Latest News & Events
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CURE Receives $75,000 Gift from the Ivywood Foundation to Support Research with Policy Impact
My introduction to community-engaged work came as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. I was trained in the Political Science department, where I had Professor Rogers Smith for class. And got my own start at the Fox Leadership Center, where I first met Senior Fellow Mary Summers. Recently, I had the chance to sit……
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Reflection on how funding community-based organizations brings improved health outcomes to underinvested communities in South Jersey
A few years after I came to Camden, a community leader asked me to meet for coffee. Their issue? That their neighborhood organization didn’t have 501(c)3 status and had to use a fiscal sponsor – and the fiscal sponsor had been leveraging that position to ensure the majority of the grant dollars in the grant……
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Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Anetha Perry
One of my favorite scholars, Dr. Anetha Perry – known to many of us on campus as Sister Anetha – was recently profiled by Rutgers–Camden (link). I had the honor of chairing Sister Anetha’s dissertation, and contributed a quote to the article: “Dr. Perry’s dissertation changed what I thought was possible in community-engaged research,” said……
Mission
CURE’s mission is to produce justice-oriented, community-engaged research, while training and empowering future researchers.
CURE is a place where community work and research go hand-in-hand. Research needs to go beyond knowledge acquisition and distribution, and civic engagement needs to go beyond community service.
CURE believes in movement work. This moment requires that we, as a research community, support existing community movements. Research has a key role in such work, and CURE funds, supports, and produces research that contributes to grassroots movements.
Research Areas
Cities and Justice
Focusing on research that explores cities, policies, and justice. Cities and Justice focuses on a broad range of research activities.
Current and previous projects have focused on segregation and housing, education, prisons and impacted urban communities, university-community relationships, and environmental justice.
Community First
Research where the needs, aspirations, and voices of our local community are at the forefront of the work. Community First represents a pledge to ensure that our work is not just academically rigorous but deeply relevant and impactful for the communities we call home. This research is in part driven by Community First Fellows, Rutgers Camden graduate students who are placed with local community organizations to support their work. Current and past research under this initiative has focused on community movements, youth, and urban land ownership.