Josef Korbel School of International Studies
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| Motto | "Pro Scientia et Religione" ('For Science and Religion' or 'Knowledge and Spirit') |
| Established | 1964 as the Graduate School of International Studies |
| Type | Private |
| Dean | Christopher R. Hill |
| Undergraduates | 260 |
| Postgraduates | 450 |
| Location | Denver, Colorado |
| Campus | Urban — University of Denver |
| Nickname | Josef Korbel School, JKSIS |
| Website | www.du.edu/korbel |
The Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver (DU) is a professional school of international affairs offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees. Formerly the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), it was renamed in 2008 in honor of the founding dean Josef Korbel, father of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
The school is located on the University of Denver’s main campus, in Denver’s University Hill neighborhood. The school includes more than 260 undergraduate and 450 graduate students,[1] 25 full-time and 20 part-time faculty, 25 staff, nine academic centers and research institutes and several thousand alumni living and working in more than 75 countries.[citation needed]. It is a full member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a grouping of international studies-orientated institutions.[2]
Former U.S. Ambassador Christopher R. Hill has been dean of the school since July 2010.[3] In February 2012, the school's masters programs were ranked 11th in the world by Foreign Policy magazine.[4]
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[edit] History
The Department of International Relations at the University of Denver was first directed by Dr. Ben Mark Cherrington, an educator who was friends with some of his era's eminent political thinkers, including Gandhi, Louis Brandeis and Ramsay MacDonald.[5]
According to the University of Denver, "In 1938, Cherrington was handpicked by the United States Department of State to lead its new Division of Cultural Relations and tasked with carrying out 'the exchange of professors, teachers, and students . . . cooperation in the field of music, art, literature . . . international radio broadcasts . . . generally, the dissemination abroad of the representative intellectual and cultural work of the U.S.'"[6] Cherrington later became chancellor of the University of Denver from 1943 to 1946, and he was also a contributing author to the United Nations Charter.[7]
The Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) was established under the efforts of Josef Korbel, who became its first dean, in 1964. Decades earlier, he had been forced to flee during the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948.[8] Korbel was granted political asylum in the United States and was hired in 1949 to teach international politics at the University of Denver. To house the school, the 30,300-square-foot (2,810 m2) Ben M. Cherrington Hall was built in 1965.
Nearly 25 years after Korbel's death, the University of Denver established the Josef Korbel Humanitarian Award in 2000. Additionally, the Graduate School of International Studies was renamed the Josef Korbel School of International Studies on May 28, 2008, in his honor and and in recognition of his family's support Josef Korbel.[9]
Other deans who followed Korbel include Tom Farer, a lawyer, scholar and diplomat who served in the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Defense Department and as president of the University of New Mexico.[10] Former U.S Ambassador Christopher R. Hill took over as dean on July 1, 2010. Hill has experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, and has served as ambassador to Macedonia, Poland, the Republic of Korea and Iraq. He was a member of the team that negotiated the Bosnia peace settlement and has worked on negotiations with North Korea.[11]
[edit] Degree programs
[edit] Undergraduate programs
The Josef Korbel School offers an undergraduate degree in International Studies, with the following concentrations:[12]
- Culture, Society & International Politics
- Global Political Economy
- International Development, Gender & Health
- International Organizations, Law & Human Rights
- International Security & Conflict Resolution
[edit] Graduate programs
The Josef Korbel School focuses on training graduate students, both for master's and doctoral degrees, in a number of different areas. In addition to the major, students also specify certain concentrations, either a subject interest or a regional focus. Most degrees require foreign language proficiency and a field internship.
The school's graduate programs include majors in International Human Rights; International Development; Global Finance, Trade and Economic Integration; International Administration; and International Security.[13][14] As a result of its Peace Corps Master’s International and Fellows programs, the school is home to the third-largest Peace Corps community at the graduate level in the country.[15]
Graduate students have the option of earning graduate certification in Global Health Affairs, Homeland Security and Humanitarian Assistance on top of their master's degree work.[16]
[edit] Dual degree programs
The Korbel School also offers dual degrees in conjunction with the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business, Sturm College of Law, Graduate School of Social Work and School of Communications. These degrees are MA/MBA, MA/JD, MA/MSW and MA/MA, respectively.
