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<h1 class="text-hidden">Annual Report 2017-2018</h1>
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<p>It is my pleasure to present the Public Policy Center’s Annual Report for academic year 2017-18. All of the work we do is in the name of creating new knowledge about issues that advance the public good and sharing this information with policymakers and the public. At the same time, the Public Policy Center (PPC) increases student success by training and employing over 100 students in research related activities, and supports interdisciplinary research activities on campus. This report highlights some of the accomplishments of our team at the Public Policy Center this past year. I hope you’ll take some time to look through the report and explore the great work of folks associated with the Center.</p>
<p>In fulfilling our mission of being in the UI Central Administration as part of the Office of the Vice President for Research, we had the pleasure of working with colleagues in over 50 units on campus. These collaborations involved the conduct of interdisciplinary research; the sharing of research through engagement activities; and grant development, data collection and methods workshops through our Iowa Social Science Research Center.</p>
<p>Of particular note, we broadened our research programs to include the Crime and Justice Policy Research program this past year. In addition to our traditional research of national and international significance, both our Crime and Justice Policy Research Program and our Social and Education Policy Research Programs had productive local research-related community partnerships: our Crime and Justice Program worked in both Johnson and Linn counties, and our Social & Education program furthered its work with the Iowa City Community School District in its Equity Implemented Partnership, funded by the Spencer Foundation’s Research-Practice Partnership Program.</p>
<p>The academic rigor of our applied research programs was again evident with the many publications in top journals, including an article from our health policy team that was selected as one of the ten best in the top health policy journal, <em>Health Affairs</em>.</p>
<p>To fulfill our community engagement mission, the PPC hosted events ranging from lectures, to symposiums, panel discussions, and an immersive, mock UN negotiation on climate change. We supported the <em>Equality, Opportunity, and Public Policy in America</em> class for undergraduates as a Big Ideas course. The PPC co-sponsored numerous events with other campus colleagues, including Ellen Stofan’s (NASA) lecture, <em>Climate Change: Keeping the Earth Green, Clean and Habitable</em>, and held fundraising events for the UI Veterans Association and the Johnson County Crisis Center.</p>
<p>I especially look forward to this next year, 2018-19, as it is the PPC’s 30th anniversary year. It is exciting to think of how much the Center has grown and how integrated the PPC’s activities are all across campus. This cross-fertilization from interdisciplinary activities is what makes the Public Policy Center such a vibrant and fulfilling hub on campus.</p>
<p>I feel privileged to lead the Center’s dedicated staff and faculty and am grateful for all their hard work and creativity that leads to our success in generating new knowledge and sharing it with the campus and beyond. On behalf of all of us, thank you for your support, and we look forward to working with you in 2018-19.</p>
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<p>The Public Policy Center (PPC) is one of the only interdisciplinary research centers in the central administration with the campus-wide mission of both conducting and stimulating research. For almost 30 years, the PPC has investigated and shared data and information about the most important issues affecting society. Our activities involve investigators from every college and our research is of local, state, national and international scope.</p>
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<p>In 2017-18, the PPC maintained 24 active grants and contracts totaling nearly $14.8 million from Federal, State, and Foundation sources. The breadth of research topics this year included health care reform, healthy behavior incentives, school nutrition, interpersonal conflict and violence, integration of oral health and primary care, water demand, Iowa family planning evaluation, campus climate diversity and equity, social safety net policies, farm equipment safety, income inequality, education policy and taxation, and local school climate.</p>
<p>More than 83 journal articles, reports, presentations, proceedings, policy briefs, and blog posts have been published or delivered.</p>
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<p>The PPC hosted 55 events, including ten Forkenbrock Series events, two fundraisers, 28 Iowa Social Science Research Center workshops, the RELAX: TALK: GROW series, and co-sponsored an additional 13 events with campus and community partners.</p>
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<p>The center provided 103 undergraduate and graduate students, from a wide variety of disciplines, with applied research training experience and opportunities to collaborate with their peers and colleagues. We also supported Big Ideas: Equality, Opportunity, and Public Policy in America, an undergraduate course exploring policy issues from interdisciplinary perspectives.</p>
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<p>Through the Iowa Social Science Research Center (ISRC), the Center assisted researchers from 12 units across three colleges apply for 34 grants ($12.7 million).</p>
<p>The ISRC completed data collection for 22 projects, and hosted nearly 40 workshops with over 500 attendees.</p>
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<p>The Public Policy Center is home to 116 faculty and staff—including those who are full-time at the PPC and those with secondary appointments. PPC investigators spread across six research programs in various disciplines:</p>
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<a href="#social"><li>Social and Education Policy Research</li></a>
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<p>In addition, we directly support interdisciplinary research on campus through the <a href="#isrc">Iowa Social Science Research Center</a>, which provides grant development support and data collection and management services.</p>
<p>Our researchers collaborate with and are supported by many federal, state, and local agencies. Nationally, this includes the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Safety Council. Within Iowa, collaborations include the Iowa City Community School District, Johnson County, and the Iowa Departments of Public Health, Human Services, Education and Transportation. Of particular scientific significance, our health policy researchers have had two articles accepted in <em>Health Affairs</em>, the top health policy journal in the country. Our research monographs also receive significant national and international attention through our website and through Iowa Research Online. Iowa Research Online is managed by the UI Libraries and features more than 907 PPC papers that were downloaded more than 20,000 times in the past year. <a class="open-modal" data-target="#publications">Click here to view 2017-2018 publications.</a></p>
