Graduate Student Research Program
Externally funded research projects play a major role at the Center. These projects involve graduate students who work with faculty as apprentices to gain experience, field-work credentials and publication records. Many of our graduate associates have become successful policy analysts and academic researchers.
Prospective graduate students who wish to be involved in the research activities of the Center for Policy Research must first apply to and be accepted by one of the graduate programs at Syracuse University, typically the Maxwell School's Departments of Public Administration, Economics, Political Science, or Sociology, but also the Social Science Program and other disciplinary doctoral programs. Those students to whom the departments or the CPR decide to award assistantships are then matched with faculty members on the basis of the student's stated research interests and research project needs. Graduate associates assigned to one of the Center's faculty receive mentoring and office space, as well as access to other resources and activities within the Center.
