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Bloustein School to host 13th annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference, March 12
The conference is for doctoral students engaged in urban planning and policy-related research across disciplines and universities in the tri-state NJ/NY/PA metropolitan region.
Bloustein School MHA program earns CAHME accreditation
The school participated in a 2-year evaluation process to show that the MHA is of the highest quality and meets certain standards.
How New Jersey Averted a Pandemic Financial Calamity
Advocate and mentor: Patti O’Brien-Richardson helps Black and Brown students succeed
The Cooperman College Scholars initiative identifies talented students in Essex County, N and provides last-dollar scholarships, mentoring, and support systems to promote college completion.
How Sensors Monitor Bridges to Keep Us Safe
Regulatory Analysis Needs to Catch Up on Distribution
Building back better:A national jobs strategy
The economic impacts of the pandemic on Americans, accentuated by the health crisis, is reflected in the proportion of individuals reporting pay cuts and layoffs.
Strategically Virtual: Offering wellness activities in a virtual environment
Service providers can consider offering an array of wellness services that or refer customers to engage with these services privately.
‘Help Wanted’ — four strategies to fix America’s jobs crisis
Bringing pork back won’t unclog Congress
Did you retire too soon? How to get back in the workforce
2021: 2/11 Art Practice and Urban Planning as a Tool for Social Transformation
How the Covid-19 pandemic broke Nextdoor
Jobs report reveals alarming level of long-term unemployment
How the police bank millions through their union contracts
New book explores the common narratives of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity
The authors unpack the dynamics of land commodification across a broad range of political, spatial, and temporal settings, exposing its simultaneously contingent and collective nature.
A Career-Aligned Major Isn’t Enough
Americans Worried About Post-COVID Job Market
New resource helps residents find public transportation to reach NJ vaccine sites
NJTIP@Rutgers consulted a variety of trip planning tools and maps to find and confirm transit resources across the state.
The downsides of the gig economy
Journalism, not-for-profit style: the news we need (by, for and with those who need it)
Average NJ property tax bill now $9,111 — How your town compares
Economic outlook brightens, focus on governance, TD Bank closing branches
From theater director to cheese expert: Displaced workers in some industries switch careers to stay afloat
COVID changed how we work. Experts say commuting in N.J. must now change, too
Survey: NJ businesses have adapted to realities of pandemic, but need help in the coming months
The research project was a partnership with the New Jersey Small Business Development Center and led by Dr. Carl Van Horn and Jessica Starace of the Heldrich Center.
Strategically Virtual: Building Communities of Care
Service providers can consider offering an array of wellness services that or refer customers to engage with these services privately.
Retired too soon? How to re-enter the job market without skipping a beat
How Democrats Can Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis
Could this study finally help NJ cut property taxes?
Research: Disconnect between public assistance recipients and policies designed to assist them with returning to work
Study findings reveal that unclear policy goals, overly generalized services, and miscommunication require recipients to self-advocate and ultimately impedes recipient pursuing employment-related goals.
Bloustein School is recipient of $1.5M grant focusing on making micromobility safer, smarter
These NSF investments create scientific and engineering foundations for smart cities and communities and help enhance overall quality of life.
Healing the wounded economy: Large majorities of Americans support government action to create jobs; help workers, businesses
Americans are eager for the government to ease the pain of the recession brought about by the pandemic.
What Can Be Learned From Differing Rates of Suicide Among Groups
Nine EJB student-athletes named to Fall 2020 Academic All-Big Ten Team
To be eligible students must be on a varsity team, enrolled full time at the institution for a minimum of 12 months and carry a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Bloustein School recognizes completion of studies for 20 MCRS, MPAP students of KDI Scholars program
The Bloustein School offers KDI students the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and practical skills through a combination of coursework and professional internships.
Pfeiffer featured on local assemblyman’s series on unemployment
The series looks at why the NJDOL failed to keep up with the demand of unemployment claims in the early days of the pandemic, and why it struggled to catch up.
