tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27762185980453651262015-12-26T10:16:13.104-05:00News and Updates from The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth CollegeRockefeller Center at Dartmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15943971096031327039noreply@blogger.comBlogger1236125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776218598045365126.post-69458154974719408902015-12-15T21:05:00.002-05:002015-12-15T21:05:44.330-05:00

After a relaxing day spent at the Dead Sea, the class hit the ground running on Monday, December 14th in Amman, Jordan. The class is pictured taking notes at the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We had our first meeting of the day with James Fromson. Fromson works for Mayday Rescue NGO, which trains the Syrian Civil Defense. Fromson has coauthored pieces with one of our previous speakers

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Congratulations to the students who completed the Management and Leadership Development Program (MLDP) with excellence during 2015 Fall Term. To complete MLDP with excellence, a participant must have perfect attendance and fulfill all session requirements. Click here for more information about MLDP. Fall 2015 – Completed with Excellence Jasper Bingham ’17 Bryan Bliek ’18 Riley Collins ’18

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On Sunday, Dec 13th we traveled three hours to the Dead Sea. During the bus ride, many members of the class slept or worked on the memo. Once we arrived at the Dead Sea, we changed into our bathing suits and headed down to the beach. We jumped right into the water and were amazed at the fact that we could float in the extremely salty water. The class swam for a while and got covered in Dead Sea

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Saturday, Dec 12th was spent being completely enchanted by the ancient city of Petra, the capital of the Nabataeans. One of the world’s largest archeological wonders, Petra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. PBPL 85 participants in front of the treasury facade in Petra, Jordan After breakfast at the hotel, the class walked a minute to the entrance of Petra. Our tour guide led us through the city

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Friday, Dec 11th began with a bus ride and tour to learn more about Jordan and its famous sites. PBPL 85 Participants in Petra, Jordan Our first stop was at Mount Nebo, a religious site where Moses (or Prophet Musa) is thought to have seen the Promised Land for the first time. The views from Mount Nebo were spectacular and the class stopped to take many photos. Then, we stopped by a nearby

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Thursday, December 10th was a busy day filled with meetings, learning, and dancing. After breakfast at the hotel, we went to the U.S. Embassy in Amman. The embassy was a gigantic compound and the security was extremely tight. At the Embassy, we met with Alex Taylor, a Foreign Service Officer. Taylor helped explain to us the relationship between Jordan and the U.S., as well as Jordan’s peace

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Wednesday, Dec 9th was a busy day with five separate meetings and a border crossing! After breakfast in our hotel, the class met with our first speaker Anshel Pfeffer, a journalist for both the Economist and Haaretz. His perspective was useful because, Pfeffer is generally tasked with both explaining Israel to the world and explaining the world to Israel. Then, we were able to Skype with

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Ali Abu Anwad and Shaul Judelman, a member of the Executive Committee of Friends of Roots, tell the story of the organization to the PBPL 85 participants. On Tuesday, Dec 8th, the class set out to fill in some of the gaps of knowledge that we need to fill in order to write our memo. In the morning, after breakfast at our hotel (complete with Hanukkah donuts), we departed for Gush Etzion, a

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The Rockefeller Center's Mini-Grants program funds on-campus student organization events. Professor Denise Anthony discusses healthcare with students during a dinner funded by a Rockefeller Mini-Grant. The Thought Project is a new Living Learning Community for the academic year 2015 -2016 in Wheeler Hall for thirty-five residents. Our mission is to build a vibrant, diverse community of

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Sari Nusseibeh, a professor and the author of “Once Upon a Country” shares his insights with the PBPL 85 students. We left early this morning to travel to a Kibbutz about an hour and a half away from Jerusalem. The class toured the Nahal Oz Kibbutz and learned about the daily lives of the people that live there and the losses they suffered during the last conflicts. For lunch, we were

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The Rockefeller Center’s Mini-Grants program funds on- campus student organization events. Nearly sixty women gathered at Casque and Gauntlet on the evening of October 5th to celebrate collective sisterhood in the wake of sorority recruitment. Sisters of Dartmouth was an evening event on Monday, October 5th held to celebrate collective sisterhood with an emphasis on welcoming all women,

