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Faculty Summer reading

With summer in full swing, students are doing policy internships, preparing for the Policy Memorandum capstone, and taking a few months to relax before classes start again in the fall. Faculty, too, are conducting professional research, writing articles and revising course materials. Before our faculty were off on their professional endeavors for the summer, we asked them what they plan to read this summer. We hope this gives our students an insight into what faculty are interested in, and what they might expect to see in the classrooms this fall. 

Richard Caldwell, Co-Director:  Professor Caldwell will be extremely busy reading a myriad of books this summer. Several current books that he recommends for policy students are: 

• Balance: The Economics of Great Powers by Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane. Tim Kane is a friend of mine at the Hudson Institute and Glenn Hubbard is Dean of the Columbia Business School. This book is fantastic in terms of placing the US in the context of rising and falling great powers.
• The End is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome by Kevin D. Williamson. Unique take on the financial crisis and the coming bankruptcy of the US by an editor of the National Review.
• The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson. The most preeminent British American historian's take on the decline of the US polity.
• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. An incredibly readable depiction of the growing threat of the Nazis and Germany in the 1930's. An absolute must-read!!

Gov. Richard Lamm, Co-Director: Gov. Lamm's reading is always eclectic.  

• The Unwinding: An Inner History of The New America by George Packer.
• Someone sent me through the mail a book called Fixing America: Solutions to Fix The Major Problems Afflicting the United States by Oliver Wyker.
• For fun, I am reading In Sunlight and In Shadows by Mark Helprin, a wonderful story of New York in the late 1940's.

Robert Fusfeld: I tend to focus on law, history, economics and political theory. 

• On Politics Vol. 2 by Alan Ryan
• Those Angry Days by Lynn Olson
• The Heyday of American Communism by Harvey Klehr
• The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson 
• Segregation and the American Underclass by Massey

Jim Arundel: I have a rather long list of reading this summer!

• After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response and the Work Ahead (Alan Blinder). In my judgment the best yet on this important subject by a former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve.
• The Great Rebalancing (Michael Pettis). More on the current state of the global economy.
• The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis (Ben Bernanke). Taken from a series of lectures from the current Chair of the Federal Reserve.
• Snipers, Shills & Sharks: EBay and Human Behavior. A technical work on auction theory, will really appeal to auction bridge players!
• All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay (John Taliaferro). Biography of the greatest statesman who never ran or occupied the offices of the Presidency or Vice Presidency and is today largely forgotten; adviser to presidents from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt.
• Talleyrand (Duff Cooper). Probably the best biography on this amazing individual initially published in 1932 by a close confidant of Churchill during his wilderness period. 

Alexis Senger: My summer reading list includes books that aren't typical academic works. 

• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Dahneman
• American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
• How Children Learn: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough

Andy Sharma: 

• Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama

IPPS alumnus names VP at Education Commission of the States

The Institute for Public Policy Studies is happy to congratulated Dr. Matt Gianneschi on his recent appointment as VP of Policy and Programs with Education Commission of the States. 

Nationally known for his expertise and leadership in higher education,
Gianneschi has over 16 years of experience to help ECS Commissioners
work on major initiatives such as transitions from high school to college, high school feedback systems, remedial education, financial aid, and postsecondary governance. Gianneschi most recently served as Deputy Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education. He previously served as Vice President of Student Services at the Community College of Aurora and as Director of Colorado's P-20 Council under Governor Bill Ritter.

Ipps Students win an Emmy Award

During the frenzy of the 2012 Presidential election, two Master of Public Policy (MPP) students were busy fact checking political campaign ads. Using their analytical abilities and extensive research, Emily Lande and Emily Parker worked with the 9News Truth Test team which recently won a Walter Cronkite award for excellence in television political journalism and a 2013 Heartland Emmy award for politics and government. The students were also featured in a DU Today story as it related to the DU Presidential Debate.

Congratulations to Emily Lande and Emily Parker! 

News - Fellows Selected for Marshall Fellowship

The Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver, as the regional coordinator for the Marshall Fellowship, is pleased to announce the following Rocky Mountain regional leaders as Fellows for the 2013 Marshall Fellowship:

• Councilman Albus Brooks, Denver City Council District 8
• Major Thomas Heier, US Air Force
• Dr. Janet Lopez, Rose Community Foundation 
• Leslie Oliver, Policy Director for Congressman Ed Perlmutter

Click here for the press release and a list of Rocky Mountain Regional Fellows.  

The selection process for 2014 Fellows will begin in the Fall of 2013. Read more about the GMF Rocky Mountain region selection process.