Here in New Jersey, incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is portraying GOP challenger Tom Kean Jr. as a blind supporter of the president, while the Republican keeps hammering at the Democrats alleged past coziness to Hudson Countys political machine and some questionable financial dealings. Still, all politics is local, and here the polls point to the states highest-in-the-nation property taxes as the electorates No. 1 concern.
The following faculty from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, are prepared to provide insight and analysis to your campaign coverage as you help prepare readers, viewers and listeners for Nov. 7, Election Day 2006.
ECONOMY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ROBERT BURCHELL is a distinguished professor and co-director at the Center for Urban Policy Research, part of Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. He can discuss:
Contact Burchell at 732-932-3133, ext. 542 (office), or Burchell@ rci.rutgers.edu.
HENRY COLEMAN is a professor and past director of the Center for Government Services, part of Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. He is acting director of the New Jersey Public Policy Institute. An economist, he is one of the countrys leading experts in the area of government finance. He can discuss:
Contact Coleman at 732-932-2499, ext. 616 (office), or hcoleman@rci.rutgers.edu.
JAMES W. HUGHES is a professor of urban planning and dean of Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. He is director and
co-author of many Rutgers Regional Reports that have documented employment and other socioeconomic trends in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. Hughes has taught Housing Economics and Markets and courses in demography. He can discuss:
Contact Hughes at 732-932-5475, ext. 756 (office), or jwhughes@rci.rutgers.edu.
JOSEPH J. SENECA, an economist, is university professor at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is chairman of the New Jersey Council of Economic Advisers. From 1976 until 1990, he chaired the Economic Policy Council of New Jersey, an independent commission that provided nonpartisan economic analysis to both Democratic and Republican administrations. He is co-author of many Rutgers Regional Reports. He can discuss:
environmental health and environmental protection, housing and business
Contact Seneca at 732-932-5475, ext. 757 (office), or seneca@rci.rutgers.edu.
EDUCATION
W. STEVEN BARNETT is director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) and a professor of public policy and education at Rutgers Graduate School of Education and at the Graduate School-New Brunswick. Barnett has written numerous articles and books on the long-term benefits of early childhood education. He has also written on the economics of school reform and has taught a course on the economics of education. He can discuss:
Contact Barnett at 732-932-4350, ext. 228 (office), or sbarnett@nieer.org.
HAROLD BEDER is a professor in the Rutgers Graduate School of Educations department of educational theory, policy and administration. He also directs the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy at Rutgers (NCSALL-RU). His research examines the outcomes and effects of adult literacy education, and explores the teaching dynamics in adult education. He teaches an introductory course on adult and continuing education. He can discuss adult literacy programs in New Jersey within the states Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
Contact Beder at 732-932-7496, ext. 8213 (office), or hbeder@rci.rutgers.edu.
RICHARD DE LISI is dean of Rutgers Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick. He can discuss a variety of issues related to education, including the quality and accreditation of teacher training programs, and the need for teachers who are well educated in a specific subject area and well as trained in classroom skills. De Lisi has researched and written about gender differences in learning styles.
Contact De Lisi at 732-932-7084, ext. 8118 (office), or delisi@rci.rutgers.edu.
RICHARD DUSCHL is a professor at Rutgers Graduate School of Education who specializes in science education. He headed a national committee of education experts, funded by the National Academy of Sciences, which recently produced a report calling for radical changes in the way science is taught in the nations K-5 classrooms. He can discuss science education in schools, teaching future science teachers and No Child Left Behind as it relates to science education.
Contact Duschl at 732-932-7496, ext. 8111 (office), or rduschl@rci.rutgers.edu.
MAURICE ELIAS is a professor of psychology at Rutgers-New Brunswick. He is an expert in clinical, school and child/family psychology. He is nationally recognized for his development of social and emotional learning programs that train children in social decision-making and life skills to enhance education and reduce violence and disruptive behavior in schools.
Contact Elias at rutgersmje@aol.com or 732-445-2444 (office).
WILLIAM FIRESTONE is a professor of education in the department of educational theory, policy and administration at Rutgers Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick. He also directs the schools Center for Educational Policy Analysis (CEPA). He has extensively studied urban education in New Jersey and testing programs in New Jersey, the United States and other countries. He can discuss:
Contact Firestone at 732-932-7496, ext. 8231 (office), or wilfires@rci.rutgers.edu.
