WSU Urban Studies Blog

New CityLab Report Urban Studies faculty and students have recently released a new CityLab report, Suspension in Worcester:  A Continuing Conversation .   Written by Dr. Thomas Conroy and Dr. Madeline Otis Campbell with Urban Studies students Dannielle Morrow and Jennifer Velez, the report explores the reasons behind a suspension disparity in Worcester Public Schools.  In that disparity, Latino students, who comprise 38% of the WPS population receive 53% of the total system suspensions.  The report solicited input from students, parents, teachers, and principals to better understand the story behind the statistics.  The Vincent "Jake" Powers CityLab is a research instiute and archives housed in and managed by the Department of Urban Studies.  Its mission is to engage in informative projects with and for the people, groups, and organizations of Central Massachusetts about topics of interest to their lives and the world around them.  ...

Congratulations to two alums on their recent endeavors:  Katie Donovan, a 1996 department graduate who works in the City of Worcester Inspectional Services Office, will be honored in March with one of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau's Thomas S. Green Public Service Awards .  Elizabeth Malone, Class of 2011, has been accepted into the graduate program in  Public Humanities  at Brown University for next fall.    If you have any updates or news we can share with the department, current students, and other grads, send a message to one of the faculty members or to urbanstudies@worcester.edu .