In the Wake of the Tsunami
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Winter 2009 TERRY SANFORD Duke University INSTITUTE OF Inside 4/ Mayer Steps Down PUBLIC POLICY 7/New Era in Foreign Policy 10/ Pay for Teachers 12-1 5/ Elections 2008 18 /Faculty Kudos 21-2 3/ Alumni News J O N Focus G CAN NEWS BE SAVED ? A R D I N DeWitt Wallace E R Center Plans to Try By Karen Kemp The headlines about newspapers are bleak: In December, Detroit papers curtailed home deliveries saying, “We’re fighting for our survival.” The Christian Science Monitor ceased all print publication and is now avail - able only online. The venerable Chicago Tribune filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Popular person-to-person, online advertising services such as Craigslist and Monster.com have gutted a core revenue Students Jam Sanford on Election Night Nearly 700 Duke students crowded into the Sanford stream for newspapers, classified advertis - Institute Building Nov. 4, 2008 to witness the historic election of Barack Obama, the nation’s first ing. Layoffs and closures are common and African American president. Please see pages 12-15 for more political and election related news, events news sections are shrinking as old business and research from the fall semester, as well as what’s coming in the spring. models crumble in the face of electronic innovation. As a consequence, the “watchdog” role of the press is in jeopardy, says Professor of In the Wake of the Tsunami PPS and Economics James “Jay” Hamilton, the new director of the DeWitt Wallace By Jackie Ogburn In February 2005 Bondan Sikoki, Survey - Center (DWC) for Media and Democracy. METER’s director, discussed the idea with Fewer news outlets than ever can afford to n December 26, 2004, the Sumatra- representatives from the Aceh branch of the devote resources to the time-consuming, Andaman earthquake spawned a tsu - Indonesian government’s national statistics bu - investigative journalism needed to uncover O nami that wreaked havoc on countries reau , Statistics Indonesia. The team de signed with coastlines bordering the Indian Ocean. a study that re-interviewed (Please see page 17) government or corporate wrongdoing. Indonesia was hardest hit, with more than A related proble m— given that con - 130,000 people killed, 30,000 missing, half a sumer advertising drives the creation of million more displaced, and miles of coastline news and informatio n— is that relatively scraped clean of villages and trees. little of the information essential to effec - Soon after the disaster, Elizabeth Franken - tive participation in our society is made berg, associate professor of PPS, and Duncan accessible to low-income people. These Thomas, professor of economics, began to knowledge gaps threaten democracy, which talk with colleagues at SurveyMETER, a re - relies on an informed electorate. search NGO in Indonesia, about conducting a “There’s a gap between what people study in the region. Frankenberg and Thomas want to know and what they need to know, have worked with the NGO since the mid and for most people, it doesn’t pay to be in - 1990s on a number of longitudinal data collec - formed,” Hamilton said. (Please see page 16) tion projects. Institute Updates Letter from the Director ronmental policy, health policy, global gover - intensively on areas in which its distinguished nance and international development policy. A faculty already make significant contributions: As the New Year begins, fourth area of emphasis is social policy, whose education policy, poverty, child and family pol - we all are facing new eco - importance will only be accentuated by our icy, racial and ethnic disparities, aging, and nomic realities. These nation’s recent economic difficulties. social deviancy. These areas also are priorities external factors certainly The social challenges facing the United for three active university research centers: make it more challenging States are enormous. The gap between rich the Center for Child and Family Policy; the for the Institute to raise and poor is larger than that of any other Population, Policy and Aging Research Center; the funds needed to advanced country. Disparities in income are and the Social Science Research Institute. reach our goal of becom - associated with well documented disparities In partnership with such nationally recog - ing a school on July 1. in education, the criminal justice system, and nized centers, the new public policy school Nonetheless, because we are rooted in “outra - in access to health care. Existing racial and eth - will extend Duke’s position as a leader in trans - geous ambitions,” we remain optimistic. nic disparities intensify as waves of new immi - lating outstanding research in these critical President Brodhead told Duke faculty and grants remake the fabric of local communities. areas of social