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Our news section is dedicated to sharing pertinent information about these key issue areas, stories about individuals affiliated with and affected by policies in these areas, as well as news about The Harkin Institute itself.
Harkin Institute Job Opening: Associate Director of Retirement Security Policy
The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement is hiring an Associate Director of Retirement Security Policy. The Associate Director will work to achieve The Harkin Institute’s strategic vision in the retirement security policy area in...
read moreOP-ED: Iowa needs workers and more than half of people with disabilities are unemployed. Let’s fix that.
This op-ed by Joseph Jones, Executive Director of The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement, and Kyle Duarte, founding director of Everyone at Work ran in The Des Moines Register on August 7, 2019. Over 50 percent of Americans with...
read moreResearch Project Launches to Analyze App Use and Birth Outcomes
Research Project Launches to Analyze App Use and Birth Outcomes Iowa Institutions Come Together for First-Of-Its-Kind Study DES MOINES, Iowa --- (July 31, 2019) --- Researchers at Des Moines University (DMU) and The Harkin Institute for Public Policy &...
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Meet D.C. Experience Scholarship Recipient Sloan Nickel
Sloan Nickel is one of four recipients of the 2019 D.C. Experience Scholarship, which provides financial support for Drake University students interning in Washington, D.C., for the summer. She will provide bi-weekly updates of her time in D.C. I have now...
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Meet D.C. Experience Scholarship Recipient Ivy Beckenholdt
Ivy Beckenholdt is one of four recipients of the 2019 D.C. Experience Scholarship, which provides financial support for Drake University students interning in Washington, D.C., for the summer. She will provide bi-weekly updates of her time in D.C. I’ve...
read moreMeet our 2019 D.C. Experience Scholarship Recipients
In 2019, The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement awarded four D.C. Experience Scholarships to Drake University undergraduates who are interning in Washington, D.C. this summer. The scholarship, which is reserved for students who...
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Senator Tom Harkin receives honorary degree from Drake University
Watch Senator Harkin's commencement speech. Senator Tom Harkin (retired) has received an honorary degree from Drake University for his commitment to the state of Iowa and his career in public service. Senator Harkin received the Honorary Doctor of Public...
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Harkin Institute joins newly-founded disability inclusion initiative
The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement joined organizations from across the globe last month to establish the Global University Disability & Inclusion Network (GUDIN), an initiative with goals of making higher education more inclusive...
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The Harkin Institute celebrates ceremonial groundbreaking
Watch the ceremonial groundbreaking program. Read coverage in The Business Record. View photos from the celebration The Harkin Institute and Drake University celebrated a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Institute’s new building on Friday, May 17. The...
read moreDrake Archivist Bibens elected president of ACSC
Drake University Political Papers Archivist Hope Bibens has been elected to serve as president of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress (ACSC). Bibens, who has worked for Drake since 2014, is responsible for curating the Political Papers...
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Emily Schettler
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515-271-3592
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