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EW Priestap Named AssistantDirector of the CounterintelligenceDivisionFBI Director James B Comey has named EW ldquoBillrdquo Priestap as the assistant director ofthe Counterintelligence Division at FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) in Washington DC MrPriestap most recently served as the deputy assistant director of the IntelligenceOperations Branch in the Directorate of Intelligence at FBIHQ

Mr Priestap entered on duty with the FBI in 1998 working organized crime and drugmatters in the Chicago Division Following the September 11 2001 terror attacks MrPriestap focused on counterterrorism investigations in Chicago

In 2003 Mr Priestap was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Office ofCongressional Affairs (OCA) at FBIHQ While in OCA he was detailed to the USSenatersquos Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee where he assisted withthe Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004

In 2005 Mr Priestap was appointed the special assistant to the assistant director of theDirectorate of Intelligence at FBIHQ

In 2006 Mr Priestap was assigned to the New York Field Office where he heldcounterterrorism and intelligence supervisory positions He was then promoted to assistantspecial agent in charge and he served in the Intelligence and the CounterintelligenceDivisions of the New York Field Office

In 2012 Mr Priestap was promoted to section chief in the Counterintelligence Division atFBIHQ and in 2013 Mr Priestap was named special agent in charge of theCounterintelligence Division in the New York Field Office

Washington DCFBI National Press Office(202) 324-3691

December 21 2015



Mr Priestap is an attorney and he holds masterrsquos degrees in business administration andeducation administration

Mr Priestap reports to the Counterintelligence Division in early January

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In 2013 Mr Priestap was named special agent in charge of the Counterintelligence Division in theNew York Field Office December 21 2015 FBI Director James B Comey named EW ldquoBillrdquo Priestap asthe Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division at FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) inWashington DC

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Director Comey told Congress he did not tell congressional oversight ldquoGang of Eightrdquo he wasinvestigating presidential candidate Donald Trump because the Director of Counterintelligence BillPriestap suggested he not do so (March 20 2017)



Comey referred to Bill Priestap as the decision maker on not telling Congress about the Op SallyYates referred to him as Key

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Sabina Menschel

Special Advisor ndash Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) July 2005 ndash December 2006 (1 year 6 months)hpswwwlinkedincominsabina-menschel-440144bb (hpswwwlinkedincominsabina-menschel-440144bb)

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Nardello amp Co is a global investigations firm with experienced professionals handling a broad rangeof issues including FCPAUK Bribery Act and other corruption-related investigations civil and whitecollar criminal litigation support asset tracing strategic intelligence and political risk assessmentcomputer forensics and reputational due diligence Our clients include the worldrsquos leading law firmsand financial institutions Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies governments and NGOs With officesin New York London Washington DC Miami Hong Kong and Dubai Nardello amp Corsquos professionalstaff includes former US federal prosecutors US lawyers former law enforcement personnel andintelligence operatives licensed investigators research analysts former journalists financial crimespecialists forensic accountants and computer forensic experts

Sabinersquos father Richard Menschel and uncle are honored with Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy

Richard served as an officer in the Air Force His career at Goldman Sachs began in 1959 Menschelwas a partner and management commiee member when he retired and is now a senior director

Richardsrsquos brother Robert Menschel became a specialist with the New York Stock Exchange in 1951 joined Goldman Sachs amp Company in 1954 He became partner about a decade later and currently is asenior director

The Menschels are running an extensive philanthropic operation and much of this is flying underthe radar in part because these vehicles donrsquot even have websites

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Notes from TheLastRefuge2 middot Dec 15when Deputy Aorney General Sally Yates testified (w James Clapper) she too spoke of theimportant of Priestap as her liaison and contact within the FBI on the counterintelligence operation[Yates never mentioned Peter Strzok ndash not once]Even though it was FBI agent Peter Strzok who interviewed Michael Flynn on January 24th Sally Yatesnever mentioned him EVERhpstcoSV7E0sThmlamp=1 (hpstcoSV7E0sThmlamp=1)Yates said she and Bill Priestap traveled together Jan 26th to the White House to inform Don McGhan(WH Counsel) of Michael Flynn ldquomisleading statementsrdquo (based on Pence media reports and Flynnprior ambush interview Jan 24th)According to Sally Yates testimony she and Bill Priestap reportedly presented all the information toMcGahn so the White House could take action that they deemed appropriate shrt lnk hpswpmep5eLCS-u4 (hpswpmep5eLCS-u4)

