The Heller School for Social Policy and Management is one of the four graduate schools of Brandeis University.
Founded in 1959 as the University's first professional school, Heller is located on the Brandeis University main campus along with the Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, International Business School, and the Rabb School of Continuing Studies.
Heller offers the degrees of M.A. in Sustainable International Development, M.S. in International Health Policy and Management, M.B.A. in Nonprofit Management, M.P.P., M.A. in Coexistence and Conflict, and Ph.D. in Social Policy.
U.S. News and World Report has ranked the Heller School in the top ten schools of social policy in its 2013 rankings.
The World Bank lists the Heller School as one of eight training institutions in the United States approved to host World Bank Scholars pursuing graduate degrees.
In 2008 the Heller School received AACSB certification, along with the Brandeis International Business School.
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“Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
“I’m not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experience as that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
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—Pamela Patrick Novotny (20th century)
“Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,—that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,—who is invariably the devil,—and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,—who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)