Faculty

Research Interests: leadership, school leadership and partnerships, charter schools, communities and poverty, children and families, early childhood and literacy, migration and migrant workers, women and leadership

Courses: Leadership and Communication Skills, Directed Study, Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement in Schools, Theory and History of Community Development

Research Interests: local knowledge, informal organizations, local networks, urban neighborhoods, urban policy, New Orleans, Camden, Philadelphia

Courses: Local Knowledge: City Policy in New Orleans and Camden, International Economic Development, Qualitative Research Methods, Camden and the Greater Philadelphia Region

Research Interests: development and civil society, with an emphasis on participatory governance, urban politics and Latin America

Courses: International Economic Development, Colloquium on Poverty Alleviation Strategies, IPSD Capstone, Introduction to Global Urbanization

Research Interests: public finance and budgeting, education finance and policy, public management, tax policy.

Courses: Foundations of Policy Analysis, Financial Management, Introduction to Public Budgeting, Quantitative Methods I, and Research Methods

Research Interests: inequality, geographic concentration of poverty, residential segregation by race and class, educational attainment and economic mobility

Courses: Quantitative Methods I, Quantitative Methods II, Limited and Categorical Dependent Variables

Research Interests: public sector employment relations, labor unions, public policy

Courses: Labor Management Relations, Human Resource Management, Public & Nonprofit Management, Organizational Behavior, Ethics in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors

Research Interests: economic development, local government

Courses: Public and Nonprofit Management, Research Workshop, Leadership & Communication

Research Interests: Social Equity, Disaster Management, Nonprofits, Race, Local Government

Courses: Human Resource Management

Research Interests: inequality and poverty; American and urban politics and policy; voting rights; social movements; race, ethnicity and class; immigration

Courses: Theory and History of Community Development, The Solidarity Economy, Politics of Community Development, Poverty and the Urban Environment, Democracy and The Right to Vote

Research Interests: inequality, preferences for redistribution, urban and rural issues, cultural, values and religion, happiness, quality of life, life satisfaction

Courses: Data Management | Quantitative Methods I, Quantitative Methods II, Research Methods, Urban and Regional Economic Development, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Research Interests: race, ethnicity, and public administration; diversity management; representative bureaucracy; race and ethnic politics; education policy

Courses: Foundations of Policy Analysis, Human Resources Management, Race and Public Administration, Research Workshop

Research Interests: urban planning, community development, inequality and poverty, environmental justice, and social innovation

Courses: Practicum in Community Development, Urban and Regional Revitalization, Planning, Markets and Community Development

Research Interests: Nonprofit Performance and Accountability, Organizational Sustainability, Community Development, and Urban Economic Development

Courses: Designing and Managing Nonprofit Organizations and Foundations of Policy Analysis