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Harvard Alumni

I Choose Harvard Richard L Menschel MBA rsquo59 Prsquo04 rsquo99 rsquo97August 6 2013

Richard L Menschel MBA rsquo59 Prsquo04 rsquo99 rsquo97 knows outstanding teaching when he sees it itrsquos dynamic engaging and encourages students toparticipate ldquoTeaching can be so exciting especially with the tools available todayrdquo he says

Menschel wants to help amplify that sense of excitement in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and has endowed the faculty directorship of theDerek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning which promotes research-based innovation in undergraduate classrooms Menschel is delighted thatRobert A Lue a professor of the practice of molecular and cellular biology and a leader in efforts to strengthen teaching nationally is the firstincumbent

ldquo[Lue] is interested in improving teaching through new techniques and he has a lot of ideas for making the classroom experience more interesting forstudentsmdashand probably more satisfying for facultyrdquo Menschel says Lue hopes to enhance feedback gathering ldquoso faculty know whether students arereally picking up the material or getting lostrdquo

Menschel a senior director at Goldman Sachs lives in Manhattan with his wife Ronay the chairman of Phipps Houses They have three daughtersCharis rsquo97 Sabina rsquo99 MBA rsquo05 and Celene rsquo04 MBA rsquo13

The Bok Center gift reflects Menschelrsquos deep and long-standing affection and appreciation for the University Over the years he and Ronay haveshared their generosity with several Harvard Schools and programs such as the Business School the Graduate School of Education the School ofPublic Health (HSPH) and the Harvard Art Museums They recently established the Richard L Menschel HarvardX Research Fellowship whichsupports faculty as they create and implement innovative digital content for courses and enables important HarvardX research on teaching andlearning

Menschelrsquos involvement with Harvard includes many leadership roles such as honorary co-chair of the forthcoming HSPH campaign service on theUniversity Campaign Executive Committee and national co-chair of the University Campaign in 1992ndash99 In 2007 the Harvard Alumni Associationrecognized his extraordinary dedication with a Harvard Medal

Supporting the FASrsquos teaching mission connects closely with Menschelrsquos belief in the transformative power of education ldquoEducation is essential if youwant to make changes in your liferdquo he observes ldquoAlong with health itrsquos a key ingredient for growth and successrdquo

Choose Harvard today with a gift to the Harvard College Fund

Harvard Alumnicopy 2018 The President and Fellows of Harvard College

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by Justin Reich Richard L Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow Republished from Education Week June 3 2013

Today Im starting a new position as the Richard L Menschel HarvardX ResearchFellow Im the first person to hold this position (along with Sergiy Nesterko who willbe starting July 1) so the exact scope of my responsibilities is evolving Broadlyspeaking my job is to conduct research on the learning experiences that people haveon the HarvardX platform and to consult with HarvardX faculty in creating andfacilitating courses both to make them better for students and better designed toadvance our knowledge of online learningReaders of this blog might have picked up a thread of ambivalence towards the flock ofMassive Open Online Courses hatched in the wake of the publicity from SebastianThruns Introduction to AI course at Stanford I approach this new opportunity with agreat deal of excitement and a similar degree of concernProbably the signature experience that shaped my attitude towards HarvardX wasan HarvardX IP Hackathon put together by students at the Harvard Law School Abouttwo dozen law students and other graduate students from around the university withabsolutely no vested interest in the IP policy of HarvardX got together for the weekendto brainstorm and design a set of IP policies for HarvardX One of their overwhelmingconcerns was how they could challenge the university to make this new initiative asbroadly accessible and globally useful as possible especially to people without access tohigh quality educational opportunities Dozens of Harvard Law students donated theirtime to see HarvardX become more open more broadly of serviceAs Vic Vuchic a program officer at the Hewlett Foundation (the original funders ofMITs Open Courseware) argued in March of 2012 at the Berkman Center for Internet ampSociety at Harvard the major cultural change sparked by the elite xMOOCs is that top-tier universities now boast of how many students they serve rather than how manythey turn away That change happened incredibly quickly and it has filtered into thezeitgeist of the student body as exemplified by the IP Hackathon There are many in theHarvard community who see HarvardX as an avenue to help tilt Harvards incredibleteaching resources more towards being of service to the wider world and thats an

