Social Justice, Advocacy and Civic Engagement
The Glenn College is committed to building a more just and equitable world through rigorous research and education. Our faculty draw from multidisciplinary expertise and approaches to tackle pressing public problems and develop curriculum that empowers students to lead change. Research and programming in social justice policy, advocacy and civic engagement advance the college's mission to “inspire citizenship and develop leadership.”
Faculty Experts
Recent Research
A Framework to Centre Justice in Energy Transition Innovations
Nature Energy
2023
As part of an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, Chris Rea offers a framework to help engineers and practitioners center justice in renewable energy transition innovations.
Polluting under the Radar: Emissions, Inequality, and Concrete Batch Plants in Houston
Environmental Science & Technology
2023
Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues show that concrete batch plants in Houston, TX are collectively a large source of pollution, emitting between 38 and 111 tons of primary PM2.5 emissions annually and being disproportionately located in census tracts with more low-income, Hispanic, and Black populations.
Food System Dynamics Structuring Nutrition Equity in Racialized Urban Neighborhoods
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2022
Jill Clark identifies nutrition equity as an overarching goal for local food systems, which reflects a state of having freedom, agency, and dignity in food traditions resulting in people and communities healthy in body, mind, and spirit. It is a transformative goal designed to spur system-level interventions that further racial equity through improved local food system dynamics.
Police station design and intrusive police encounters: untangling variations in emotions and behaviourally-relevant perceptions across racial groups
Policing and Society
2023
Victor St. John studies police station design as a strategy to improve police-community relationships.
Conflict and Cooperation Within Police Units: The Importance of Manager Inclusiveness
Public Management Review
2022
This study by Russell Hassan assesses the influence of manager inclusiveness on unit-level relational conflict and interpersonal helping behavior.
A Review of Sexual Harassment Prevention Practices: Toward a Nonprofit Research Agenda
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
2022
Professors Erynn Beaton, Megan LePere-Schloop and Rebecca Smith use qualitative analysis to explore the anti-harassment practices recommended to nonprofit practitioners and compares these practices to academic research to develop a nonprofit scholarly research agenda.
Programming at the Glenn College
Programs:
- BA in Public Management, Leadership and Policy
- BA in Public Policy Analysis
- Minor in Civic Engagement
- Minor in Social Justice Advocacy and Public Policy
- Minor in Women, Gender and Public Policy
Coursework:
- 2120 – Public Service and Civic Engagement
- 2150 – Nonprofit Organizing for Diversity and Justice
- 2170 – Equity, Justice and Public Service
- 5120 – Social Change Advocacy: Organization, Mobilization, and Activism
- 5240 – Race and Public Policy in the United States
- 5250 – Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy
- 5506 – Administration of Criminal Justice
- 5595 – Social Enterprise
- 5890 – U.S. Food Policy
- 5895 – Food Insecurity, and Food Assistance Programming and Policy in the U.S.
- 5900 – Food Systems Planning and the Economy
Programs:
- Online Master of Public Administration and Leadership criminal justice specialization track
Coursework:
- 5120 – Social Change Advocacy: Organization, Mobilization, and Activism
- 5240 – Race and Public Policy in the United States
- 5250 – Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy
- 5506 – Administration of Criminal Justice
- 5595 – Social Enterprise
- 5890 – U.S. Food Policy
- 5895 – Food Insecurity, and Food Assistance Programming and Policy in the U.S.
- 5900 – Food Systems Planning and the Economy
- 7507 – Criminal Justice Policy
Social justice is a common focus area for students earning a PhD at the Glenn College.