From the Dean’s Desk
This year, the COLA community more than met the moment.
This year, the COLA community more than met the moment.
The Concord Monitor recently reported on a rise in racial tensions at a middle school in Concord. A facilitator from NH Listens – a civic engagement initiative based at the Carsey School of Public Policy – will visit the school to work with middle schoolers on topics of race and racism.
The Civil Discourse Lab uses research, teaching and community engagement to drive meaningful conversations.
They’ve succeeded at UNH. Next stop: the world.
Patch.com recently reported on the recent impact of the release of the New Hampshire School Funding Study – a joint initiative of the Carsey School of Public Policy and NH Commission to Study School Funding.
Forbes writer Geri Stengel recently penned a column on women venture capitalists and the challenges presented by Covid-19 as male VC's retreated to their habit of investing in male founders but not females. Stengel writes about associationsÌýand organizations that have developed programs to address the underreprsentation of women as venture capital decision-makers.
Jess Carson, a research professor at the Univeristy of New Hampshire's Carsey School of Public Policy, was recently quoted in The Laconia Daily Sun regarding her research on how the pandemic has highlighted the frail childcare infrastructure in the United States.
Michele Holt-Shannon, director and co-founder of New Hampshire Listens at the UNH Carsey School of Public Policy, was interviewed by the Granite State News Collaborative on why there are numerous reasons that New Hampshire's young people are not as civically engaged as older Granite Staters. And as she points out, it's not because they don't want to be more engaged.
UNH students are inducted into prestigious honor society.
With new NSF funding, UNH's Prevention Innovations Research Center will launch and pilot a new violence prevention and safety app targeted to high school students and administrators.