FELLFALL 2014 OWTHE NEWSLETTER OF THESHIP WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INSIDE WOODROW WILSON MBA FELLOWSHIP EXPANDS, FELLOWSHIPS NAMES FIRST CLASSES Foundation Names WW Teaching Fellows in Four States hanks to a major new commitment, the new TWoodrow Wilson MBA Fellowship in Educa- WW MBA Fellowship Expands ....3 tion Leadership, with its focus on innovative leadership WW Names Teaching Fellows preparation for principals, superintendents, and charter in Four States ...................4 school heads, is growing rapidly. Teaching Fellows Receive In early September 2014, the Foundation announced a STARs Fellowships ..............5 grant of $14,482,405 from Lilly Endowment to expand its Pickerings Are Promoted to Senior MBA in Education Leadership program, first established Foreign Service .................6 in Indiana at the University of Indianapolis (UIndy) in No- vember 2013. The funds will be used both to extend the FELLOWS ON CURRENT program at UIndy and to create similar programs at two WORLD EVENTS Nasif Rogers MBA ’14 works with student Lydia Hawthorne. more Indiana institutions. Photo credit: Michael Sears/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Yolanda Covington-Ward MN ’01 on Liberia .................8 Meanwhile, the inaugural classes of Fellows were named in Indiana in June, at the University of India- study by Woodrow Wilson Foundation president Arthur Robert H. Legvold WF ’62 napolis, and in September in Milwaukee, where the Levine makes clear that school leaders play an important on Ukraine .................9 Foundation is partnering with the Milwaukee School of role in student achievement, yet many current M.Ed. and Shahla Talebi CN ’06 Engineering (MSOE) on the initiative. Ed.D. programs need greater selectivity and rigor. on the Middle East ..........10 The overarching goal of the WW MBA Fellowship in Ed- The WW MBA Fellowship program is one of a handful BOOK SPOTLIGHT ...... 12 ucation Leadership program is to increase the quality and of education MBA programs nationwide and the only relevance of preparation for leaders of school districts, one with its mix of resources and clinical work. NOTES ON FELLOWS .... 13 traditional public schools, and charter schools. A national Continued on page 3 Fellows Win Prizes Kavli Prize MacArthur Fellowship FOUNDATION NAMES WW TEACHING FELLOWS National Book Awards IN FOUR STATES FOUNDATION UPDATES .. 14 he largest class of Woodrow Wilson Teach- gineer; and a public health expert who has studied the Three New Trustees Join Ting Fellows to date—with 217 Fellows named toxicity of the aftermath of 9/11 for various populations. Woodrow Wilson Board across four states—has now begun the program’s “These Fellows are really impressive people, and they Patrick R. Riccards Appointed as trademark clinical work, with a full year of classroom are going to receive some of the strongest teaching Director of Media Relations and experience in high-need urban and rural schools. preparation available,” said Arthur Levine, president of Strategy Fellowship announcements took place over the summer the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. in four states—Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and New Jersey, “The campuses and districts working with them are the last of which has its inaugural class of Fellows this year. creating new models of teacher education. So not only (A fifth state, Georgia, is currently recruiting its first class.) will this year’s Fellows change countless lives, they are also part of an effort to change the way teachers The WW Teaching Fellows for 2014 include a Ph.D. can- nationwide learn to help their students succeed.” cer researcher who has taught at Princeton University; a geologist and veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps; a new Jen Lee, one of the 2014 Woodrow Wilson New grad in chemistry who is also a new citizen and the first in Jersey Teaching Fellows, has been an adjunct her family to graduate from college; a forensic scientist and professor of chemistry at the community college level, veteran of criminal investigations; a former automotive en- Continued on page 4 EDITOR’S NOTE MISSION ...identifying and developing leaders and institutions to meet the nation’s most critical challenges. ational Medals, the MacArthur Fellowship, the Kavli Prize, the NNational Book Award: They’re nothing new at Woodrow Wilson. BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2014–15 WALTER W. BUCKLEY, JR., CHAIR NANCY WEISS MALKIEL WF ’65 To be sure, this fall has seen a wealth of national and international awards Buckley Muething Capital Management Princeton University for Fellows across a wider range of fields than in some years. Every time one of the announcements comes in, there’s a little