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The Rockefeller Center hosted their annual Holiday Party on Tuesday, December 2nd in the Hinman Forum, located at the heart of the Rockefeller Center. The guest list included faculty and staff from a variety of departments across campus. The Center’s staff worked hard to transform Hinman Forum into a winter wonderland decked out with lights, ornaments and other decorations. There was a great

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We woke up early this morning to travel to Moshav Na’ama, an agricultural settlement in the Jordan Valley. At Moshav Na’ama, we were welcomed into Bar Levy’s home and ate a wonderful breakfast (complete with fresh vegetables and dates from the farms) with his family. After breakfast, Bar Levy, an Israeli soldier, allowed us to ask him questions about his life, his family’s history, and his

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Today, our class set out to learn about the heart of Israel, Jerusalem and more specifically the Old City of Jerusalem. We awoke and after breakfast at the hotel, we walked to the Old City. On our way, we passed very few people as it was still Shabbat and stores were not yet open for business. To better understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it was essential that our class get a

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PBPL 85 students Maureen Mentrek, Mariel Wallace, James Furnary, Marie Plecha, Nick Shallow, and Marie Plecha in Jaffa, Israel. Dec 4, 2015. Our class’s second full day in Israel brought new places and new experiences! In the morning, we had the chance to walk around Tel Aviv and a lot of our class went to the nearby beach to relax before the day’s activities. After breakfast at the hotel, we

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The students in PBPL 85: Global Policy Leadership Practicum in Tel Aviv with Professor Charlie Wheelan ’88, where they will spend two weeks meeting with local policy leaders to further their study on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The class met at the Newark airport with luggage full of books related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and ideas for the class memo. After a long flight

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On Friday, November 6, 2015, during a reception at the Rockefeller Center, the Class of 1964 presented its second Outstanding Leadership Award to Nathaniel C. Fick ’99. The Class established the Outstanding Leadership Award at its 50th reunion in June of 2014 to honor those individuals who share the Class’s belief in the importance of developing young leaders to take on today’s challenges.

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Professor Jennifer Sargent returned to MLDP this week to talk about workplace etiquette. Photo by Weijia Tang. This week, Professor Jennifer Sargent returned to MLDP to lead a session entitled, “Writing and Workplace Etiquette.” Ms. Sargent began the session with a discussion of how leadership qualities carry over to tasks in the workplace generally, and writing specifically. She also gave

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On Saturday, Nov 7th, the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association and the Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni, along with the Rockefeller Center, co-hosted the fourth annual Veterans Day banquet in Collis Common Ground. Guest speaker, Kathy Roth-Douquet, CEO of Blue Star Families Inc. The guest speaker was Kathy Roth-Douquet, CEO of Blue Star Families Inc., an organization focused on

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Professor John Garvey shared problem solving strategies with participants in MLDP this week. Photo by Hung Nguyen '18. This week’s presenter was Professor John Garvey, the Director of the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. Professor Garvey’s talk was entitled “Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Negotiation.” Professor Garvey began the

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This is a session recap of the Rockefeller Global Leadership Program (RGLP) from a participant's perspective. Dr. Uju Anya '98 describes the role of language in intercultural communication. Photo by Hung Nguyen '18. This Monday, the Rockefeller Global Leadership Program had a session with Dr. Uju Anya '98, a professor at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education on

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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke with Dartmouth students and members of the community on November 4th, 2015. As a part of the series America’s Economic Future, co-sponsored by Tuck and the Rockefeller Center, United States Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke at Dartmouth on November 4, 2015. Open to the public as a “town hall meeting,” the event took place at the Top of the Hop and was

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Nate Fick '99 talks to the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows about concepts he deems essential for the development of a leader. Photo by May Nguyen '18 Nathaniel Fick’s ’99 November 6th session with the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows emphasized five main concepts that he deemed essential for the development of a leader. These ideas included the difference of legal and moral authority, the fact

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November 11th, 1918 marks the date of the armistice agreement that ended the first World War.  Woodrow Wilson unofficially declared this day Armistice Day the year following the agreement, but it was on May 13, 1938 that Congress  declared November 11th an annual legal holiday, "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'."  In

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This week at MLDP, we welcomed Dave Uejio, the Acting Chief Strategy Officer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for a session entitled “Presentation Design for the User Experience.” MLDP participants explored the ways they could make their presentations more effective. Photo by Philip Son '16. Mr. Uejio opened the session with a discussion of why learning how to present information

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