Roosevelt House opened the Spring 2022 semester by welcoming the sixth cohort of students to the prestigious Eva Kastan Grove Fellowship on Friday, January 28. Each year, 25 Hunter College… 
Today marks the 140th birthday of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in 1882. Please visit our online mini-exhibit “Combating an Epidemic: President Roosevelt’s Birthday Celebrations on January 30” created in honor…
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 — New York City. Roosevelt House was honored today with a visit from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The Mayor joined the Hunter Urban…
Hunter College senior Devashish Basnet ’22 has been named a 2022 Rhodes Scholar. He is only the second student in the school’s history to receive a Rhodes, one of the…
Today would be Eleanor Roosevelt’s 137th birthday. We can be proud that she was a native New Yorker, born in the city on October 11, 1884. She would always have…
Jessica Neuwirth, the Rita E. Hauser Director of the Human Rights Program at The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, received the insignia of “Chevalier dans l’Ordre National…
Public Policy Program Director and Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Basil A. Smikle Jr., provides commentary on MSNBC’s Deadline White House regarding the ongoing fight to pass The Freedom to Vote Act…
Read Public Policy Program Director and Distinguished Lecturer, Basil A. Smikle Jr.’s commentary on the challenges that lie ahead for the Biden Administration, both domestically and abroad in “The Hill”…
Read Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Karna Basu’s commentary on the effects of 9/11 on millennial spending habits in the Al Jazeera article “Did 9/11 make millennials less wealthy?” by Radmilla…
Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Mimi Abramovitz authored a Letter to the Editor in The New York Times on August 30, 2021 in response to a column by Paul Krugman. Read Mimi Abramovitz’s full letter…
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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