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<p>The Crime and Justice Policy Research Program conducts research on the causes and consequences of crime, interpersonal violence, and antisocial behavior. The program also considers the implementation and implications of public policies designed to prevent and control offending and victimization.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/mark-berg" target="_blank">Mark T. Berg</a>, associate professor of sociology, directs the program.</p>
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<p>In July of 2017, the Public Policy Center added a sixth policy program – the Crime and Justice Policy Research Program (CJPRP) - to continue its mission towards providing policy makers and the public with research that helps our communities thrive. <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/mark-berg" target="_blank">Dr. Mark Berg</a>, associate professor in the Department of Sociology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was appointed director of the CJPRP. Berg has extensive training in crime and justice policy and his research interests primarily include interpersonal violence, social determinants of health and the social context of adolescent development. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on criminology, communities, and interpersonal violence.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/ethan-rogers" target="_blank">Ethan Rogers</a> was hired as a research coordinator in the CJPRP to facilitate and conduct national and local policy research on crime and justice. In the past year, Rogers’ research has focused on criminal justice processing, the escalation of violence in interpersonal conflicts, and the mobilization of the law. Research in the CJPRP is also supported by faculty with joint appointments in other academic departments as well as graduate and undergraduate students.</p>
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<p>Knowing the dynamics of conflict escalation has important implications for understanding individual-differences in interpersonal violence and can inform interventions designed to reduce retaliatory actions, and has been a core research interest for the Crime and Justice Policy Research program.</p>
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<h4>CJPRP Partners Advises Local Police Department and Board of Supervisors</h4>
<p>In the Fall of 2017, staff with the CJPRP began assisting the Marion Police Department in their efforts to reduce crime and improve policing strategies. In addition to helping the department establish the foundation for an in-house criminal analyst, the CJPRP researchers used calls for service data and Geographic Information Systems techniques to revise their patrol structure. The goal of the revised beat structure was to be more responsive to community needs and to reduce response times. They presented their recommendations to the Marion City Council in March of 2018.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/mark-berg" target="_blank">Mark Berg</a> and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/ethan-rogers" target="_blank">Ethan Rogers</a> presented a preliminary report in December 2017 to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors and the Johnson County Attorney’s Office assessing the demographic profile of case processing and sentencing in the Johnson County courts. The preliminary evaluation revealed group disparities in various stages of the cases processed in Johnson County; however, it also revealed a need for additional data collection, including information on access to counsel and criminal histories. Data collection is ongoing.</p>
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<h4>Berg Studies Childhood Trauma Effects on Adult Health</h4>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/mark-berg" target="_blank">Mark Berg</a> published a paper in Social Science and Medicine (with collaborators at the University of Georgia and the University of Iowa), as part of an ongoing line of research, focused on the long-term effects of exposure to childhood traumas on acute adult health impairment. Using biological data from a sample of several hundred women enrolled in a longitudinal project, the study found that early life traumatic exposures increased allostatic load and appeared to calibrate the physiological response to adult stressors. </p>
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<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/cassie-barnhardt" target="_blank">Cassie Barnhardt</a>, assistant professor in the UI College of Education, and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/nicholas-bowman" target="_blank">Nick Bowman</a>, associate professor in the UI College of Education, collaborated with <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/sarah-bruch" target="_blank">Sarah Bruch</a> as part of the PPC’s inaugural Summer Scholars Program. The trio worked toward developing a framework for educational inclusion. The project focused on identifying principles of organizational practice and policy that contributed to the ways in which members of educational communities experience their educational climates. After the program, Barnhardt and Bowman accepted secondary appointments with the PPC.</p>
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<p>The PPC's Environmental Policy Research Program investigates issues such as water use, pollution and climate change. These challenges are considered from an economic, legal, and/or policy perspective.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/david-cwiertny" target="_blank">David Cwiertny</a>, professor of civil and environmental engineering, directs the program.</p>
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<h4>Silvia Secchi Joins Environmental Policy Research Program</h4>
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<p>In Fall 2017, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/silvia-secchi" target="_blank">Dr. Silvia Secchi</a> joined the Environmental Policy Research Program at PPC in a joint appointment with the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences. Hired as part of the campus-wide Water Sustainability Initiative, Dr. Secchi’s research interests focus on the environmental impacts of agriculture, floodplain policy, conservation policy, land use science, and adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. Previously, Dr. Secchi served as an Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Resources at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. </p>
