As I pass the one-year mark in my deanship at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College in New York City, I am thrilled to share our notable advancements!


Take a moment and read about how we continue delivering on our unique mission to strengthen and diversify the pipeline of future public service leaders.


Warm regards,

Marxe Dean Sherry Ryan, PhD

New Faculty Members


The Marxe School is excited to welcome four new faculty members for Fall 2023! Learn more about them below.

Edwin Grimsley

Assistant Professor

Meet Edwin Grimsley whose research areas include race and racism, criminology, urban sociology, and inequality and policy.

Gang He

Assistant Professor

Meet Gang He whose work focuses on energy systems, energy and climate policy, and energy transition.

Jason Spicer

Assistant Professor

Meet Jason Spicer, whose research areas examine social and community entrepreneurial practices and organizational models across a wide range of settings.

Aaron Zack

Substitute Associate Professor

Meet Aaron Zack, whose research areas include international security; political violence; terrorism; and internet propaganda and radicalization.

The Washington Semester

Students at The Washington Semester orientation weekend

This semester, seven Marxe students will participate in The Washington Semester where they will work and study in Washington, D.C., obtain credits toward graduation, gain unique insight into public policy processes, and experience everything the nation’s capital has to offer.


Meghan Bell (MIA ‘24) will intern at the Office of Public Engagement's at the Department of Homeland Security.


Iurii Bystro (MPA ‘24) will intern at the Middle East Institute’s Black Sea Program.


Kevin Gonzalez (MPA ‘24) will intern at the Federal Workforce Team at the Partnership for Public Service.


Erik Ibarra (MIA ‘24) will intern at HIAS, a refugee advocacy organization.


Breanna Leung (MIA ‘24) will intern at the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning in the Department of Commerce.


Jeffrey Montoya-Giraldo (MPA ‘24) will intern at the Democracy, Governance, and Human Rights Division of the Pan American Development Foundation.


Dylan Selewonik (MIA ‘24) will intern at the Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce.


Learn more about The Washington Semester

New Online Degree

The Marxe School Unveils New Fully Online MPA

 

The Marxe School recently opened enrollment for a brand-new online Master of Public Administration to begin this spring 2024 semester.


Marxe Dean Sherry Ryan said, “We are expanding upon our deep tradition of educational access and excellence by offering a fully asynchronous online option for students who, for one reason or another, can’t get to campus to pursue their graduate degree.” The Marxe Online MPA, with faculty deeply entrenched in New York City politics and practices, opens a New York City-flavored MPA to students in distant rural and suburban environments. What an exciting opportunity for prospective students interested in learning about one of the nation’s largest and most complex urban environments, but without the need to pack up and move.


In keeping with Baruch College’s focus on increasing educational access, the tuition is roughly $30K per academic year, among the lowest cost MPA programs in the nation. At the same time, we are ranked nationally in the top 55 by the US News & World Report among all schools of public affairs, and #17 for the urban policy specialization.


Make your mark in public service with the Marxe School’s Online MPA

Marxe Events

Report authors, panelists, and more from

Improving How Poverty Is Measured: A Recommendation To Better Reflect Households’ Basic Needs and Resources

Improving How Poverty is Measured: A Recommendation to Better Reflect Households' Basic Needs and Resources took place at Baruch College on September 28.


This event was jointly sponsored by the Marxe School, NYU Wagner, and Columbia’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy of the Columbia University School of Social Work. Members of a panel of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Science, Technology and Engineering presented the recommendations of "An Updated Measure of Poverty: (Re)Drawing the Line", a new report on revising the US Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). The SPM is considered a more reliable and inclusive measure of poverty than the nation’s Official Poverty Measure. Nonetheless, it has limitations such as excluding consideration of health insurance, some of the largest and most important benefits for lower-income households. The report recommends, among other changes, that the SPM be revised to incorporate health care and insurance, following the methods developed by Professors Sanders Korenman and Dahlia Remler.


The event began with a welcome from Marxe Dean Sherry Ryan, followed by a presentation of recommendations by five members of the Panel on Evaluation and Improvements to the SPM that wrote the report, including Professor Sanders Korenman of the Marxe School; Ingrid Gould Ellen of NYU; David Johnson of the National Academies; Jane Waldfogel of Columbia University; and James P. Ziliak of the University of Kentucky who chaired the National Academies panel that wrote the report.


Following the presentation, Sherry Glied, Dean of NYU Wagner, moderated an expert panel discussion that reacted to the report, assisted by Ajay Chaudry of NYU. Expert panelists included: Dahlia K. Remler of the Marxe School; Carolyn Barnes of University of Chicago; Sheldon Danziger, President of the Russell Sage Foundation; Christine D'Onofrio, of the NYC Office of Economic Opportunity; Liana E. Fox, Assistant Division Chief at the U.S. Census Bureau; and Christopher Wimer of Columbia University.


You can find many of Professor Remler and Korenman’s papers on the Health Inclusive Poverty Measure, many co-othered with Dr. Rosemary Hyson, as well as a link to the new National Academies Report here.


Watch a video from the event

Faculty Research

Assistant Professor,

Felicia Arriaga

Professor Arriaga's newest book, Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law, Enforcement, and Resistance in America came out earlier this year. It was born of Arriaga's dissertation research and argues that the long-term partnership between local sheriffs and immigration law enforcement has created a form of racialized social control of the Latinx community. She uses data from five county sheriff's offices and their governing bodies to trace the creation and normalization of local law enforcement partnering with ICE and includes evidence that reveals how Latinx communities resist and adapt to these systems.


Learn more and buy Crimmigration

Associate Professor,

Angie Beeman

Professor Angie Beeman's book, Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression came out in 2022. In it, Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology, and not just right-wing conservatives or uneducated working-class bigots. She distinguishes between liberal and radical approaches to a raft of issues like racism and capitalism, and advances action-oriented and racism-centered approaches as alternatives to typical progressive strategies that can be unhelpful, or harmful.


Learn more and buy Liberal White Supremacy

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