Our aim is to advance and promote democracy by focusing on areas of research and public policy that are relevant to the work of community groups and policy-makers. We help increase access to, and participation in, the political process -- especially at the state and local levels. We provide valuable information that helps foster equity and quality of services for minorities, immigrants, and other marginalized groups.

What's New

  • Click here for a PDF of the Howard Samuels Center's Annual Report 2008/2009, which includes descriptions of some of our recent research and profiles of seven Samuels Center alumni, CUNY graduate students who conducted research at the Howard Samuels Center and have gone on to exciting and important careers in academia and the larger non-profit sector.

  • The Staff of the Howard Samuels Center must regretfully announce that the Center's Founding Director, Professor Marilyn Jacobs Gittell, died on February 26, 2010. See Professor Gittell's bio on our Staff page.