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Affiliated Faculty

 

Robert Bifulco
Associate Professor, Syracuse University

Dr. Bifulco is interested in how resources and institutions affect the access of disadvantaged individuals to educational opportunities.  He is also interested in methods of estimating the impacts educational programs.  He has conducted research on identifying low-performing schools, whole-school reform, and charter schools.  Current areas of interest include the effects of and interactions between school choice policies and racial segregation.

Deborah Freund
Professor of Public Administration and Economics, Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University. 

Dr. Freund's expertise is in health care policy and economics of health care.

Vernon Greene
Professor of Public Administration, and Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

Dr. Greene's interests are in social policy related to aging and gender, federalism and democratic theory, political and administrative implications of globalization, and political philosophy.

Jocelyn Johnston
Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, American University.


Bernard Jump
Emeritus Professor of Public Administration, and Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

Bernard Jump's interest is in the field of public finance  and public and non-profit financial management.

Andrew London
Assistant Professor Syracuse University, Department of Public Administration. 

Leonard M. Lopoo
Assistant Professor Syracuse University, Department of Public Administration. 

Dr. Lopoo studies social welfare policies in the United States and their influence on families, particularly low-income families.  His current research investigates the role that maternal employment plays in a variety of adolescent outcomes, including, but not limited to, their participation and performance in school, their involvement in extracurricular activities, and their fertility.

 
Anna Lukemeyer
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Dr. Lukemeyer is interested in education policy and finance, particularly in terms of the impact of reform litigation.


Jerry Miner
Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

Dr. Miner's interests include school aid formulas and efficiency of local schools.


John R. Ruggiero
Associate Professor,  University of Dayton.

Dr. Ruggiero's research focuses on quantitative analyses of performance in the public sector. His applied research in the area has analyzed school district performance and the subsequent implications for policy. Dr. Ruggiero has served as a consultant for the Ohio Department of Education.


Timothy M. Smeeding
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs, La Follette School of Public Affairs

Director, Institute for Research on Poverty

Dr. Smeeding's research interests include the economics of public policy, especially social policy and at-risk populations; national and cross-national comparisons of income and wealth inequality; poverty; social policy; and social mobility.

Vincent Tinto
Distinguished University Professor, Chair, Higher Education Program, School of Education, Syracuse University.

Dr. Tinto, has written extensively on higher education, particularly on student retention and the impact of learning communities on student growth and attainment. His book, "Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition" is considered the benchmark by which work on student retention is judged. He serves as a consultant to a wide range of federal and state agencies, independent research firms, foundations, and two and four-year institutions of higher education on a broad range of issues. The topics he addresses, in particular, are the study of student attainment in the United States and the retention and education of differing students in diverse higher educational settings. 


Michael Wasylenko
Associate Dean, Professor of Economics, Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Dean Wasylenko, has interests in economic development within U.S. cities and in developing countries, and in state and local public economics. Primary and secondary educational opportunities play an important role in economic development. Financing directing education benefits to underserved populations are an important focus of his research.