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When you think of the highest-paid public workers in the state, you probably don’t think of the chief financial officer for Rochelle Park, population 5,597. But Roy Riggitano, the township’s CFO, brings home at least $347,970 a year. That’s not just because Riggitano works for Rochelle Park. He’s also CFO for Palisades Park. He works […]
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Garrick Stoldt, Chief Financial Officer at St Peter’s University Healthcare System in New Brunswick and a part-time lecturer at the Bloustein School, was selected as a 2021 Leader in Finance by NJBIZ. Formerly the CFO of the Year award, NJBiz decided to spotlight 40 honorees who are contributing to some of New Jersey’s most successful […]
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Bloustein School Dean Vonu Thakuriah was named to the ROI-NJ’s 2021 Women in Business, Higher Education Influencers list on March 26. “Thakuriah is a thought leader on smart, socially just and sustainable transport — as well as urban informatics, or the analytics of emerging sources of big data to understand complex urban problems.” ROI-NJ, March […]
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New Jersey is on a path to mandate civic education, with pending legislation that directs all boards of education to provide study in civics in the state’s middle schools. This initiative comes as part of a push, nationally, by politicians, teachers, parents, and, recently, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to have students grasp a deeper understanding of […]
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NextDoor, the neighborhood app that is intended to operate like a coffee shop bulletin, has fostered a community that can occasionally be less than neighborly. User complaints began to surface surrounding the nationwide George Floyd protests last summer that content moderators were deleting posts discussing racial injustice and support for the Black Lives Matter movement. […]
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For nearly 30 years, the National Transit Institute (NTI) has served as the training and education arm of the transit industry and has delivered 7,000 courses and training events to 200,000 transit professionals. NTI courses and training programs focus on Federal Transit Administration regulations, policies and procedures for transit operators and planners. But, recently, NTI […]
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The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine recently released a report, The Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Bloustein School Professor and Heldrich Center Senior Faculty Fellow Hal Salzman contributed to this study and the final report with a co-authored commissioned paper “The Impact of COVID-19 […]
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Two legislators might get unloaded by their party this year – Assemblywoman Serena DiMaso (R-Holmdel) has also lost the backing of her county chairman – but the Hudson County legislative leader is the one in the spotlight because just one Democrat, Davis, wants him out. “It’s a pretty egregious example of why our system is […]
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The report was authored by the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University, which serves as the state’s independent Comprehensive Accountability Office for the Jersey City Public Schools. “…It appears that although the district may be implementing the activities on the scorecard; additional evidence is needed of systems in place that institutionalize the actions/practices, […]
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Thomas Kozma is a Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy junior majoring in planning and public policy. His column, “With Liberty and Justice for All,” runs on alternate Thursdays. Where is it illegal to build a duplex in New Jersey? What about triplexes or fourplexes? These may seem like simple questions, but there […]
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