Sen. Tom Harkin Gives Papers to Drake

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Sen. Tom Harkin announced last week that he would donate his papers to Drake University and that a research Institute named for him at Iowa State University would also move to the Des Moines university, according to an article in the Gazette.

He originally planned to donate his papers to Iowa State University where a research institute had been named in his honor. However his name has since been removed and he will no longer donate his papers after a fallout with Iowa State earlier this year.

Drake will create the Tom Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement.

The institute “will support research, collaboration and education for Drake faculty members, students and scholars from around the country” and provide access to public-policy related programming to the community, the university said in a statement as reported by the Gazette.