Gain Government Experience, Ronan Joins SLSV Board, NEW Leadership®

Gain Political and Government Experience

The Eagleton Graduate Fellowship provides Rutgers graduate students the opportunity to gain government and political experience through a Spring semester internship in local, state, or federal government. The experience is part of the one-year Fellowship, which includes financial assistance. Graduate and professional students from all schools and disciplines can apply by March 26th to join the Class of 2022.

Placements for current Eagleton Fellows include:

Eashwayne Haughton

Haughton is pursuing a master’s degree in public policy with a concentration in urban policy and community development at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

Haughton's internship is with the Policy Office of the New Jersey Governor.

Morgan Humphrey

Humphrey is a third-year graduate student at Rutgers Law School–Camden.

Humphrey's internship is with the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission.

Monica Bastos

Bastos is pursuing a master’s of public administration degree at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers–Newark.

Basto's internship is with the Department of Human Services within the New Jersey Office of New Americans.

Tracy Youngster

Youngster is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the School of Graduate Studies in Rutgers–New Brunswick.

Youngster's internship is with the Watershed and Land Use Division of the Department of Environmental Protection.

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Upcoming Events

Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era
Tuesday, February 23rd at 12pm EST
Join Eagleton for a conversation with Eagleton Professor Saladin Ambar and Eagleton Fellow Emahunn Campbell as they discuss Professor Ambar's analysis of Malcolm X's 1964 speech at Oxford in Professor Ambar's book, Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era. In co-sponsorship with the Rutgers Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities and Rutgers Paul Robeson Cultural Center.

RU Running?: Young Elected Leaders Panel
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 2pm EST
Join the Center for Youth Political Participation (CYPP) and The NEW Leadership® National Network for the first part of a virtual political campaign training for college students interested in running for public office or serving on a campaign. Open to college students.

Popcorn and Politics: State of the Union Address Watch Party
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 9:00pm EST
Join CYPP and fellow Rutgers University students for a State of the Union Watch Party! Open to current Rutgers University undergraduate and graduate students.

Ready to Run® 2021 Virtual Series - Crisis Communication (National)
Friday, February 26, 2021 at 1:00pm EST
Join the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and Lupe Todd-Medina, president of Effective Media Strategies, for a campaign training focusing on crisis communication and reshaping message strategy.

Albert W. Lewitt Endowed Lecture: A Conversation with U.S. Congressman Darren Soto
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 10:30am EST
Join Eagleton for a virtual conversation with United States Congressman Darren Soto (FL-09) as he discusses his approach to advocacy through legislative service at the state and national level. Rep. Soto is a Rutgers alumnus and the first person of Puerto Rican descent to serve in Congress from Florida.

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CYPP Staff Selected for National Advisory Board

The Students Learn Students Vote (SLSV) Coalition announced that it selected Jessica Ronan, program coordinator for Eagleton's Center for Youth Political Participation and Rutgers alumna, for its 2021 Advisory Board.

SLSV is the national hub and largest nonpartisan network in the United States dedicated to increasing college student voter participation. Congratulations, Jessica!

Leadership Training for College Women

In collaboration with CAWP's NEW Leadership® National Network partners in over 15 states, the 2021 Susan N. Wilson NEW Leadership® New Jersey summer institute for college women will be held virtually for five days over the course of two weeks: June 9th-10th and June 14th, 15th, and 16th.

Students from around the country will participate in a series of engaging virtual sessions and will have access to online resources; those participating in New Jersey will also receive a NEW Leadership® New Jersey care package and a daily food delivery gift card to defray the cost of their meals during the program.

Pending the reopening of Rutgers University, students in New Jersey will have the opportunity attend a one-day, in-person, NEW Leadership® program in the Fall 2021 semester at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Learn more about NEW Leadership® 2021, including application and participation information from our partner programs. Submit an application for NEW Leadership® New Jersey.

Students interested in participating must apply by Monday, March 28, 2021.

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Research

A Case Study in Reimagining Transit for a Better Region

The Eagleton Center on the American Governor is featuring a new report about the creation of New Jersey Transit on its website. The report, written by Deborah Wathen Finn, president of the Wathen Group, underscores the pivotal role that Louis J. Gambaccini played in the formation of NJ Transit.

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Eagleton in the News

Events at 3 NJ colleges were 'Zoom bombed'. Officials say these 'terrifying' incidents are on the rise.

"John Farmer Jr., the former New Jersey Attorney General and current director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, described [Zoom bombings] as 'no less terrifying, no less destructive, no less violative of our common humanity than acts of physical vandalism like spray-painting swastikas on synagogues or displaying hangmen’s nooses in public parks.'"

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Closing of the Republican Mind

NJ Spotlight published an op-ed written by Eagleton Professor Saladin Ambar.

"The truth is, the American mind isn’t closed, but the right side of the brain has very much gone into a state of somnambulance... The thing that we need to fear being fractured, as Van Drew argues, isn’t our nation. It is our minds," wrote Ambar.

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America’s ‘most powerful governor’ says he’s not focused on politics

NJ 101.5 cited a recent Rutgers-Eagleton Poll in an article about New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.

"A Rutgers-Eagleton poll from the same period shows a 62% approval rating."

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Republican women are becoming key party messengers. Here’s how it happened.

In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Catherine Wineinger, assistant professor of political science at Western Washington University, cited interview data from the Center for American Women and Politics.

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Trump faces uncertain legal future after second impeachment acquittal

NJ Spotlight News interviewed Eagleton director John J. Farmer, Jr. about former President Donald Trump's legal future following his second impeachment acquittal.

"There are investigations going on in Georgia... and also the Manhattan DA is looking seriously into some of the former President's business interests. This is not over," said Farmer.

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