December 27, 2025 | In the News
KEY POINTS New Jersey had 84,536 corporate-owned parcels in 2022, up 138% from 35,537 in 2012. Asbury Park had the region’s highest corporate ownership rate, 18.1%, in 2022, up from 7.9% in 2012. Corporate home ownership doubled in Monmouth and Ocean counties...
December 22, 2025 | EJB Talks, News
From Corruption to Ballot Reform: Fighting for Government Accountability in New Jersey As we close out our 13th season of EJB Talks, Dean Stuart Shapiro asks Public Policy Program Director, Professor Julia Rubin, about why New Jersey has long been considered one of...
December 18, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
The Heldrich Center for Workforce Development has announced the release of an updated Multi-State Postsecondary Report, linking postsecondary completion data to employment outcomes across Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia. This effort...
December 17, 2025 | In the News, News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Through cooperation, homeless services and health care providers can improve delivery of medical care to a vulnerable population, according to Rutgers researchers published by Rutgers Today, December 17, 2025 Author: Greg Bruno Media Contact: Nicole Swenarton, Rutgers...
December 16, 2025 | News, WorktrendsRU Podcast
Beth Simone Noveck, Ph.D., Chief AI Strategist for the State of New Jersey, Guests on Work Trends RU Podcast Listen to the latest episode of the Heldrich Center’s “Work Trends RU” podcast, featuring Beth Simone Noveck, Ph.D., Chief AI Strategist for the State of New...
December 8, 2025 | Event Recap
The Stuart Meck Memorial Lecture Presented by Renée Sieber, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University click to play Renée Sieber is an associate professor at McGill University. Since she graduated from the Bloustein School, she has investigated...
December 2, 2025 | EJB Talks, News
Alumnus Helps Rethink Jersey City’s Public Spaces: A Conversation with Barkha Patel MCRP ’15 Dean Stuart Shapiro talks to alumnus Barkha Patel, MCRP ’15 this week on EJB Talks. Initially a sociology undergraduate at Rutgers, Barkha discusses how a...
November 28, 2025 | News
Adrian Ponichtera (MCRP ’26) is the recipient of the New Jersey County Planners Association’s George Ververides Honorary Scholarship. The scholarship is open to New Jersey residents entering their third or fourth year of undergraduate study or advanced...
November 25, 2025 | News
Graduate and undergraduate students who are part of the student group Bloustein Enthusiasts and Advocates for Transportation (BEAT) took part in an exclusive after-hours PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) tour on Thursday, November 20 through Friday, November 21. The...
November 22, 2025 | In the News, News
Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill announced an ambitious and collaborative initiative to chart a bold course for New Jersey’s future and ensure the Governor-elect’s commitment to hit the ground running on Day One priorities. The first phase of this initiative is comprised...
November 21, 2025 | In the News
In this article, the author argues that the H-1B visa, originally created to bring in highly skilled, elite foreign professionals, has been gradually hijacked by big business to drive down labor costs. The effect of this has been the displacement of U.S. workers and...
November 21, 2025 | News
Austin Lee MCRP ‘10 worked for over a decade in the transportation sector at the city, special district, county, and state levels. Crediting the “excellent education he received at the Bloustein School,” he served in various roles, from administrative to...
November 20, 2025 | News
The Bloustein School is pleased to have Bloustein alumnus Renée Sieber, Ph.D. ’97, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University present the 2025 Stuart Meck Memorial Lecture, “Civic Engagement in an Era of Artificial Intelligence.”...
November 19, 2025 | News, WorktrendsRU Podcast
Listen to the latest episode of the Heldrich Center’s “Work Trends RU” podcast, featuring Aaron Fichtner, Ph.D., President of the New Jersey Council of County Colleges. Dr. Fichtner discusses the role New Jersey’s 18 community colleges play in expanding access...
November 18, 2025 | EJB Talks, News
Uncovering Inequality Through Design: A Conversation with Carmelo Ignaccolo This week on EJB Talks, assistant professor Carmelo Ignaccolo shares with Stuart Shapiro how his path into urban design was both inevitable and accidental. A native of Sicily, he explains how...
November 11, 2025 | News
Rutgers enters partnership to expand graduate education and career pathways for veterans and military family members in public service The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University–New Brunswick is pleased to announce its...
November 4, 2025 | EJB Talks, News
Lifelong Learning and Leadership in Healthcare Administration: A Conversation with William Tuttle Dean Stuart Shapiro welcomes William Tuttle, a Senior Fellow in the Bloustein School’s Health Administration program, to EJB Talks this week. With nearly four decades of...
October 24, 2025 | In the News
New Jersey’s property taxes are expensive — no doubt about it. New Jersey in 2023 had an effective tax rate of 1.77%, behind only Illinois, according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. The Tax Foundation defines this rate as “the average...
October 22, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
The Rutgers Child Care Research Collaborative has released two new research reports by Heldrich Center researchers. The Rutgers Child Care Research Collaborative comprises the Heldrich Center, the Center for Women and Work, and the National Institute for Early...
October 21, 2025 | News
Mi Shih, Ph.D., Associate Professor and director of the Urban Planning and Policy Development Program, was recognized with the Global Planning Educators’ Interest Group’s (GPEIG) 2025 award for the best journal article. The award honors outstanding, peer-reviewed...
