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9 Projects Awarded MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Racial Wealth Gap Grants
The Lender Center for Social Justice has awarded nine grants for new faculty research projects that study issues contributing to or helping alleviate the racial wealth gap in the United States. The awards are funded by a 2022 MetLife Foundation grant that…
Lender Center Faculty Fellowship Application Period Now Open
The Lender Center for Social Justice is accepting applications for a two-year faculty research fellowship focused on a contemporary social issue and ideas and pathways to address it. Fellows receive research support for both years along with summer stipends and…
Lender Center D.C. Conversation Expands Partnerships, Ideas to Reduce Racial Wealth Gap
Economic experts, federal policymakers and human services administrators joined researchers from Syracuse University and other academic institutions recently in Washington, D.C., to examine factors that contribute to a growing racial wealth gap in America. They also looked at how academic…
Lender Center for Social Justice Names 5 2023-25 Student Fellows
Five students have been selected as Lender Center for Social Justice student fellows and will work on a research project that examines American news media coverage and United States policymaking related to the war on terror. The group will work…
Racial Wealth Gap the Focus of Oct. 30 Lender Center Event in Washington
In Washington, D.C., the population is booming, but rent and housing costs are spiking and wages for working-class and lower-income workers are stagnating. Those factors can create economic disparity and hardship, which makes this location an especially relevant setting for…
‘Family Pictures Syracuse’ Brings City’s Marginalized Histories Into Focus
If a picture paints a thousand words, what new Syracuse community portrait will emerge to illustrate the past and present stories of individuals and families who have long been neglected in the public memory? Organizers of the community photographic project,…
‘This Is an Exciting Time for Labor’ Says Syracuse Sociology Professor and Labor Studies Expert
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers went on strike on Oct. 4, making it one of the largest in the healthcare industry in U.S. history. Gretchen Purser is an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship…
Phillips Appointed Interim Director at Lender Center for Social Justice; Director Search Committee Named
The Lender Center for Social Justice has familiar leadership for the 2023-24 academic year while a renewed search for a permanent director is conducted. Kendall Phillips, founding co-director of the Lender Center and professor in the Department of Communication and…
Lender Center for Social Justice Awards 5 Grants for Racial Wealth Gap Studies
Five faculty research projects that identify and address issues contributing to or helping alleviate the racial wealth gap in the United States have received grants from the Lender Center for Social Justice. The grants are made possible by funding from…
Lender Center for Social Justice Seeking Student Fellowship Applicants
Students from all academic disciplines are invited to apply to the 2023-25 Lender Center for Social Justice Student Fellowship Program. The program will be led by Nausheen Husain, assistant professor of magazine, news and digital journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of…