Political Science Professor
Will Train U.S. Strategists

Dr. Michael Frazier, Associate Professor of Political Science and former Associate Director for Academic Affairs at the Bunche Center, will be Visiting Professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), National Defense University, in Washington, DC, for the 1998-99 academic year.

On sabbatical from Howard University, Dr. Frazier will help prepare promising mid-level military and civilian personnel for top national security leadership positions. The postgraduate executive level courses of study and research deal with resource components of national power, with special emphases on materiel acquisition and joint logistics and their integration into national security for peace and war.

Military faculty assigned to ICAF normally hold the rank of colonel or captain and are highly qualified in their fields. Civilian faculty members typically hold doctorates and are usually full-time academics who specialize in areas of interest to ICAF.

In addition to his recent ICAF appointment, Dr. Frazier was among 35 scholars and government officials (including the Center’s Kevin McGuire) selected by the National Security Education Program (NSEP) for participation in a symposium on "Emerging Issues in National Security" at the Georgetown University Conference Center on April 17. NSEP, which is part of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, sponsored the session in cooperation with area universities.

The focus of the symposium was on identifying and defining key national security issues for the future and on preparing next generation leaders to meet new and complex challenges.

     Two Howard University students are among 16 chosen from ten States as the first Ronald Brown Fellows. Selected are Catherine Cunningham and Adiah Ferron, sophomore political science majors who will pioneer in taking the newly designed course in commercial diplomacy this summer.
     Pending the opening of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Politics and Commercial Diplomacy in downtown Washington, the program will be headquartered in the Ralph J. Bunche International Center on the Howard University campus.
     The course will consist of a combination of group discussions and lectures with hands-on type internships in major commercial establishments in Washington. Some of the scheduled lecturers include Congressman Jack Kemp, George Stephanopoulos, and James Carville.
     In addition to Howard’s Cunningham and Ferron, Brown Fellows will come from California State University, Northridge; Carnegie Mellon, Columbia University, Duke, Hampton, Middlebury College, St. John’s University, Ohio State, University of Denver, and the University of Texas, Austin.
     On tap are lectures, demonstrations, and simulations on such subjects as public opinion research, fund raising and campaign finance and voter contact.

Graduate Student Wins Symposium Post

     Continuing a series of notable activities for which she has been selected, Patricia Harris Fellow, Janice McCain, has been named one of thirty graduate students from throughout the nation taking part in the national symposium, Women in International Security (WIIS), here in Washington, DC, this summer.
     Ms. McCain is a doctoral student in the Department of African Studies, where she is focusing on women’s development issues in Africa.
     The week-long program is designed to enhance opportunities for women who are involved in the discussion of issues affecting international security, ranging from arms control, arms transfers in the Third World, and ethnic conflict resolution. They also will discuss democratization issues, especially in Latin American, and the development of trade blocs. "Diffusion of Power: Non-State Actors and International Security" is this year’s WIIS theme. The program will feature lectures by notable specialists in international security, symposia, and career development workshops. All thirty participants will take part in a planned simulation of the current crisis in Bosnia and Kosovo.
     They will visit Congressmen, the United Nations, the Women’s Museum, and engage in dialogue with media personnel regarding coverage of major security events.
     Since enrolling at Howard, Ms. McCain has participated in sponsored activities in the Sudan, Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Japan. In addition to being a Harris Fellow, she has been a Fulbright Research Scholar, a Global Foundation grantee, and is now a Sasakawa Fellow. 

     The Bunche Center and the U.S. Peace Corps signed a grant agreement in January 1998, establishing a relationship wherein a Howard University student recruiter, hired by the Peace Corps and housed at the Bunche Center, conducts a number of information sessions and other recruitment activities in an effort to raise the number of Peace Corps applications from Howard University.
     Richard Campbell, a 1998 graduate of Howard’s MBA program, and a returned Peace Corps Volunteer posted in Mali, served as the first Peace Corps recruiter under the grant during 1997-1998.

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