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Events The following items represent selected headlines from 2006. Please view the Newsroom Archives for selected headlines from previous years. November 2007 Dr. George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics & Social Policy, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, discussed “Immigration Policy and The Economic Impact of Immigration.” Borjas’ teaching and research interests focus on the impact of government regulations on labor markets, with an emphasis on the economic impact of immigration. He is the author of Wage Policy in the Federal Bureaucracy; Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy; Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy; and the textbook Labor Economics. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Economics and Health & Policy Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, the seminar was the last in the Social Policy Series in 2007. Listen to the Seminar and Question and Answer Session that followed. October 2007 Dr. Douglas J. Krupka, a senior research associate at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany, discussed "Mixed-Income Neighborhoods: Past, Present, and Future" in the first event in this year's Social Policy Seminar Series. The topic was especially timely given Baltimore's recent passage of a landmark "Inclusionary Housing Bill," which requires developers to set aside a fraction of units for affordable housing in new developments and Krupka, who has been doing important work on mixed-income neighborhoods, provided insights into the city's new legislation. Audio files of Krupka’s remarks and the question and answer period that followed can be found by clicking HERE. September 2007 Scott Stossel, managing editor of Atlantic Monthly, delivered the inaugural lecture of the 2007 Press & Public Policy Seminar Series. During his discussion of “The Journalism of Ideas,” Stossel examined the role of the media in influencing public policy, ranging from its education function to its shaping of ideas and opinions. Through case studies gleaned from recently published articles with Atlantic Monthly, he illustrated the differences between the journalism of record or daily news and the journalism of ideas, which he believes plays a crucial role in examining and challenging not only the origins of conventional wisdom, but also the intended or unintended consequences that occur when ideas are put into action. Audio files of Stossel’s remarks and the question and answer period that followed can be found by clicking HERE.
June 2007 Thirty-nine fellows and their guests attended the 37th Annual Conference of International Urban Fellows held in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland. Through expert-guided walking tours and presentations by local historians, architects, government officials, developers, festival organizers, and community representatives, the fellows gained insights for a lively discussion of the history and future of Edinburgh's development. A day in Glasgow gave the fellows a windshield and pedestrian view of the nascent redevelopment along the Clyde riverfront, as well as neighborhood and social transformation efforts. In both cities, the settings for the meetings were highly evocative: Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow Herald building in Glasgow (now the Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City); the Scottish Parliament Building (the newest addition to the Royal Mile in the old town, designed by a Catalan architect); the Scottish Storytelling Center; and several lovely Georgian townhouses converted to the Scottish Arts Club and the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Conference host Ian Appleton, Urban Fellow 1972, and his wife, Marjorie are architects who live and practice in the new town area of Edinburgh. Click here for information on additional seminars and events . November 2007 David Altschuler was the close-out plenary speaker and a workshop presenter at the Conference on the Rehabilitation of Youth Offenders, sponsored by the Singapore Ministry of Community Development, Youth, and Sports (MCYS), held in Singapore. He also trained staff of the Residential and Aftercare Services Branch of MCYS. November 2007 Lester Salamon presented, “Florida’s Nonprofit Sector: An Economic Force,” at the Florida Philanthropic Network in Miami, Florida and “New Studies on the Nonprofit Workforce from the Listening Post Project,” at ARNOVA’s 36th annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. He presented, “10 Great Myths of Global Civil Society,” at the Growth of the Nonprofit Sector conference in Washington, DC. and “Challenges Facing U.S. Nonprofits,” at the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum in Crystal City, Virginia. October 2007 Lester Salamon gave a briefing on the state of nonprofits in the U.S. for officials at CDW, one of the largest resellers of computers and information technology products, located in Chicago, Illinois and presented, “Putting Civil Society on the Economic Map of the World,” at the CIRIEC conference in Victoria, British Columbia September 2007 David Altschuler was the keynote speaker at the Reintegration Evaluation Forum, sponsored by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, Youth Justice Services Division, in Toronto, Ontario. September 2007 Megan Haddock presented initial findings from the UN Nonprofit Handbook Project on the panel “The Different and Evolving Definitions of Civil Society” at the GuideStar International Assembly: Transparency, Civil Society and Effective States in the Age of Information, held in London, England. September 2007 Lester Salamon presented “Workforce Issues Facing the Sector: Findings from the Johns Hopkins Listening Post Project,” at the National Human Services Assembly Leaders Summit, in Washington, DC and “The State of the Sector” at the Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations, Columbus, Ohio. Baltimore Low-End Rental Housing Study (9.12.05) More than half of the estimated 128,000 rental units in Baltimore City rent for $400 or less per month, the lowest in the metropolitan area, yet the city's poorest residents still have trouble finding housing they can afford to live in, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins University Professor Sandra