Word: mason
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...center opened in 1958 as a small, compact research institute which produced a steady stream of scholarship through the 1960's, and was instrumental in the development of the new field of arms controls. The original nucleus of faculty members included Henry A. Kissinger '50, Edward S. Mason, Thomas C. Schelling, and director Robert R. Bowie; the first Fellows Program had 12 "practitioners...
...this reason, the Mason program at the K-School, which draws 50 Third World leaders each year, is flourishing in its 25th year and the Business School's International Teachers program is also thriving. Although less that 10 percent of the Mason fellows come from a strictly academic background, a substantial number of the program graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with...
Pyle said that some Mason-fellows are so impressed with what they have learned about management that they want to import their favorite courses lock, stock, and barrel. One former minister in the Burmese government upon returning home from his year as a Mason fellow persuaded his government to establish a K-School course on microeconomics as part of the curriculum at the University of Rangoon. He wired the Kennedy School and asked for the entire course packet to be sent special delivery...
...country interested in establishing a public policy program similar to the K-School's, the Mason program has served as an ideal way to test the water. When a K-School delegation took its fellows on a field trip to Egypt this spring, faculty at the American University of Cairo unexpectedly asked Academic Dean Albert Carnesale for help in setting up a public policy curriculum. This fall, one of those professors will enroll at the K-School as a Mason fellow, Pyle said, adding. "This man's presence in the Mason fellow program will be the take off point...
Thomas P. Sellers, associate director of the K-School's Masters in Public Administration program--which supervises the Mason fellows--sums up the rationale behind this approach: "Consulting lasts as long as the product of that consulting and it's difficult to leave behind anything permanent. The advantage of training is that it trains human beings and there's nothing more permanent than a human being...