ED LIU is an assistant professor in the department of educational theory, policy and administration at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. His areas of expertise include teacher quality, recruitment, hiring and retention. He can discuss these areas as they relate to the federal No Child Left Behind Law.
Contact Liu at 732 932-7496, ext. 8309 (office), or ed.liu@rutgers.edu.
CATHERINE LUGG is an associate professor in the department of educational theory, policy and administration at Rutgers Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick. She is the associate director for the University Council for Educational Administrators. Lugg is the author of For God and Country: Conservatism and American School Policy and Kitsch: From Education to Public Policy. She can discuss:
Contact Lugg at 732-932-7496, ext. 8220 (office), or lugg@rci.rutgers.edu.
ANNELL SIMCOE is associate professor of education at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include policy and teacher education. For many years, she was director of teacher education. She can discuss:
Contact Simcoe at 732-932-7496, ext. 8134 (office), or simcoe@rci.rutgers.edu.
PAUL TRACTENBERG is professor at Rutgers School of Law-Newark and founding director of the Institute on Education Law and Policy. The institutes latest publication is, Dont Forget the Schools: Legal Considerations for Tax Reform, the second in a series of reports on education funding and tax reform. Tractenberg is the author of numerous publications on education law and a consultant to many national, regional and state organizations and agencies. He can comment on New Jersey education law, school finance and state tax policy.
Contact: Tractenberg at 973-353-5433 or tractnbg@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
ENVIRONMENT
CRAIG OREN is a professor of environmental law at the Rutgers School of Law-Camden, and has written extensively on the Clean Air Act. He has served as assistant counsel to the Subcommitee on Health and the Environment of the House Commerce Committee. He can discuss:
Contact Oren at 856-225-6365 (office) or oren@camden.rutgers.edu.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
HOOSHANG AMIRAHMADI is a professor of urban planning and policy development at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. His teaching and research interests include urban and regional economics, comparative regional policies, international and regional investments, and global restructuring. He is director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers. Amirahmadi is founder and president of the independent American Iranian Council (AIC). Among the courses he has taught is Global Restructuring, which explores changes in international politics and economics.
Amirahmadi can discuss terrorist forces in the Middle East, Iranian community support in the United States for antiterrorism policies and Iranian politics.
Contact Amirahmadi at 609-509-2999 or amirahma@rci.rutgers.edu.
ERIC DAVIS is a professor of political science at Rutgers-New Brunswick and past director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of the book Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Among the undergraduate courses he has taught are Contemporary Politics of the Middle East, Arab Politics and Society, Contemporary Politics of the Middle East, Advanced Topics in Middle Eastern Politics, Critical Perspectives on the Middle East and Culture and Revolution in the Middle East. In August, Davis was among a group to meet with President Bush, members of his cabinet, the Department of State and the military about the war and future in Iraq. He can discuss the political situation in Iraq and the prospects for democracy taking hold, and the ongoing efforts to secure peace in the Middle East.
Contact Davis at 732-932-9322 (office) or emdavis@rci.rutgers.edu.
ROY LICKLIDER is a professor of political science at Rutgers-New Brunswick. His research interests include foreign policy, terrorism and political response to terrorism, nation building and civil wars. He teaches undergraduate courses in American foreign policy, international relations and how civil wars end.
Contact Licklider at 732-932-9249 (office) or licklide@rci.rutgers.edu.
HEALTH CARE
JOEL CANTOR is director of the Center for State Health Policy, part of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers in New Brunswick. His research focuses on issues of health care financing and delivery at the state and local levels. His recent work includes studies of health insurance market regulation, access to care for low-income and minority populations, the health care safety net and the supply of physicians providing care to underserved populations.
Contact Cantor at 732-932-4653 (office) or jcantor@ifh.rutgers.edu.
STEPHEN CRYSTAL is chair of the Division on Aging and a research professor at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers in
New Brunswick. He is a health services researcher and sociologist who can discuss:
Contact Crystal at 732-932-8579 (office) or scrystal@rci.rutgers.edu.
DAVID FRANKFORD is a professor at Rutgers School of Law-Camden. He is faculty director of the Center for State Health Policy office at the Rutgers-Camden campus and associate editor of the Journal of Health Policy and Law. A widely published expert on health care policy and law, he can discuss:
Contact Frankford at 856-225-6412 (office) or frankfor@camden.rutgers.edu.
