Welcome Students!
Welcome students, to the Baker Center website. The Baker Center offers UTK students with an interest in public policy or civic education countless opportunities to pursue their interests on campus. The Baker Center offers three organizations for students interested in getting involved in politics and public policy.
- The Baker Scholars consist of the best and brightest public policy oriented students that the University has to offer. Baker Scholars assist the Center with the logistics of many of it’s major events, as well as partnering with the center on specific and unique projects of interest to them.
- The Baker Center Learning Community offers freshmen the opportunity to get involved immediately on campus. Learning Community students take public policy classes together and participate in biweekly seminars led by Baker Center staff.
- The Baker Journal, geared primarily towards upperclassmen, but open to students of all ages, is a student run public policy journal that publishes twice a year. The Journal’s editorial board is student comprised although more senior positions are generally held by graduate and law students.
If you’re a UTK student with an interest in public policy, the Baker Center has a place for you. Feel free to look around the site and please contact us with any questions you may have.
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
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:
- Educational Accountability: Will Kronick and Olivia Talman, West High School
- Bullying in Schools: Leah Moulton, Tuacahn High School for the Performing Arts, Ivins, UT
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Baker Scholars in the News!
Baker Scholars Jaye Phillips, Jordan Davis, and Elizabeth Williams have been selected by Tennessee Campus Compact to attend a project development workshop on the subject of service learning. The students will initiate a conceptual design for a program to promote service learning that will be implemented on the campuses of Tennessee’s higher education institutions, with the help of a grant (application made) from State Farm.. After... more>
Now Accepting Applications for 2009-2010 Baker Center Learning Community
The Baker Center Learning community provides students, both Honors and Non-Honors, with interests in politics, public service, civic engagement, political communications, and media the opportunity to enhance their university experience by living with students of similar interests, and by further pursuing these interests with the help of UT faculty and staff.
Applications are now available online, and can be submitted on a rolling basis.
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More Announcements:
- Baker Center Celebrates “Tent City” and Probes Voting Rights
- Baker Center Leadership Transition
- Baker Center Events Calendar Available for Download
- Files from the Conference on the Formulation of Energy and Climate Policy Available
- Connecting the College of Nursing and the United Way of Anderson County
Upcoming Events
- Tapping into Water
- Tapping into Water
- Tapping into Water
- Tapping into Water
Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010
Opportunities@BakerCenter
Contact Senator Baker
Honorable Howard H. Baker, Jr.
P.O. Box 600
Huntsville, TN 37756
423-663-9148
hbaker@bakerdonelson.com
