Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy

MOSH N' MINGLE: Exploring Third Spaces Through the New Brunswick DIY Basement Show Scene
2024-11-15 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Busch Student Center Multipurpose Room, 604 Bartholomew Rd, Piscataway, 08854, United States
The vibrant and gritty New Brunswick DIY scene offers the opportunity to get involved with the local music community, serving as an integral counterculture third space for young adults—especially among women, queer, and people of color communities looking for an inclusive, engaging, and creative outlet.
By applying an urban planning lens, we examine the intersections between third spaces and the basement show scene as community hubs for social interaction, fostering a sense of belonging, self-expression, and connection.
Whether you’re an avid show-goer, urban planning nerd, or just someone curious to learn more, this three-part symposium is the perfect chance to connect with others who share a passion for community-building.

Virtual Information Session: Graduate Program in Public Informatics
2024-11-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the – Bloustein School’s fall 2024 virtual information sessions for our Master of Public Informatics (MPI) degree and our Graduate Certificate in Urban and Public Informatics. Learn more the curriculum for our master’s degree and graduate certificate, how to apply, career services support for students and scholarship opportunities.
The GRE is WAIVED for all 2025 applications. Work experience is not required for applications to the program. The application deadline for spring 2025 admission is November 1st. The application deadline for fall 2025 admission with academic scholarship consideration is January 15th. The MPI is a STEM-designated master’s program.
All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom.
RSVP required at https://go.rutgers.edu/ejbmpiinfo

Bloustein Research Seminar Series: Land Brokers, Land Officials, and the Difficult and Speculative Business of Land Value Capture
2024-11-14 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Mi Shih, Ph.D, Bloustein School Associate Professor
This venue will enable our faculty to share research, build community, and extend our networks. Pizza will be served. Bloustein faculty, advanced PhD students, and external speakers will present research talks. The seminar series is open to the entire Bloustein community.

CAREERS: Interviewing Best Practices
2024-11-13 16:30 - 17:45 | Virtual
Join Bloustein Career Management Specialists, Cheryl Egan and Andrea Garrido, for a one hour virtual workshop to sharpen your interviewing skills in preparation for upcoming internship and job interviews! We will review behavioral based interviews and the STAR approach, virtual interviews, other types of interviews to expect, as well as how to prepare for these interviews. Be sure to tell us if you have specific questions or topics you’d like for us to cover when registering.
RSVP HERE

Meck Memorial Lecture--Not the Master’s Tools: 5,000 years of Money, Credit, and Community Banking
2024-11-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by
Oscar Perry Abello
Senior Economics Correspondent, Next City
While the laws, regulations, and structure of banking greatly influence land use, urban planning and housing, banking itself is poorly understood—even by many who work in banking. Looking around today, it may seem like big banks have always lorded over the economy, but in reality, it was community banks that did the bulk of the work to finance the expansion of infrastructure, homes, small businesses and industries that built the cities and rural economies that make up our country today. Even less understood is how the pattern of local ownership and local control over the banking system that helped build this country is part of a pattern that has shown up in thriving cultures and societies going back 5,000 years, to the very earliest written records of human activity we have found so far. While it is true, as Audre Lorde wrote, that the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house, banking and money and credit were never the master’s tools to begin with. It’s time for communities to take them back again.
Oscar Perry Abello is currently the senior economic justice correspondent for Next City, an independent, not-for-profit, online publication covering cities from the lens of social, racial, and environmental justice. He is also the author of The Banks We Deserve: Reclaiming Community Banking for a Just Economy, forthcoming in February 2025 from Island Press. Oscar’s writing has also appeared in Yes! Magazine, City & State New York, Impact Alpha, Shelterforce, and other outlets. Oscar is a child of immigrants descended from the former colonial subjects of the Spanish and U.S. imperial regimes in the Philippines. He was born in New York City, and raised in the inner-ring suburbs of Philadelphia. He has a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University, majoring in economics and minoring in peace and justice studies. He spent several years embedded in the international development industry before transitioning into journalism full-time in 2015. He currently lives in New York City with his domestic partner and the two most photogenic kitties in the world.
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Ph.D. Colloquium: Practice APPAM Talks
2024-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States

Virtual Information Session: Master of Health Administration
2024-11-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-10-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the Rutgers – Bloustein School’s Master of Health Administration (MHA) program during the Fall 2024 semester. We are excited to share helpful information about the Bloustein School, the residential Master of Health Administration program (MHA), and answer any questions you may have regarding admissions, applications, career opportunities in the field and the curriculum. Program faculty and staff will be on hand to answer all your questions.

