Two New Hampshire State Legislators Visit PBPL 45 Class
State Senator Matthew Houde ‘91 and State Representative Laurie Harding discuss the New Hampshire House of Representatives and Senate with students in PBPL 45 on October 14, 2010.
[more]State Senator Matthew Houde ‘91 and State Representative Laurie Harding discuss the New Hampshire House of Representatives and Senate with students in PBPL 45 on October 14, 2010.
[more]On Thursday evening, October 7, Ray Burton, one of five members of the New Hampshire Executive Council, and Mike Cryans, one of three members of the Grafton County Commission, met with students in Professor Ron Shaiko’s PBPL 45: Introduction to Public Policy Research class over dinner to discuss the unique characteristics of New Hampshire state, county, and local governments. New Hampshire is unique in its establishment of the Executive Council or Governor’s Council. The state does not have a lieutenant governor; rather it has a five-member council with powers fa
[more]The Policy Research Shop (PRS) at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences has been awarded a three-year, $750,000 grant by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to continue doing what it does best: helping undergraduates apply what they learn in the classroom to the real world of public policymaking.
[more]The Rockefeller Center was pleased to present the talk "“Ending Poverty in Our Generation: Still Time if We Try” with Jeffrey Sachs on Wednesday, October 13, 2010. More than 450 people filled the main lecture hall and several overflow seating areas for the public program. You
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