LEGAL ISSUES
FRANK ASKIN is founder and director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. He is an expert on constitutional law, election law, civil procedure and profiling. A member of the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union since 1969 and one of the ACLUs four general counsel since 1976, he is listed in Woodward & Whites Best Lawyers in America. Askin can comment on New Jersey civil rights issues, election law matters and on legal remedies that address public corruption.
Contact Askin at 973-353-3239 (office) or faskin@kinoy.rutgers.edu.
PENNY VENETIS is associate director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. She specializes in civil rights and international human rights impact litigation. A lawsuit brought by the clinic under her direction is the only one in the country challenging electronic voting machines to survive a motion to dismiss. Venetis can comment on concerns related to the use of electronic voting machines and New Jersey civil liberties issues.
Contact Venetis at 973-353-5687 or pennyv@kinoy.rutgers.edu.
MEDIA AND SPIN
MONTAGUE KERN is an associate professor of journalism and mass media at Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies in New Brunswick. She is an expert in mass media and elections, specifically in the communication processes operating in political advertising, and citizen use and interpretation of information. Kern can discuss:
Contact Kern at 732-932-7500, ext. 8163 (office), or mkern@scils.rutgers.edu.
BETH LEECH is an associate professor of political science at Rutgers-New Brunswick and a former journalist for Gannett and Cox newspapers in Texas, Ohio, South Dakota and Illinois. Her research areas include the media and interest groups. She teaches courses on interest groups and on mass media and democracy. Leech can comment on:
Contact Leech at 732-932-1918 (office) or leech@polisci.rutgers.edu.
ROBERT SNYDER is an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers-Newark and can provide sharp insight into media and spin. Snyder has an extensive record as both a working journalist and a media analyst. He has worked in newspapers, magazines and television, including as editor of Media Studies Journal a quarterly dedicated to analysis of the news media by journalists, scholars and informed commentators.
Contact Snyder at 973-353-5119, ext. 33 (office), or rwsnyder@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
POLITICS
CHRISTINE THURLOW BRENNER is an assistant professor in the department of public policy and administration at the Graduate School, Rutgers-Camden, and also director of the Forum for Policy Research and Public Service. Her current research explores local government responsiveness to the changing national demographics in the new Latino destinations in the United States.
Contact Brenner at 856-225-6131 (office) or ctbrenn@camden.rutgers.edu.
SUSAN CARROLL is a senior scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and a professor of political science and womens and gender studies at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Her interests include American politics and womens participation in politics. She can discuss:
Contact Carroll at 732-932-9384, ext. 235 (office), or scarroll@rci.rutgers.edu.
CYNTHIA DANIELS is an associate professor of political science and women's and gender studies at Rutgers-New Brunswick. She is the author of books including, Lost Fathers: The Politics of Fatherlessness in America and At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights, and co-editor of Homework: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home. She can discuss reproductive politics, reproductive policy and abortion.
Contact Daniels at 732-932-1919 (office) or crd@rci.rutgers.edu.
FRANK FISCHER is a professor of political science at Rutgers-Newark. He teaches courses on the American presidency and the policy-making process. His research interests include presidential politics, political party politics, foreign policy (especially U.S.-European relations, Iraq) and environmental policy. He can discuss:
Contact Fischer at 973-353-5105, ext. 5171 (office), or fischer@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
RUSSELL HARRISON is an associate professor of political science at Rutgers-Camden. His research interests focus on state and local government issues of the types facing officials in New Jersey, such as inequality of public school finance, exclusionary zoning and the need for professionalization of the public sector. He teaches courses in state and local government, and surveys and policy research in government and law. He can discuss:
Contact Harrison at 856-225-2973 (office) or russellharrison@msn.com.
ELIZABETH LISA ANNE HULL is an associate professor of political science at Rutgers-Newark. She teaches courses in American government and public law. She can discuss most aspects of elections and politics, especially issues involving race and civil liberties.
Contact Hull at 973-353-1324 (office), eahull@andromeda.rutgers.edu, or eahull47@hotmail.com.
