FACULTY DIRECTORY
Micheline Blum
Distinguished Lecturer
Mailing Address:
Baruch College/CUNY
School of Public Affairs
One Bernard Baruch Way, Box D-0901
New York, NY 10010
Office Location: 135 East 22nd Street, Room 811
Phone: 646 660-6795
Fax: 646 660-6770
Email: Micheline.Blum@baruch.cuny.edu
Biography
Micheline Blum is Distinguished Lecturer and Director of Baruch College Survey Research, supervising all BCSR staff and surveys. Recent BCSR projects include surveys for NY1 News, the NY State Department of Health, the Campaign Finance Institute, New Yorkers 4 Parks, American Humanics, CUNYFirst, the Dominican Studies Institute and the Non-Profit Executive Outlook Survey.
Ms. Blum is a past President of the New York Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and is a recognized expert in questionnaire construction, public opinion, and election polling. Ms. Blum teaches the NYAAPOR "Meet the Masters " questionnaire construction workshop, and recently published an invited “Ask the Experts” analysis of the “Convergence Mystery” in AAPOR’s online publication, Survey Practice. She has also served on the national AAPOR Council and was recently elected to the Market Research Council.
Ms. Blum has been the NY1 News pollster since 1997, appears frequently as a polling and election analyst on local and national television, and has organized, moderated and presented at many public forums and academic and professional conferences. As President of Blum & Weprin, an independent public opinion firm, Ms. Blum’s many clients included The Daily News, The Dallas Morning News, The New York Times Magazine, The Star-Ledger, the NY State Dept. of Health, Public Agenda, and the National and New York Urban Leagues. Before founding her own firm, Ms. Blum was Manager of Polling & Election Operations at NBC News from 1979-1990.
Ms. Blum teaches Research and Analysis, and the Designing and Using Survey Research in the School of Public Affairs. Ms. Blum's M.A. in Psychology and certification toward a Ph.D. in Psychological Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics are from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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