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Located at a busy cross-roads of campus, the Rockefeller Center is a lively, intellectual gathering place for students and faculty. It is a catalyst for public policy research and education and prepares students for lives of leadership and service in a diverse and globally interdependent world.
The Center offers many opportunities for discussion and interaction with scholars, policymakers and political figures. Dartmouth students find a space that bridges their academic and personal lives. They engage in lunch or dinner discussions with peers, faculty and distinguished visitors and join organizations that focus on public affairs, public policy, law, leadership, social justice or politics. Some students enroll in the Public Policy Minor or the Dartmouth-Oxford Exchange. More than 50 students receive funds each year to defray expenses for unpaid, leave-term public affairs and public policy internships or research-related opportunities.
Scholarly work of the Dartmouth faculty is supported through interdisciplinary workshops on health, law, foreign policy, gender and immigration, organizations and strategy, and the environment. The Center also hosts seminars where faculty and visiting scholars present their work and funds faculty and post-doctoral fellowships, research and conference grants, and classroom enhancement programs.
The Center hosts a variety of visitors throughout the academic year to stimulate discussion on regional, national and international affairs. Through the Rockefeller Distinguished Visitors Program, the Class of 1930 Fellowship, the Brooks Family and Bernard Nossiter Lectureships, visitors have included Sandra Day O'Connor, Oscar Arias, Robert Reich, Mary Frances Berry, George Mitchell, Ehud Barak, Kevin Phillips, William Kristol, Rudy Giuliani, Robert McNamara, Wole Soyenka and Fareed Zakaria.
Every four years, New Hampshire provides an intense experience in presidential politics because of its first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Rockefeller plays a key role in hosting Democratic and Republican hopefuls on campus as well as in organizing nationally televised debates or town meetings.
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