{"611447":{"#nid":"611447","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Joe Bankoff to Step Down as Chair of Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at End of Term ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy Michael Pearson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoe Bankoff, who has served as chair of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs since 2012, will step down from that post at the end of the academic term, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Dean Jacqueline Royster said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/bankoff\u0022\u003EBankoff\u003C\/a\u003E, a longtime Atlanta civic leader and attorney, expects to remain with the school as a professor of the practice after the term ends.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA search for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/about\/jobs\u0022\u003Enew chair\u003C\/a\u003E is under way. Anna Westerstahl Stenport, chair of the School of Modern Languages, is leading the search committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERoyster praised Bankoff for having \u0026ldquo;built a forward-thinking spirit among his colleagues in the Sam Nunn School\u0026rdquo; in his nearly seven years leading the department.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am excited to see the results of the many projects Joe is pushing forward in his final year as chair,\u0026rdquo; Royster said. \u0026ldquo;He already has positioned us well for the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBankoff, who previously had a significant role in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and also served as president of the Woodruff Arts Center before joining the Georgia Institute of Technology, said he originally thought his appointment would last one or two years. He said the timing is now right for him to make way for a new chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The faculty here now feels empowered, and we are moving forward and have a sense of momentum,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBankoff said he has plenty to keep him busy until he steps down. Items on his to-do list include leading an effort to strengthen the school\u0026rsquo;s external advisory board, as well as making significant progress toward new graduate degrees the school hopes to offer in the next few years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E is a unit of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoe Bankoff is stepping down as chair of the Sam Nunn School on International Affairs at the end of the 2018-2019 term.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Despite the impending change, Bankoff says much remains to be done."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2018-09-13 18:38:42","changed_gmt":"2018-09-25 14:07:09","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-09-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-09-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"611593":{"id":"611593","type":"image","title":"Joe Bankoff","body":null,"created":"1537210647","gmt_created":"2018-09-17 18:57:27","changed":"1539020056","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 17:34:16","alt":"Joe Bankoff, chair of the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs","file":{"fid":"232828","name":"BankoffFacultyWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BankoffFacultyWeb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BankoffFacultyWeb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":110540,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/BankoffFacultyWeb_0.jpg?itok=XK_w1ZHg"}}},"media_ids":["611593"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2012\/4\/bankoff-named-chair-international-affairs\/125201","title":"Bankoff Named Chair of International Affairs"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/features\/nunn-school-naming-anniversary","title":"Celebrating Twenty Years as the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"},{"id":"597139","name":"International Affairs Alumni in Washington DC"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167256","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"31391","name":"Joe Bankoff"},{"id":"128351","name":"chairs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}