June 4 2013



exciting movement to be a part of and to try to shape and encourage (I get the samesense from MIT undergrads serving as teaching assistants and research fellows forvarious MITx initiatives) I think we can work together to create a series of learningexperiences that advance human learning around the worldOn top of that there are the data Since my doctoral research on wikis Ive argued thatnew online platforms offer exciting new opportunities to leverage the continuous-timeclickstream data collected by online learning environments to learn more about theprocess of learning Regardless of what one might think of the contemporary state ofonline instruction on the edX platform there are terrific opportunities to muster theresources of several great universities to learn more about learning online(There are a whole host of practical concerns as well I like the bike commute theHarvard gym is conveniently located Ill be working with people with much bettercomputational and quantiative skills than me and Ill learn a lot I like Andrew Ho theresearch committee chair of HarvardX and find his work to be methodologicallycarefully ideologically pragmatic and practically useful there will be some goodopportunities to publish this work I can keep teaching undergraduates at MIT which Iadored doing this semester and so on)As I head into my first day of work (technically as I sit here in new employeeorientation) I have apprehensions as wellMy feelings about the role of xMOOCs in relation to both higher education labormarkets and to student access and experience are too complicated to fully articulatehere but they are certainly a concern My sense is that two main problems in highereducation funding are rising health care costs and declining public support for fundinghigher education In the best of circumstances online learning tools might be used tolet computers teach what they are best at teaching in order to reallocate humanresources to where they are most valuable In a world of scarcity thats a good thingOnline tools might also be used to justify faculty cuts or the expansion of adjunctpositions and that would be a bad thing I would be great if I could contribute to theformer and it would be terrible if I contributed to the latterA much greater risk Id tentatively argue is not that xMOOCs cause harm but morethat they prove to be mostly irrelevant Its possible that the prophecies are correct andthe edu-Revelationis right around the corner and that online learning environmentswill offer personalized learning experiences at high scale for low cost permanentlytransforming the development of human capacity I think its probably more likely thatmost online courses end up being talking textbooks with auto-graded worksheets usefulin some particular circumstances with particular populations but like every previousgeneration of education technology ultimately a disappointment that fails tofundamentally improve learning for students (though at least in this case thedevelopment costs are born by affluent universities)And my deepest concern is that the people who will benefit from these new initiativesare those who already are privileged and advantaged As Ive argued since my doctoralresearch there is a very real possibility that new learning experiences made widelyaccessible on the Internet will disproportionately benefit the affluent who have thefinancial social and technical capital to take advantage of these new opportunities The



early reports from the first round of xMOOCs certainly contribute to these concernsmdashif30 of Edinburghs MOOC participants have BAs and an additional 40 have BAs and agraduate degree then MOOCs may be creating new opportunities for lifelong learningfor the affluent at a much greater rate than they are providing new learning pathwaysfor the under-servedIm not sure that the benefits of emerging forms of high-scale online learning canoutweigh these various risks but I think its possible I think its more likely to happenif the people on the HarvardX team are attentive to these risks and can approach thesenew ventures with a kind of skeptical optimism I think I can help I think its worth ashot So Im hopping on boardSpring has ended as early as it came late here in Boston and that means my daughterand I will soon replace our Friday evening trip to the Boys and Girls Club pool withtrips to Walden Pond As I start with HarvardX I think of Henry David Thoreausscholarly commitment as he ventured to the shores of Walden Pond and if it proved tobe mean why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it and publish itsmeanness to the world But Im hopeful that it wont all be meanness I think we cantake the hype surrounding MOOCs and harness that energy to create some valuableonline learning experiences without getting lead astray by the hypeI look forward to sharing the journey hereFor regular updates follow me on Twitter at bjfr and for my publications CV andonline portfolio visit EdTechResearcherJustin Reich is the Richard L Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow a Fellow attheBerkman Center for Internet and Society and a lecturer in the MIT Scheller TeacherEducation Program He is also the co-founder and co-director of EdTechTeacher whichworks with teachers schools and districts to leverage new technologies to improvestudent learning

