| SOCIAL POLICY AREA
The Center for School Change works with educators,
parents, business people, students, policymakers, and other
concerned citizens throughout the United States to increase
student achievement, raise graduation rates, improve student
attitudes toward learning, and strengthen communities by
building stronger working relationships among educators,
parents, students, and other community members.
Formed in 1985 as the nation’s first comprehensive teaching,
research, and outreach center devoted to women and public
policy, the Center on Women and Public Policy has a long
tradition of leadership in the field in women’s human rights,
global feminism, and specific public policy issues, such as
comparable worth.
Named for the famed civil rights leader and longtime head
of the NAACP, the Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice studies and formulates solutions to
problems of racial and ethnic inequality.
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| What's New
The Social Policy area launched the Race, Gender, and Public
Policy Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, the first program
in the United States to investigate the intersection of race,
gender, and public policy. The new program will gather scholars
and students from across the University, the nation, and the
world to analyze issues of race, gender, and public policy
through research, panels, lectures, workshops, and conferences. More
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 Sally J. Kenney
Professor
"At its heart, social policy is about
ending inequality and oppression. Social
policy often entails the most contentious
public policy issues of our time, such
as sexuality, reproduction, and family
policy. Social policy at the Humphrey
Institute invites students to interrogate
their basic assumptions about what is
to be done and how we understand
social problems, at the same time that
it provides sophisticated social science
and management tools to determine
how best to tackle them. The Humphrey
Institute differs from traditional academic
approaches to social policy in the
modern welfare state by putting issues
of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity,
age, employment, and immigrant status
at the center of its inquiry. Our intersectional
approach to social policy leads
us beyond the conventional public
policy school analysis of economic
inequalities. The Humphrey Institute’s
strength in nonprofit management
across the curriculum expands our
analysis of social policies further than
the traditional purview of government
to explore the role of NGOs, such as
unions, in bringing equity, voice, and
efficiency to the workplace or in
creating a new global movement,
such as women’s human rights." |
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