burst of pride in JANE PHILLIPS DONALDSON KAREN OSBORNE Phillips Oppenheim The Osborne Group the Woodrow Wilson office here in Princeton—pride, but not surprise. Woodrow Wilson Fellows have been receiving awards like these for almost CARL FERENBACH III MATTHEW PITTINSKY High Meadows Foundation Parchment, Inc. half a century. They are part of the excellence in intellectual leadership that the Foundation has always sought to identify, cultivate, and promote. JENNIFER GRUENBERG DEBORAH A. QUAZZO Marx Realty & Improvement Co. (ret’d) GSV Advisors After nearly 70 years, talented people who have been singled out for N. GERRY HOUSE E. JOHN RICE, JR. support from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation are still shaping the The Institute for Student Achievement Management Leadership for world, as some of the Fellows profiled in this issue make plain. Fellows THOMAS C. HUDNUT, CHAIR-ELECT Tomorrow (MLT) from across the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s suite of programs, past RG175 JUDITH A. RIZZO and present, are doing powerful, thoughtful, world-class work in a range JOHN KATZMAN The James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for of contemporary fields. Educational Leadership and Policy Noodle Education, Inc. It should also be clear, however, that Fellows shape the world both in SUNA SAID SHIRLEY STRUM KENNY WF ’56 grand ways and in very personal ways, one student at a time. Right now, Nima Capital Partners Stony Brook University, SUNY (ret’d) Fellows may be inspiring the students and young professionals who will JEFFREY L. SKELTON JAN KRUKOWSKI cure Ebola, negotiate peace in the Middle East or Eastern Europe, create Resultant Capital Partners Jan Krukowski & Co. the next major advance in computing technology, or write the poem or ARTHUR LEVINE LUTHER TAI history or cultural analysis that will come to define the 21st century. The Woodrow Wilson National Consolidated Edison Co. of Sometimes readers have said to us, “When the Woodrow Wilson newsletter Fellowship Foundation New York, Inc. (ret’d) features Nobel laureates and the like, I don’t see my everyday work there.” WILLIAM LILLEY III WF ’59 JAY P. URWITZ We want to know more about your work, and we want to spread the word iMap Data Inc. WilmerHale about your accomplishments. If you’re a Fellow of any Woodrow Wilson GEORGE A. WEISS FRANK LORENZO program and you’re on Twitter or Facebook, please follow the Foundation, Savoy Capital, Inc. George Weiss Associates, Inc. and let us know what you’re working on. 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Buckley, Jr. CN = Charlotte Newcombe Fellow PRESIDENT: Arthur Levine FAF = Foreign Affairs Fellow EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER: Stephanie J. Hull GFAF = Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellow FELLOWSHIP NEWSLETTER STAFF: H = Honorary Frances Micklow, writer/photographer Beverly Sanford, editor MBA = MBA In Education Leadership Fellow All photographs either taken by WW staff or provided by Fellows unless MN = Mellon Fellow otherwise credited. TF = Teaching Fellow WF = Woodrow Wilson Fellow 2 SPRING 2014 FELLOWSHIP WOODROW WILSON MBA FELLOWSHIP EXPANDS, NAMES FIRST CLASSES Continued from page 1 The 2014 WW The intensive, highly selective program blends an MBA Fellows education-based business curriculum with clinical experience in schools, corporations and nonprofits. in Education Indiana’s first class of WW MBA Fellows comprises Leadership at 15 aspiring leaders, who represent 11 public school UIndy districts and one charter school. They are participating in Allison Chance a rigorous 13-month program designed collaboratively Center Grove Schools by faculty from the university’s School of Business and Photo credit: MSOE School of Education. Dominic Day Lynhurst 7th and 8th The UIndy program essentially allows schools and Grade Center districts to cultivate new leaders from within their Dana Dietz ranks, and Fellows are able to apply their new Avon Community School knowledge immediately to the real issues they face Corporation at work. Each Fellow receives a stipend that covers Thomas Hakim full tuition, technology, and some living expenses. In MSD of Washington Township exchange, each agrees to serve in a leadership role in Mike Hall his or her school or district for at least three years, Photo credit: UIndy Monon Trail Elementary School with Foundation-supported mentoring. In Wisconsin, Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch David Harker joined Dr. Hermann Viets, MSOE president, and Greenwood Middle School “We are deeply grateful for Lilly Endowment’s support of Dr. Levine in honoring MSOE’s inaugural class of this Fellowship program,” said Arthur Levine, president David Hobaugh Woodrow Wilson MBA Fellows on September 4.