 In July 2003, Mitchel Wallerstein became 8th dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.Wallerstein pushed for expanded internationalization of the school's programs and relationships with other elite schools of public affairs around the world; he secured an endowment for the School's Institute of Global Affairs in honor of the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was twice a member of the Maxwell School faculty; and he initiated new academic programs in security studies (which included the establishment of the Institute for National Security and Counter-Terrorism), and supported new programs in public diplomacy, and history and documentary filmmaking.He also raised a significant amount of new endowment funding for new Chairs and other programmatic support for the Maxwell School.