social policy

Falaknaaz Patni MCRP ’23 is recipient of Eagleton Fellowship/Governor’s Executive Award

August 17, 2022

The Eagleton Fellowship offers select Rutgers graduate students the opportunity to further their understanding of government, public affairs, and the practice of politics, and to connect the fellowship experience to their chosen fields of study.

Examining the rising phenomenon of gray divorce

January 18, 2018

Gray divorce—characterized as a divorce where one member of the couple is age 50 or older—has been becoming increasingly widespread in the United States. The divorce rate for the overall population has stabilized and even declined a bit over the past several decades....

MPP student's op-ed selected by NJSpotlight as one of "2016 Best Op-eds"

February 8, 2017

An op-ed by Amy Dunford MPP '17, which originally appeared in NJSpotlight in August 2016, was chosen as one of the publication's "2016 Best Op-Eds." The piece, "Earned Sick Leave a Lifeline for Survivors of Domestic Violence," was republished in December 2016. The...

Getting to know Jocelyn Elise Crowley

April 18, 2014

Jocelyn Elise Crowley, Ph.D. is a senior faculty fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development with research interests in family policy and social policy in the United States. Dr. Crowley has been a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of...