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

The Heinz College educational process integrates policy, management, and information technology studies. 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, Heinz College 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Rankings 3 Education 4 Research 5 Notable current and former faculty 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

[edit] 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 W. 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, Joel Tarr, Alfred Blumstein, current Carnegie Mellon Provost Mark Kamlet, Linda C. Babcock, Jeffrey Hunker, Mark Wessel, and current Dean Ramayya Krishnan.

In 1992, Teresa Heinz (later Teresa Heinz Kerry) donated a large sum of money to the school, which was then renamed as the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management 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.

In 2007, the Heinz School received a grant from the Heinz Foundations that transformed the Heinz School into a college and formalized the School of Information Systems & Management alongside the School of Public Policy & Management under the college's administration. The official launch of the H. John Heinz III College was held on October 24, 2008 during Carnegie Mellon's Homecoming weekend.

Heinz College 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 a new center in Washington, DC on Capitol Hill for students in the Public Policy and Management masters program.

Heinz College 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 Heinz College is often considered the best in the country in such application.

[edit] Rankings

In the most recent US News and World Report Graduate School rankings, Heinz College's School of Public Policy & Management was ranked 10th overall among schools of public policy. Heinz College has ranked in the top 10 since US News and World Report began ranking schools of public affairs in 1995. Of the 253 schools of public affairs across the nation that were surveyed, Heinz College ranked:

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

Heinz College 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 management graduate schools for physician executives.

[edit] Education

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

School of Public Policy & Management Master of Science in Public Policy and Management (Full-time) Master of Science in Health Care Policy and Management (Full-time) Master of Arts Management (Full-time) Master of Entertainment Industry Management (Full-time) Master of Science in Biotechnology and Management (Full-time) Master of Public Management (Part-time) Master of Medical Management (Part-time)

School of Information Systems & Management Master of Information Systems Management (Full-time) Master of Science in Information Security Policy and Management (Full-time) Master of Science in Information Technology (Part-time)

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)
• 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)

While Heinz College is the only college at Carnegie Mellon that does not have undergraduate programs, it does offer an accelerated masters program for qualified undergraduates. Additionally Heinz College offers several joint professional graduate degrees with the Tepper School of Business, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the University of Oxford, and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary as well as executive education programs such as the CIO Institute.

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

[edit] Research

Heinz College maintains an international reputation of excellence in the fields of social entrepreneurship, criminal justice policy, health policy analysis, information systems and technology, management science, policy analysis, and social welfare policy. Heinz College is also affiliated with several research centers:

• Center for Arts Management and Technology
• Center for Behavioral Decision Research
• Center for Economic Development
• Center for International Politics and Innovation
• CyLab
• i-Lab
• Institute for Social Innovation
• Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society

Finally, Heinz College carries on the university tradition of interdisciplinary collaboration by working with departments throughout Carnegie Mellon University.

[edit] Notable current and former 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 Heinz College and pioneer in management science and accounting
• John Patrick Crecine, former President of the Georgia Institute of Technology
• Otto Davis, co-founder of Heinz College, economist, and public-choice theorist
• George T. Duncan, expert on statistical confidentiality
• David Farber, co-creator of ARPANET and former Chief Technologist for the FCC
• Richard Florida, social economist and urban scientist
• Martin Gaynor, health economist
• John Graham, Dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
• Jendayi Frazer, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the George W. Bush administration
• Jeffrey Hunker, expert in information security policy and adviser to President Bill Clinton
• Ramayya Krishnan, Dean and expert in information technology, strategy, and policy
• Mark Kamlet, economist and Provost of Carnegie Mellon
• David Krackhardt, expert in organizational behavior and social network analysis
• David H. McCormick, former Under Secretary for International Affairs within the US Department of the Treasury
• M. Granger Morgan, expert in environment policy analysis and engineering and public policy
• Daniel Nagin, criminologist
• Jairam Ramesh, elected member of the Indian Parliament and the Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests
• Mark Roosevelt, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools and member of the Roosevelt family
• Denise M. Rousseau, expert in organizational behavior and psychological contracts
• Peter M. Shane, Professor of Law and Public Policy specializing in administrative law and e-democracy, former Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
• Kiron Skinner, expert and author in international relations, Cold War policy, and fellow of the Hoover Institution
• 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
• Robert Wilburn, former president of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and director of Heinz College in Washington, DC

[edit] See also

• Heinz College Australia, Heinz College's branch campus in Adelaide, Australia
• I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, The Heinz College's academic journal on law, policy, and information systems jointly administered with the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University
• Future Tenant, an interdisciplinary art space in the heart of Pittsburgh's Cultural District managed by Heinz College students

[edit] References

• Fenton, Edwin (2000). Carnegie Mellon 1900-2000: A Centennial History. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 0-88748-323-2. 

[edit] External links

• Heinz College official web site
• Heinz College School of Information Systems & Management web site
• Heinz College School of Public Policy & Management web site

v • d • e Carnegie Mellon University Academics Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering) • College of Fine Arts • H. John Heinz III College • College of Humanities and Social Sciences • Mellon College of Science • School of Computer Science • Tepper School of Business • Margaret Morrison Carnegie College (defunct) Branch Campuses Silicon Valley • Qatar • Heinz College Australia Student life Traditions • Kiltie Band • Scotch'n'Soda • Miller Gallery • The Tartan • The Carnegie Pulse • cmuTV • WRCT • University Athletic Association Research Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center • Software Engineering Institute • Robotics Institute • Human Computer Interaction Institute • Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse • Carnegie School People Andrew Carnegie • Mellon family • Alumni and faculty Projects and legacies Andrew Project • BLISS • 3M computer • Alice • CMMI