Applications to the RMHA program do NOT require the GREs. Work experience is not required of applicants. The application deadline for fall / September 2025 admission is July 1st. The application for spring 2025 / January 2025 admission is November 1st.

All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom.

RSVP required at https://go.rutgers.edu/ejbmhainfo

Rutgers Climate Symposium 2024: Signals – Climate Change Communication for Understanding and Action
2024-11-13 09:00 - 15:00 | Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The Rutgers Climate Symposium fosters collaboration among researchers and students across all disciplines from institutions in the Mid-Atlantic region who are interested in climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency, or other approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
FEATURING

Katherine Blunt, Author and Journalist
William Hallman, Distinguished Professor of Human Ecology, Rutgers University
Benjamin Santer, Atmospheric Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute & University of California at Los Angeles
Julia Watson, Landscape Designer, Julia Watson LLC & Lo-TEK Institute

Poster abstracts due November 1, 2024.
Register to attend in person by November 7.
Posters can be on any scholarly climate change research.
Symposium free for students, faculty and staff of academic and research institutions. Complete details at https://ruclimatesymposium.rutgers.edu/

Virtual Information Session: Graduate Program in Public Policy
2024-11-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for Rutgers Bloustein School’s Master of Public Policy (MPP), Master of Public Affairs and Politics (MPAP), and Graduate Certificate in Public Policy. Learn more about the curriculum for our master’s degrees in public policy, as well as our graduate certificate, how to apply, career services support for students, and scholarship opportunities.
The GRE is WAIVED for all 2025 applications. The application deadline for spring 2025 admission is November 1st. The application deadline for fall 2025 admission with academic scholarship consideration is January 15th.
All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom.
RSVP required at https://go.rutgers.edu/ejbppinfo

Bloustein School Headshot Day
2024-11-12 14:00 - 18:00, 2024-10-29 12:00 - 16:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Need a new LinkedIn photo or headshot? We invite members of the Bloustein School community including faculty, staff, instructors, master’s and undergraduate students, Ph.D. candidates and visiting scholars to take advantage of one of our LinkedIn photo days offered in the fall and spring semesters.
No appointments/RSVPs are needed. All photos are taken from the waist up. Please follow the instructions given by the photographer.
All photos are made available at bloustein.rutgers.edu/ejbheadshots/

Virtual Career Drop-ins
2024-11-11 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-04 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-10-28 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Stop by virtually on Mondays (except for holidays) beginning September 9th through December 16th between 11 am and 1 pm to ask a quick (15 min) career-related question of Bloustein Career Development Specialists Cheryl Egan and Andrea Garrido.
URL: https://go.rutgers.edu/EJBcareerdropin

Careers in Housing & Community Development Alumni Networking Event
2024-11-08 17:30 - 19:30 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Are you interested in working in the housing and community development field?
Are you already IN the field and want to add to your connections?
Bloustein School students and alumni are invited to join us for an evening of learning and networking with industry professionals and fellow alumnus Rafay Kazmi MPP/MCRP ’19 at Enterprise Community Partners.
Space is limited, RSVP is required.

Real Estate Club Speaker Series
2024-11-05 19:30 - 21:00 | RBS 5087, 100 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, 08854, United States
🚨Huge Speaker Series!!🚨
Join us in listening to Eric Diamond (Partner, EisnerAmper) and 7 other professionals from audit, tax, outsourced services, fund admin, consulting, and more. He is the firm’s National Real Estate Audit Leader and has significant experience in business combinations, asset acquisitions, purchase price allocations and valuations, mergers and acquisitions, reverse mergers, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, debt offerings, REIT compliance, revenue recognition and lease accounting.
This will be a great experience to hear from so many different careers in Real Estate as well as how accounting plays a role in all Real Estate transactions.

