Beginning this Sunday, May 12th, and continuing through the month, C-SPAN 3 will air highlights from the academic portion of our Spring 2013 Presidential Leadership Symposium: Ike Reconsidered, a program… 
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College invites you to tune in to “Designing Healthy Communities,” the new series by Dr. Richard Jackson. Dr. Jackson is the Fall 2013 Joan…
The Hunter College Model United Nations Team traveled to Quito, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands to take part in the first-ever National Model United Nations conference hosted in Latin America. …
Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Dr. Nancy Foner (Sociology) will serve as president-elect in 2013-14 and president in 2014-2015 of the Eastern Sociological Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in sociological…
Today is the 80th Anniversary of FDR’s first inauguration – incidentally the last inauguration to be held in March* – and of FDR’s famous “fear itself” speech. Delivered against the…
Faculty Associates assembled in Roosevelt House’s Four Freedoms Room on January 31st in an event timed to kick off the Spring 2013 semester. Roosevelt House Interim Director Jonathan Fanton introduced…
“It is glorious to have one’s birthday associated with a work like this. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. And that kinship, which human suffering evokes, is…
Roosevelt House Advisory Board Member Joseph A. Califano, Jr. appeared with Frmr. Sec. Condoleeza Rice, Taylor Branch and Dr. James Peterson on Bob Schieffer’s Face the Nation this past weekend…
The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world’s major…
Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter (1977-79), Special Assistant for Domestic Affairs to President Lyndon B. Johnson and current Roosevelt House…
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
47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10065
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