04-10-2007, 04:46 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA / Princeton, NJ
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| Here's a description I posted on a different thread: Quote:
As for public policy and international affairs, I would say that the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton is hard to beat. WWS is very esteemed worldwide: this year, the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the U.N. Secretary General (Annan) both gave talks to undergrads. Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. gave a talk two or three months ago. About a month ago, Dan Rather and Time columnist Joel Stein had a live TV broadcast hosted by WWS. Less than a week ago, a vice president of the Bank of China gave a talk hosted by WWS. And just about every week, top professors (from Princeton and elsewhere), policy analysts, and other experts give seminars in pretty much every topic that could possibly be related to public policy. So there's no shortage of exposure to the top thinkers and doers in public policy.
Also, WWS has a unique feature called the taskforce, where a group of WWS majors research, present, and debate proposals to solve a current public policy problem, before coming up with a final report as a policy recommendation of the taskforce. Often, WWS will pay for study in the relevant countries as well. And these recommendations sometimes find their way to Congress and the United Nations.
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