annual event designed to give advanced graduate students in public health, medicine, nursing, and health policy direct access to the workings of state government.
A final paper on the history of Medicare and Medicare Part D for his Foundation of Public Policy class and a research proposal for his Research Methods class served as the basis for a grant for which Michael Tutty submitted a proposal and was later funded. With monies from UMass Medical School's Commonwealth Medicine 2006 Internal Grants Initiative, Michael and two colleagues will examine the experiences of MassHealth dual-eligible members with severe mental illness who transitioned to a prescription drug plan under Medicare Part D.
Tutty was also appointed Vice-Chair for the Health Information Technology Interest Group for Academy Health.
Randy Wilson was chosen to develop and manage a multi-million dollar, national grant program, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, called “Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-based Learning for Quality Care”.
We salute Sandy Winkler who accepted a direct commission with the United States Army Reserve. She was sworn in and became a Lieutenant in March.
APPENDIX C
University of Massachusetts Boston Ph.D. Program in Public Policy
A Sample of Student and Alumni Publications and Professional Presentations
July 2006-June 2007
Talia Berman-Kishony presented a comparative legal study on the Bedouin situation in Israel and Jordan at the sixth biennial Conflict Studies: A New Generation of Ideas graduate student conference held at UMass Boston in early November. She learned in June that this paper, "Bedouin urbanization legal policies in Israel and Jordan: Similar goals, contrasting strategies" was accepted for publication in the journal, Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems.
With her mentor Professor David Matz, Talia also wrote a paper, based on her master thesis, entitled: "Media's mediation - transforming the media from a destructive weapon to a constructive tool" which was accepted for publication in the Dispute Resolution Magazine (forthcoming this summer.)
With colleagues at the Institute for Community Inclusion, Heike Boeltzig has recently published several articles and research studies:
Metzel, D.S., Boeltzig, H., Sulewski, S., Butterworth, J., & Gilmore, D.S. (2007). Achieving Community Membership through Community Rehabilitation Providers Services: Are We There Yet? Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 45(3), pp.149-160.
Boeltzig, H., Hasnain, R., & Sulewski, S.J. (2007). VSA arts/Volkswagen Program Evaluation Report. (102 pages).Washington, D.C.: VSA arts.
Boeltzig, H., & Pilling, D.S. (2007). Bridging the Digital Divide for Hard-To-Reach Groups. (70 pages).Washington, D.C.: The IBM Center for the Business of the Government.
Pilling, D. & Boeltzig, H. (2007). Catching new users of the net. ABILITY Magazine. Issue 65, Spring 2007, pp. 21-22.
Pilling, D., & Boeltzig, H. (2007). Moving Toward E-Government – Effective Strategies for Increasing Access and Use of the Internet Among Non-Internet Users in the U.S. and the U.K. Published in the conference proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 20-23 May 2007, in Philadelphia.
Also, Heike delivered the following paper at two national conferences this spring: Moving Toward E-Government – Effective Strategies for Increasing Access and Use of the Internet Among Non-Internet Users in the U.S. and the U.K. presented at the 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research in Philadelphia and
22nd National Technology and Social Science Conference in Las Vegas.
Faye Cohen and Xuhong Liu were co-authors along with Professors Alan Clayton-Matthews and Eric Hayden (College of Management) of the report, "Top Level State Executive Salaries: Are We Getting the Best, or Simply What We Pay For?," prepared for The Boston Foundation.
Alumnus Jack Cole, founder and president of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against prohibition), spoke on NPR in mid-February discussing the drug war on the border with Mexico.
Kudos to alumna Dr. Emily Douglas on her new book, Mending Broken Families, which was released by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers in August 2006.
Temple University Press has published Latinos in New England edited by former Gaston Institute Director, Andy Torres. The book includes articles by Professor Enrico Marcelli and Phil Granberry, Professor Jorge Capetillo and Rob Kramer, as well as Professor Miren Uriarte, Megan Halloran, and Phil Granberry.
Philip Granberry presented a paper at the Southern Demographic Association’s annual meeting in early November.
Phil Granberry and Professor Enrico Marcelli had a paper accepted for publication in Sociological Perspectives. This represents Phil's first peer-reviewed journal publication as lead author: Granberry, P. and E.A. Marcelli. 2007. “'In the Hood and on the Job': Social Capital among Legal and Unauthorized Mexican Immigrants,” Sociological Perspectives.
Phil Granberry had a letter to the editor printed in April 13th edition of the Boston Globe about voting rights for non-citizens.
Brandyn Holgate represented the UMass Boston Labor Resource Center at the 2006 URPE Summer Conference (August 11-14). She presented in a workshop on "New Approaches to Union Organizing in the U.S." regarding LRC's Future of Work Online Research Center.
Charles “Skuk” Jones was co-author with Professor David Levy of “U.S. Business Strategies and Climate Change”, in Henrik Selin & Stacy D. VanDeveer (eds.) Climate Change Politics in North America: The State of Play (pp. 73-84). Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Canada Institute, Occasional Papers Series, No. 2.
An expanded version will appear as “Business Response to Climate Change in North America” in Stacy D. VanDeveer & Henrik Selin (eds.) Changing Climates in North American Politics:Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance. (forthcoming)
Also, the article "North American Business Strategies towards Climate Change" will appear in the December issue of European Management Journal.
Congratulations to Michelle Kahan whose term paper from her Foundations of Public Policy Analysis course with Ann Withorn was published: “Put Up” on Platforms: A History of Twentieth Century Adoption Policy in the United States. In the “Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare” XXXIII (3), 51-72.
Ndumba Kamwanyah, Edith Mwita and Charles Ndungu participated as guest lecturers for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)’s fall 2006 course, “Africans on Africa”. On October 5, Namibia native Kamwanyah facilitated a discussion on “Management of Conflicts Among Diverse and Within Tribal Groups”. On October 12, Kenyan native Ndungu spoke on “HIV/AIDS and It’s Impact on Development” and “U.S. Foreign Aid: How Much and Where Does it Go?”. On October 19, Tanzania native Mwita led an interactive discussion on “Food Security, Famine and Climate: Their Effects on Development”.