At a national gathering known for shaping how public budgets and policies take form, Prakash Kandel, PhD candidate in Public Affairs/Community Development, and Michael Hayes, Graduate Program Director of the Public Administration (MPA) program, brought New Jersey’s cannabis policy landscape into a broader public finance conversation. The Association for Budgeting and Financial Management conference in… continue reading
First Prize in the 2025 Patty Friedmann Creative Writing Competition is a significant national honor, and this year the award recognizes Creative Writing MFA student Katrina “Kat” Echevarría Richter for her essay “Becoming Boriqua.” The competition is presented by LMNL, a New Orleans–based literary and arts organization that hosts the annual Words and Music Festival… continue reading
When a family loses someone to homicide, the last thing they should face is a system that questions their right to relief. Yet Daniel Semenza, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Camden and Director of Interpersonal Violence Research at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center, has found… continue reading
Featured in TAPinto Camden, Emely Cuevas Alcantara shares how her journey from the Dominican Republic to Rutgers–Camden shaped the teacher she’s becoming. Written and photographed by Janel “Jaycee” Miller, “Camden Student Teacher Proudly Discusses How Hispanic Heritage Helped Shape Her Career Goals” follows Cuevas Alcantara, now pursuing her Teacher Education (MAT) degree, as she draws… continue reading
When Oriana Holmes-Price worked with NJPIRG as an undergraduate at Rutgers–Camden, she discovered a passion for advocating on behalf of environmental issues affecting her home state of New Jersey. Now, as a master’s student in the Public Affairs/Community Development program, she has turned that passion into action as Coordinator of External Affairs for Attentive Energy,… continue reading
Who said you can’t go back home again? On Monday, November 3, the Graduate School team will be back at the Graduate School House, 211 N. 5th Street – just in time for the end-of-year festivities. From October 13 through November 3, we’ve been based at 67 Penn Street while work began on the Cooper… continue reading
