Heinz College
| Mission | To advance the broad public interest through focused research and outstanding graduate education. | |
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| Established | 1968 by Richard King Mellon | |
| Official name | H. John Heinz III College | |
| University | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| School type | Private graduate school | |
| Dean | Ramayya Krishnan | |
| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA | |
| Enrollment | 1,191 graduate | |
| Web site | Heinz College | |
The H. John Heinz III College (Heinz College) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States is a graduate college that consists of one of the nation's top-ranked public policy schools and I-schools. It is named after Pennsylvania U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III (1938-1991). The college consists of the School of Information Systems & Management and the School of Public Policy & Management.
The Heinz College educational process integrates policy, management, and information technology studies. Coursework emphasizes the applied disciplines of empirical methods and statistics, economics, information systems and technology, operations research, and organizational behavior. In addition to full-time, on campus programs in Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, and Adelaide, Heinz College offers graduate-level programs to non-traditional students through part-time on-campus and distance programs, customized programs, and executive education programs for senior managers.
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[edit] History
Richard King Mellon and his wife Constance had long been interested in urban and social issues. In 1965, they sponsored a conference on urban problems, in which they began discussions with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to create a school focused on public affairs. In 1967, Carnegie Mellon President H. Guyford Stever, Richard M. Cyert, Dean of the Tepper School of Business, and Professors William W. Cooper and Otto Davis met and formed a university-wide committee to discuss creating a school that would train leaders to address complex problems in American urban communities. Davis was asked to draft a proposal to create such a school.
In 1968, William Cooper and Otto Davis presented the final proposal for the School of Urban and Public Affairs (SUPA) to the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The proposal found favor with R. K. Mellon and he became strongly committed to creating such a school. The R. K. Mellon Foundation sent a proposal to President Stever to finance it with an initial grant of $10 million, and on 1 November 1968, President Stever created the School of Urban and Public Affairs with William Cooper as the first Dean. The school initially drew much of its faculty from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration and was based in the Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall. Eventually, the school became independent of other colleges within the university and moved to its current location in Hamburg Hall when the facility was acquired by the university from the U.S. Bureau of Mines. Subsequent Deans include Otto Davis, Brian Berry, Joel Tarr, Alfred Blumstein, current Carnegie Mellon Provost Mark Kamlet, Linda C. Babcock, Jeffrey Hunker, Mark Wessel, and current Dean Ramayya Krishnan.
In 1992, Teresa Heinz donated a large sum of money to the school, which was then renamed as the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management in honor of Mrs. Heinz's late husband, Senator H. John Heinz III. Senator Heinz, heir to the H. J. Heinz Company fortune, had been killed when his small private plane crashed one year before.
In 2007, the Heinz School received a grant from the Heinz Foundations that transformed the Heinz School into a college and formalized the School of Information Systems & Management alongside the School of Public Policy & Management under the college's administration. The official launch of the H. John Heinz III College was held on October 24, 2008 during Carnegie Mellon's Homecoming weekend and was led by Dean Krishnan, Teresa Heinz, and former United States Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill.
Heinz College is headquartered in Hamburg Hall and has a branch campus in Adelaide, South Australia, that offers masters degrees in Public Policy and Management and Information Technology, a North Hollywood Center in Los Angeles, CA as part of the masters degree program in Entertainment Industry Management, and an academic and research center in Washington, DC on Capitol Hill for students in the Public Policy and Management masters program.
Heinz College focuses on the application of quantitative analysis, statistics, economics, operations research, decision science, and information technology to tackle public sector problems in a practical manner. The faculty of Heinz College is often considered the best in the country in such application.
[edit] Rankings
In the most recent US News and World Report Graduate School rankings, the Heinz College was ranked 10th overall among schools of public affairs. The Heinz College has ranked in the top 10 since US News and World Report began ranking schools of public affairs in 1995. Of the 253 schools of public affairs across the nation that were surveyed, Heinz College ranked:
- 1st in Information and Technology Management;
- 4th in Public Policy Analysis;
- 10th in Environmental Policy and Management;
- 10th in Health Policy and Management.
- 22nd in Public Finance and Budgeting
Heinz College also ranked 2nd in the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index listing for the top performing programs in public administration and 9th in the listing for the top performing programs in public policy.
The PhD program in Public Policy and Management at the Heinz College was ranked in the top 5 overall and in the top 5 in faculty research activity by the National Research Council in 2010.
The Medical Management program was ranked 4th by Modern Healthcare Magazine in the 2009 rankings of the top management graduate schools for physician executives.
