The Program in Public Policy is an 18-credit undergraduate minor open to students in all disciplines. Students also have an option to receive a Certificate in Public Policy by taking… 
P-Cubed News: From the Director’s Desk – Shifting the Debate on Gun Control in the United States
12/12/2013This week marks the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, when an armed gunman fatally shot twenty elementary school children and six ...Faculty Associate Howard Chernick Appointed to the Board of Seedco
12/12/2013Faculty Associate Howard Chernick (Economics) has ben appointed to the board of the Structured Employment Economic Development Coorporation (Seedco) a national nonpr...Human Rights Day — Looking Forward
12/10/2013On December 10, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the cornerstone of the human rights movement. To commemorate the s...P-cubed News: From the Director’s Desk – Moving Beyond New York’s Controversial Stop-and-Frisk Policy
12/05/2013As Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure comes to an end, the troubling stop-and-frisk policy of the New York Police Department will be remembered as one of his administration...Special Projects
Changing New York: 2013 and Beyond
The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College will sponsor a Summer/Fall 2013 programming series dedicated to understanding the social, cultural and political forces shaping New York in the 21st century. Building upon the success last year of “The Road to November: Exploring America’s Challenges on the way to Election 2012,” Roosevelt House will this year focus on the challenges facing the city as it prepares for the mayoral election in November 2013.
CUNY Institute for Education Policy
The City University of New York’s new Institute for Education Policy is New York City’s first university-based policy analysis and research institute devoted solely to understanding the challenges of PK-20…
Roosevelt House History
The story of Roosevelt House, a double townhouse located at 47-49 East 65th Street, begins at the turn of the twentieth century. At Christmastime 1905, Sara Delano Roosevelt promised a new home to her son and daughter-in law…
The Eleanor Project
The Eleanor Project brings together the memories of 39 Hunter College alumnae about Eleanor Roosevelt, Hunter College and Roosevelt House. The Project was supported by Hunter’s President Jennifer Raab, and was developed over the 2008-2009 academic year as a collaboration among students from Hunter’s Macaulay Honors College and the Film/Media Department…
Faculty Forum
Op-Ed: White Poverty Must Be Good Poverty
Some journalists and scholars have referred to white poverty as an invisible form of poverty1. Its invisibility stems from its baffling absence from the discussion about poverty in America. How can this be? Maybe it is a better form of poverty that fails to wreck individual lives, families, and communities? ...
Detroit’s Bankruptcy: How Did We Get Here, and What’s Next?
The filing for bankruptcy of the city of Detroit on July 18, 2013, represents the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the United States. While bankruptcy of private corporations typically allows a restructuring of debt obligations, the legal terrain in the case of public sector bankruptcy is murky. The ...
In Fight Over New Global Development Goals, Round One Goes to “Democracy” (Sort of)
It’s official: democracy is now a universal goal that all nations must meet. Well, not exactly. But if you read between the lines of a United Nations report due out on Friday, something very much like democracy is being proposed as a central objective of the world’s future development agenda. If ...
Roosevelt House, an integral part of Hunter College since 1943, reopened in 2010 as a public policy institute honoring the distinguished legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Its mission is three-fold: to educate students in public policy and human rights, to support faculty research, and to foster creative dialogue.
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