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Carswell professor of East Asian languages and civilizations Peter K BolPhotograph by Stephanie MitchellHarvard News Oce

IX DAYS before the public launch of The Harvard Campaign in which theUniversity will ldquoforegroundrdquo pedagogy and learning according to PresidentDrew Faust two news announcements underscored the scope of that initiative

Provost Alan M Garber announced the creation of a new senior post vice provost foradvances in learning as a way to focus faculty and institutional engagement with efforts toenhance education across Harvard Carswell professor of East Asian languages andcivilizations Peter K Bol will assume the role immediately

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Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) announced receipt of $125 million to supportrevising the pedagogy for its masterrsquos degree programs and creating a new doctorate inpublic health leadership That support plus newly disclosed prior gifts and grants totaling$58 million will enable the school according to a news release to deploy ldquomore case-basedand field-based lsquoreal worldrsquo learning opportunitiesrdquo HSPH will also ldquoaccelerate effortshelliptodevelop lsquoflipped classroomrsquo experiences in which lecture-style material is deliveredincreasingly online before class while classroom time is spent by students and facultyactively engaging together to develop strategies for solving the types of problems studentswill encounter in their careersrdquo (For one faculty memberrsquos first-person account of creatingand teaching a ldquoflippedrdquo course read ldquoReinventing the Classroomrdquo from the Harvard

Magazine archives)

Together the announcements suggest accelerating efforts to apply technology to teaching andto rethink pedagogy on a school-wide scale across Harvard

Context

IN RECENT YEARS several efforts to apply cognitive science and discoveries about learning tothe classroom (to improve teaching practice) and to explore educational technologies havegathered strength across Harvard

Science faculty members have redesigned introductory classes made hands-on laboratoryexperiences widely accessible and used interactive devices to assess learning in real timemdashall out of concern about losing students who might otherwise fail to pursue their passion forscience technology engineering or mathematics (part of a larger national discussion aboutthis phenomenon)The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) catalyzed by a $40-million giftduring the Universityrsquos 375th-anniversary celebration has created a forum for discussingthe issues across campus and backed experimentation and innovation with seed grantsmdashincluding it turns out to HSPH (see below)The edX online-education partnership with MIT launched in the spring of 2012 has jump-started experimentation with the use of technology in virtual and campus teaching contextsHarvardX now has its own production staff and studio to accelerate online coursedevelopment and HILT and HarvardX are collaborating to train faculty members andgraduate students to incorporate the new technologies in their courses and teachingIndividual schools are also investing in their own teaching-support infrastructure as in theappointment of the first faculty director for the Faculty of Arts and Sciencesrsquo Bok Center forTeaching and Learning Robert A Lue who is also faculty director of HarvardX

The Vice Provost for Advances in Learning

IT IS within this context that Provost Garber announced the appointment of Peter Bol as thenew vice provost In a conversation Garber noted that there had been ldquoan explosion of interestin how we approach teaching and learning at Harvardrdquomdashdating especially from the gift thatlaunched HILT in 2011 That does not mean that every faculty member is suddenly eager tooffer online courses he emphasized but ldquomore and more faculty are interested in beinginvolved in some wayrdquo in rethinking their teaching That has created the need for a dedicatedposition responsible for stimulating further work on improving pedagogy across theUniversity serving as a source of information and guidance for interested professorsmdashandmaking clear that ldquofaculty should be leading these effortsrdquo The new vice provost Garber saidshould be someone ldquowho is actively involved in teaching and in innovationrdquo (as Bol is and willcontinue to be) in order to maintain contact with students and direct experience in theevolving Harvard classroom

