Linda Stamato

Stamato Commentary: Words to live by, from the commencement podium

May 15, 2023

Policy Fellow Linda Stamato discusses the powerful messages delivered during recent commencement speeches in her latest piece published online at MorristownGreen.com. She highlights key themes and memorable quotes from various speakers, emphasizing the importance of...

Barchi Co-investigator on $3M NIH Grant to Uncover Barriers to Conducting HIV Research in Africa

May 10, 2023

Rutgers has received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a four-year study to explore the legal and ethical barriers to conducting HIV research with youth populations in central, east, west and southern Africa. The goal of researchers...

The Launch of the Long Game

May 9, 2023

Policy Fellow Linda Stamato argues that colleges and universities need to shift their focus from short-term goals for their graduates. This means that instead of simply providing students with the skills they need to get their first job, institutions should also focus...

Stamato Commentary for National Library Week: Books should be celebrated, not banned

April 21, 2023

By Linda Stamato Across the nation, folks are using the power of the state to limit access to books, pressuring libraries to take books out of circulation. Indeed, removing books from libraries has nearly doubled since 2021! And school boards continue to face demands...

A Push for More Oversight of New Jersey’s Colleges

January 27, 2023

Proposed legislation would enforce financial transparency for public institutions after one university nearly collapsed. Some say the bills are redundant, others that they don’t go far enough. Linda Stamato, former chair of the Board of Governors at Rutgers, the...

Social media needs rules

January 23, 2023

Social media platforms have imploded with misinformation and hate. Linda Stamato, co-founder of the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Policy Fellow at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, makes a case for some sort of regulation and a...

Christians, please listen. There is no national religion in America.

September 25, 2022

Senior Policy Fellow Linda Stamato writes about the threat to the separation of church and state in this opinion piece published by nj.com "The Founding Fathers abhorred the concept of a national religion. They believed that state support would in the long run, harm,...

Commentary: Donate an organ, save a life

August 17, 2022

Every nine minutes, though, another person is added to the waiting list. While 169 million people in the United States were registered as donors as of 2021, not everyone who registers is able to donate. In fact, only three in 1,000 people die in a way that allows...

N.J. oversight could have kept university from financial peril

August 9, 2022

Bloustein Policy Fellow, and former chair of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University, Linda Stamato argues that the elimination of the state Department of Higher Education and the state Board of Higher Education has led to the current mismanagement of New Jersey...