“Elected officials should really watch who are they are appointing to positions, where they can appoint political patronage jobs. They really need to know who they are appointing because when it goes bad it brings down a lot of people,” said Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director at the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University. “It affects confidence in government.”
He says municipalities can’t skimp on internal controls that help prevent corruption and fraud.
The Heldrich Center, working with the Rutgers Child Care Research Collaborative, has released a new comprehensive report and three new research briefs examining the experiences, challenges, and training needs of New Jersey’s child care workforce. The report, Findings...
Rutgers Health Administration Programs is pleased to welcome Ethan Halm, MD, MPH, MBA, to its Advisory Board. Dr. Halm serves as Vice Chancellor for Population Health at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and Deputy Chief Population Health Officer at RWJBarnabas...
The Graduate Fellows Program at the Eagleton Institute of Politics has been a cornerstone of the Institute's commitment to advancing the understanding and practice of politics and public service since the Institute’s founding in 1956. Throughout the fellowship,...
Rehearsing Democracy: Helping Rutgers Students Move from Thinking to Doing with Nicholas Longo of the Rutgers Democracy Lab In our first episode kicking off season 15 of EJB Talks, Dean Stuart Shapiro interviews Professor Nicholas Longo, director of the Rutgers...
The Future of Evidence in Education Network, a cross-sector group of researchers, evaluators, and evidence leaders, recently released two reports on improving the production and use of evidence in education. Schools are under growing pressure to improve student...