Humanities and Social Sciences
- Center for the Humanities - formerly the International Writers Center, has expanded its focus and purpose; is "dedicated to letters and humanistic research and their presence in public life."
- Center for New Institutional Social Sciences - founded in 1999 by Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North, Ph.D, the Center works to apply economics more effectively in enhancing the growth of developing nations.
- Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values - Creates venues and forums for faculty and students from across the University to combine their areas of expertise with the goal of creating new knowledge and understanding about human values, affairs, and relationships. The Center examines current issues facing our world and the human condition, and motivates community leaders in business, politics, and education to apply valued-based judgements to their spheres of influence.
- Center on Urban Research & Public Policy - studies the urban environment in America, its successes and failures, and advances discussion on urban issues by research, teaching, promoting involvement of residents in building their community infrastructure to enhance the urban fabric of their city.
- International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) - an interdisciplinary enterprise combining economics, law, organization theory, political science, sociology and anthropology to understand the institutions of social, political and commercial life, using economics as a common language.
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