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<h4>Cwiertny Named Director for CHEEC</h4>
<p>In November of 2017, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/david-cwiertny" target="_blank">David Cwiertny</a>, Director of the Environmental Policy Research Program, was named Director for the Center of Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC). Established through the 1987 Iowa Groundwater Protection Act, CHEEC supports and conducts research to identify, measure and study adverse health outcomes related to exposure to environmental toxins. Several research, education and community engagement activities of CHEEC align with the efforts of the Environmental Policy Research program at PPC, which should facilitate new and exciting partnerships between the two Centers.</p>
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<h4>Mock UN Negotiations Demonstrate Complexities of Climate Change</h4>
<p>On April 21, 2018, the Public Policy Center hosted the <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/forkenbrock/world-climate" target="_blank">World Climate Simulation</a>, a role-playing exercise of the UN climate change negotiations. Led by facilitators and Environmental Policy Research Program members, Profs. <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/jonathan-carlson" target="_blank">Jon Carlson</a> and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/david-cwiertny" target="_blank">David Cwiertny</a>, participants used an interactive computer model to rapidly analyze the results of their mock-negotiations during the event. Organized as part of Earth Week activities and held at the Iowa City Public Library, the event drew participants of all ages, including Jim Throgmorton, the Mayor of Iowa City, and Brenda Nations, the Sustainability Coordinator for the City of Iowa City. View a video summary of the event <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75K2ogYgOmc" target="blank">here</a>.</p>
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<h4>Sustainable Water Development Program Welcomes First Cohort</h4>
<p>Through support of the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) program, the Sustainable Water Development (SWD) Graduate Program at the University of Iowa welcomed its first cohort of students in the Fall of 2017. The first cohort of 16 graduate trainees took newly developed courses in areas related to environmental policy and economics, informatics, and communication, along with more traditional coursework, while also conducting innovative research related to the sustainability of food, energy and water resources. During their time in the program, trainees will participate in community service activities, professional development internships, and workshops on cultural competency and ethics. In the Fall of 2018, the SWD program welcomes its second cohort of 14 students. Notably, of the 30 total trainees in the program, 75% are female and 34% come from traditionally underrepresented groups in STEM fields. Environmental Policy Research Program members <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/silvia-secchi" target="_blank">Silvia Secchi</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/larry-weber" target="_blank">Larry Weber</a>, and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/david-cwiertny" target="_blank">David Cwiertny</a> serve as mentors for trainees in the SWD graduate program.</p>
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<h4>Weber Appointed as Executive Associate Dean of the College of Engineering</h4>
<p>Environmental Policy Researcher <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/larry-weber" target="_blank">Larry Weber</a> was appointed as the Executive Associate Dean of the College of Engineering in August 2017. Weber has served for 13 years as the Director of the IIHR – Hydroscience and Engineering, and is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.</p>
<p>In his new role, Weber will strive to enhance the scope and impact of collegiate teaching, research, and service activities to optimally serve the state, the nation, and the world. His directorship of IIHR ended when he assumed his new role with Engineering.</p>
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<p>The PPC's Health Policy Research Program investigates the effects of policy initiatives and government activities on cost of, access to, and quality of health care systems and their effects on consumers, health care providers, policymakers, and businesses across Iowa and the nation.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/peter-damiano" target="_blank">Peter Damiano</a>, professor of preventive and community dentistry, directs the program.</p>
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<h4>Health Affairs Article Makes Editor’s Top Ten</h4>
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<p>A journal article submitted to Health Affairs by PPC researchers <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/natoshia-askelson" target="_blank">Natoshia Askelson</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/brad-wright" target="_blank">Brad Wright</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/suzanne-bentler" target="_blank">Suzanne Bentler</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/elizabeth-momany" target="_blank">Elizabeth Momany</a>, and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/peter-damiano" target="_blank">Peter Damiano</a>, was selected as one of editor-in-chief Alan Weil's editor's picks. Each year, Weil selects what he considers to be the ten most noteworthy pieces of the year. The article is entitled, "Iowa’s Medicaid Expansion Promoted Healthy Behaviors But was Challenging to Implement and Attracted Few Participants." It can be found <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0048" target="_blank">here</a></p>
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<h4>Reynolds to Study Dental Hygiene Workforce in Iowa</h4>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/julie-reynolds" target="_blank">Dr. Julie Reynolds</a>, assistant professor in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, was awarded two grants to examine the capacity of the dental hygiene workforce in Iowa. <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/health/study/dental-hygiene-workforce-iowa-capacity-and-potential-opportunities-expansion" target="_blank">The study</a> will collect information about employment rates, number of hours worked, and overall contribution to public health. The goal of the research is to support initiatives that would expand the capacity of the current dental hygiene workforce to improve access to preventive dental services, particularly among vulnerable populations that tend to have lower rates of access to preventive dental care.</p>
