Research and Impact

Working to solve the complex problems facing today’s world.

The Glenn College’s world-class faculty brings practical experience and an interdisciplinary approach to research, analysis and technical assistance. Collaborating across policy areas, and with public and private sector organizations, our work seeks to improve public governance and policymaking.

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Recent Publications

Governance Rules for Managing Smart City Information
Urban Governance
2022

This study by Amanda Girth, David Landsbergen and Doctoral Student Mariángeles Westover-Muñoz provides a new framework to identify how cities can select the appropriate governance rules to facilitate the political, financial, and operational sustainability of their IDEs, and derivatively, their smart city efforts.

One-year in: COVID-19 research at the international level in CORD-19 data
Plos One
2022

Professor Caroline Wagner studies the difference in COVID-19 research internationally.

Incorporating Quality-Differentiated Demand into the Undergraduate Microeconomics Core
2022

This study, published in The American Economist, addresses quality-related aspects of consumer choice in undergraduate microeconomics.

Speaking Truth to Power in Fundraising: A Toolkit
Association of Fundraising Professionals
2022

Erynn Beaton and Megan LePere-Schloop study the fundraising workplace, address sexual harassment in the profession, and set resources for taking action. 

A Discussion of Measuring the Top-1% Most-Highly-Cited Publications: The Case of China
Scientometrics
2022

Caroline Wagner examines China's most highly-cited articles, how this measures against the United States, and how field normalizations may skew the results.

Maintaining School Foodservice Operations in Ohio during COVID-19: "This [Was] Not the Time to Sit Back and Watch"
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2022

Jennifer Garner and Joshua Hawley analyze how COVID-19 related lockdowns affected critical resources for nutritious food.

Philanthropic Capital for Communities
Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia
2022

This report from Megan LePere-Schloop explores the grantmaking activity of an extensive sample of community foundations and local United Way affiliates, with a particular focus on the support they provide to organizations involved in community and economic development.

Strictly Speaking: Examining Teacher Use of Punishment and Student Outcomes
2022

This working paper, from Associate Professor Katie Vinopal and colleagues, examines how teachers vary in disciplinary behaviors and the impacts on students.