Heinz School

Mission	To advance the broad public interest through focused research and outstanding graduate education.
Established	1968 by Richard King Mellon
Official name	H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy And Management
University	Carnegie Mellon University
School type	Private Public Policy School
Dean	Ramayya Krishnan (Acting)
Location	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Enrollment	200 graduate
Web site	[http://www.heinz.cmu.edu Heinz School]

The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management (The Heinz School) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States is one of the nation's top-ranked public policy schools. It is named after Pennsylvania U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III (1938-1991).

The Heinz School educational process integrates policy, management, and information technology course work. 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 and Adelaide, Australia, the Heinz School 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.

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 Tech (as Carnegie Mellon University was then known) to create a school focused on public affairs. In 1967, Carnegie Mellon President H. Guyford Stever, Richard M. Cyert, Dean of the then Graduate School of Industrial Administration, and Professors William 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. Subsequent Deans include Otto Davis, Brian Berry, Alfred Blumstein, current Carnegie Mellon Provost Mark Kamlet, Linda Babcock, Jeffrey Hunker, Mark Wessel, and current Acting Dean Ramayya Krishnan.

In 1992, Teresa Heinz (later Teresa Heinz Kerry) donated a large sum of money to the school, which was then renamed 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 a few years before.

The Heinz School is headquartered in Hamburg Hall and has a branch campus in Adelaide, 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 opened a center in Washington, DC on Capitol Hill for students in the Public Policy and Management masters program.

The Heinz School 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 the Heinz School is often considered the best in the country in such application.

In 2007 the Heinz School received a grant from the Heinz Foundations that will integrate a new School of Information Systems and transform the Heinz School into a college. The college will be called the H. John Heinz III College and will comprise two schools: the School of Public Policy and Management and the School of Information Systems and Management with the college's faculty serving both schools. The official launch of the Heinz College will be on October 24th, 2008 during Carnegie Mellon's Homecoming weekend.

Rankings

In the most recent US News and World Report Graduate School rankings, the Heinz School was ranked 10th overall among schools of public affairs. Of the 253 schools of public affairs across the nation that were surveyed, the Heinz School ranked:

*1st in Information and Technology Management;
*4th in Public Policy Analysis;
*10th in Environmental Policy and Management;
*10th in Health Policy and Management.

The Heinz School 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 Medical Management program was ranked 4th by Modern Healthcare Magazine in the 2006 rankings of the top business graduate schools for physician executives.

Education

Presently, the Heinz School has an international reputation for excellence in its educational programs:

PhD programs:

*Public Policy and Management
*Economics and Public Policy (jointly with Tepper School of Business)
*Statistics and Public Policy (jointly with Department of Statistics)
*Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (jointly with Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems)
*Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change (jointly with Department of Social and Decision Sciences)
*Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (Carnegie Mellon Portugal program)
*Machine Learning and Public Policy (jointly with Machine Learning Department)

The Heinz school offers accelerated masters program for qualified Carnegie Mellon undergraduates, several joint master degrees with the Tepper School of Business, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary as well as executive education programs.

The hallmarks of every Heinz School 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 the Heinz School are successful in the public sector, private sector, and nonprofit sector.

Research

The Heinz School maintains an international reputation of excellence in the fields of criminal justice policy and management, health policy analysis, information systems and technology, management science, policy analysis, and social welfare policy. The Heinz School is also affiliated with several research centers:Finally, the Heinz School carries on the university tradition of interdisciplinary collaboration by working with departments throughout Carnegie Mellon University.

Notable 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
*William W. Cooper, founding Dean of the Heinz School and pioneer in management science and accounting
*Otto Davis, co-founder of the Heinz School, economist, and public-choice theorist
*David Farber, co-creator of ARPANET and former Chief Technologist for the FCC
*Richard Florida, social economist and urban scientist
*Martin Gaynor, health economist
*Jeffrey Hunker, expert in information security policy
*Ramayya Krishnan, expert in information technology, strategy, and policy
*Mark Kamlet, economist and Provost of Carnegie Mellon
*David M. Krackhardt, expert in organizational behavior and social network analysis
*M. Granger Morgan, expert in environment policy analysis and engineering and public policy
*Daniel Nagin, criminologist
*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

ee also

* Heinz School Australia, The Heinz School's branch campus in Adelaide, Australia
* , The Heinz School's academic journal on law, policy, and information systems jointly administered with the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University

References

*cite book | author=Fenton, Edwin | title=Carnegie Mellon 1900-2000: A Centennial History | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=Carnegie Mellon University Press | year=2000 | id=ISBN 0-88748-323-2

External links

* [http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/ Heinz School official web site]
* [http://ism.cmu.edu/index.asp Heinz School IS programs web site]