Teaching & Professional Experience

Director, Leadership Program & Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer/Distinguished Scholar in Residence, School of Public Affairs, American University, 2015-present

With American University Leadership Students, 2019

I am the director of the leadership program at the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. The leadership program offers top students the experience, skills, and knowledge to prepare them for leadership roles in public service. Following a competitive application process, students complete a rigorous, four-year, 15-credit course of study that culminates in a Certificate in Advanced Leadership Studies.

I am responsible for all aspects of program administration including: course scheduling; teaching; securing additional faculty; financial stewardship; student recruitment; mentoring; and staffing.

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Founding Director and Professor of Political Science, Institute for Leadership at Mount St. Mary’s University, 2010-2015

Mount Echo, December 2010

INSTITUTE FOR Leadership LOGOI served as the founding director of the Institute for Leadership at Mount St. Mary’s University. My administrative duties included recruiting, hiring and supervising staff; curriculum development; grant-writing; program review and assessment; student mentoring; budget management; building relationships around the college and community; faculty and staff development; working with the Advisory Council; and planning and overseeing programs. I also held a faculty appointment as tenured professor of political science at Mount St. Mary’s University.

Congress to Campus program. Mount Echo, 2012

The Institute for Leadership collaborates with all academic departments, community service programs and co-curricular groups to connect theoretical learning about leadership with student education and scholarly work.


Chief Operating Office and Director of Education, Institute for Global Engagement, 2008-2010

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IGE/Georgetown University Conference, 2010

I was thIGE Logo_floate chief operating officer and director of education at a DC-based think tank, the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE), from 2008 to 2010. In that role, I ran a seventeen person staff and a multi-million annual budget. The Institute was founded in order to advance inter-faith understanding, with a focus on Muslim-majority countries.

I developed two global leadership conferences on Muslim-Christian understanding at Georgetown University in 2009 and 2010.


Professor of Politics & Department Chair, Saint Anselm College, 1992-2008

Saint Anselm Crier, September 1999

SaintAnselmColl_seal_float (1)From 1992 to 2008, I served as professor and department chair of the politics department at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. As chair, my accomplishments include the following: I managed financial and staff operations, and provided effective leadership for faculty, staff and students; I worked with my faculty colleagues on new program development and implementation, including the addition of an international relations major and a public policy certificate program.

Saint Anselm College, 2006

As chair, I strongly promoted faculty scholarship, and closely worked with every member of my department to ensure an on-going scholarly agenda; I worked to open up several new tenure-track faculty positions as well as significantly expand our library holdings in political science; and, I expanded support for faculty development.

Politics Department, 2000

I established the Pi Sigma Alpha chapter at Saint Anselm in 1995, and was a recipient of the Pi Sigma Alpha award for “Outstanding Faculty Chapter Advisor” in 2000. Perhaps most importantly, I advanced a collegial atmosphere among faculty engaged in different research methodologies.

The result was the development of a diverse pedagogical team which respected each other, was committed to teaching and research, and which engaged in open, civil, and serious discussions on a full array of topics. The growth and collegiality of the department of politics are my most satisfying achievements at Saint Anselm College. I enjoyed a faculty appointment as a tenured professor of politics there.

With colleagues Barbara Baudot and Dale Kuehne, 1996

 


Executive Director and Research Director, New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College (NHIOP), 1996-2008

NHIOP_floatIn an effort to expand experiential opportunities, civic knowledge, and leadership skills for students at Saint Anselm College, I chaired a campus-wide committee to develop the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at the college in 1996. I authored the final proposal, and presented it for approval to the Board of Trustees at their June 1998 meeting.

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At the founding of the NHIOP, with Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH),  7 September, 2001

Once approved, and in association with the development office, my colleagues and I  raised over $14 million in private and federal funds towards the establishment of the Institute. During the construction of the facility, my role was the “faculty liaison” to the architects and construction firm.  We designed the facility, including academic and public spaces.

Manuel and the founding of the NHIOP


NHIOP Faculty Research Team, 2006
NHIOP, 2006

As research director from 1996 to 2008,   I coordinated of the work of over sixteen academic departments with the Institute of Politics. My specific responsibility was to create and oversee a variety of interdisciplinary academic programs, with the goal of developing a vibrant intellectual life for faculty and students.

With Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne in 2000

I served as the Institute executive director from 2007 to 2008, during the 2008 presidential primary.

C-SPAN, Washington Journal, 2008

 

 

 

 


Recognition

September, 2006

In recognition for our work toward the founding of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, my colleagues Anne Botteri, Dale Kuehne and I received the Saint Anselm College President’s Award in 2006.