PDB Patterson Diplomatic Brief
FALL 2013 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
PDB: Timely Intelligence Executive Summary Great change, but also great and armor, as well as a bundle of promise -- new faculty, additional traditional stops at corporations, new space (on the POT 11th floor), government agencies and NGOs in and new initiatives. Georgia and Tennessee. ! KEY ITEMS Time of Transition Great Speakers/Events ! We knew this day would come, This semester saw 36 speakers 2 but Professor John Stempel is coming to Patterson, including a US FACULTY IN FLUX retiring, marking the end of the ambassador who lost her job due to Stempel and Hillebrand going, Stempel/Davis team, whose legacy Wikileaks, a half-dozen additional Closson and Indian diplomat of leadership stretches back to 1972. FSOs, and diplomats from Gabon, coming, and a new search is on Stacy Closson will formally India, the United Kingdom, replace Stempel as a new permanent Ecuador, and Indonesia. We also 3 assistant professor and an additional heard from a stellar cross section of END OF STEMPEL ERA faculty search is already underway. Patterson School grads who detailed A Lasting Legacy ! the contributions they are making to ! New Budget Model diplomacy, development and 4 Next year, the University of commerce. These included CLOSSON – Q & A Kentucky moves to a new “value Ambassador Noel Nelson ! based” financial model that will Messone ’91, Amy Gamblin ’02, 5 likely put significant financial stress Christine O’Neal ’04, JT Ice ’06, EX PATT PROJECT on a number of academic programs and Amanda Mullikin ’10. ! across campus. The aim is to create ! 6 a more consistent and transparent The semester saw two signature SPRAGENS LECTURE flow of resources to academic units events: the Vince Davis lecture, ! that generate revenue, making delivered by Ambassador Messone; possible the best use of diminishing and the Spragens Banking lecture, ! state appropriations. presented by Swiss financial expert ! Thierry Malleret. Students also By all initial indications the participated in the visit of “Silver ! Patterson School should be fine. Fox” Anderson Cooper to UK to Our endowment will continue to learn about his experience working 6 fund our extensive co-curricular in combat zones. VINCE DAVIS LECTURE activities -- like our Spring Break ! ! trip -- and programming which Key activities included the US should continue at the same intense Army War College negotiation level, if not increase. Atlanta is the exercise, visits to Toyota and Three likely destination for this year’s Chimneys Farm, and our annual Spring trip, which may also include Fall Conference. a day visit to Fort Benning to obtain firsthand exposure to Army infantry