Hunter’s Human Rights Program aims to give students the tools they need to address human rights problems intelligently and constructively, whether as advocates, scholars, researchers or informed citizens. Via academic… 
Upcoming Programs
Tue, March 11, 2014 @ 6:00 PM
Wed, March 12, 2014 @ 5:30 PM
Thu, March 20, 2014 @ 5:00 PM
Mon, March 24, 2014 @ 6:00 PM
Tue, March 25, 2014 @ 6:00 PM
Doubling Down on the Nation’s Obesity Epidemic
03/07/2014Image credit: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson By Shyama Venkateswar Medical researchers recently released some hopeful news in the nation’s battle against obesity. A...Event Recap: How to Become a Policy Pundit
03/03/2014By Gianina Kesselman On February 19, 2014 students and faculty at the Roosevelt House engaged in a brown bag lunch called How to Become a Policy Pundit, which di...Affordable Housing: The Most Effective Way to Combat Inequality
02/28/2014Dasani Coates and her siblings in the room they shared with their parents in a Brooklyn homeless shelter. Image Credit: Ruth Fremson, New York Times By Shyama...Fall 2013 Spitzer Capstone Prize Goes to Audrey Stienon’s “Inclusion Through Care”
02/27/2014At the end of the Fall 2013 semester, Dr. Shyama Venkateswar, Director and Distinguished Lecturer of the Public Policy Program, announced that Audrey Stienon has b...Special Projects
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…
Changing New York: A Roosevelt House Policy Forum
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.
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
Triple Jeopardy: Dismantling of the Public Sector and the War on Women
There has been much buzz in recent news surrounding the widening inequality gap, the long-term effectiveness of President Johnson’s Great Society programs in combating poverty, and President Obama’s call to increase the federal minimum wage. While these issues are extremely important, it has been surprising to see the lack ...
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 ...
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.
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
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