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...commend the Kennedy School for assembling such an impressive group of scholars. The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy has undoubtedly become the most influential institution for addressing dilemmas such as poverty, crime and economic inequality...
Sociologist Christopher Jencks of Northwestern University, anthropologist Katherine Newman of Columbia University and labor economist George Borjas of the University of California at San Diego will all join Wilson at the Kennedy School's Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy in the fall...
...Borjas, Jencks, Newman and Wilson are academic all-stars," Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye said in a press release. "Together with our existing faculty, the school and the Wiener Center now [have] one of the finest groups of people ever assembled to tackle the extraordinary challenges of poverty, crime, poor health and economic and social deprivation...
Julie B. Wilson, director of Wiener Center and secretary of the Kennedy School faculty, also agreed that the recent addition of a scholar of Wilson's caliber helped convince the others...
These appointments come in the wake of an anonymous $5 million pledge to support faculty and research at the Weiner Center. The donation will also fund the merger of the Wiener Center and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy...