The Bloustein School is pleased to announce the Jerome Rose Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2012 and 2013. The Rose Awards are presented annually to a full-time faculty member, an adjunct faculty member, and a teaching assistant who are committed to quality...
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Mothers Unite! by Bloustein’s Jocelyn Crowley now available for purchase by ILR Press
Mothers Unite!: Organizing for Workplace Flexibility and the Transformation of Family Life, a “bold and hopeful new book that serves as both a rallying cry for changing the relationship between home and the workplace,” is now available for purchase from ILR Press, an...
Behind N.J.’s jobless rate: A Q&A with Rutgers economist Joseph Seneca
By Jim Namiotka/The Star-Ledger on May 15, 2013 The latest unemployment numbers are due out this week. Throughout the recovery from the Great Recession, New Jersey’s unemployment rate has remained steadily higher than the national unemployment rate, as well as our...
Bloustein studio sees idea become reality with New Brunswick’s first orchard
On April 25, students from the Fall 2011 Voorhees Fellows/Community Development Studio class, as well as students in subsequent studios, saw their ideas become reality. Community and university partners planted nearly 40 apple trees downtown near Elijah’s Promise,...
Op-ed: Education critical to solving economic, employment issues
Opinion: N.J.’s economic growth must focus on better relationship between education, labor market This excerpt is from the Times of Trenton Guest Opinion column on Friday, May 10. Written by Thomas Little, a graduate student in the Master’s in Public Policy program at...
C-Suite Survey results to be revealed at NJ Economic Policy Summit, May 21
The sixth annual New Jersey Economic Policy Summit will take place on Tuesday, May 21, at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The event will bring together key New Jersey stakeholders to review...
EJB MPP’s present practicum report to OSHA, EPA officials in Washington
On May 7, a team of Bloustein M.P.P. students traveled down Washington, DC to present their practicum report to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The practicum is the capstone project for the M.P.P program and the students researched the state...
Bloustein Convocation and Commencement events
On the weekend of May 18-19, 2013 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy will recognize our graduates. In addition to University Commencement, there is a series of events meant to culminate the...
How do policy professionals learn best practices? Lecture by Richard Tomlinson, April 29
Professor Richard Tomlinson, chair of Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, will present a discussion on Monday, April 29, “The Prescriptive Character of Best Practice Knowledge Products: A ‘Slum’...
New analysis finds no shortage of STEM workers in the United States
In a new paper written by Hal Salzman of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Daniel Kuehn of American University and B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the authors find little evidence to support...