Welcome to the Baker Center!
In early 2003 the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy began operations at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The mission of the Baker Center is to develop programs and promote research to further the public's knowledge of our system of governance, and also to highlight the critical importance of public service.
Announcements
Position Announcement: Director of the Baker Center
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is searching for a dynamic individual with a strong academic record to serve as Director of the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy. Learn more
Baker Center seeks a Director of Student Engagement
The Baker Center Director of Student Engagement directs all elementary, middle, high school and college civic education and student engagement programs. The position manages the Baker Scholars (select group of the top UTK Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Undergrads) and the Baker Center Learning Community (BCLC -- incoming Freshman and Sophomore undergrads who lived together in Morrell Hall and take customized credit courses as a group), which are important programs for integrating the Baker Center into the Undergrad curriculum and helping to fulfill the University's land-grant mission. This position also manages our annual high school internship program each summer which focuses on public policy and will develop other programs for students moving more>
Summary report on Presidential Policy Making
Summary report on the program Presidential Policy Making: Formulating a Bipartisan Energy and Climate Policy, based largely on the proceedings and findings from the Conference on the Formulation of Energy and Climate Policy: Toward an Open and Transparent Process held in June 2009 and which was jointly hosted by the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars is now... more>
2009 High School Intern Program in Review
This summer, the Baker Center hosted 9 high school interns from around east Tennessee to participate in a 2 week program that introduced students to the public policy process. Each student chose a community issue to study and recommend solutions to that problem through either public policy or another community intervention. Projects this year included:
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Upcoming events
- 03/23/2010 - Blogs, Social Media and Political In Civility
- 03/24/2010 - Understanding the Recession: Banks, Regulations, Markets and the Economic Outlook
- 03/30/2010 - Training Future Leaders in the Civility of Governance
- 04/07/2010 - Policy Challenges Facing the U.S.: Navigating the Future
- 04/19/2010 - Tammy Taylor
- 04/20/2010 - U.S.-China Security Relations
- 04/22/2010 - Peter Vasilievich Zarubin
- 04/28/2010 - The Persian Gulf
- 04/28/2010 - Barbara Bodine, Former Ambassador to Yemen
- 04/30/2010 - Obesity and the Built Environment in East Tennessee
Contact Senator Baker
Honorable Howard H. Baker, Jr.
P.O. Box 600
Huntsville, TN 37756
423-663-9148
hbaker@bakerdonelson.com