<p>The one-year project received two separate awards for a total of $90,000 — one from the Telligen Community Initiative for $50,000 and the other from Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation for $40,000. <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/susan-mckernan" target="_blank">Dr. Susan McKernan</a> and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/raymond-kuthy" target="_blank">Dr. Ray Kuthy</a>, both in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry and PPC Health Policy researchers, will also participate in the study.</p>
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<h4>Health Policy Research Program Welcomes Summer Scholar</h4>
<p>The Health Policy Research team welcomed a new summer scholar this year.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/aislinn-conrad-hiebner" target="_blank">Aislinn Conrad-Hiebner</a>, Assistant Professor in the UI School of Social Work, worked with <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/suzanne-bentler" target="_blank">Suzanne Bentler</a>, Assistant Research Scientist in the Health Policy Research Program, and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/tessa-heeren" target="_blank">Tessa Heeren</a>, Research Associate in the Health Policy Research Program on the project, Hardship in the Heartland. The aim of the project was to describe the incidence of material hardship across the State of Iowa. Material hardship occurs when a family’s consumption of goods and services falls below an acceptable standard, and includes security and quality of food, transportation, and housing, the ability to pay bills, and access to a doctor when needed.</p>
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<h4>Damiano Writes OpEd on Uninsured for "The Hill"</h4>
<p>PPC Director <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/peter-damiano" target="_blank">Peter Damiano</a> wrote an OpEd piece entitled, <a href="http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/378089-million-of-adults-are-accidentally-uninsured-which-will-disrupt-the" target="_blank">"Millions of adults are accidentally uninsured, which will disrupt the individual insurance market,"</a> for The Hill. The piece ran on March 13, 2018.</p>
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<h4>Data Core Provides Valuable Assistance to Researchers</h4>
<p>A data core team was formed this year as an interface for researchers who would like to access data or statistical support. The Data Core team is available to assist researchers in retrieving, assimilating and storing secondary data sets, provide consultation data security, develop and implement data analysis plans, and support research through GIS and/or visualization techniques. The data core is also exploring the storage of primary data sets in a relational format and continuing to assess the best mechanism for accessing and utilizing data. <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/elizabeth-momany" target="_blank">Elizabeth Momany</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/alex-sukalski" target="_blank">Alex Sukalski</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/jason-wachsmuth" target="_blank">Jason Wachsmuth</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/mark-pooley" target="_blank">Mark Pooley</a>, and <strong>YounSoo Jung</strong> make up the Data Core team.</p>
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<p>The Politics and Policy Research Program conducts research on local, state, national, and international government and politics, and how these politics affect the creation of public policy. We also consider whether and to what extent governments “work” and the implications of government design.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/tracy-osborn" target="_blank">Tracy Osborn</a>, associate professor of political science, directs the program.</p>
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<p>On October 9, 2017, the PPC’s Politics and Policy Research Program hosted the <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/forkenbrock/gendered-violence" target="_blank">Conference on Gendered Violence</a>, a day-long event focusing on international, national, and state and local problems concerning domestic and sexual violence policy. The conference brought together practitioners and researchers to learn from each other and discuss problems and possible solutions.</p>
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<p>In May of 2018, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/rebecca-kreitzer" target="_blank">Rebecca Kreitzer</a>, Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/tracy-osborn" target="_blank">Tracy Osborn</a> of the University of Iowa political science department, participated for a second year in the PPC’s Summer Scholar Program. They focused on their ongoing project about women’s representation in state legislatures.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/tracy-osborn" target="_blank">Tracy Osborn</a>, professor in the Department of Political Science in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, received the Collegiate Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. This award recognizes faculty who demonstrate outstanding performance in the classroom; nominations for the award include letters from undergraduate students about how the professor affected their undergraduate experience. She was also invited to present her work at the Good Reasons to Run conference at the University of Pennsylvania in November 2017. This presentation highlighted work from her 2017 Summer Scholar project at the Iowa Public Policy Center on groups that recruit women to run for office.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/sara-b-mitchell" target="_blank">Sara Mitchell</a>, professor in the Department of Political Science in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, published an article in <em>Political Analysis</em> about the gender gap in citation patterns in the social sciences. She finds significant gender gaps in academic citations, where women are more likely than men to cite other women authors and women authors’ work is seen as less central to the field. She also published an article entitled, “Bones of Democratic Contention: Maritime Disputes,” that explains why Democratic countries, although less likely to go to war, do enter disputes over fishing and oil resources with regularity. Her coauthor on this piece is Kelly Daniels, a former undergraduate student at the University of Iowa.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/frederick-boehmke" target="_blank">Fred Boehmke</a>, professor in the Department of Political Science in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, published the <a href="https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/spid" target="_blank">State Policy and Innovation Database</a>. The database includes adoption dates for over 700 policies in the 50 states. The database was collected with the support of National Science Foundation. He also published a paper on waiting times at polling places in the 2016 election; the paper is forthcoming at <em>PS: Political Science and Politics</em>. The data in the paper comes from a project where undergraduate political science students at the University of Iowa gathered data from Johnson County polling places.