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Public Affairs Alumni and Current Students Publish a Book on Community Development
In April 2018, two graduates of the Department of Public Policy and Administration’s public affairs doctoral program, Ashley E. Nickels, GSC ’16, and Jason D. Rivera, GSC ’16, published an edited volume titled Community Development and Public Administration Theory: Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities. Nickels and Rivera not only edited the volume, but also wrote articles featured in the book: Nickels, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Kent State University, co-authored the article “Calling for Community Control: Local Organizing and Implications for Community Development Policy;” while Rivera, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York-Buffalo State, co-wrote “The Impact of Microfinance Programs on Political Participation: A Study of Rural Indian Women.”
CURE and Philly Fed hosted Research Symposium on Fair Housing on May 17, 2018
Center Director Paul Jargowsky presented new research on the processes of residential segregation at the Research Symposium on Fair Housing on May 17, 2018 at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank.
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