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
Wed, April 23, 2014 @ 6:00 PM
Thu, April 24, 2014 @ 7:30 PM
Tue, April 29, 2014 @ 5:30 PM
With: Colum McCann, Jeff Sharlet, Susan Shillinglaw, and moderated by Jeff Allred.Wed, April 30, 2014 @ 6:00 PM
Interviewed by Richard Tofel, President of ProPublicaThu, May 1, 2014 @ 6:00 PM
Fri, May 2, 2014 @ 9:00 AM
Mon, May 5, 2014 @ 5:45 PM
Tue, May 6, 2014 @ 6:00 PM
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Recent Event Summaries
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Event Recap – Social Intraprenuership: Keeping Your Day Job and Finding Meaning in Your Work (03/17/2014)
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Event Recap – New York: A City for Tech Innovation (03/11/2014)
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Event Recap – How to Become a Policy Pundit (03/03/2014)
Roosevelt House News -
Hunter College Model U.N. wins Outstanding Delegation by the National Collegiate College Association (04/07/2014)
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Public Policy Students Win Public Affairs Fellowships at Princeton University (02/13/2014)
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Hunter Appoints Thomas A. Farley, MD, MPH as 2014 Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health (01/23/2014)
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Human Rights Program Chair Manu Bhagavan featured on All Things Considered (12/16/2013)
Faculty Associate News -
Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Professor Sanford Schram Brings His Research to Australia (04/15/2014)
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Distinguished Professor and Faculty Associate Nancy Foner Is Appointed to Influential Panel on Immigration (04/02/2014)
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Human Rights Program Chair Manu Bhagavan featured on All Things Considered (12/16/2013)
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Faculty Associate Howard Chernick Appointed to the Board of Seedco (12/12/2013)
Undergraduate Program News -
Human Rights Student Alexander Simon-Fox Wins Global Human Rights Fellowship (04/02/2014)
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Public Policy Student Audrey Stienon Wins Prestigious Luce Scholarship (03/28/2014)
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The Global Community Must Take Action on Eliminating Violence Against Women (03/14/2014)
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Doubling Down on the Nation’s Obesity Epidemic (03/07/2014)
Roosevelt House History -
69 Years After His Death, We Remember FDR (04/11/2014)
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A Mysterious Piano at Roosevelt House (04/10/2014)
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The FDR Four Freedoms Park: Then and Now (03/20/2014)
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Saint Patrick’s Day, Roosevelt Style (03/17/2014)
Special Projects
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.
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…
The Story of Roosevelt House
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 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, nine months after their marriage. In December 1908, Franklin and Eleanor moved into No. 49 with their two young children, Anna and James, and Sara took up residence…
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…
Roosevelt House Faculty Forum
Combating the Wage Gap: Equal Pay For Equal Work
President Obama with Lilly Ledbetter. (Image credit: www.lillyledbetter.com)
In recognition of National Equal Pay Day on April 8, 2014 — a symbolic day to mark how far into the year an average woman must work in order to gain parity with an average man’s income from the previous year — President Obama ...
Does the Supreme Court’s Recent Ruling on Campaign Finance Threaten our Democracy?
Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and John Roberts, part of the majority opinion in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Supreme Court’s McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission ruling this week further deregulated campaign finance laws by giving the wealthy few in the country an ability to spend even ...
Student Forum
The Urgency of Obesity Translational Research
During my freshman year at Hunter College, I became involved with Weill Cornell Medical College Office of Community Service’s program Motivating Action Through Community Health Outreach (MAChO), which is a dual mentoring and research program based in ...
Why The Corporate Sector Can Be A Powerful Agent For Change
On March 11th, three of the Aspen Institute’s First Movers came to Roosevelt House to talk about the role of business in social change.
Moderated by Heidi Moore, the U.S. Finance and Economic Editor at 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.
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