RUTH MANDEL is director of Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick, and a Board of Governors Professor of Politics. She formerly directed the Center for American Women and Politics at the institute and remains affiliated as a senior scholar. She teaches Women in American Politics to undergraduates and has taught courses on women and political leadership. She can discuss:
Contact Mandel at 732 932-9384, ext. 228 (office), or rmandel@rci.rutgers.edu.
GILDA MORALES is project manager for information services at the Center for American Women and Politics, part of Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics. She can discuss statistics relating to women candidates and elected officeholders.
Contact Morales at 732-932-9384, ext. 264 (office), or gmm@rci.rutgers.edu.
GERALD POMPER is an emeritus Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick and specializes in American politics and elections. He edited and contributed to a series of books about presidential elections from 1976 to 2000. Among the undergraduate courses he has taught are American Party Politics and The Practice of Politics (a seminar). He has taught the graduate proseminars American Institutions and Policy and Political Parties. He can discuss:
Contact Pomper at 732-932-9384, ext. 222 (office), or gpomper@rci.rutgers.edu.
INGRID REED is director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics New Jersey Project at Rutgers-New Brunswick. The project aims to coordinate, strengthen and expand the
institutes efforts to assist individuals, organizations and governments in shaping New Jerseys political agenda. She has organized the Eagleton effort for better New Jersey campaigns since the Eagleton Forum in 1997. Reed has taught New Jersey: The Case Study of a State in the Federal System. She can discuss:
Contact Reed at 732-932-9384, ext. 232 (office), 609-610-3312 or ireed@rci.rutgers.edu.
ALAN ROSENTHAL is a professor of public policy at Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics. He has collaborated in activities with the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation. He is an expert on legislative ethics and in New Jersey, chaired the Ad Hoc Commission on Legislative Ethics and Campaign Finance.
Contact Rosenthal at 732-932-9384, ext. 251 (office), or
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MARY SEGERS is a political science professor at Rutgers-Newark. She can comment extensively on many aspects of American politics, with special emphasis on the often-volatile collision of religion and politics in public policy, such as the stem cell debate, and issues of special significance to women, such as abortion rights. She teaches courses on religion and politics, and has written widely on the topic. Segers books include A Wall of Separation? Debating the Role of Religion in American Public Life (1998), Piety, Politics and Pluralism: Religion, the Courts and the 2000 Election and Abortion Politics in American States (1995, co-edited with Timothy Byrnes).
Contact Segers at 973-353-5591 (office) or
MARA SIDNEY, assistant professor of political science, can discuss public policy, race and ethnicity, and urban politics, housing discrimination, affordable housing and urban education. Sidney also studies political struggles to advance racial equality, and the political role that nonprofit and community-based advocacy organizations play in them.
Contact Sidney at msidney@andromeda.rutgers.edu or 973-353-5787 (office).
DANIEL TICHENOR is an associate professor of political science at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Among the courses he teaches is The American Presidency. He can discuss:
Contact Tichenor at 732-932-9384, ext. 250, 732-932-6733 (both office) or tichen@rci.rutgers.edu.
DEBBIE WALSH is director of the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick. She can discuss womens political participation and difficulties encountered by women on the road to public office.
Contact Walsh at 732-932-9384, ext. 227 (office), or walsh@rci.rutgers.edu.
JOHN WEINGART is associate director of Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics. Before joining Eagleton, he worked for more than 20 years in New Jersey state government, serving in the administrations of two Democratic and two Republican governors. He served 19 years with the Department of Environmental Protection, where he held the positions of assistant commissioner, director and executive director. He also worked in a number of political campaigns and on the staff of two members of Congress.
He can discuss:
Contact Weingart at 732-932-9384, ext. 290 (office), 609-731-8897 or john.weingart@rutgers.edu.
POLLS
BARBARA BICKART is an associate professor of marketing at the Rutgers School of Business-Camden. She can discuss polling techniques and their strengths and weaknesses.
Contact Bickart at 856-225-6593 (office) or bickart@camden.rutgers.edu.
TIM VERCELLOTTI is assistant director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling (ECPIP) at Rutgers in New Brunswick. He designs questionnaires and analyzes data for the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. Prior to joining ECPIP, he was an assistant professor of political science and directed statewide polling at Elon (N.C.) University.
Contact Vercellotti at 732-932-9384, ext. 285 (office), or tim.vercellotti@rutgers.edu.