[edit] Education
Presently, Heinz College has an international reputation for excellence in its educational programs:
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PhD programs:
- Public Policy and Management
- Information Systems and Management
- Economics and Public Policy (jointly with Tepper School of Business)
- Statistics and Public Policy (jointly with Department of Statistics)
- Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change (jointly with Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Department of Engineering and Public Policy)
- Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (Carnegie Mellon Portugal program)
- Machine Learning and Public Policy (jointly with Machine Learning Department)
While Heinz College is the only college at Carnegie Mellon that does not have undergraduate programs, it does offer accelerated masters programs for exceptional undergraduates. Additionally Heinz College offers several joint professional graduate degrees with the Tepper School of Business, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the University of Oxford, and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary as well as executive education programs such as the CIO Institute. The Heinz College is also a partner in the Tepper School of Business' Master of Science in Computational Finance and the Carnegie Institute of Technology's Master of Science in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management program.
The hallmark of every Heinz College education is the quantitative and skills-based curriculum, the integration of technology, and the required capstone final project: "the system synthesis." This final project is done instead of a traditional thesis and allows the students to apply their problem solving skills to a real-world client's problem. Graduates of Heinz College are successful in the public sector, private sector, and nonprofit sector.
[edit] Research
Heinz College maintains an international reputation of excellence in the fields of social entrepreneurship, criminal justice policy, health policy analysis, art and entertainment industry management, information systems and technology, management science, policy analysis, and social welfare policy. Heinz College is also affiliated the following research centers:
- Center for Arts Management and Technology
- Center for Behavioral Decision Research
- Center for Economic Development
- Center for International Policy & Innovation
- CyLab
- Future of Work Center
- Future Tenant
- iLab
- Institute for Social Innovation
- Living Analytics Research Centre (jointly with Singapore Management University)
- Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society
- Traffic21
The Heinz College is also affiliated with the following academic journals:
- The Heinz Journal
- I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society (jointly with the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University)
[edit] Notable current and former faculty
- Ashish Arora, economist and expert in technology, innovation, development, and public policy
- Linda C. Babcock, author, economist, and expert in negotiation and gender
- Alfred Blumstein, criminologist and operations researcher
- Kathleen Carley, computational sociologist and expert in dynamic network analysis
- Jonathan P. Caulkins, operations researcher, expert in drug and crime policy, and founder of RAND Pittsburgh
- Jack Chow, Public health expert, first Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Special Representative of the U.S. Secretary of State on Global HIV/AIDS and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Health and Science
- William W. Cooper, founding Dean of Heinz College and pioneer in management science and accounting
- John Patrick Crecine, former President of the Georgia Institute of Technology
- Otto Davis, co-founder of Heinz College, economist, and public-choice theorist
- Jon Delano, Money & Politics editor at KDKA-TV
- George T. Duncan, expert on statistical confidentiality
- David Farber, co-creator of ARPANET and former Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Richard Florida, social economist and urban scientist
- Martin Gaynor, health economist
- John Graham, Dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Jendayi Frazer, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the George W. Bush administration
- Melvin J. Hinich, expert in signal processing and statistics
- Jeffrey Hunker, expert in information security policy and adviser to President Bill Clinton
- Ramayya Krishnan, Dean and expert in information technology, strategy, and policy
- Mark Kamlet, economist and Provost of Carnegie Mellon
- David Krackhardt, expert in organizational behavior and social network analysis
- David H. McCormick, former Under Secretary for International Affairs within the US Department of the Treasury
- M. Granger Morgan, expert in environment policy analysis and head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy
- Daniel Nagin, criminologist
- Jairam Ramesh, elected member of the Indian Parliament and the Indian Cabinet Minister for Rural Development (India)
- Mark Roosevelt, President of Antioch College, Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, and member of the Roosevelt family
- Denise M. Rousseau, expert in organizational behavior and psychological contracts
- Peter M. Shane, Professor of Law and Public Policy specializing in administrative law and e-democracy, former Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- Kiron Skinner, expert and author in international relations, Cold War policy, and fellow at the Hoover Institution
- Michael D. Smith, economist in information technology and pioneer in The Long Tail phenomenon
- Robert P. Strauss, economist and expert in public finance and tax policy
- Paula Wagner, film executive and talent agent, formally CEO at United Artists and Cruise/Wagner Productions
- Robert Wilburn, former president of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and director of Heinz College in Washington, DC
[edit] See also
- Heinz College Australia, Heinz College's branch campus in Adelaide, South Australia
[edit] References
- Fenton, Edwin (2000). Carnegie Mellon 1900-2000: A Centennial History. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 0-88748-323-2.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Heinz College on Twitter
- Heinz College School of Information Systems & Management web site
- Heinz College School of Public Policy & Management web site
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