Professor Eva Rosen (MSPP) on the Importance of Innovative Research to Address the Housing ‘Crisis’
“How does one tell the whole story of an eviction? How do you keep someone’s hardship from becoming just a statistic in a study?”
“How does one tell the whole story of an eviction? How do you keep someone’s hardship from becoming just a statistic in a study?”
How underlying intergenerational trauma can help people working toward social change solve problems more effectively.
This past summer, a program that supports first-generation and low-income undergraduates in summer internships adapted to meet the challenges of the pandemic, offering financial resources and advice that helped students facing new obstacles in their introduction to the world of professional work.
The Hub for Equity and Innovation in Higher Education recently set out to study attitudes of belonging among first-generation undergraduate students on campus—insights that will help shape the university’s ongoing work in the equity space.
The idea for the CALL program started with the Red House, an innovative organization at Georgetown that strives to make higher education more effective and equitably beneficial to society.
“Oh, and if she were a lab-instrument, Professor Elmendorf would be a microfuge. There’s a brand called Eppendorf. Very punny.”
“Whether big or small, people are responsible for the impacts of their actions – from how your supply chain affects people you’ve never met to how one conversation may change a colleague’s sense of belonging at work.”
“By bringing the idea of basic human dignity into policy and economics, we could change the lenses with which we view some of the challenges of international development.”
“But that’s just what the dinner series is for: the opportunity to ask questions of inspiring professors whose answers guide them towards more questions they never thought to ask.”
