Program Highlights

Spring 2025 Dates

January 6 – April 26, 2025

Faculty Directors

Professor Daniel Gitterman, Chair and Professor, UNC Public Policy

Daniel Gitterman is Duncan MacRae ’09 and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. He also serves as Director of the Honors Seminar in Public Policy and Global Affairs (Washington, DC). At Carolina, he has received fellowships from the Institute of Arts and Humanities (Academic Leadership Program; Chairs Leadership Program) and the Global Research Institute (inaugural program Globalization, the Economic Crisis, and the Future of North Carolina).

He has received the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the John L. Sanders Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Service at Carolina. Gitterman’s research interests include: the American Presidency and public policy; education and labor markets; American welfare state and politics of social and health policy, and globalization and labor standards.

Ambassador Barbara Stephenson, Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer

Barbara J. Stephensone is vice provost for global affairs and chief global officet at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a distinguished diplomat, former U.S. ambassador, international leader and prior dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute. She advances a pan-university global strategy to enhance UNC-Chapel Hill’s global reach, impact, and reputation.

Highlights

This Honors Seminar on Public Policy and Global Affairs is centered around internships at non-profit and domestic and international public policy organizations. Students intern four days a week and attend weekly seminars. The seminars examine a range of domestic and international policy issues and allow students to hear directly from government officials and policy experts.

Several group excursions are planned, including visits to notable sites in the nation’s capital, a performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and a three-day trip to New York City to engage with policy issues there. A weekly research-intensive workshop and professional development sessions are a key to navigating the networks and skills necessary to be a policy professional.