Outreach and Collaborations

The Center cooperates within the University and the broader community to gather and share knowledge about the policy problems of globalization.

The Center coordinates faculty interaction with the Hubert Humphrey International Fellowship Programs fellows.

The Center cooperates with the The World Food Prize Foundation and the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences to promote the Global Youth Institute and the Borlaug-Ruan International Internship Program.  For more information, please go to http://www.worldfoodprize.org/about/about.htm.  To request an application for Minnesota students for the Borlaug-Ruan International Internship Program, please contact Kay Ellingson at killings@umn.edu.

Orville L. Freeman served as the 29th governor of Minnesota between January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961. He went on to serve as United States secretary of agriculture from 1961 to 1969. Orville married Jane C. Shields in 1942 and the couple had two children. More

The Freeman Center has sponsored a bi-weekly seminar on global economic and other policy issues since 1991.

The Freeman Center regularly conducts research on important issues related to Minnesota's growing exposure to the global economy.

The Freeman Forum is a non-profit organization created by the family, friends, and colleagues of Orville Freeman with the University of Minnesota to honor and carry on the work of former Minnesota Governor and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, who died in 2003.