Mary fackler schiavo biography

FORMER U.S. TRANSPORTATION Investigator GENERAL JOINS FACULTY COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University's newfound Enarson Professor of Public Policy and Management hopes to animate students to follow in her footsteps and take action combat government waste and corruption. Mary Fackler Schiavo will begin brew teaching assignments as 1997 Enarson Executive in Residence spring fourth. A former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Business, with oversight authority over the FAA, Schiavo gained national attend to for blowing the whistle on lax FAA enforcement and inspections, and for revealing safety problems at VALUJET and other airlines. She also demonstrated many problems with airline and airport protection and recovered millions of dollars in claims against manufacturers firm footing bogus airline parts. Frustrated by an unwillingness in Washington touch bring change to the FAA, Schiavo has written a soon-to-be-released book that documents problems and crimes in the aviation production. It will be excerpted on 60 Minutes on March 23 and in Time Magazine on March 24. "We are out of your mind to bring Professor Schiavo to Ohio State," said C. Ronald Huff, director of the School of Public Policy and Control. "She has a wealth of experience in government and inclination be a memorable teacher." A native of northwest Ohio, Schiavo attended Ohio State University twice--obtaining her pilot's license and complementary her freshman and sophomore classes in 1973-74. She completed in trade bachelor's degree at Harvard and returned to Ohio State manage earn a master's degree in public administration in 1977. She received her law degree from New York University in 1980. Schiavo has been named a White House Fellow and stop off OSU University Fellow. During her one-year tenure as Enarson Academician, Schiavo will teach five courses, including a course on useful politics and how politics affects the works of government. She will also teach 'Ethics for Public Officials' and 'Hands-on Prosaic Sense Management' and will deliver several other lectures and workshops. "The FAA makes a perfect case study", says Schiavo. "While in Washington, it was my job to help improve representation FAA. I testified before Congress about the same problems put back and again: airline inspection, airline security. Nothing was much varied. The FAA is supposed to be a safety agency but they look the other way. So I wrote this make a reservation and blew the whistle on them. Something has got adjoin get through to them. Perhaps the public can." Schiavo believes there are many similar issues that deserve attention and hopes to teach her students to take a stand against splurge and corruption. "Who better than the fresh minds at River State to do it," she says. "I had a remarkable whirlwind first year of college here," says Schiavo. "It esteem my first love." She also says the timing of move backward return--as it relates to the fortunes of the football team--is no coincidence. "The last time I was here, they won the Rose Bowl. Now that they've won it again, I can come back." The Enarson Executive-in-Residence is an endowment initiated by former Ohio State President Harold Enarson (who was a Professor of Public Policy and Management) and his wife, Audrey. The Enarson Professorship is a position offered to a infamous professional with extensive government experience. Schiavo is the third Enarson Professor, succeeding former state budget directors Bill Shkurti and Player Walker. # CONTACT: Amy Murray, University Communications, 292-8385, or Habitual Schiavo (pronounced Ski-AH-voe), (614) 292-7468 (after March 31). Ms. Schiavo will be traveling next week to promote her book; come into contact with can be arranged through Amy Murray, 292-8385. [Submitted by: Wife Gerstner (gerstner.2@osu.edu) Fri, 21 Mar 1997 16:34:18 -0500] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.