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/julianna-pacheco" target="_blank">Julianna Pacheco</a>, associate professor in the Department of Political Science in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, studies the connections between public opinion and health policy in the United States. In 2017-18, she published, “Health and Voting in Young Adulthood,” with Christopher Ojeda, in the <em>British Journal of Political Science</em>. She also presented her work on opinion about the Affordable Care Act at the Russell Sage Foundation and the University of Houston. This work stems from a Russell Sage foundation grant.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/sarah-bruch" target="_blank">Sarah Bruch</a>, assistant professor of sociology, directs the program.</p>
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<p>The PPC and the Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD) have received a $400,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation’s Research-Practice Partnership Program to support the Equity Implemented Partnership led by <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/sarah-bruch" target="_blank">Sarah Bruch</a>, Director of the Social and Education Policy Research Program at the PPC, in coordination with Kingsley Botchway, Director of Equity and Engagement at the ICCSD.</p>
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<h4>Nguyen-Hoang Wins Curriculum Innovation Award</h4>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/phuong-nguyen" target="_blank">Phuong Nguyen-Hoang</a> was selected as one of three winners of the Curriculum Innovation Award, sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The award honors excellence in teaching and design of learning experiences that are accessible, engaging, and effective for all students, and includes a $10,000 prize for each winner.</p>
<p>Nguyen-Hoang’s course, Financing Local Government, was submitted for consideration. The graduate-level course is offered in the spring semester in the UI School of Urban and Regional Planning, which he began teaching in 2011. The overall goal of the course is to help students possess knowledge and skills in local budgeting processes, mechanics of various revenue sources for local governments, and especially the connection between these revenue sources and land use as well as other fields of planning.</p>
<p>The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has four areas of focus in its Mission: Land Value Capture and Property Tax, Municipal Fiscal Health, Informality and Urban Poverty, and Climate Change. The former two focus areas are covered in depth in Financing Local Government. Select units of the course and its innovative elements will be highlighted on the Lincoln Institute's online course platform.</p>
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<h4>Social & Education Policy Research Program Welcomes Summer Scholars</h4>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/megan-gilster" target="_blank">Megan Gilster</a>, Assistant Professor in the UI School of Social Work, and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/jessica-paige" target="_blank">Jessica Welburn-Paige</a>, Assistant Professor in the UI Department of Sociology, collaborated as PPC Summer Scholars in Residence on the project <em>Housing Inequality in Iowa City: Examining the Experiences of Community Members and University Students</em>. The project facilitated the collaborative analysis and dissemination of results from a community engaged, mixed-methods Housing Inequality study. The ultimate goals of the project was to write an article for an interdisciplinary journal and pursue additional funding to conduct more interviews.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/armeda-wojciak" target="_blank">Armeda Wojciak</a>, Assistant Professor in the UI Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, worked on <em>We Can! Building Relationships and Resilience: An Intervention to Support Educators Working with Children Who Have Experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences</em>, an intervention that addresses adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress, strategies to work with students who have experienced trauma, and ways to build resilience among all students.</p>
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<h4>Qian Awarded Best Conference Paper at UAA</h4>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/haifeng-qian" target="_blank">Haifeng Qian</a>, Assistant Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning, was awarded the Best Conference Paper award at the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) annual conference in April 2018.</p>
<p>The paper, "Cultural Entrepreneurship in U.S. Cities," was presented at the 2017 UAA conference. The paper examined the roles of regional location and other factors including ethnicity, firm size, industry concentration, patents, university presence, human capital, and unemployment rate in levels of cultural entrepreneurship. The paper was recognized for its originality, as well as the strength of the research methods and analysis, and usefulness for policy makers. The paper was also accepted for publication (pending) in the <em>Journal of Urban Affairs</em>.</p>
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<p>The Transportation and Vehicle Safety Research program works to improve technology design through a better understanding of human behavior. The challenge is to match user needs with the optimal solutions—technological or otherwise.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/daniel-mcgehee" target="_blank">Daniel McGehee</a>, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, occupational health and emergency medicine, directs the program.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/corinne-peek-asa" target="_blank">Dr. Corinne Peek-Asa</a> and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/michelle-reyes" target="_blank">Michelle Reyes</a> are conducting an Instrumented Farm Vehicle Roadway Study, examining crashes between farm equipment and other vehicles, and focusing on vehicle interactions that contribute to rear-end and passing crashes. The goal of the study is to implement a farm equipment roadway safety program at the community level.</p>
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<h4>Carney and Reyes Received Iowa Commissioner’s Award</h4>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/cher-carney" target="_blank">Cher Carney</a> and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/michelle-reyes" target="_blank">Michelle Reyes</a>, research associates in the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) and with the PPC's Transportation and Vehicle Safety Research program, received the Iowa Commissioner’s Special Award for Traffic Safety in Des Moines on April 26, recognizing their work with teen driver safety in Iowa, and its influence on state policies concerning teen driving.</p>