[edit] Reputation and rankings
In 2007, the Josef Korbel School’s graduate programs were ranked 9th in the nation by a survey of scholars at the College of William & Mary and published in Foreign Policy. More recently, the magazine ranked the University of Denver’s master's program as 11th in the world for graduate level, international affairs programs.[17] It is also one of 35 institutions worldwide that is a full member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs.[18]
[edit] Notable alumni and faculty
Many of the school's alumni have gone on to careers in international service:
- Condoleezza Rice - 66th U.S. Secretary of State; former national security advisor; former provost, Stanford University[19]
- George W. Casey, Jr. - Chief of Staff of the United States Army.[20]
- Cindy Courville - U.S. Ambassador to the African Union; former special assistant to President George W. Bush and senior director for African Affairs, National Security Council; former senior intelligence officer, Office of the Chief of Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency[21]
- Captain Gail Harris - Former U.S. naval officer, the highest-ranking African American female in the United States Navy upon her retirement in December 2001.[22]
- Jami Miscik - Former Deputy Director for Intelligence at the CIA, Vice-Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. in New York.
- Masouma Al-Mubarak - Minister of Communications and former Minister of Planning & Minister of State for Administrative Development Affairs of Kuwait.
- Heraldo Muñoz - Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations; Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
- Paul Trivelli - Former U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua.
- Susan Waltz - Professor of public policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; former chair, Amnesty International, International Executive Committee; board member, American Friends Service Committee.
- M. Javad Zarif - Former Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations.
- Michelle Kwan - Former U.S. Olympic Figure Skater and current State Department employee.
Several noted professionals in the field of international relations serve as professors and lecturers as part of the school's faculty.[23] Some past and present faculty members include:
- Christopher R. Hill - Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq.
- Jendayi Frazer - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
- James E. Goodby - Specialist on nuclear nonproliferation and security issues in Northeast Asia, focusing particularly on the Korean peninsula. A former diplomat, he was involved in nuclear security issues and military affairs for the State Department.
- Haider A. Khan - Expert on social accounting matrix (SAM)-based economic modeling.
- Josef Korbel - the founding dean, father of Madeleine Albright, and mentor of Condoleezza Rice.
- Claude d’Estrée: Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking.
- Tom Farer, former dean at the Korbel School, president of the University of New Mexico, president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States
[edit] Research centers, publications and partnerships
- Center for China-U.S. Cooperation: according to the center's website, it is "the only institution in the Rocky Mountain region devoted to building mutual understanding, prudent policies and avenues of dispute resolution among the people of Greater China and the United States."[24]
- Human Trafficking Clinic: a clinic which provides professional research, writing, and educational outreach on human trafficking and all forms of modern day slavery. Its "aim is to provide research that improves inter-organizational cooperation and accountability, influences policy, and raises awareness in combating human trafficking and modern day slavery."[25]
- Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East: a center for research and exchanges to facilitate peace and prosperity for Israel and its neighbors and to deepen ties between these countries and the U.S.[26]
- Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures: a research, analysis and education center for the field of International Futures, a computer modeling system that can help forecast long-term global changes and trends in demographics, economics and the environment.[27] Current model results are being hosted by the Google Public Data Explorer[28]
- Center on Rights Development: a center which promotes universal recognition of human rights through research, advocacy, monitoring, representation, and outreach.[29]
- Institute on Globalization and Security: a multinational, collaborative research and teaching center studying global integration and its effects on security.[30]
- Center for Sustainable Development: a policy institute devoted to international development, global environment issues and the prevention of war.[31]
- Sié Chéou-Kang Center in International Security and Diplomacy: a teaching and research center for leadership training in international security and diplomacy.[32]
[edit] Featured journals
The Josef Korbel Journal of Advanced International Studies, Human Rights and Human Welfare, and the Journal of Contemporary China are published by the Korbel School.[33][34][35] The school also became the five-year host of the journal Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations in July 2009. The publication is the official journal of the Academic Council of the United Nations System (ACUNS) and features articles on transnational challenges, opportunities and international regimes.
