ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEXT CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DE MOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTION ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY INTERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MILLENNIAL NA- TIONAL NEW JERSEY PARTICIPATE PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRA UATE VOTERS STATE LEGISLATURE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WASHINGTON, DC ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEXT CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DEMOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTIO ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY INTERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MILLENNIAL NATIONAL NEW JERSEY PARTICIPAT PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRADUATE VOTERS STATE LEGISLATU GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WASHINGTON, DC ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEX CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DEMOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTION ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY IN- TERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MILLENNIAL NATIONAL NEW JERSEY PARTICIPATE PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRADUATE VOTERS STATE LEGISLATURE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WASH INGTON, DC ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEXT CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DEMOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTION ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY INTERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MIL- LENNIAL NATIONAL NEWEAGLETON JERSEY PARTICIPATE PUBLIC INSTITUTE SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY OF POLITICS SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRADUATE VOTERS STATE LEGISLATURE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WASHINGTON, DC ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEXT CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DEMOCRACY DIS- CUSS ELECTION ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY INTERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MILLENNIAL NATIONAL NEW 2016–2017 JERSEY PARTICIPATE PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRADUATE VOTE STATE LEGISLATURE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WASHINGTON, DC ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CO STITUTION CONTEXT CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DEMOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTION ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY INTERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MILLENNIAL NATIONAL NEW JERSEY PARTICIPATE PUBLIC SER- VICE RESPONSIBILITY SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRADUATE VOTERS STATE LEGISLATURE GRADUAT FELLOWSHIP WASHINGTON, DC ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEXT CONTRIB UTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DEMOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTION ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY INTERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MILLENNIAL NATIONAL NEW JERSEY PARTICIPATE PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRADUATE VOTERS STATE LEGISLATURE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WASHINGTON, D ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEXT CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DE MOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTION ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY INTERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MILLENNIAL NA- TIONAL NEW JERSEY PARTICIPATE PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRA UATE VOTERS STATE LEGISLATURE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WASHINGTON, DC ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEXT CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DEMOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTIO ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY INTERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MILLENNIAL NATIONAL NEW JERSEY PARTICIPAT PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRADUATE VOTERS STATE LEGISLATU GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WASHINGTON, DC ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEX CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DEMOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTION ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY IN- TERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MILLENNIAL NATIONAL NEW JERSEY PARTICIPATE PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY SECURITY SPEAKERS TEACH UNDERGRADUATE VOTERS STATE LEGISLATURE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WASH INGTON, DC ALUMNI BALLOT CAMPAIGN CANDIDATE CONSTITUTION CONTEXT CONTRIBUTE CONVERSATION DEBATE DEMOCRACY DISCUSS ELECTION ENGAGEMENT ETHICS FACULTY INTERNSHIP INDEPENDENT MIL ABOUT THE EAGLETON INSTITUTE OF POLITICS TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT EAGLETON The RevolUtionary Monument, given to Rutgers to honor its 250th anniversary year, was placed outside Eagleton in the weeks before the 2016 election. 1 MESSAGE FROM The Eagleton Institute of The Institute includes the Center for American THE DIRECTOR Politics explores state and Women and Politics, the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, the Eagleton Center on the Ameri- national politics through can Governor, and the newly established Center for research, education, and Youth Political Participation. Eagleton also presents 2 EDUCATION PROGRAMS public service, linking the the Cliff ord P. Case Professorship of Public Aff airs, study of politics with its day- the Arthur J. Holland Program on Ethics in Govern- ment, the Louis J. Gambaccini Civic Engagement to-day practice. Established 10 RESEARCH CENTERS Series, the Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Wom- AND PROGRAMS in 1956 with a bequest from en’s Political Leadership, and the Albert W. Lewitt Florence Peshine Eagleton, Endowed Lecture. a suff ragist and founder of Eagleton off ers a range of education programs: a 16 PUBLIC PROGRAMS the New Jersey League of one-year graduate fellowship program; a three-se- Women Voters, the Institute mester undergraduate certifi cate; research as- focuses attention on how sistantships and internships; and opportunities to 18 DONORS interact with political practitioners. Eagleton faculty the American political sys- teach courses in various curricular programs. tem works, how it changes, The Institute convenes conferences and other and how it might work bet- 22 ALUMNI, FACULTY, STAFF forums for the general public. In addition, Eagleton AND VISITING ASSOCIATES ter. While its 60th anniver- undertakes projects to enhance political under- sary year has passed, the In- standing and involvement, often in collaboration stitute continues to focus its with political leaders, government agencies, the media, non-profi t groups, and other work on the theme adopted academic institutions. for that celebration: Make It Better. MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR Ruth B. Mandel SUMMER 2017 I am a naturalized American, granted Rutgers University, a public institution sailed into New York harbor as a child citizenship as the daughter of of higher education that is the home passing alongside a gigantic statue refugees who narrowly escaped of an institute of politics dedicated to: holding high a welcoming torch, and Hitler’s Europe to spend the WWII the day I became a naturalized citizen “...the advancement of learning in years living as boarders with an — those sparkling yesterdays and this the field of practical political aff airs elderly lady in a small English town year’s murky todays are entwined and government [so] that a knowl- 100 miles north of London, hiding in with one another. They are bound by edge of the meaning of democracy air raid shelters deep in the night as a cord fabricated from the strongest, may be increased through the German bombers flew overhead, my most resilient human materials — education of young women and father impressed into service in the the sturdy threads of inspiration and men in democratic government.” British army. My parents emigrated obligation to pass forward the best to the United States after the war, Those words belong to Florence democracy that can be envisioned when I was almost nine. Seven years Peshine Eagleton, the woman after and achieved. later, when they pledged allegiance whom the Eagleton Institute of Pol- In the pages of this year’s report, you to become naturalized citizens, I was itics was named in 1956. Under her will glimpse who we are and what granted citizenship too. good name and benefiting from her we’ve done this past year. Watch as initial bequest, we have earned the Securing visas for entry into America we go forward. Hold us to promises reputation of a jewel in the Rutgers meant getting past wait lists and quo- inherited from the best lessons of the University crown. A small institute tas, locating U.S. relatives they’d never past. See them as beacons for the Eagleton students with a big reach, Eagleton has ben- met to vouch support so we would road ahead. Hold us to another state- wrapped an R sculpture efited over the years from thinkers, not be burdens on the state. But once ment from Florence Eagleton’s will: in the U.S. Constitution doers, and academic entrepreneurs for the Rutgers Day here, they inched forward into factory who have studied and taught lessons “It is my settled conviction that R-Garden. employment, boarding room rentals, about the democracy we inherited the cultivation of civic responsi- and eventually citizenship. I benefited and value, about the democratic insti- bility and leadership among the from public education in elementary tutions and practices we are tasked American people in the field of school, high school, and Brooklyn to understand. Together, we explore practical political aff airs is of vital College (registration fee: eight dollars opportunities for making them better. and increasing importance to our per semester). All that unfolded a state and nation…I make this gift long time ago. But the promise of Our individual and collective heritage; especially for the development America, the pathways to citizenship, the expectations; the obligations to of and education for responsible the commitment of public support for history and to the Institute’s name- leadership in civic and governmen- an educated citizenry — I have spent sake — everything has been more tal aff airs and the solution of their decades taking for granted that these daunting to contemplate and more political problems.” basic elements of our culture are challenging to confront this past year. rock solid. Nothing is clearer than the urgency Could we hope for wiser guidance at to keep steadily focused on basic this moment? By dint of coincidence and more values and guiding principles. For me, than a little good fortune, I’ve spent it is imperative to recall that the day