Attention all graduate students with urban interests !

FIFTH ANNUAL KRUECKEBERG DOCTORAL CONFERENCE
IN URBAN PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY

Thursday, February 28, 2013

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The 5th Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Urban Planning and Public Policy is scheduled for Thursday, February 28, 2013 at the Bloustein School at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

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Peter O’Connor captivates crowd of urbanists

Peter O’Connor’s CURE/CE seminar talk last Friday, November 16th, 2012, had seminar attendees (mostly comprised of Rutgers students, faculty, and others interested in Peter’s legacy of fair housing law advocacy) hanging onto every word.  Peter gave a succinct recount of the regional inequality picture of the socio-economically unequal distribution of resources throughout Camden County and New Jersey in general.  He particularly stressed the relationship between racism, money, power, and political clout in the region and State and its relationship to regional, affordable housing opportunities for its low- to moderate-income residents.  For more information on Peter and his fair share housing organization, please visit fairsharehousing.org, Peter’s organization is located in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Christopher Goodman joins CURE as an Affliated Scholar

Christopher B. Goodman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers University at Camden where he teaches public budgeting and finance, financial management and research methods courses.  Christopher’s research interests include local public finance, public financial management, urban policy, and economic development. Christopher earned his PhD from the University of Georgia in Public Administration with a fields in public management, public policy and public budgeting and finance in 2012.

Affiliated Scholar Lori Minnite quoted in the New Yorker

Affiliated Scholar Lori Minnite was quoted in a recent New Yorker article, “The Voter-Fraud Myth”:

Lorraine Minnite, a public-policy professor at Rutgers, collated decades of electoral data for her 2010 book, “The Myth of Voter Fraud,” and came up with some striking statistics. In 2005, for example, the federal government charged many more Americans with violating migratory-bird statutes than with perpetrating election fraud, which has long been a felony. She told me, “It makes no sense for individual voters to impersonate someone. It’s like committing a felony at the police station, with virtually no chance of affecting the election outcome.”

Here is a link to the full article.