J. Newman. Please visit our Publications page for a comprehensive list of current and archived publications. December 2007 David Altschuler participated on the panel, “Evaluating Youth Violence Prevention Programs,” at the National Technology Assessment Workshop on Animal Assisted Programs for Youth At Risk, co-sponsored by the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence (School of Public Health) and The Humane Society of the United States, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was also a panelist on, “Case Management in Juvenile Justice,” at the Operations Retreat for the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, in Baltimore, Maryland. December 2007 Research conducted and presented by first year Master’s in Public Policy students enrolled in the course, Policy Analysis for the Real World, was the topic of “Does Mixed-Income Work?,” an article appearing in the December 17 issue of the JHU Gazette. The students shared their findings with an audience of 40 to 50 representatives of city government and neighborhood organizations. This annual event typically attracts several City Council members, as well as representatives from the city's Department of Housing and Community Development and other city planners, as well as community leaders. November 2007 Several Master’s in Public Policy faculty presented papers, were discussants, or chaired sessions at the 29th Annual APPAM Research Conference, held in Washington, D.C. Sandee Newman presented two papers: "Putting Housing First, Making Housing Last: Housing Policy for Persons with Severe Mental Illness” (co-authored by H. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.); and "Housing and Child Development" (co-authored and co-presented by Tama Leventhal). Burt Barnow presented, "How Much Training Do Training Programs Provide?" (co-presented by John Trutko, president, Capital Research Corporation), and chaired the panel, “Surviving and Thriving in Peer-Reviewed Journals.” Demetra Nightingale chaired the panel, “Determinants and Consequences of Policy Mechanisms for Making Work Play,” and chaired and was a discussant on the panel, “Managing Organizational Change.” She was also a discussant on the panel, “Approaches to Promoting Employment,” and a participant on the panel, “Finding Balance: Work, Family, and Policy.” October 2007 Master’s in Public Policy program welcomed its new Assistant Director, Dr. Carey Borkoski. Carey holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from UMBC, a Master's in Applied Economics from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and a BA from Wake Forest University. From 2004-2007, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at Anne Arundel Community College, where she received an award for teaching excellence presented by the student body. October 2007 Burt S. Barnow, Associate Director of Research and Principal Research Scientist with the Institute for Policy Studies, was reappointed as chair of the National Association of Schools of Public Administration and Affairs (NASPAA) Research Committee for the third consecutive year. He was also appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, where he joins his colleague Sandee Newman. October 2007 Demetra Nightingale and Douglas Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) and the University of Maryland co-hosted a luncheon forum on Welfare Reform at AEI in Washington, DC and gave a briefing of key findings from the recently completed Evaluation of Refugee Resettlement Programs to officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement. October 2007 Marsha Schachtel led the session, "Universities as Regional Economic Drivers," at the 11th annual conference of the State Science and Technology Institute in Baltimore, Maryland and organized a day of briefings in Baltimore for a group of urban planning graduate students from the University of Delaware and led the sessions on redevelopment in East Baltimore and the history of Baltimore's downtown revitalization. October 2007 IPS welcomed International Urban Fellow Antoaneta Yoveva from Sofia, Bulgaria. Antoaneta is Vice Mayor of one of Sofia's 24 municipalities (Oborishte, pop. 36,000), which is home to many higher education and cultural institutions, embassies, and government ministries. She studied public-private partnerships and spent most of her time at internships arranged at Baltimore Development Corp. and the Baltimore City Department of Planning. October 2007 The October 27, 2007 issue of the Baltimore Sun published a Letter to the Editor written by Master's in Public Policy students and referencing their research on abandoned properties in Baltimore. September 2007 IPS welcomed two new members to its National Advisory Board. Diana Taylor, Managing Director of Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, is former Superintendent of Banks for the State of New York, where she was the regulator for over 3,500 financial institutions with assets totaling over $1.5 trillion. Barclay Knapp is an accomplished entrepreneur, having co-founded several telecommunications companies over the past 25 years, including the first publicly traded cellular mobile telephone company in the country and the largest cable television, telephone, and broadband internet provider in the U.K. He is on the JHU Board of Trustees, was recognized as a JHU Distinguished Alumnus in 1999, is a Senior Fellow and Lecturer in the Krieger School’s Center for Financial Economics, and is a past national co-chair of the Knowledge for the World Campaign. September 2007 IPS welcomed two new International Fellows in Urban Studies for fall 2007. Giulio Giovannoni, from Florence, Italy (fall 2007 and spring 2008) is studying the dynamics of residential real estate markets in the U.S. and public policies that achieve such goals as affordable housing. Catherine Embersin, from Paris, France (fall 2007) is from the regional planning agency for the Paris region. She is investigating U.S. approaches to the early detection of childhood disability, and the systems of information and care that have been developed here. September 2007 The Center for Civil Society Studies welcomed two new International Fellows in Philanthropy: Stefanie Fischbach from Germany and Rasma Rosenberga from Latvia. Archives NEWSROOM - ARCHIVES (Click Here)
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