[edit] Other opportunities and partnerships
Students at the Josef Korbel School often pursue internship opportunities. In the past, students have interned with the U.S. State Department, U.S. Department of Defense, United Nations, the World Health Organization, Red Cross International and AfricAid.[36]
The Josef Korbel School participates in a Washington, D.C. program with the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. For the past five years, GSPIA and the Maxwell School have operated the Global Security and Development Program that combines professional internships with graduate courses taught by adjunct faculty drawn from the Washington, D.C., area's pool of experts in international relations and economics.[37]
The school also provides a teaching exchange fellowship with Bilgi University in Turkey, inter-term courses in Costa Rica and other semester-abroad option.[38]
[edit] References
- ^ "about > Josef Korbel School current student profiles". du.edu/korbel. University of Denver. http://www.du.edu/korbel/about/studentprofiles/index.html. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "University of Denver Profile". apsia.org. APSIA. http://www.apsia.org/apsia/members/members.php?institutionID=35. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ Politico, Chris Hill Named Dean: http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0710/Chris_Hill_named_dean.html
- ^ "Inside the Ivory Tower". Foreign Policy. The Foreign Policy Group, LLC. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ivory_tower/. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Our history". University of Denver. http://www.du.edu/korbel/about/ourhistory.html. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Our history". University of Denver. http://www.du.edu/korbel/about/ourhistory.html. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Ben Mark Cherrington". DUPedia. University of Denver, Penrose Library. http://library.du.edu/dupedia/category/people/chancellors/ben-cherrington. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ Raz, Guy (28 June 2006). "For Albright and Rice, Josef Korbel Is Tie that Binds". NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5516648. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ GSIS Renamed in Honor of Founder Josef Korbel: http://www.du.edu/korbel/docs/alumni_newsletter_fa.pdf
- ^ Horton, Scott (28 April 2008). "An Interview with Tom Farer, Author of ‘Confronting Global Terrorism'". Harper's. http://harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002880. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ A Note From Dean Hill: http://www.du.edu/korbel/about/fromdean.html
- ^ Undergraduate Concentrations: http://www.du.edu/korbel/academic/degrees/ba/BA_Concentrations.html
- ^ "Josef Korbel School degree programs". du.edu/korbel. University of Denver. http://www.du.edu/korbel/academic/academic_degree_programs/index.html. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ PPIA Consortium School Profiles: http://www.ppiaprogram.org/consortium/template.php?ID=26
- ^ Peace Corps Fellows Program: http://www.du.edu/korbel/academic/degrees/ma/peacecorp/Peace_Corps_Fellows.html
- ^ "Graduate certificate programs". du.edu/korbel. University of Denver. http://www.du.edu/korbel/academic/graduate_certificate_programs/index.html. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ Rankings of International Studies Programs: http://irtheoryandpractice.wm.edu/projects/trip/TRIP%202011%20RESULTS%20US%20RESPONDENTS.pdf
- ^ APSIA Members: http://www.apsia.org/apsia/index.php
- ^ "Condoleezza Rice". Biography.com. A+E Television Networks, Ltd.. http://www.biography.com/people/condoleezza-rice-9456857. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "General George W. Casey, Jr.". WWSG.com. Worldwide Speakers Group. http://wwsg.com/wp-content/uploads/General-Geo-Casey-Bio-May-2011.pdf.
- ^ "Cindy Courville". Occidental College | Global Affairs. Occidental College. http://college.oxy.edu/globalaffairs/cindy-courville/. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Captain Gail Harris". www.agacgfm.org. Association of Government Accountants. http://www.agacgfm.org/conferences/pdc/downloads/bios/GHarris.pdf. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ Graduate Student Mentorship at the Josef Korbel School: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/about-us/sponsors/gradschoolforum/so2010/korbel
- ^ http://www.du.edu/korbel/china/
- ^ http://www.du.edu/humantraffickingclinic/
- ^ http://www.isime.org/
- ^ http://www.ifs.du.edu/index.aspx
- ^ International Futures Model Results with Google
- ^ http://www.du.edu/korbel/cord/
- ^ http://www.du.edu/korbel/iglos/
- ^ http://www.du.edu/korbel/sdip/
- ^ http://www.du.edu/korbel/sie/
- ^ http://www.du.edu/korbel/jais/
- ^ http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/index.html
- ^ http://www.du.edu/korbel/china/publications.html
- ^ "Josef Korbel School internships". du.edu/korbel. University of Denver. http://www.du.edu/korbel/careers/careerinfo/internships.html. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Josef Korbel School program in Washington, D.C.". University of Denver. http://www.du.edu/korbel/academic/washingtondc.html. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ Special Programs at the Josef Korbel School: http://www.du.edu/korbel/academic/specialprograms.html
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