Carsey School of Public Policy

Join Informative Presentation (October 3 & 6) on Understanding and Preventing Hate-Based Activity

The Maine and New Hampshire Seacoast area has experienced increased hate-based activity in recent months. Please join us for a presentation and Q&A with area police departments and local community groups working to address hate-based activity. Join the Presentation
Coffee & Conversations Event Open for Registration

Join us on October 12 for a conversation about Climate Change in New Hampshire: Why Do We Care and What We Should Do About It. Register to attend!
Creating Lasting, Positive Change: A Profile of Michael Swack

How do you make a difference through community development? Michael Swack, who holds dual appointments as a professor at UNH, at both the Carsey School and Paul College, offers a blueprint. Read the article.
Register for NH Listens’ Lunch Box Online Training Series!

NH Listens Local Lunch Box sessions are 45-minute interactive learning opportunities aimed at sharing bite-sized tips and resources from our toolbox for community engagement and facilitation. Register to attend!
U.S. Fertility Up Slightly, but 8.6 Million Fewer Births Long Term

In this data snapshot, Carsey Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson reports that National Center for Health Statistics data for 2021 show a slight increase in births, rising 1.5 percent from the 2020 level which was a 40-year low. Read the snapshot.
Eric Hangen, Carsey Senior Research Fellow and Program Faculty, Appointed to EPA Environmental Financial Advisory Board

Read the article.
Want to test your knowledge of where our federal tax dollars go? Take the Carsey School’s federal budget spending quiz today and learn some fun facts.

Take the quiz. Learn more fun facts with our FedGovSpend^TM Explorer App, which provides a user-friendly interface allowing you to easily navigate U.S. federal spending by purpose and spending type.
Growing Racial Diversity in Rural America: Results from the 2020 Census

In this brief, authors Kenneth Johnson and Daniel Lichter report that although population declines were widespread between 2010 and 2020, rural America became more racially and ethnically diverse. Read the brief.

The Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire is nationally recognized for its research, policy education, and civic engagement. The ideas and ambitions of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are a touchstone for our faculty and students as we contribute to a more informed, healthy, equitable, peaceful and sustainable university, community, state, nation and planet. The school takes on pressing public issues with unbiased, accessible, and rigorous research; builds the policy and political problem-solving skills of its students; and brings people together for thoughtful dialogue and practical problem-solving. The school is a hub for work that spans its own faculty and staff, and faculty from across UNH and other institutions. The faculty boasts a national reputation and its work appears in leading journals. The school publishes forty policy-relevant briefs each year, offers three master's degree programs, and engages with experts, leaders, the media, and the public in the United States, New Hampshire, and around the world.

The Biden Administration's First 100 Days

On April 27, 2021, the Carsey School of Public Policy and UNH Alumni hosted a panel discussion on the Biden administration's first 100 days. Panelists included Rich Ashooh ’86, Ellen Fitzpatrick, Ryan Gibson, and Ella Nilsen ’13 and the discussion was moderated by Carsey School Director Michael Ettlinger. For more on this event, visit the event webpage.