<p>Carney and Reyes conducted a study that placed video recorders into teen’s vehicles. The recorded data informed the modified graduated driver licensing system in Iowa, which added restrictions on teen drivers, including passenger limits, nighttime driving limits, and cell phone restrictions, all helping to reduce teen driver injuries and death.</p>
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<h4>TraumaHawk Now in Fourth Phase of Development</h4>
<p>TraumaHawk, a smartphone app for law enforcement designed to connect first responders to hospital trauma teams, completed its fourth phase of development this year. The app allows first responders to generate and send a report with vital collision information, including photographs showing the extent of intrusion and damage in a vehicle’s occupant compartment, to the receiving trauma center. These reports provide trauma teams with significantly more time and information to prepare for incoming patients than the conventional ambulance crew notification.</p>
<p>This critical additional time allows trauma staff to assemble a more complete and appropriate level of treatment by specialists, as well as to arrange other vital aspects of care, such as scheduling operating rooms.</p>
<p>Phase IV upgraded the TraumaHawk server, increased the geographical area with Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, and integrated Central Iowa law enforcement.</p>
<p>Prinicipal Investigators on the TraumaHawk project are <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/daniel-mcgehee" target="_blank">Dan McGehee</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/christopher-buresh" target="_blank">Christopher Buresh</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/michelle-reyes" target="_blank">Cherie Roe</a>.</p>
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<p>The Iowa Social Science Research Center (ISRC) is a resource for interdisciplinary social science research. It provides grant development support and data collection, management, and access services to the university community and beyond.</p>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/frederick-boehmke" target="_blank">Fred Boehmke</a>, professor in the Department of Political Science in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is director of the ISRC.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/frederick-boehmke" target="_blank">Fred Boehmke</a> was part of a team that assembled the <a href="https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/spid" target="_blank">State Policy and Innovation Diffusion (SPID)</a> database on the Harvard Dataverse. The database includes policy adoption dates for the 50 states for over 700 policies and was collected with the support of the National Science Foundation.</p>
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<h4>Boehmke Participates in Digital Bridges Collaborative Grants</h4>
<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/frederick-boehmke" target="_blank">Fred Boehmke</a> participated in two Digital Bridges Summer Collaborative Grants with faculty from UI and Grinnell College.</p>
<p>“The Text Analysis Group” focused on pedagogical applications of text analysis using statistical methods over the course of summer 2017. The collaborators included Erik Simpson (English) and Pamela Fellers (Statistics) from Grinnell, and Paul Dilley (Classics) from Iowa.</p>
<p>Boehmke and Dilley team-taught a fall Big Ideas course titled, “Information, Society, and Culture,” using the Text Analysis Group to explore academic and popular literature related to text analysis (e.g., <em>Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve</em>), as well as appropriate tools to allow students in introductory (Voyant) or advanced (Python) courses to analyze and model text as data. They discussed ways to get students engaged with the text, including the possibility of using established authors, social media, popular contemporary books, or students’ own writing samples. </p>
<p>The second collaboration was with Timothy Dobe (Religious Studies, Grinnell), called “Building Movements for Social and Religious Change.”</p>
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<h4>ISRC Awards Seven CPRDC Seed Grants</h4>
<p>The ISRC, in cooperation with the Public Policy Center and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL), awarded seven seed grants that provide funding for researchers to develop a full research protocol that provides access to the restricted-use microdata available through the <a href="https://business.unl.edu/outreach/central-plains-federal-statistical-research-data-center/about/" target="_blank">Central Plains Research Data Center (CPRDC)</a> housed at UNL. The University of Iowa is a member of the CPRDC consortium.</p>
<p>Among the grant awardees were PPC researchers: <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/natoshia-askelson" target="_blank">Natoshia Askelson</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/susan-mckernan" target="_blank">Susan McKernan</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/phuong-nguyen" target="_blank">Phuong Nguyen-Hoang</a>, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/haifeng-qian" target="_blank">Haifeng Qian</a>, and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/aparna-shivanand-ingleshwar" target="_blank">Aparna Ingleshwar</a>.</p>
<p>The CPRDC seed grants may be used in a variety of ways, such as:</p>
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<li>Salary support for the researcher to perform activities related to proposal preparation.</li>
<li>Purchase data necessary to merge with CPRDC data, e.g., in order to combine existing data with lower-level geographic data available through the CPRDC one might need to purchase geographic identifiers not publicly available.</li>
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<p>During academic year 2017-18, the PPC employed 103 students who assisted with research, data collection, and administrative support. Fifty of the undergraduate students employed by the PPC were trained by the ISRC in social science research activities, including data collection methodology and human subjects training.</p>
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<p>UI doctoral student <strong>Kayla Faust</strong> is working to change farm injury statistics through the use of a specialized driving simulation.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/jennifer-sukalski" target="_blank">Jennifer Sukalski</a>, a Graduate Research Assistant in the PPC's Health Policy Research Program, was awarded the Leverett Graduate Student Merit Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dental Public Health for Master and Doctoral Degree Students in Dental Public Health and Dental Public Health Residents at last week's (April 16-18) National Oral Health Conference (NOHC).</p>
