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Web Scout
Make the Write Impression Resources on the Web
By Marcia Koth de Paredes
The basic missions of universities are to prepare students and to expand the frontiers of the various academic disciplines. Most universities world-wide have also decided that they should encourage discussion of issues of public concern, do research that informs the policy process and carry out some form of advocacy to speak truth to power. Their efforts can be a great help to any organization or individual advocating for public policy improvements.
Universities realize that they need to limit the number of issues and methods to ensure academic excellence and the appropriate use of limited resources. A university, however, may have more than one center and since there are thousands of universities in the U.S., thousands of centers now exist. The centers frequently, though not always, do several things: degree programs, short courses-seminars-workshops-congresses, research, consulting activities, organization of events, maintenance of archives, data banks and Internet portals that advocate or organize information to aid in the policy process.
This WebScout selects a few examples of university-sponsored policy centers to demonstrate activities and methods to show how these centers focus the issues, sometimes in very different ways. If you are involved in advocacy, you will find it helpful to be in touch with centers. I would be pleased to help you search for centers working on issues that interest you. Contact me at rumicuna2@yahoo.com
Communications and Cyberspace:
MIT Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.media.mit.edu/
Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/
The Center for Internet and Society Stanford University
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
Center for Information Technology Policy Princeton University
http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/about/
Cultural and Environmental Conservation
Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago
http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/
Consortium for Language Policy and Planning (web serves as international portal)
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/
Global Change Research Group San Diego State University
http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/
Goldman Center for Environmental Public Policy Berkeley
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/programs/cepp.html
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy
http://www.yale.edu/envirocenter/
Education:
Consortium for Policy Research in Education (Several universities)
http://www.cpre.org/About/About_CPRE.htm
Center for Evaluation and Education Policy Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~ceep/
Portal for University and Other Education Policy Centers maintained by American Council of Education
http://www.acenet.edu/resources/policy-research/viewsubCategory.cfm?subcategoryID=3
Education Policy Center, Michigan State University
http://www.epc.msu.edu/
Health:
Center for Health Policy/Primary Care Stanford University
http://chppcor.stanford.edu/
Genetics and Public Policy Center Johns Hopkins University
http://www.dnapolicy.org/
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Baylor College of Medicine
http://www.bcm.edu/ethics/
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences University of Minnesota
http://lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/
University of Cincinnati Environmental Health Policy Center
http://www.eh.uc.edu/epc/
Management:
Business
Center for Business and Management Regulatory Policy Program Harvard University
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/rpp/
Ciber Web (Centers for International Business Education and Research)
http://ciberweb.msu.edu/about.asp Example at UCLA Anderson School of Business http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x327.xml
Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development
http://web.mit.edu/ctpid/www/
Competition Policy Center University of California Berkeley
http://iber.berkeley.edu/cpc/
Asia Strategic Forum
http://www.iip.washington.edu/consortium.html
Public
Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy University of Washington
http://wc.wustl.edu/
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/
Center for International Development Harvard University
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidresources/
Gerald Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan
http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/
Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution University of Texas
http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/centers/cppdr/
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/
See their portal of universities with human rights centers.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/resources_universities.shtml
Poverty Reduction:
Center on Hunger and Poverty Brandeis University
http://www.centeronhunger.org/
The Agricultural and Food Policy Center Texas A & M University
http://www.afpc.tamu.edu/
Agricultural Policy Analysis Center University of Tennessee
http://apacweb.ag.utk.edu/
Council of Engineering Systems Universities
http://www.cesun.org/
Center for International Science and Technology Policy George Washington University
http://www.gwu.edu/~cistp/
Center for Urban Policy Research Rutgers University
http://www.policy.rutgers.edu/cupr/
Center for Urban and Regional Policy Northeastern University
http://www.curp.neu.edu/
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