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Chapter 5 Recommendations for Next Steps
Chapter 5 Recommendations for Next Steps
Pages 71-76
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To complete the second part of the committee's charge and to better interpret the findings above, the committee recommends the following strategy: • USIP should conduct interviews or expert panels with former and current staff and board members to trace and assess the evolution of USIP's goals with respect both to the Fellowship program and the USIP mandate. • USIP may wish to take a similar approach and collect information from external actors (e.g., government officials, academic experts, etc.)
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The surveys involve both interviews of leaders and a survey of public opinion; it is the elite opinions that are relevant here. Leaders "with foreign policy power, specialization, and expertise" include "Congressional members or their senior staff, university administrators and academics who teach in the area of international relations, journalists and editorial staff who handle international news, administration officials and other senior staff in various agencies and offices dealing with foreign policy, religious leaders, senior business executives from FORTUNE 1,000 corporations, labor presidents of the largest labor unions, presidents of major private foreign policy organizations, and presidents of major special interest groups relevant to foreign policy (CCFR 2005)
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Specifically, USIP should investigate whether to seek Fellows to advance thinking and offer more cutting-edge thinking in targeted areas, or focus on the application of such thinking to USIP priority issues. Making Monitoring and Evaluation a Regular Part of the Fellowship The committee feels strongly that USIP should undertake more rigorous and systematic monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
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Since these are senior fellowships, the spotlight could be on Fellows' research or their collaborations with other peace and security experts -- in both cases comparing the time before and after the Fellowship, rather than focusing on their employment. That said, it might also be instructive to ask former Fellows how the Fellowship helped them advance in their careers (e.g., for academics, did the Fellowship have a positive impact on their receiving tenure or a promotion)
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Getting in touch with government employees proved the most difficult, and they were least likely to answer the survey. Future efforts to reach government employees would be better accomplished through expert panels or face-to-face interviews.
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Such research could provide valuable information on how the direction of USIP matches the perceptions of the external community. Improving the Fellowship Experience Based on the survey results, the Committee recommends certain steps be considered to improve the Fellowship: • Explore setting up an alumni network for former Fellows.
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