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Message from the Dean |
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James W. Hughes
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The public policy world is experiencing a series of evolving challenges and dilemmas. Some of the planning and public policy imperatives facing the nation and state are the preparation of the workforce for an increasingly knowledge-dependent economy (including such critical issues as the implications of welfare to work, gender equity, and workplace literacy), the externalities of economic change (raising problems such as bypassed workers and persistent poverty), a rapidly changing economic geography (creating critical concerns such as suburban and exurban sprawl, growing traffic congestion, smart growth alternatives, brownfields redevelopment, and community and neighborhood investment), and the need for economic and social equity.
It is the goal of the Bloustein School to provide our students with an extraordinarily rewarding educational experience-one that will enable them to meet the challenges of the new millennium-while at the same time directly addressing critical issues through the highest-level scholarship, cutting-edge research initiatives, and extensive public policy service.
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