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Angel promoted, named
new graduate adviser
LBJ School Assistant Professor Jacqueline
Angel has been promoted to
associate professor, a tenured position that will officially
take effect at the beginning of the 2000-2001 school year.
Angel, who has a Ph.D. in sociology from
Rutgers University, teaches courses on policy development
related to health care and the politics of aging,
disability, and long-term care.
Dean Ed
Dorn announced this spring that
Angel will also become the LBJ School's graduate adviser
next fall. She will replace Professor Pat
Wong, who has held the position
since 1996.
Chapman, Inman named
high tech Texas leaders
LBJ School faculty members Gary
Chapman and Bobby
Inman are among the top 25 most
powerful Texans in high tech listed in the March 2000 issue
of Texas Monthly Biz, a supplement to Texas
Monthly magazine.
Chapman is listed under the "Activists"
category and Inman is listed under "Money Men." The text of
the article, entitled "Wired Guns," is available
online.
Dorn appointed to
USAID group
Dean Ed
Dorn has been appointed by the
U.S. Agency for International Development to serve on its
Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. The committee
was established by presidential directive after World War II
to serve as a link between the U.S. government and private
voluntary organizations active in humanitarian assistance
and development work overseas. Its next public meeting is
scheduled for May 10 in Washington, D.C., and will address
the topic "Advancing the Status of Women Globally: Progress
toward Gender Equality in the Year 2000 and
Beyond."
Galbraith sits on
White House panel
Professor James
Galbraith was an invited
participant in the White House Conference on the New
Economy, held April 5 in the East Room of the White House.
Galbraith was a member of one of three panels moderated by
President Clinton to discuss cutting-edge economic issues.
The topic of his panel was "Is the New Economy Rewriting the
Rules on Productivity and the Business Cycle?"
Marshall investigates
wage gap
Professor Emeritus Ray
Marshall was appointed by the
Austin City Council in February to chair a committee to
investigate the growing gap between the city's rich and
poor. The council charged the committee with making specific
recommendations on how Austin can improve prospects for its
low-wage residents.
Marshall, a labor economist who served as
secretary of labor in the Carter administration, has written
extensively about implementing business strategies that
create training programs and high-wage jobs.
Spelman leaving city
council
Professor William
Spelman announced in February
that he would not seek a second term on the Austin City
Council. Spelman, who was elected to the council in 1997,
said he was stepping down to make more time for his family
and for teaching.
An article in the Austin
American-Statesman praised him for "his probing
questions, attention to detail, and distillation of complex
issues." Among his accomplishments as council member have
been the authorship of a council resolution creating the
city's first Citizen's Bond Oversight Committee, sponsorship
of a council resolution creating the Police Oversight Policy
Group, and sponsorship of a $1 million Housing Trust Fund,
which marks the first time the City of Austin has dedicated
general fund dollars to help remedy the lack of affordable
housing.
Spelman's term expires on June
15.
Ward named to Smith
chair
Professor Peter
Ward has been named to the C. B.
Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations, the
senior chair in Latin American studies at UT Austin. Endowed
through the College of Liberal Arts, the chair was created
in the 1980s as part of the Centennial Teachers and Scholars
Program. Ward, an expert in Latin American urbanization and
contemporary Mexican politics, has held joint appointments
in public affairs and sociology since 1991. He will continue
to divide his teaching duties between the LBJ School and the
Department of Sociology.
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