policy into better schools, staff that the university enjoys relative stabili - Meanwhile, our educational system fails to stronger families, and a higher quality of life ty; however, a 19 percent drop in endowment educate large numbers of poor and minority for Americans at all levels of society. revenue over the last six months means that all students to the levels required of an increas - These are worthy goals, regardless of the schools and departments must seek ways to ingly global and knowledge-based society. vagaries of the economy. As President Brodhead trim expenses. Many of the critical challenges facing the said, “The most successful universities are the Duke surpassed its goal of raising $300 residents of North Carolina are also the prob - ones that have a clear sense of where they want million for financial aid, an initiative in which lems of the South, of the nation and of commu - to go and continue to make progress toward Sanford Institute donors played a key role, nities around the world. These challenge s— essential goals in both fair weather and foul.” providing endowment resources to increase strengthening education for all children, com - As a school-to-be, we know where we want to financial support for public policy students. bating poverty, promoting better race relations, go, and with your help we will get there. And, we’re more than three-quarters of the and improving the quality of lif e— have been way toward our $40 million school goal. In the at the heart of the Terry Sanford Institute’s con - Best regards, months ahead, we’ll continue working diligent - cerns from its inception, and will be central to ly to inspire additional partners to support our its concerns as we begin our life as a school. vision for public policy education. To maximize Duke’s impact on the most Previously I described compo nents of that important social policy issues of the day, the vision: Addressing issues in energy and envi - new public policy school will focus more Bruce Kuniholm U N I Friedman Calls for ‘Green Revolution’ V E R S I T Thomas Friedman signs his book for MPP student Jackie Mellilo Y P during a lunch meeting with students at the Sanford Institute on Sept. H O T 22, 2008. Friedman spent the day at Duke talking with students and O G faculty about the next big global industr y— clean energy technology. R A P “Green is obviously the new red, white and blue,” Friedman said. H He advocated for America to take the lead in sustainable energy Y innovation during an evening address in Page Auditorium. He out - lined the challenges and opportunities of energy poverty, climate change and biodiversity loss, then answered questions previously submitted by students. In the afternoon, he was part of a panel discussion with Jay Hamilton, professor of PPS, Thomas Katsouleas, dean of engineer - ing, Richard Newell, professor of environmental economics, and Blair Sheppard, dean of the business school. A three-time Pulitzer-prize winner and New York Times columnist, Friedman came to campus as the 2008 Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecturer to talk about his new best-selling book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America. The Sanford Lecture was endowed by a gift to the university from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust in honor of the late Terry Sanford. 2 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus BOV Member, Alum Works at Eye of Financial Storm U N I By Gabe Starosta V the Fed, particularly at the New York office. E R S “Events have unfolded very quickly since I T Y arah Dahlgren, a member of the the late summer, and I think it’s been a chal - P H Sanford Board of Visitors since 1993, O lenge for everybody across all of the respec - T didn’t make it to most recent board O tive agencies, whether it’s the New York Fed, G S R meeting, but she had a pretty good excuse. A the Treasury, the Board of Governors, trying P H She was busy trying to save the financial Y to deal with crisis after crisis,” Dahlgren said. world. “Every thing happened so fast. It’s one thing Dahlgren (MA ’89) has spent the last 18 when the government has to deal with a sin - years at the Federal Reserve’s New York gle crisis at a time, but we’ve been dealing branch, serving in a variety of roles. She is cur - with multiple crises over weekends and even rently a Senior Vice President in the Bank join the Fed, where she has been ever since. within weeks.” Supervision group, and on Sept. 16 she was “I certainly didn’t go in thinking I would be Dahlgren, who is serving her second reassigned to lead a team supervising the here for as long as I have been, but every time I three-year term on the Sanford Board, said Federal Reserve’s loan to faltering insurance start to think, ‘Hmm, maybe I should look for she has enjoyed serving and welcomes the giant AIG.