According to the announcement Bol will report to the provost while overseeing bothHarvardX and HILT In that capacity he will work with those units and faculty members and



deans to ldquosupport Harvardrsquos broader efforts to improve education by leading campus discussionsabout innovations in teaching and learning and their implications working with the schools todevelop policies and best practices and fostering collaboration with the Harvard Library themuseums the Division of Continuing Education and Harvard University InformationTechnology as well as related teaching and learning centers such as the Bok Centerrdquo

Bol has long pioneered new approaches to technologically enhanced research and teaching

More than a decade ago he and graduate students reported from Zhejiang Province southof Shanghai where they were digitally documenting local village and community lifeelectronic databases videos of lineage halls and other tools were incorporated into a courseon ldquoThe Culture of Everyday Life in Chinardquo that he taught with professor of Chinese historyMichael SzonyiHe has applied database technology to the vast archives of Chinese leaders through themillennia creating new opportunities for digital scholarship while engaging colleagues inthe United States China and Taiwan Those efforts have been married productively to hisacademic leadership of Harvardrsquos efforts to use geographic information systems andgeospatial technology in a host of scholarly disciplinesmdashincluding developing a new coursethat was supported by a HILT innovation grantHe was as Garberrsquos note observes chair of the Harvard academic computing committeeand now is a member of the HarvardX faculty committee

Now with colleague William C Kirby Chang professor of China studies and Spangler Familyprofessor of business administration he has adapted Societies of the World 12 ldquoChinardquo foronline teaching through edX as SW12x debuting next month it is simultaneously being taughtin the College and through the Extension School (As previously reported last spring Boltaught Chinese History 185 ldquoCreating ChinaXmdashTeaching Chinarsquos History Onlinerdquo in whichstudents and teaching fellows jointly learned the content while preparing materials for use inthe SWx course The image below courtesy of HarvardX shows Bol during the production ofthe online course)

The application of edX technology to campus classrooms is particularly important HarvardXaims at both disseminating course content worldwidemdashthe best known use is for ldquomassive openonline coursesrdquo (MOOCs)mdashand somehow deploying the videos online exercises studentdiscussion forums and other relatively expensive tools in existing courses at the UniversityFaculty members who have been skeptical about the feasibility of campus applications arewatching to see how such uses unfold in their colleaguesrsquo teaching In his address at theUniversity of St Andrews this past weekend Harvard president emeritus Derek Bok focused onthe role of such technologies in enhancing live classroom teachingmdashconsistent with his long-term emphasis on pedagogy and learning In an interview with Stanford Magazine thatinstitutionrsquos president John Hennessy a champion of applying technology to educationfocused squarely on campus classrooms deflecting attention from MOOCsrsquo role indisseminating courses around the world Speaking about plans to expand the undergraduatebody he was asked about the use of MOOCs (Coursera and Udacity two MOOC enterpriseswere created by Stanford faculty members) He responded

Theres a bigger question about online education of which MOOCs are a smallpiece MOOCs will be important for self-motivated learners and people who cantget access to a high quality education We dont view them as a substitute in any



way for what we can offer undergraduates But MOOCs are something thatStanford can offer to improve the quality of education available worldwide

A separate question is whether technology has a role to play in improving thequality of the educational experience right here on campus or at our overseascampuses A lot of our current focus is on how we make some of our classesparticularly large lecture classes much better learning environments How do weuse technology to improve our pedagogy We are very committed to that goal Andwe would do that independent of whether we kept class size the same or expandedit

Garber stressed that edX and HarvardX have a three-part mission to make Harvard professorsrsquoteaching available worldwide to improve teaching on campus and to support research onteaching learning and the effectiveness of education technologies in the classroom Mostdiscussion of MOOCs and edX during the past year has focused on the first of these goals hesaid ldquoPeter Bol is committed to all threerdquo The most effective learning the provost saidcontinues to involve extensive face-to-face interaction among faculty members and studentsaugmented by making the best use of new technologies

