During the 2021 legislative session the Connecticut General Assembly created the Labor and Public Employees Committee. According to their website: “The Labor and Public Employees Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, conditions of employment, hours of labor, minimum wages, industrial safety, occupational health and safety, labor unions and labor […]
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DPP Professor Examines the Impact of Multiple Child and Family Policies
Department of Public Policy (DPP) Professor Kerri Raissian‘s research often focuses on child and family policy. Recently her research has focused on how policies affect child maltreatment and family violence. Below are some of Professor Raissian’s latest publications in 2021. How Does the Minimum Wage Affect Child Maltreatment and Parenting Behaviors? An Analysis of the […]
Professor Ruodan Zhang Researches Embedding Methods for Nonprofit Identification
Ruodan Zhang with co-author Haohan Chen at the University of Hong Kong recently published an article “Identifying Nonprofits by Scaling Mission and Activity with Word Embedding” in VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. This research applies word embedding methods for nonprofit identification based on their mission and program service activity descriptions. She is also […]
DPP Faculty Awarded Grant By NASA
Congratulations to Department of Public Policy (DPP) professor Nina Brooks who was recently awarded a NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change (LCLUC) grant alongside co-PI Dr. Tuholske from Columbia Climate School Earth Institute. Their project will provide information to support adaptation responses to extreme heat and LCLUC. Specifically the team will look at women in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) […]
DPP Professor and Alumna Work to Enhance Equity in State Government
On behalf of the Connecticut Governor’s Council on Women and Girls, Professor Mohamad Alkadry and MPA Fellow alumna Tara Downes have been studying the State of CT workforce. They previously studied representation and compensation. That report focused on representation of women and people of color in different State agencies. The report also focused on pay equity. The […]
DPP Faculty Research Citizens’ Willingness to Pay for Public Services
Department of Public Policy (DPP) faculty Eric J. Brunner, Mark D. Robbins, and Bill Simonsen’s on-going research in the broad area of citizen’ willingness to pay for public services has produced three published journal articles and one current working paper with additional papers in development. This research stream began with a paper examining bond referenda […]
Assistant Professor Nina Brooks Seeks to Reduce Pollution in Bangladesh
Assistant Professor Nina Brooks seeks to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by targeting the brick sector in Bangladesh. This fall she is launching a pilot study with collaborators from Stanford University, Delhi-based Greentech Knowledge Solutions Ltd, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh, and the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology […]
Fall 2021 New Faces of the DPP
This Fall semester the Department of Public Policy (DPP) welcomes 131 new masters, certificate, and undergraduate students as well as four additional members of the DPP faculty. Over 35 undergraduate institutions are represented among our Master of Public Administration (MPA), MPA Fellows, Master of Public Policy (MPP), and Survey Research (MASR) programs. Students previously completed […]
DPP Professors Win Grant from the NCGVR for Firearm Violence Prevention
The Department of Public Policy (DPP) is pleased to announce that Dr. Jennifer Necci Dineen and Dr. Kerri M. Raissian are part of a research group awarded a grant from the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR), and their work has funding support from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Dr. Dineen and Dr. Raissian […]
DPP Professor Named ODI Faculty Affiliate
The Office for Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) Faculty Affiliates program was piloted during the 2020-2021 academic year, with plans to sponsor up to five affiliates for the upcoming year. Affiliates commit to a minimum of one year of service in this role with opportunities to be renewed. According to the ODI Faculty Affiliate page: The […]