PhD candidate Jamie Kwon is recipient of IFH Howard Leventhal Scholarship
Ms. Kwon’s research interests include the transport disadvantage of people with disabilities and the extra costs of transportation for people with disabilities.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact
Government sets the policies, public health professionals provide the rationale for them, and the people must acknowledge what is required and why to safeguard the public’s health.
Housing Field Reacts to Marcia Fudge HUD Nomination with surprise, frustration, and optimism
Keeping seniors connected is key to alleviating social isolation
Karen Alexander of NJTIP@Rutgers explains how technology, other solutions can help older adults and those with disabilities
Over Half of People Want to Keep Working From Home Despite Feeling Less Connected to Coworkers
How to Ask Your Boss to Help Cover Your Work-From-Home Costs
Rutgers MHA team successfully defends Healthcare Management Case Study Challenge title
The Rutgers team of Sophia Frank, Rene Johnson, Ashley Lazo, and Qazi Tariq competed against programs from Columbia, Pittsburgh and Penn State.
Pandemic Slows Economic Recovery
In November, men dropped out of the workforce at higher rates than women
As COVID-19 persists, more Americans are unemployed beyond 6 months. Does that carry a stigma even in a pandemic?
Rutgers Economist available to discuss November jobs report
Rutgers economist William M. Rodgers is available for interviews on the November jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department to be released Friday, Dec. 4.
If Covid has made working from home our new normal, your boss and Uncle Sam should chip in
Working remotely isn’t new, but the United States has never seen it at its current scale.
What We Can Expect From the Economy and Labor Market in 2021
2020: 12/2 Considerations for Returning to the Office: A 5 Phase Framework
Bloustein School mourns passing of Joseph Seneca, University Professor Emeritus, Rutgers VP of Academic Affairs Emeritus
In his decades-long career at Rutgers, Dr. Seneca touched the lives of thousands of students and influenced New Jersey’s economic policy, receiving numerous awards for exemplary teaching and public service.
Investing in human capital may move U.S. forward on Social Progress Index
by Jas Sarna. The Social Progress Index complements economic measures of countries’ success by measuring 50 metrics of well-being.
Research: Does urban planning for immigrants need to be different?
New research challenges that premise through a discussion of a set of neighborhood developments and conflicts in Queens, New York.
Hon. Paul Armstrong, Bloustein Senior Policy Fellow, presented NJSBA Lighthouse Award
The award honors an attorney or judge whose professional and community-based efforts serve as an inspiration to colleagues.
2020: 11/17 Why is Quality of Life Falling in the US?
Women in healthcare panel focuses on leadership, networking, and empowering women
The Bloustein School and Seton Hall partnered with the Northern NJ Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association for an evening focused on women leaders in healthcare.
Nominate a Great Place in New Jersey!
Amal Muse, Marius Williams are recipients of APA Foundation Scholarships
Students are selected on merit and from historically underrepresented groups to make the profession more responsive to the diverse communities it serves.
Overcoming ‘the appalling silence of the good people’
What Will Regulatory Policy Look Like Under President Biden?
NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof to lead panel discussion of Social Progress Index, Nov. 17
Creating a society with opportunity for all citizens remains an elusive goal that many nations have failed to achieve.
Bloustein undergrad team places 3rd in Penn State Health Administration Case Competition
The event provided an opportunity for both undergraduate, graduate students to put what they have learned into practice.
Latest jobs report shows long-term unemployment still on the rise, worrying economists
Rutgers experts discuss disproportionate impact of pandemic on people of color
PhD candidate Sicheng Wang is recipient of IACP Best Student Paper Award
His paper found that the willingness to ride share was related to price and time factors, such as price per mile, total price, and trip duration.
Envisioning Rutgers’ Climate Future: A Two-Night Town Hall Event
Bloustein faculty Clinton Andrews (Energy/ Buildings Working Group) and Robert Noland (Transportation Working Group)
will participate.
Soumitra Bhuyan accepted into prestigious CAHME Accreditation Fellowship Program
The fellowship is for individuals with the potential to make significant contributions to health services administration education.
Research: Trump Administration Wrong About, Exaggerated Deregulation Claims
Trump administration has done less deregulating, and its deregulatory actions have not achieved any demonstrable boost to the economy.