By selecting Bol for the new learning post the provost has chosen a senior faculty member whohas deep experience across disciplines in applying new tools to his own teaching whileestablishing relationships with a large number of the leaders in pedagogical innovation acrossHarvard (Disclosure Bol is a past member of the board of directors of Harvard Magazine Inc acurrent member of its board of incorporators and a nominee for a new term of service as adirector of the organization)

ldquoTransforming Public Health Educationrdquo

HSPH according to the announcement plans a broad effort to ldquoredesign its educationalstrategyrdquo This past May at the HILT conference Dean Julio Frenk outlined his schoolrsquoscentennial-year curricular plans He talked about redesigning instruction to focus oncompetency-based learning with flexible modular experiential units accommodating studentsat various points in their professional lives He also endorsed the ldquoblendedrdquo online and class-based teaching techniques of the flipped classroom The mix of online and face-to-faceinstruction he said would vary with the purposes with more online teaching forldquoinformativerdquo expertise-oriented learning and progressively more personal instruction forldquoformativerdquo (values and professional) and ldquotransformativerdquo (leadership) courses He thenreviewed the institutional challenges colleagues (investing in faculty development) capacity(physical space technology finances and so on) and culture (changing from language thatdescribes a professorrsquos teaching ldquoloadrdquo to give teaching a value equal to research the rewards forteaching and research and the schoolrsquos self-identification as a preeminent research institution)View the video recording of Frenkrsquos HILT presentation here

According to Ian Lapp associate dean for strategic educational initiatives Frenk beganplanning to revisit HSPHrsquos curriculum and pedagogy some three years ago reflecting hisawareness of both changing needs for public health and evolving learning methods andtechnologies On November 1 the school is devoting a centennial symposium to the subject andits aspirations

But it is one thing to envision an initiative for ldquoTransforming Public Health Educationrdquo as theeffort is now called It is another to be able to afford to effect it HSPH is by a very largemeasure the Harvard unit most dependent on sponsored-research grants (73 percent of fiscalyear 2012 operating revenue according to the Universityrsquos annual financial report) and leastable to count on endowment funding (14 percent of operating revenue)mdashprecisely thecircumstances that make it most difficult for a dean to finance changes in curriculum andpedagogy

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Hence the importance of todayrsquos announcement The Charina Endowment Fund and Richard LMenschel MBA rsquo59 and Ronay Menschel are making available $125 milllion to underwritethe planned changes in masterrsquos degree education to be in place in 2015 and the new doctoralprogram beginning next year (The new education funding comes atop $25-million of earliersupport from the endowment fund and the Menschels in support of Ariadne Labs an HSPH-Brigham and Womenrsquos Hospital initiative lead by Atul Gawande professor in the departmentof health policy and management and professor of surgery to reduce surgical errors increasechildbirth safety and enhance planning for end-of-life care) The new education-initiativefundingmdashcombined with an anonymous 2012 gift of $5 million to HSPH for curriculumdevelopment and scholarships for the doctoral program plus a $500000 grant from theMedtronic Foundationmdashwill also support the broad makeover of curriculum and pedagogyincluding plans to create facilities suitable for ldquoinnovative and team-basedrdquo teaching accordingto the news release and to enable HSPH faculty members to collaborate with peers in otherHarvard schools

A $300000 HILT grant for faculty training (formally the Faculty TEAM Initiative forAdvancing Learning Teaching Excellence Assessment and Mentoring) has made it possiblefor HSPH professors to work on active-learning techniques technology-enhanced educationand team-teaching Lapp noted (Faculty members have also received smaller HILT course-development grants and HSPH professors were among the first Harvard participants increating courses for the edX platform beginning with PH207x ldquoHealth in NumbersQuantitative Methods in Clinical and Public Health Researchrdquo)

