Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (often truncated to Woodrow Wilson School or abbreviated WWS; known as "Woody Woo" in campus slang) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school has granted undergraduate A.B. degrees since 1930 and graduate degrees since 1948. It has three graduate degree programs: masters' degrees (in the M.P.A. and M.P.P. programs), and doctoral degrees.
A $35 million grant from Charles and Marie Robertson, the owners of the A&P grocery chain, funded the construction of the school's current home in Robertson Hall and laid the base of its endowment, which stands at roughly $558 million. The heirs of the Robertsons are presently engaged in a lawsuit with the University over control of that endowment. The Robertsons claim that the school has not met its mission of preparing students for government service, as too few of its graduates take positions in government, that the University has improperly attempted to commingle the WWS endowment with the University endowment, and that WWS endowment funds were used to fund non-WWS ventures --- the construction of Wallace Hall, for instance, which houses the WWS offices and the WWS library, along with unrelated offices for the Department of Sociology.
Notable alumni
- Samuel Alito, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
- Bill Frist, U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Senator from Tennessee
- George P. Shultz, Secretary of State, Treasury, and Labor
- Kit Bond, U.S. Senator from and former Governor of Missouri
- Paul Sarbanes, U.S. Senator from Maryland
- Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana
- Brendan Byrne, former Governor of New Jersey
- Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General
- Joshua B. Bolten, White House Chief of Staff and former Director of Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush
- Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of Defense
- Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General
- Anthony Lake, U.S. National Security Advisor (1993-1997)
- Anthony Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU
- Mike McCurry, press secretary to President Bill Clinton
- Wendy Kopp, founder, Teach for America
- Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School
- Lawrence Kudlow, political commentator
- Bob Abernethy, television journalist
- Edward F. Cox, lawyer
- Graham Richard, mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Barbara Cassani, founder of Go Fly and leader of London's successful olympic bid.
- William Rusher, publisher, National Review
- Bill Bradley, U.S. Senator
- Bob Taft, Governor of Ohio
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