Centers/Programs
Curricular Education Programs
The Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University offers interdisciplinary fellowships that provide select Rutgers graduate students the opportunity to further their understanding of government, public affairs, and the practice of politics, and connect the fellowship experience to their chosen fields of study.
Undergraduate Associates explore applications of political science to the practice and processes of American politics. This certificate program is open to Junior undergraduate students in any Rutgers school or discipline. Selected students will spend the second semester of their junior year and all of their senior year as Undergraduate Associates.
Centers and Major Program Areas
The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) is a university-based research, education and public service center. Its mission is to promote greater understanding and knowledge about women's changing relationship to politics and government and to enhance women's influence and leadership in public life.
The Center on the American Governor, co-chaired by former Governors Brendan Byrne and Thomas H. Kean, has been created to establish Rutgers as the leading national academic center for research on the office of the governor in the 50 states.
The Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling/Rutgers-Eagleton Poll manages the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll, established in 1971 as one of the nation's first university-based statewide public opinion polls. The Center also undertakes other survey research in the public interest and designs opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to learn how to read, analyze, design and administer polls.
Recognizing that the fifty states are the laboratories of American democracy, the Eagleton Institute of Politics has long focused attention on state legislative research and service to ensure that both scholars and citizens understand the role and functioning of state government.
The Program on Immigration and Democracy is a cross-disciplinary group of immigration scholars that includes Rutgers faculty, Ph.D. students, and affiliated experts.
The quality of our democracy is based in large part on the education youth receive in citizenship. Through research, public service, and educational programs, YPPP is dedicated to exploring civic education at the high school level and political participation among young adults.
Programs include:
• RU Ready
RU Ready's mission is to provide young people with encouragement
and practical advice to enable them to participate actively in the civic
life of New Brunswick.
• RU Voting
RU Voting provides election and voter information to Rutgers students.
• State House Express
As part of its efforts to promote civic education about representative
democracy, the Eagleton Institute is offering small grants to teachers
of social studies in middle schools and high schools throughout
New Jersey.
• RU Ready
RU Ready's mission is to provide young people with encouragement
and practical advice to enable them to participate actively in the civic
life of New Brunswick.
• RU Voting
RU Voting provides election and voter information to Rutgers students.
• State House Express
As part of its efforts to promote civic education about representative
democracy, the Eagleton Institute is offering small grants to teachers
of social studies in middle schools and high schools throughout
New Jersey.
Special Programs
In 1980, the Rutgers Board of Governors voted to establish the Clifford P. Case Professorship of Public Affairs to recognize Senator Case's 34 years representing New Jersey in the United States Congress, during which "he consistently put principle above politics" and earned "the deserved reputation of having a profound sense of integrity."
Arthur J. Holland Program on Ethics in Government
The Arthur J. Holland Program on Ethics in Government was established by Rutgers University in 1989 under the leadership of President Edward J. Bloustein. The program honors the distinguished alumnus and long-time mayor of Trenton, a proponent and practitioner of open, responsive, and ethical government.
Albert W. Lewitt Endowed Lecture
As part of its efforts to promote civic education about representative democracy, the Eagleton Institute is offering small grants to teachers of social studies in middle schools and high schools throughout New Jersey.
The Lipman Chair was created to honor the legacy of the late state senator, the first African American woman in the New Jersey legislature. The Chair is intended to celebrate Senator Lipman, remind people of her achievements, and encourage others to follow in the footsteps of this path-breaking African American woman leader.