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Some Newark charter schools fail to fully comply with transparency rules

Charter schools’ failure to keep the public informed about their board proceedings is significant, as more than a third of Newark’s public school students attended charter schools last year and $300 million, or 28% of the district’s budget this school year, will go to...

Research: Community Visioning for Place Making

In his new book, Anton Nelessen details how this process works for community organizations, municipalities, and neighborhoods to evaluate their existing community and translate images into plans that embody their ideal characteristics of places and spaces.

Ian Vlahović, MPP ’23

Ian Vlahović, MPP ’23

In 2017, Ian Vlahović and fellow Rutgers graduates formed PROTESTRA, an organization and orchestra of activist musicians bridging the divide between advocacy and classical music to combine live orchestral performances with their interests in social justice issues.

Elliott School researchers updating international data governance map

Experts in data informatics said the project is an accessible compilation of various data governance factors that can help national governments determine which attributes need improvement to better democracies. Jim Samuel, the executive director of the informatics...

Alumni Profile: Music is inherent in building design

Alumni Profile: Music is inherent in building design

Mrunmayee Atre, MCRP ’18 believes that music resides in everyone through heartbeats and breathing, and musical concepts can be applied to buildings which will have a different impact on people in the various spaces that they enjoy. 

Research: No Place for Ethics

The concept of natural law, which consists of reason and human nature as norms for human behavior, combines ethics and law in a manner that does not confuse ethics with law or law with ethics but sees the two in complementary roles.

Leadership Transition at the Bloustein School

Dr. Vonu Thakuriah will step away from her administrative role and duties as Dean in order to resume her scholarship and research; Stuart Shapiro, Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty will serve as Interim Dean.