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<p>PPC students <strong>Kaelynn Heiberg</strong> and <strong>Rachel Maller</strong> presented at the annual Research in the Capitol event. Their poster, "Evaluation of Educational Equity Interventions," highlighted the importance of the Equity Implemented Partnership between the Iowa City Community School District and the Public Policy Center Social & Education Policy Research Program.</p>
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<p>Many of our events aim to engage the student community in policy-relevant research happening across campus. For example, the PPC hosted Jay Newton-Small, author and Washington correspondent for TIME magazine, for a lecture and book signing that featured a book giveaway for UI students. The center also supported the class Big Ideas: Equality, Opportunity, and Public Policy in America, an undergraduate course focused on the policy challenges posed by the search for economic security and equality of opportunity. Each topical unit concluded with a public forum, bringing together the campus and local community to discuss major social issues facing us today.</p>
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<p class="inset srop">Three students – Pearis Bellamy, Janee Harris, and Aubria Myers – were part of the UI Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP). SROP is an award-winning program designed to provide promising underrepresented students with in-depth research experiences. Students receive first-hand exposure to the graduate school experience and to faculty life by being paired with a faculty mentor whose work is closely related to their academic interests and career goals.</p>
<p class="inset">Three students – Austin Adams, Sean Finn, and Kaelynn Heiberg – were a part of the Social and Education Policy Research Program internship program. The research internship program is for undergraduate and graduate students at the UI. It provides students with training, experience, and mentoring in the context of faculty-driven research projects. Students are matched to a faculty project based on interest and availability.</p>
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<p>In fulfilling our community engagement mission, the PPC hosted fourteen Forkenbrock Series events, which included the undergraduate “Big Ideas” course, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/forkenbrock/policy-matters-2017" target="_blank">Equality, Opportunity, and Public Policy in America</a> series. The Forkenbrock Series features guest speakers and symposiums, and provides a forum for dialogue about policy areas from applied, academic, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The series was formed in honor of David Forkenbrock, who established the PPC at the University of Iowa in 1987.</p>
<p>We co-sponsored 13 events with other departments, including Ellen Stofan’s lecture, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/events/climate-change-keeping-earth-green-clean-and-habitable" target="_blank">“Climate Change: Keeping the Earth Green, Clean, and Habitable,”</a> and fundraising events for the UI Veterans Association and Crisis Center of Johnson County. We collaborated with the University of Iowa Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, UI Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination, and the UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research on the symposium, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/events/challenges-providing-safe-drinking-water-midwest-symposium" target="_blank">“Challenges to Providing Safe Drinking Water in the Midwest.”</a> For the first time, the PPC co-sponsored the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council’s noon luncheon series, which features speakers from around the world.</p>
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<h4>Community Members Engage in Mock Negotiations on Climate Policy</h4>
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<p>In celebration of Earth Week, the PPC hosted a <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/forkenbrock/world-climate" target="_blank">World Climate Simulation</a> at the Iowa City Public Library. In a mock UN negotiation, participants, assigned to six different delegations (United States, European Union, Other Developed Nations, China, India, and Other Developing Nations), pledged policy changes aimed toward meeting the Paris Agreement goal: to reduce carbon emissions and prevent ocean temperatures from rising more than two degrees Celsius. The simulation was led by <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/jonathan-carlson" target="_blank">Jon Carlson</a> and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/david-cwiertny" target="_blank">David Cwiertny</a>, of the Environmental Policy Research Program.</p>
<p>Using a C-ROADS climate simulation model, the pledges were entered into the program for instant results. The group failed to meet the goal after the first round of negotiations, although they came close at 2.7 degrees.</p>
<p>A second round of negotiations revealed the complex and interesting socioeconomic dynamics among the delegations, with the developing nations revealing that they felt ignored by the more powerful delegations. Feeling a distrust in the pledges the US and EU had made, they withdrew some of their own commitments. A “planted” fuel fossil lobbyist (Silvia Secchi, Environmental Policy Research Program) added to the difficulty of the negotiations.</p>
<p>Though the group ultimately failed to reach the 2°C goal, they felt it was a valuable learning exercise, and left with a better understanding of the complexities of the issue.</p>
<p>View a video summary of the event <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75K2ogYgOmc" target="blank">here</a>.</p>
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<p>The event started with a welcome and some solemn remarks from Beth Krayenhagen, who was a victim of sexual assault as a student at the University of Iowa. It was the first time she had shared the story of her assault publicly.</p>
<p>Brad Kunkel, a sergeant with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, and co-chair of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program’s board of directors, spoke next about the domestic violence his family experienced during his childhood, and about his sister, who was killed in a domestic violence incident.</p>
<p>The panelists examined the topic from local/state, national and international perspectives, touching on their own research and experiences. For more details about the panel discussions, see the Politics and Policy Research program section of this report.</p>
