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January 07, 2008
Graduate opportunity for students interested in the topic of disability and employment
Douglas Kruse recently became Director of the Rutgers Ph.D. program in Industrial Relations and Human Resources.
This program is involved in several government-funded studies designed to understand and increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities. For example, they are working with researchers at several other universities on a study of corporate culture and disability funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, in which we are doing case studies of large U.S. companies to understand how company policies and attitudes create both barriers and opportunities for people with disabilities. They are also involved in a 5-year center to study employer demand for people with disabilities, with projects relating disability to employment projections, contingent work, and layoffs/downsizing. They plan to include Ph.D. students in these and other projects and help them become expert scholars in disability and employment.
The application deadline for admission next Fall is February 1st, 2008.
Posted by Nancy at January 7, 2008 11:19 AM