Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside U Michigan  U Michigan News Roosevelt Vanguard dream.DETROIT Upcoming Events "A Seat at the Table" was sponsored by the Roosevelt Institution and hosted by Yale University on October 6-7, 2006. Photo by Nick Bradley. Announcements Africa Policy Conference @ UNC Perfect Presidential Platform crafted @ UGA Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More National Press Chronicle of Higher Education The Nation LA Times New York Times > More "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." — Franklin Roosevelt    Center on Education > Roosevelt Home > U Michigan > Education Updated: 1/13/2008 Mission Statement: The University of Michigan Roosevelt Institution Policy Center on Education believes that education creates the foundation for any functional modern society. With this basic belief in mind, this organization plans to create education policy that takes local needs and socio-economic issues into account. The Center also hopes to bring education issues to the forefront of the academic discourse at the University of Michigan through media presentations and discussion forums open to the university community. 2007-2008 Education Center Policy Leadership: Policy Center Director:  Lesley H Plimpton Meetings: Undecided for Winter 2008 Group members: Lesley H Plimpton Virginia C Bailey Mallory A Bressler Kristy L Garvey Alena R Levine Kirsten E McAlister Joshua P Nussbaum Kat Oshman Naamah B Paley Erica A Zviklin   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 1527 New Hampshire Avenue NW, 4th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 || Fax: (202) 483-2657