Several new research projects in three of the Russell Sage Foundation’s core programs were funded at the Foundation’s November meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Future of Work:

Fast Food Franchises and Low-Wage Work
Rosemary Batt and Wilma B. Liebman (Cornell University)

Batt, Liebman, and a group of multi-disciplinary collaborators will extend a previous study on fast food franchises to investigate how the franchising business model affects job quality, pay, and labor law compliance, and how franchises are currently shaping low-wage work.

RSF Visiting Scholar Prudence Carter has been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her new position will begin on June 30, 2016.

Carter is currently the Jacks Family Professor of Education and Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, where she teaches a range of courses on racial and ethnic relations, social and cultural inequality, the sociology of education, urban schooling, and research methods. She is also the Faculty Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities and a former co-director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity in Policy in Education. Carter is the author of Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White (2005) and Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools (2012), and co-editor of Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give All Children an Even Chance (2013).