Roosevelt Institution

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name = The Roosevelt Institution

type = Collegiate Policy think tank
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foundation = Stanford & Yale
location_city = Washington, D.C.
location_country = United States
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locations = >75 College Campuses
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key_people = Nate Loewentheil (E.D.)
Caitlin Howarth (Dir. of Ops.)
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homepage = [http://rooseveltinstitution.org/ http://rooseveltinstitution.org/]
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intl = __NOTOC__The Roosevelt Institution is a non-profit, non-partisan network of college campus-based think tanks.

Individual collegiate chapters conduct research and write policy regarding various public issues. It the first student-run policy research group in the United States. [Falcone, Michael, "Hoping to Make Policy Waves, and Graduate, Too." The New York Times, May 25, 2005.] [Murphy, Dave, "STANFORD. Progressive students start new think tank Roosevelt's goal is to pool expertise, offer policy papers The organization's national infrastructure connects the products of that research to the policy process through publications and the media." San Francisco Chronicle, February 27, 2005]

Roosevelt was founded following the 2004 Presidential Election at Stanford University and Yale University. [Murphy, Ryan G. "THE NATION; Collegians Pool Their Ideas in New Think Tank; A public policy center that has branched out from Stanford launches a journal to put student research in the mix. It has since expanded to over 7000 members from 75 chapters from schools in the United States and Europe." Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2005, page A 26] It is a counterpoint to the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford. [ [http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=2272] vanden Heuvel, Katrina, "Sweet Victory:Taking Back the Campuses." Editor's cut, The Nation, March 18, 2005]

Structure

On Campus

Each individual chapter of the Roosevelt Institution consists of a number of policy centers, in which students interested in a given topic can join together and share research, ideas, and resources. Policy centers at each chapter are assisted by an administrative organization.

Example set of policy centers (Brown University)

Political Advisers

Roosevelt political advisers share the benefit of their political experience with the Institution. They include, in a partial list:

Affiliations and Partners

The Roosevelt Institution has merged with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and works with a variety of foundations, think tanks, publications, and advocacy organizations.
* [http://feri.org Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute]
* [http://rooseveltinstitution.org/partners List of other partners]

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