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Click to read an Op-Ed about the 9th American Youth Congress featured in the Citizen Times May, 15 2009.
Click to watch:
a) 3-minute video of this year's American Youth Congress event (April 4, 2009)
b) a slide show of American Youth Congress Award Winners (April 4, 2009)
c) a 7-minute audio clip of Constitution Day student (September 17, 2008)
Public Policy Institute
The WCU Public Policy Institute aims to empower the Western North Carolina region to effectively manage real policy problems by mobilizing students, community leaders, faculty, and citizens to discuss and develop viable policy options to create more effective policies.
Our Goals:
- To help students to become active participants in their communities.
- To improve public policy in the region by conducting rigorous research on major issues and making it available and understandable to a practitioner audience.
- To exercise policy leadership in the region.
- To obtain resources to carry out the mission of the institute, and to attract dedicated students, faculty, and staff to assist in carrying out the mission.