Ph.D. Colloquium: Practice ACSP Talks
2024-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States

All NYC-Region Planning Schools Virtual Open House
2024-10-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual
Are you passionate about making cities more livable, equitable, and sustainable? Do you want to create healthy spaces for people of all generations and backgrounds? Do you want to help decarbonize cities and help them adapt to a changing climate? Are you concerned about congestion, gentrification, displacement, and the lack of affordable housing?
Consider a field that starts with people and unites policy, design, economics, environment, and society: Urban Planning! Planning students learn how and why cities function, strategies to transform cities, and skills like design software, economic modeling, and facilitation. Develop your career in government, the private sector, or with non-government agencies helping communities in the U.S. or abroad.
Hear from alumni and practitioners about why they chose planning, and from faculty and staff of the eight planning and urban design programs in the New York region about what makes their programs unique.
RSVP REQUIRED

Queerly Disabled Panel Discussion: Policy, Pride, and Possibility – Queer and Disabled Voices in Advocacy
2024-10-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
Join Garden State Equality and the Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy for a student-moderated panel with some of New Jersey’s leading queer and disabled professionals. This community event will focus on lived experiences and the future direction of policymaking at the intersection of disability and LGBTQIA+ rights. Open to all, this VIRTUAL discussion will provide valuable insights into advancing inclusive policies for these populations.
Please register in advance to facilitate smooth event planning and ensure access for all participants. This event is VIRTUAL ONLY.
If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please call Julia Sass Rubin at 848-932-5475 or email jlsrubin@rutgers.edu in advance of your participation.

Public Policy Listening Session
2024-10-30 16:15 - 17:45 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The Public Policy Listening Session is an open and informal forum discussion for students to provide feedback, offer suggestions, and hear the most up to date news about the program.
Hosted by Julia Sass Rubin, Public Policy Program Director; Iman Basit, VP of Public Policy Program for Bloustein Graduate Student Association; Courtney Culler, Associate Director for Graduate Student Services; and Greg Marrero, Student Counselor for Graduate Student Services.
RSVP HERE

Queerly Disabled Student Workshop: Intersections of Identity - Exploring the Overlapping Needs of Queer and Disabled Communities
2024-10-30 16:00 - 17:30 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Join Garden State Equality and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in examining the intersection of disability policy and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in New Jersey.
This workshop for students will focus on the shared identities and needs of queer and disabled communities. Through a comprehensive presentation, interactive exercise, and open discussion, participants will explore the unique challenges faced by those at the intersection of these identities and learn how to advocate for more inclusive policies that address their overlapping needs.
Free and open to students. RSVP HERE.
If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please call Julia Sass Rubin at 848-932-5475 or email jlsrubin@rutgers.edu in advance of your participation.

Bloustein Research Seminar Series: TBA
2024-10-30 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Irina Grafova, Ph.D, Bloustein School Associate Professor
This venue will enable our faculty to share research, build community, and extend our networks. Pizza will be served. Bloustein faculty, advanced PhD students, and external speakers will present research talks. The seminar series is open to the entire Bloustein community.

Ph.D. Colloquium: A History of Local Racial Housing Covenants and Federal Housing Policies
2024-10-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Professor Jermaine Toney

2024 ACHE-NJ Fall Congress
2024-10-30 10:00 - 16:00 | Cook Campus Center, 59 Biel Road, New Brunswick, 08901
The Bloustein School Health Administration program is pleased to co-host the 2024 ACHE-NJ Fall Conference on Wednesday, October 30, 10am-4pm at the Cook Campus Center.
RSVP HERE
AGENDA
10 – 10:30 am: Registration
10:30 am-12:00 pm: Panel 1: Leading Through Mergers and Acquisitions
Moderator: Kenneth N. Sable, MD, MBA, FACEP
Regional President, Southern Market, Hackensack Meridian Health
Panelists:
Ann B. Gavzy, Esq.
EVP, Co-Chief Legal Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health
Leslie D. Hirsch, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer, Saint Peter’s Health
Kevin J Slavin
Former CEO, St. Joseph’s Health
12:00 – 12:30 pm: Lunch
12:30 – 2:00 pm: Panel 2: Strategies to Create Meaningful Executive Alignment with Physicians and Organizational Financial Goals
Moderator: Mark D. Sparta, PT, MPA, FACHE
President, Northern Region, Hackensack Meridian Health
Panelists:
Donald Callahan, MBA, FACMPE
SVP, Joint Venture Operations, RWJBarnabas Health
Dean Q. Lin, MHA, MBA
External Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Jane Kaye, MBA
Associate Teaching Professor, Rutgers University
2:15 – 3:45 pm: Panel 3: Meeting the Needs of Healthcare Consumers
Moderator: Jess Backofen
Chief Development Officer, University Hospital
Panelists:
Regina M. Foley, PhD, MBA, RN
Exec.VP, Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Clinical Transformation & Integration Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health
Chrisie Scott, MBA
SVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Virtua Health
Eric Steinberger, MBA
VP Marketing and Communications, Atlantic Health System

Virtual Information Session: Master of City and Regional Planning
2024-10-30 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the Rutgers – Bloustein School’s Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) program during the Fall 2024 semester. We are excited to share helpful information about the Bloustein School, the MCRP program, and answer any questions you may have regarding admissions, applications, career opportunities in the field and the curriculum. Program faculty and staff will be on hand to answer all your questions. Each session will last approximately 1 hour.

