Grant Funds Program on Politics, Law and the Economy

North Carolina State University has received a five-year, $700,000 grant from the John W. Pope Foundation to support teaching and research activities on issues relating to public policy, politics, economics and law.

The funding is an extension of a previous grant from the Pope Foundation, and will continue to fund the university’s “Economic, Legal and Political Foundations of Free Societies” project – which includes a lecture series, undergraduate courses and research grants for students and faculty. The grant will also continue to support the student organization, the Society for Politics, Economics and the Law.

However, the new grant provides new funding for visiting scholars, project enrichment materials and administrative support. The grant was awarded jointly to the Department of Economics in NC State’s College of Management and the School of Public and International Affairs’ Department of Political Science in the university’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The grant provides $140,000 for the project each year, and runs from July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2014.

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