Join Stuart Shapiro as he liveblogs tonight’s election returns!
In 2012 and 2016 we hosted live election viewing parties; this year, he will liveblog on Facebook.
Listening to experts isn’t perfect, but ignoring them is far worse
Research: Why do we overestimate walking distance?
Understanding the factors associated with the tendency to overestimate walk time is important because people are less likely to walk.
2020: 10/28 Political Advertisement X 1952-2020
Voting in 2020: Issues of Equity and Accessibility
The upcoming election has highlighted persistent issues in the U.S. voting system, including policies and administrative practices impacting how people vote.
The messy politics of Nextdoor
Joel Cantor appointed to Milbank Quarterly Editorial Advisory Board
Dr. Cantor is a widely published scholar on the effects of health insurance regulatory policy and innovative health service delivery.
Scholars and Advocates Hold Roundtable Media Briefing on Impact of Exclusion from Aid on Immigrant Women in New Jersey Under COVID
Two Bloustein doctoral students awarded Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships from FHA
Ellen O. White and Evan Iacobucci received the award for their work on transportation planning and policy.
9 Reasons to Eliminate Jaywalking Laws Now
EVENT Tuesday, October 27: Political Advertisement X
The film, almost 40 years in the making, traces the use and history of political media.
Rutgers panel: Lack of access to aid is disproportionately hurting immigrant women of color
Opinion: Why the Defense Department Should Not Run Commercial 5G Networks
Report informs NJ stakeholders about policies, monitoring methods of potential ecological impacts from offshore wind installations
Researchers reviewed policy documents from eastern U.S., Europe and conducted stakeholder interviews in spring 2020.
We need public television to power our democracy
2020: 10/16 Planning IRL: A Primer on Overcoming Obstacles and Finding Success
The Future of Planning for Economic Democracy and Self-Determination
As future planners and policymakers we must work with low-income communities to fight forward processes of self-determination and economic democracy.
Affordable Care Act before Supreme Court puts health coverage at risk for 800,000 in NJ
What’s Next? Careers in the ‘New Normal’
A discussion of health related careers, graduate programs, workforce needs and issues, life-long learning, and networking.
New post-baccalaureate certificates offer cross-disciplinary expertise in public policy, informatics
Certificates are groupings of specific courses that indicate that the student has developed cross-disciplinary expertise in a particular subject area.
Research: Intersections between neoliberal education reform strategies and social justice, urban policy
The authors examine parents, educators, and students are navigating the radically redesigned landscape of school ‘choice.’
A Virtual Evening with Extraordinary Women Leaders in Healthcare
Students in the public health and health administration areas are invited to an interactive evening with three women leaders in healthcare
Mark G. Robson named Senior Policy Fellow in Global Health Policy and Practice
The honor highlights Dr. Robson’s work in Thailand, the Philippines, Burma, El Salvador, Laos, and Liberia as a leader in the field of global health.
NJ Human Services Launches $1.4M Grant Program to Create Inclusive and Healthy Communities for Individuals with Disabilities
DHS’ Division of Disability Services (DDS) has engaged the Bloustein School to provide support in managing grant proposals.
Research: Pathways Through Which Rent Burden is Produced in U.S. Shrinking and Growing Cities
The study indicates both shrinking and non-shrinking cities exhibit different trajectories of income and rent.
COVID-19 and the Future of Economic Activity and Transportation
The virtual symposium examined the future of work, housing, commercial real estate, tourism, hospitality, retail and entertainment in the post-pandemic world.
Researchers Awarded $3M NSF Grant for Research Traineeship for Robotics of the Future to Improve Quality of Life
N.J. cities are hotter than ever. Racism is as much to blame as climate change
Ooha Uppalapati named Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellow
She will be working at Chhaya CDC, which addresses housing and economic needs for low-income South Asian and Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers.
Rutgers graduate healthcare students raise donations for Elijah’s Promise
Students gathered food supplies, hygiene products and raised funds during Hunger Action Month.
Research: Examining Parental Action under Neoliberal Education Regimes
The authors advocate for a broader research agenda to examine the roles of parents under regimes of neoliberal education reforms.