<p>Sarah Super, a rape survivor, educator, and activist, gave the keynote speech. Super described her rape, and talked about a “trauma-sensitive” approach to the care of sexual assault victims. Break the Silence, an organization founded by Super, offers victims an outlet for telling their own stories and to organize public protests or demonstrations.</p>
<p>Included in the event was a gallery of work related to domestic violence, by local artists Melissa Kreider, Jessica Pleyel, and Rachel Williams.</p>
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<p>On October 9, 2017, the PPC’s Politics and Policy Research Program hosted the <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/forkenbrock/gendered-violence" target="_blank">Conference on Gendered Violence</a>, a day-long event focusing on international, national, and state and local problems concerning domestic and sexual violence policy. The conference brought together practitioners and researchers to learn from each other and discuss problems and possible solutions.</p>
<p>One highlight of the conference was the keynote presentation by Sarah Super. Super, a rape survivor and activist, described her experience with the legal system and the psychological ramifications of trauma. Her organization, Break the Silence, engages in community truth-telling events, demonstrations, and remembrances. Recently, they gained approval from the Minneapolis Park Board to build the nation’s first permanent memorial to honor survivors in the Twin Cities. The conference also featured art installations by Melissa Kreider, Jessica Pleyel, and Rachel Williams from the University of Iowa.</p>
<p>Presenters at the conference brought a diverse set of experiences and knowledge. Michele Leiby from the College of Wooster presented her analysis of sexual abuse of political prisoners in Peru. Carolyn Hartley of the School of Social Work at the University of Iowa discussed her work on civil legal remedies for domestic violence survivors in the U.S. Iowa State Representative Mary Mascher and Kristie Doser, head of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program in Iowa City, focused on state and local challenges for domestic violence funding and policy change.</p>
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<h4>Kreitzer Returns as 2018 Summer Scholar</h4>
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<p>In May of 2018, <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/rebecca-kreitzer" target="_blank">Rebecca Kreitzer</a>, Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/tracy-osborn" target="_blank">Tracy Osborn</a> of the University of Iowa political science department, participated for a second year in the PPC’s Summer Scholar Program. They focused on their ongoing project about women’s representation in state legislatures. Their question is simple: can organizations focused on recruiting women to run for office improve the number of women in the U.S. state legislatures? Even though there are nearly 600 of these organizations, little to no research exists that evaluates the success of these organizations as a policy strategy to increase women’s representation.</p>
<p>During the summer scholar program in 2018, Kreitzer and Osborn finished a number of tasks on their project. Most important, they executed a survey of each women’s recruitment organization in the U.S. The online survey asks groups to evaluate their success, their funding, the kinds of women they recruit, and their tactics to train candidates for success. Jenna Pokorny, a University of Iowa undergraduate in the Department of Political Science, assisted with the execution of the survey.</p>
<p>Kreitzer and Osborn also finished two publications from the initial census of groups they completed in the 2017 Summer Scholar Program. The first publication, “Women’s Recruiting Groups in the U.S.,” will appear in <em>Politics, Groups and Identities</em> as part of a symposium on women’s recruiting groups. The second piece, “Recruitment and Training Organizations for Women as Candidates,” will be part of a new edited book, <em>Good Reasons to Run: Women and Candidacy</em>, from Temple University Press.</p>
<p>The authors will present the first analysis of the new survey at the 2018 meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston, MA, in September 2018. Eventually, along with interviews with groups and legislators, they will turn the entire project into a book about women’s recruitment organizations.</p>
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<h4>Bruch Receives Grant for Equity Implemented Partnership</h4>
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<p>The PPC and the Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD) have received a $400,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation’s Research-Practice Partnership Program to support the Equity Implemented Partnership led by <a href="http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/sarah-bruch" target="_blank">Sarah Bruch</a>, Director of the Social and Education Policy Research Program at the PPC, in coordination with Kingsley Botchway, Director of Equity and Engagement at the ICCSD.</p>
<p>The Equity Implemented Partnership leverages social science and education policy research and practitioner knowledge to more effectively address persistent problems of policy and practice and improve students’ educational opportunities and outcomes. The broad aim of this research partnership is to improve the equitability of school experiences for students in our school district by providing research expertise and capacity to conduct data collection and analysis, and to project, implement, and design research-based solutions to existing disparities. Over the past two years, the Partnership has created a strong structure and process for collaboration, created trusting relationships, institutionalized multiple data collection instruments, and begun evaluating equity programming initiatives in the District.</p>
<p>“The partnership benefits the District by giving it the capacity to assess and address its needs,” Bruch said, “but it also benefits the University, by giving faculty and students the invaluable experience of working with community partners on real world issues of pressing concern.”</p>
<p>The grant will be used to build on this foundation to enhance the role of the Partnership in the District, to engage in collaborative research that furthers knowledge on student experiences of school climate, and to build ICCSD capacity. The funding will strengthen research efforts to investigate the connection between student experiences and outcomes, and to examine the link between racial disparities in student experiences and outcomes. The funding will allow the Partnership to use a district-based liaison who will coordinate and enhance the District’s efforts at addressing equity, and use a school-based strategy working directly with teachers to connect school goals and practices with school-specific data on student achievement and experience disparities.</p>
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