The two key missions of Center for Urban Research and Education are:

  1. to encourage, facilitate and promote research on urban issues by Rutgers-Camden faculty and their collaborators around the nation; and
  2. to help train the next generation of urban scholars by providing opportunities for students to become involved with ongoing research projects.

CURE encourages, facilitates and promotes innovative research by scholars at Rutgers University and around the nation on issues that face Camden, New Jersey, the Philadelphia metropolitan region and other large cities and metropolitan cities in the U.S. and abroad. It also helps train the next generation of urban scholars by providing opportunities for students to become involved with ongoing research projects.

Through its research and partnerships, the center creates innovative solutions that promote equity and opportunity in communities throughout the nation. CURE seeks to increase the understanding of cities through cross-disciplinary research, instruction and civic engagement and by providing links to regional, nationaland international networks in pursuit of new ideas and approaches that address urban issues.

A forum for collaborative, inter-disciplinary scholarship, CURE helps to inform public policy development and decision-making at the local, national and global levels.

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