The GRE has been WAIVED for all 2025 applications. Work experience is not required of applicants. The application deadline for spring 2025 admission is November 1st. The application deadline for fall 2025 admission WITH consideration for academic scholarship and fellowship funding is January 15th.
All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom.

RSVP required at: https://go.rutgers.edu/ejbmcrpinfo

New Brunswick Alumni Mixer
2024-10-29 17:30 - 19:30 | Harvest Moon Brewery, 392 George Street, New Brunswick, 08901, United States
We invite you to join us for a Bloustein School alumni mixer in New Brunswick, NJ on Tuesday, October 29 at Harvest Moon Brewery.
Reconnect with Bloustein alumni and friends, enjoy some apps and a free drink while you network with Bloustein alumni from the area!
Available parking garages in New Brunswick can be found here. NBPAC, Morris Street, and New Street are all a short walk to the restaurant. Harvest Moon is located at 392 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ.
Please RSVP to Madison Welch for this event.

Graduate Society of Healthcare Leaders: Halloween Mixer
2024-10-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Wear your best costume and join us for the Graduate Society of Healthcare Leaders Halloween Mixer! Networking, games, food, prizes and more!!!!
RSVP REQUIRED

Fall 2024 Meet & Greet/Career Fair: Planning/Policy/Informatics
2024-10-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Join us for a hybrid Meet & Greet/Career Fair featuring employers and Bloustein alumni who will be conducting information sessions about their organization and their internship and job opportunities. Participating employers include AECOM, Cambridge Systematics, HNTB, Choose New Jersey, NJOLS, and GAO, among others, including those who are still registering! This is open to undergraduate and graduate planning, policy and informatics students. More information including participating employers will be sent upon registration, prior to the event.
IN PERSON from 10-12 pm, Bloustein Civic Square Building
VIRTUAL from 1-400 pm.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Fostering Health Equity by Creating Equitable Housing: An Anchor Institution’s Journey
2024-10-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Kenneth Morris, Jr., MHA, MA
Vice President, External Affairs, St. Joseph’s Health
View Video Here
Supportive housing is a groundbreaking concept that combines affordable housing with essential services to provide stability, autonomy, and dignity to people grappling with complex challenges. The New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) Hospital Partnership Subsidy Pilot Program revolutionized the affordable housing landscape by leveraging hospital equity with the 4% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program to establish affordable housing developments near hospital campuses, catering specifically to frequent users of hospital services.
Recognizing the pivotal role of stable, affordable housing in healthcare, St. Joseph’s Health, in collaboration with HMFA and local agencies, opened Barclay Place, the first supportive affordable housing development in New Jersey. Launched in 2023, Barclay Place, located near St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, offers vulnerable families and individuals the opportunity to rent affordable apartments and access vital supportive services St. Joseph’s Health provides. This innovative initiative embodies a new era of compassionate and comprehensive care, empowering individuals, and families to thrive in a nurturing and supportive environment.
As Vice President of External Affairs at St. Joseph’s Health, Kenneth M. Morris, Jr., MHA, MA, oversees operations at the Paterson, Wayne, and Totowa, NJ campuses. In this role, he manages Government Affairs, Community Outreach and Engagement, the System’s Regional Health Coalition, the Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program, and WIC, as well as a portfolio of the System’s real estate holdings. Over his 43-year career at St. Joseph’s, Ken has developed programs to enhance healthcare access for underprivileged residents in Passaic County. Notably, he spearheaded the creation of the first supportive affordable housing development in New Jersey, addressing social determinants of health.
The Ruth Ellen Steinman Bloustein and Edward J. Bloustein Memorial Lecture was established to honor the memory of these two extraordinary individuals. It celebrates the values and interests Ruth Ellen and Ed cherished and cultivated throughout their lives: the study and preservation of animal species and the natural environment, the celebration of love, happiness, and laughter as tools of clinical medicine, and the exploration and promotion of humane values, which they believed were woven in the fabric of Judaic tradition and passed down from generation to generation.
