edwards student recruitment presentation 2015

PROSPECTIVE STUDENT PRESENTATION

Martin S. EdwardsAssociate ProfessorSeton Hall University, School of Diplomacy and International Relations

AGENDA

Some current research What do I teach? How do I teach? How to succeed in our program

SOME GOOD NEWS

We understand a great deal about when and how the International Monetary Fund lends money to countries.

BUT…..

THE BAD NEWS…

While we know a lot about lending, this is only part of the work that the IMF does.

The IMF was originally created to exercise surveillance over the economic policies of countries

But we know very little about how well surveillance works.

SURVEILLANCE IN PRACTICE

Takes the form of annual country consultations with the Fund.

The original intent was for these consultations to be purely private.

Since 1997, the IMF has permitted countries to publicly release more and more information about the consultation.

GLOBAL TRENDS IN TRANSPARENCY

REPORT RELEASES BY REGION

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

Helps understand how norms change internationally

Helps understand in what contexts international organizations can be influential

RESEARCH IS COLLABORATIVE

Work on surveillance was supported by National Science Foundation

Supported undergraduate student presentations One paper co-authored with a class One blogpost that appeared in Washington Post

GRADUATE TEACHING

International Organizations (DIPL 6002) Syllabus online at website

http://pirate.shu.edu/~edwardmb/

HOW DO I TEACH? Pedagogy is more than teaching students to recount a number of authors

It’s important to stress skillsDialogue between theory and practiceHow to produce policy analytic work

ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENT Students this semester are developing class research projects:

Evaluating US public opinion on the UN How do international organizations use Twitter?

Students participate in every phase from designing the study to disseminating the findings.

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING Institutions of Global Governance (DIPL 2109)

The class is a sophomore-level course that addresses global issues and the role that international organizations play in resolving them.

Syllabus online on website http://pirate.shu.edu/~edwardmb/

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING

This Fall, we used a class blog to develop assignments.

The idea is to get students to find news articles that dealt with a specific issue and link it to course material.

RESEARCH IS PUBLIC

As a policy school, our goal is to better inform publics and better advise policy makers

Diplomacy students have published over a dozen op-eds since 2013.

Permanent Observer blog hosts guest columns by graduate and undergraduate students

WHY DOES IT MATTER HOW WELL I DO IN THIS CLASS? Students I have recommended

have had internships at: National Endowment for

Democracy NPR White House Clinton Foundation UN State, Homeland, and Commerce

Depts

Accepted into Grad Schools: Harvard Pittsburgh UNC

Have awesome jobs: State, Justice, Energy, Defense

Depts Goldman Sachs NGOs Capitol Hill

SOME THOUGHTS ON HOW TO TRULY SUCCEED AT SETON HALL

Be entrepreneurial. Make yourself visible. Start on day one. Find faculty mentors. Immediately. The classroom is an important part of your career preparation. But it is not the only part.

QUESTIONS?

Please feel free to contact me!

Email: martin.edwards@shu.edu Googling “Martin Edwards” and “Seton Hall” will work!

Office phone: 973-275-2507