In the announcement Dean Frenk said

This combined funding totaling $183 million shows a remarkable level ofphilanthropic interest in and commitment to public health education in the USand globally It positions us well to continue to educate the public health leaders oftomorrow As soon as this fall students at the School will begin to benefit from thegenerosity of these gifts through the enhanced classroom experiences they willencounter

Public-health students preparing for leadership roles in government non-governmental agencies and private firms need both in-depth knowledge inspecialized areas of public health and a wealth of competencies that enable them towork collaboratively across the wide range of disciplines involved in improving theworldrsquos health We are re-envisioning our approach to education in ourprofessional programs to enable our students to meet the rapidly changing needs ofthe field

The reenvisioned Doctor of Public Health degree (DrPH a revision of the little-used DPHprogram) will shift from a research focus to training in management leadershipcommunication innovation and translation of research into high-impact public-health policyand practice Lapp said Accompanying its new content will be the full panoply of pedagogicalinnovations including digital-interactive case-based and field learning at HSPH proper withother Harvard faculties and in the wider community (In this sense it parallels some of thestrategies brought to bear on Harvard Graduate School of Educationrsquos EdLD leadershipdegree introduced in the fall of 2009)

Pillars of Philanthropy

IN HSPHrsquoS RELEASE Ronay Menschel said

We support Harvard School of Public Health with our philanthropy because webelieve in the importance of public health and the opportunity to expand theknowledge and skill sets of future public-health leaders through the use oftechnology and case studies examining evolving health challenges



Richard Menschel said

Improving learning leads to better prepared students who can more successfullyaddress the major public health issues facing the world today Better educatedpublic-health leaders have the capacity to improve the health of us all

Behind those descriptions of the rationale for their current support lies a record of deepengagement with Harvard among other institutions Richard Menschel a senior director atGoldman Sachsmdashand 2007 recipient of the Harvard Medal recognizing his ldquobroadmindedbenevolence thoughtfulness and timerdquo devoted to helping the University ldquomove toward ourshared vision across schoolsrdquomdashand Ronay Menschel a Cornell alumna and past vice chair of itsboard of trustees have been active supporters of work across the institution including

endowing the Harvard Art Museumsrsquo photography curatorshipendowing a professorship at HSPH now held by Robert J Blendon an expert in publicopinion and policy (who holds a dual appointment in the Harvard Kennedy School aprofessorship honoring past dean and Harvard provost Harvey V Fineberg for use inHSPHrsquos division of public health practice or department of biostatistics and a fellowshipprogramendowing the Bok Center directorship (the Faculty of Arts and Sciencesrsquo focal position forimproving teaching practice) and earlier underwriting other teaching improvements andpedagogical innovations such as the Graduate Seminars in General Education (throughwhich faculty members and their graduate students jointly create new courses for theCollegersquos general-education curriculum)supporting Harvard Graduate School of Educationrsquos Program in Education Afterschool ampResiliency andsupporting Harvard Business Schoolrsquos year-long leadership fellowships in public social andnonprofit enterprises

Richard Menschel has served on the business schoolrsquos visiting committee on the art museumsrsquodirectorrsquos advisory council and on the Committee on University Resources (Harvardrsquos principalfundraising advisory body) He was national co-chair of the University Campaign whichconcluded in 1999 The Menschels are also parents of three Harvard daughters according to theHSPH release Charis rsquo97 Sabina rsquo99 MBA rsquo05 and Celene rsquo04 MBArsquo13

At HSPH Richard Menschel has served on the deanrsquos council and the leadership council andchaired the schoolrsquos fundraising committee during the University Campaign He will behonorary co-chair of the forthcoming capital campaign to be unveiled after The HarvardCampaign festivities on September 21

For a relatively lightly endowed enterprise like the public-health school (whose graduatesalmost by definition do not earn high incomes) the long-term friendship of strategicphilanthropists like the Menschelsmdashin both financial support and volunteered personalengagementmdashcould not possibly matter more especially in a time of actual and threatenedwholesale reductions in federal research support



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Mr Priestap reports to the Counterintelligence Division in early January



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