The Roos eve lt Ins titute

at Purdue Univers ity

: WANTED your ideas: WANTED your ideas

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What is the Roos eve lt Ins titute Campus?Network

• Student-run policy organization with chapters at 80 campuses

• Empowering students to develop innovative policy solutions to the global challenges of 21st century

• Training the next generation of progressive leaders and promoting their ideas for change

• Affiliated with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the FDR Presidential Library

Organizational Structure

Purdue Chapter

What we have to offer1. - Opportunitie s to gain real world experience in policy

deve lopment and publis h your work in national journals

3. – IMPACT your campus and community deve lop propos als for local change and put your ideas into

!action

5. (+ ) $$ knowledge & expertis e to fund your projec ts

7. , Acces s to a national s upport network re lations hip withGPRI

9. , , Summer interns hips fe llows hips jobs opportunities

…… we want your ideas we want your ideas

Energy & Environment

• Finding alternative Finding alternative energy s ources and energy s ources and s o lving infras tructure s o lving infras tructure

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• Food policy and Food policy and

, agriculture reform , agriculture reform s marter land us e s marter land us e

, practices water &, practices water & natural res ource natural res ource

managementmanagement

• Creating “Sexy Cities ” Creating “Sexy Cities ”

- revitalize urban centers- revitalize urban centers

- expand pubic trans portation- expand pubic trans portation

- green buildings & indus try- green buildings & indus try

- reduce urban pollution- reduce urban pollution

Equal Jus tice

• Comprehens ive immigrationreform

- The Dream Act

• Electoral re form and voterprotections

• ’ Workers rights and fair labors tandards

• Fairnes s in the criminal jus tice, , s ys tem s entenc ing and the

death penalty

• LGBT and minority rights

Education

• Clos ing the achievement gap in

urban s chools

• Saving failings chools

• Improving rural acces s to education

• Es tablis hing fair s tandards for

teacher evaluation

Economic Deve lopment

• Modernizing Soc ial Security

• , Financ ial re form regulating the s tudent loan

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• , Community deve lopment , affordable hous ing

bringing familie s out ofpoverty

• , Job creation es pec ially- high tech and green jobs

• Expanding national s ervice programs like Peace Corps

Defens e & Diplomacy

• “ The New Mars hall Plan”- Developing the next Grand Strategy for national security based on our core values

• Nuclear nonproliferation

• Dis as ter preparednes s and recovery

• Supporting deve loping nations and reducing global poverty

• Energy & res ource s ecurity

Health Care

• Implementing national reforms in local areas with a focus on deve loping community health s olutions

• Improving childhood nutrition and combating obes ity

1Succes s Stories

•With the support of a grant from the national office, University of Michigan members traveled to New Orleans in 2006 to volunteer their time to help Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts and investigate the progress of those efforts through interviews with local officials and residents.

• , Through this efforts they deve loped a s et of policy

recommendations that were publis hed in a national journal

.and influenced federal policy

2Succes s Stories

•American University received a $1 million grant to launch the Ne xt Frontie r Haiti Initiativ e for sustainable community development projects in Haiti.

•Roosevelt Summer Fellows successfully lobbied the City of Chicago to implement innovative green policy initiatives

•Chapter members have testified before Congress on youth job creation, student loan reform, and policies for debt reduction.

:Contact Us

The Roos eve lt Ins titute at Purdue Univers ity

Web:

www.rooseveltcampusnetwork.org/chapter/purdue-university

Email: rooseveltinstitute.purdue@ gmail.com

Phone: 765.237.1855 (Milad)

Facebook: Roosevelt Institute @ PurdueDr. Daniel Aldrich (Faculty

Advisor)

Prof. Political Science