Continuity at Peace Corps during Changes in Administration

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Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview - Continuity at Peace Corps during Changes in Administration

Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview - Continuity at Peace Corps during Changes in Administration

Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview - Continuity at Peace Corps during Changes in Administration






Continuity at Peace Corps during Changes in Administration

PCOL: You were nominated as Director in September 2001 and weren't confirmed until over a year after President Bush took office. Did the one year lapse create a leadership vacuum in the Peace Corps and if so how can future administrations do a better job in easing the transition for future Peace Corps Directors and providing more continuity at the agency?


 Continuity at Peace Corps during Changes in Administration

GV: One of the great tributes to the Peace Corps is the phenomenal staff that works at the Peace Corps. I am talking about all of the staff at the Peace Corps. These are men and women, who during the period of transition, did an incredible job at maintaining solid management and providing great leadership.

I for one, will always be grateful to them for the kind of work that they accomplished during that transition. I am so grateful because had they not done a great job during that transition, I would have come in and inherited a difficult situation. But, the situation was not difficult because they were professional, they were passionate, and dedicated their talents and energies to maintaining the continuity.

I think it stands to reason, and any logical person would conclude, that the less time you take to transition the leadership position of the Peace Corps the better off the agency will be. It will allow you to create the momentum that you need to sustain the agency and the morale, but also to build up the expectation of leadership of the employees and staff members of the Peace Corps. I think anything that can be done to reduce the amount of transition time is helpful to the agency.





Read our interview with Director Vasquez in this month's issue of PCOL Magazine:


Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview
This month we sat down for an extended interview with Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez. Read the entire interview from start to finish and we promise you will learn something about the Peace Corps you didn't know before.

Then read the questions and answers one by one and leave your comments on the issues raised during the interview including Infrastructure Upgrades and the new Situation Room at Headquarters, Is there a Budget Crunch this year at Peace Corps, Peace Corps' Long Term Expansion, the Changes to the Five-Year Rule made last year, Safety and Security Issues, the Cooperative Agreement with NPCA, RPCVs in Policy Making Positions at Peace Corps Headquarters, Peace Corps' Departure from Russia in 2002, Director Vasquez's Accomplishments as Director, the Peace Corps Safety and Security Bill before Congress, Continuity at the Agency during Changes in Administration, the Community College Program, and the Director's Message to the Returned Volunteer Community.


Read the questions and answers and leave your comments.






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