Policy Studies
Research by Economics Professor Mark Crain Featured in The Wall Street Journal
Research on state fiscal policies by Mark Crain, Simon Professor of Political Economy, has been featured in the Dec. 10 edition of The Wall Street Journal. The article, “How to Control State Spending,” looks at ways for state governments to limit budget growth including using the item-reduction veto, which allows a governor to single out [...]
Luke Calvano ’12 Earns Academic All-Patriot League Honors
Soccer player Luke Calvano ’12 (Eastampton, N.J.) has been selected to the Academic All-Patriot League Team. Calvano, a double major in policy studies and economics & business, maintains a 3.71 grade-point average. He is a three-time member of the dean’s list and a two-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll selection. He is a member of [...]
Get The Vibe: Students Produce Weekly News Show
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and students in Professor Mark Crain’s Economics of Elections course are scurrying around the set of The Vibe to tape this week’s news show. Check out the best of The Vibe. Kurumi Fukushima ’12 (Glen Ridge, N.J.) is making last-minute changes to the script on the teleprompter, Melissa Appelstein [...]
Students Premiere The Vibe News Show
The first airing of The Vibe, a new weekly student news broadcast, debuted tonight on the show’s website and is available for viewing. The Vibe YouTube channel The Vibe, which is run entirely by students, focuses on the upcoming elections, political news, campus issues and events, and includes interviews with successful alumni. Upcoming segments will [...]
Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 Featured in International Educator Magazine
Work by Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 and the College’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to develop locally sustainable drinking water resources in Malawi and Honduras has been featured in the July/August edition of International Educator magazine. The article, “Water, Water…Anywhere?” focused on students and faculty who are helping people in the [...]
A Life-Changing Experience
Megan Jones ’10 (Bridgewater, N.J.), a double major in policy studies and French, traveled to Madagascar in January with a group of nine other students to create and implement a mentoring program to facilitate Malagasy students’ admission to United States institutions of higher education. The Lafayette Initiative for Malagasy Education (LIME) pilot program is guided [...]
Students Travel to Madagascar to Launch Peer Mentoring Program
Students attending Lafayette have incredible educational opportunities at their fingertips, and now, they are working to help high school students in Madagascar gain access to higher education in the U.S. A group of 10 students traveled to Madagascar over the January interim to launch a pilot program called Lafayette Initiative for Malagasy Education (LIME). Megan [...]
Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom Will Visit Campus March 4
The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, she will discuss issues related to the governance of water resources Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, will be on campus March 4 to interact with students and discuss her research focusing on the governance of water [...]
Living and Learning Down Under
Marie Garofalo ’10 writes about her semester studying in Sydney, Australia Marie Garofalo ’10 (Randolph, N.J.), a double major in English and policy studies, spent the spring 2009 semester studying in Sydney, Australia, through a program run by Boston University. The following essay appeared in the fall edition of the university’s Sydney Shout! publication. Sydney, [...]
Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Charles Plosser Discusses National Economy at Policy Studies Forum
Speech has been featured in hundreds of national and international news outlets; read the transcript and view photos from the event Charles I. Plosser, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, presented the speech “Demystifying the Federal Reserve” during an economic summit hosted by the College’s policy studies program Sept. 29. Plosser’s [...]
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