Home  About  Chapters  Policy  Publications  Join  Jobs  Donate  Blog  > Inside UVA  UVA News Roosevelt Launches at UVA Students at the launch of the Stanford Chapter News from the National Office Thinking Big Senior Fellows 2009 Highlighted Chapter: Hunter College > More On Campus Midwest Regional Fall Policy Workshop Blum speaks at Vermont Campus Compact conference Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful." — Teddy Roosevelt    University of Virginia > Roosevelt Home > UVA The Roosevelt Institution is  not about politics, it's about policy. It's not about big government or small government but better government. Not left, not right, but forward.  The Roosevelt Mission As college students, we do the work of think tanks every day. We write policy papers, we debate politics with our friends, and we do countless hours of research for our classes. The only problem is that we've lack access to the policy process... until now. The Roosevelt Institution is America's first entirely student-run think tank. The objective of the Roosevelt Institution at the University of Virginia is to take students' progressive policy ideas and put them in the hands of policy makers, the mainstream media, and other think tanks. We believe that students deserve a voice in the realm of public policy. RI at UVA meets Wednesday evenings at 9:00PM in Newcomb Hall room 389. We welcome visitors and new members throughout the semester. If you'd like more information, please contact Eric Schneiter at schneiter@email.virginia.edu The Policy Team The University of Virginia Chapter of the Roosevelt Institution includes several policy centers, which are currently forming for the Fall 2008 semester to tackle Roosevelt's 6 national policy issue. If you'd like to get involved, email the Policy Director Ashley Chappo at aec7d@virginia.edu Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not a part of or an agency of the University.  It is a separate and independent organization which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs.  The University does not direct, supervise or control the organization and is not responsible for the organization’s contracts, acts or omissions.     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 / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || tel (202) 833-1359 || fax (202) 833-1359