RG-F: Faculty
Series 5.2: Political Science Department
Program in Practical Political Education (PPPE)

Historical Note:
The Program in Practical Political Education was established September 1959 with a 3-year grant from the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation. The aim was to sponsor activities, both curricular and extra-curricular, that "focus student attention on, and foster informed opinions about, political issues and candidates," and to prepare students "for constructive participation in the political process." The program sponsored visiting lecturers, conferences, politicians-in-residence, field trips, and mock conventions, and established a "caucus room" (Carnegie, 2nd floor) to stimulate political discussions and provide materials on practical politics.

The program was administered by the Political Science Department and had an Advisory Committee with representatives from each division, from the two major political parties, the Student Government Association, the campus Young Republicans and Young Democrats.

Quantity: 2 archives boxes

Date span: 1959-85

Provenance: Most unknown, possibly from Advisory Committee members; some from Rosenfield Program office files, 1989.

Box 1
Program statement. ca. 1960
Annual reports, 1960-69. Some correspondence, including with Murray Welch

Box 2
Annual Reports, 1970
Administrative papers, 1970-74, 1982-85. Correspondence, budgets, memoranda.
Mock conventions, 1960-68. Programs.Programs and brochures, 1960-70.
Dwight D. Eisenhower at Grinnell, by Tom Hartman, photographs, 12 pages. Press releases.
Eisenhower lecture. May 13, 1965. 11 p.
Eisenhower visit photographs.
Harry S. Truman visit. Oct. 23, 1963. Photographs.
McCarthy, Eugene J., "The times demand a Democratic victory in 1962," address, 1962, 6 typed leaves.

10 October 1996