Our
Mission
The Center's activities have four objectives:
(1) to make Case Western Reserve University a continually more attractive and
rewarding institution for students and faculty who wish to learn about and
engage in the creation of public policy;
(2) to raise the public profile of the University by sponsoring programs and
other activities that publicize and increase the reach of the work of CWRU's
policy analysts and their guests;
(3) to contribute to the wider community by disseminating information and
analysis of policy issues as generated both by CWRU faculty and by guests whom
we bring to campus; and
(4) to encourage creation of a community of policy studies on campus that may
serve in the future as the basis for further development of policy-oriented
curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The Center for Policy Studies was officially established in July 1998 by the
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Although based in the College, the
Center endeavors to stimulate greater interest in policy issues at CWRU, to
encourage the many policy scholars across the University to interact with each
other and with the larger public beyond the campus, and to increase the local
and national visibility of policy studies at CWRU. Scores of scholars at CWRU
have an explicit interest in policy-oriented studies. Their interests include
and go far beyond health care quality, organization, and finance; human resource
development and investment; globalization and the emergence of new agents and
actors in world affairs; issues of law, medicine, and ethics; the challenges of
poverty and disadvantage; issues of energy and the environment; financing and
development of the arts; and development of the local and regional economies.
More than a dozen centers at CWRU currently deal with public issues with policy
implications, either as a central part of their missions or as significant
ancillary activities. Among them are:
The Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations is sponsored by three professional
schools at CWRU, the Weatherhead School of Management, the Mandel School of
Applied Social Sciences, and the School of Law. It seeks to foster effective
management, leadership and governance of NGOs in the arts, human services,
education, community development, religion and other areas.
The Center for Urban Poverty and Economic Development in MSASS
focuses on community-based approaches to addressing the
problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty.
The Center works closely with policy-makers and advocacy
organizations to bring its research into the public
policy discussion.
The University Center on Aging and Health is affiliated with the School of
Nursing. Since 1978 the Center has been working to promote the health of elderly
persons through education, research, community outreach, and service.
The Center for Science, Health and Society, based in the School of Medicine, is
a collaboration between the University and the city of Cleveland to improve both
population health and health care delivery through community outreach,
education, and health policy.
The Center for Health Care Research and Policy, affiliated with the School of
Medicine at Metrohealth Medical Center, conducts research that examines access
to health care and the quality of health care services, in order to inform both
health policy and practice; while also leading educational programs that promote
these goals.
The
Center for Global Health and Diseases, in the School of Medicine, provides a
coordinating structure among academic disciplines within
the university and institutions across Northeast Ohio,
for a program of research, training, and clinical
application to improve health in developing countries.
The Center for Genetic Research, Ethics, and Law addresses the difficult moral
choices for individuals, their families and the health professionals who work
with them. The Center's faculty have conducted original research and made their
findings available to a national audience in both professional and popular
formats. They are also actively involved in establishing health policy
development at various levels of society.
The Law-Medicine Center was the first law school-based program in the United
States to study legal medicine and health law. It publishes the journal Health
Matrix and, throughout its history, has been one of the top ten programs on this
topic in the nation.
The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center offers courses, activities and
foreign study options that concentrate on the legal aspects of globalization.
The Center for Law, Technology and the Arts focuses on teaching, research and
programs pertaining to intellectual property, technological innovation, and
technology transfer; the intersection of science, economics, philosophy and the
law; legal issues concerning biotechnology and computer technologies; and laws
and cultural issues relating to the creative arts.
The Institute for Global Security Law and Policy develops and integrates the
best learning from the academic and applied settings to provide innovative
programs, research, teaching and service on the issues of security and
counter-terrorism.
The Case Center for Business
as an Agent of World Benefit conducts a global search
for ways that leaders in the business sector are putting
their people, imagination, and assets to work to benefit
the earth, from its ecosystem to the needs of its vast,
diverse population.
The Schubert Center for Child Studies
promotes understandings of child development from
infancy through adolescence, and in local, national, and
international contexts. Its Child Policy Initiative
addresses the need to more closely link child-related
academic study, public policy formation, and
professional practice.
The Center for Policy Studies encourages interaction and dissemination through
the weekly Friday Public Affairs Discussion Group, open to all members of the
university community as well as the local community; through public forums at
which faculty or guests address the issues of the day; and through encouraging
more private meetings that bring policy researchers and students in contact with
both policy advocates and decision-makers. It will continually seek to expand
current activities and develop other measures to build community and disseminate
knowledge.
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