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...this year's class are office holders: some won their places in the program from their involvement in grassroots politics. Nancy R. Cuddihy came to the K-School in the wake of a experience that led the New York midwife out of the delivery room and into the state capitol. Cuddihy, who has a masters degree in midwifery and delivered over 1000 babies in the last 10 years, drafted successful legislation in 1982 to ensure the reimbursement and recognition of midwives...
...Ellingston's colleague's in the Minnesota state legislature, 14-year veteran Representative Robert E. Vanasek, has already begun to put his K-School education to work in the political arena. His staff is now researching a proposal about farm credit based on a case study from one of his classes...
Teaching mid-career students is a challenge for K-School professors. Ronald F. Ferguson, assistant professor of public policy, was initially intimidated with the prospect of teaching students his own age of older who had more practical experience than he did. But the government expert says he has learned to help his students transcend the limits of their experiences. "They've had narrow experiences and know a lot more about these narrow experiences. I bring partly theoretical and academic knowledge and train them how to think broadly," he says...
...some, the program acts as a stepping stone to other careers. After his stint at the K-School Bruce R. Theriault, a former general manager of a National Public Radio affiliate in Alaska, hopes to move on to "different and new challenges related to media and managing in the public sector." "I hope to be able to utilize the networking feature," says Theriault. "It works two ways--the contacts you develop and what you do for other people...
...unusual course, "Leadership and Mobilization of Resources," is taught at the K-School by a psychiatrist-turned-government-professor who is not afraid to teach what he sees as the central skill in government via an admittedly unorthodox form...