CLIFF ZUKIN is a professor of public policy and political science at Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics and Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Zukin is past president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. His research interests are in the fields of media, public opinion and survey research. His latest research project was a study of citizen engagement among four generational groups. A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life and the Changing American Citizen was published by Oxford University Press earlier this year. He can discuss:
Contact Zukin at 732-932-2499, ext. 712, 732-932-9384, ext. 247 (both office), or zukin@rci.rutgers.edu.
TRANSPORTATION
MARTIN E. ROBINS is director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. Robins, whose career in transportation policy and planning in the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan area spans nearly 30 years, served as project director of Access to the Regions Core, a three-agency planning partnership examining the need for a new rail transit tunnel between northern New Jersey and midtown Manhattan. Prior to that, he was director of NJ Transits Waterfront Transportation Office, which planned the Hudson-Bergen light rail line; director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jerseys Planning and Development Department; and deputy executive director of NJ Transit. He can discuss:
Contact Robins at 732-932-6812, ext. 697 (office), or merobins@rci.rutgers.edu.
CHRIS KOZUB is associate director, safety and security at the National Transit Institute
(NTI), part of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. NTI offers continuing professional education for those employed by the transit industry, including such courses as Infectious Disease Awareness and Prevention, Security Incident
Management for Transit Supervisors and System Security Awareness for commuter railroad, passenger vessel and transit employees.
Contact Kozub at 732-932-1700, ext. 249 (office), 732-261-4170 or ckozub@rci.rutgers.edu.
U.S. SUPREME COURT
MILTON HEUMMAN is a professor and former chair in the department of political science at Rutgers-New Brunswick. His principle research interests are in the area of legal process, criminal justice and civil liberties. He can discuss issues including the Patriot Act, the Bill of Rights and crime and politics.
Contact Heumann at 732-932-9265 (office) or heumann@rci.rutgers.edu.
VOTERS WITH DISABILITIES
DOUG KRUSE, professor of human resource management, and LISA SCHUR, associate professor of labor studies and employment relations, study the participation of disabled voters in elections. Their initial research, released in 1998, found that disabled citizens are 20 percent less likely to vote than nondisabled peers. Both are members of the faculty of Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick. Kruse teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in labor economics; Schur teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in labor and employment law. They can discuss:
Contact Kruse at 732-445-5991 (office) or dkruse@rci.rutgers.edu.
Contact Schur at 732-932-1743 (office) or lschur@rci.rutgers.edu.
WORKFORCE AND LABOR ISSUES
EILEEN APPELBAUM is a professor of labor and employment relations, and director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick. Her areas of expertise are work and family policy, both in the United States and globally; pay equity; high-performance work systems; and issues facing women who work in low-wage occupations.
Contact Appelbaum at 732-932-4614 (office) or eappelba@rci.rutgers.edu.
DAVID FINEGOLD is dean of Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick. Prior to joining Rutgers, he was a professor of strategy and organization studies at the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences in California. His research interests include the relationship between education and training and economic performance in advanced industrial societies, the changing employment relationship, factors creating effective corporate governance and pharmaceutical and biotech industries and ethics.
Contact Finegold at 732-445-5993 (office) or dfinegold@smlr.rutgers.edu.
LEO TROY is a professor of economics in Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Newark. A labor economist, he has testified before U.S. House and Senate committees on labor issues and politics. He teaches undergraduate courses including Industrial Relations, Labor Economics and The History of Economic Thought. He can discuss:
Contact Troy at 973-353-5259 (office) or leotroy@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
CARL VAN HORN is founding director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development and a professor of public policy at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. He is a widely recognized expert on workforce, human resources, and employment policy issues, with extensive experience in public and private sector policymaking. He can discuss:
Contact Van Horn at 732-932-4100, ext. 714 (office), or vanhorn@rci.rutgers.edu.
WILLIAM M. RODGERS III is a professor of economics at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and chief economist of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. He was chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor during the Clinton administration. His widely cited research examines issues in labor economics and the economics of social problems. In recent years, he has focused his research on the impact of the 1990s economic expansion on the earnings and employment of Americans, especially Americans of color.
Contact Rodgers at 732-932-4100, ext. 783 (office), or wrodgers@rci.rutgers.edu.
Contact: Steve Manas
732-932-7084, ext. 612
E-mail: smanas@ur.rutgers.edu
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