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APSA Member Spotlight: Dr. Timothy Lewis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Political Science Now

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Political science. West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015. It’s a Mississippi tradition where politicians come to make speeches. And these aren’t just a few programs here and there that were dropped, Kirk, but dozens. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Kirk: Okay, we get it.

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New Orleans finally has control of its own schools, but will all parents really have a say?

The Hechinger Report

Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor who studies education policy, sees a pattern in who is succeeding in this new era. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor. Related: Marching in Mardi Gras, a New Orleans school that once struggled shows off.

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Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education

The Hechinger Report

2U has historically given colleges only the opportunity to partner through a traditional revenue share, in which it offers its full suite of services in exchange for a cut of the tuition. The July call also offered a sign that colleges may be pushing back on sharing so much revenue.

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Dissertation Manuscript Outline: Human-Javelina Relations in Texas

Anthropology 365

As we experience increasing precarity associated with defining characteristics of the Anthropocene, such as climate change (Gibson and Venkateswar 2015; McGill et al. 2015), a loss of habitat (Corales, De Assis Montag, and Dunck 2022; Johnson et al. Tsing 2015: 23).

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Stephen A. Smith and International Relations Scholarship

Steven V. Miller

2 A la Wagner (2007) and my training in the Correlates of War tradition, just know that we conceptualize war as severe subsets of violent confrontations (i.e. Ignore, for the moment, the omission of agency for states or heads of state in a tradition that goes out of its way to treat humans like they were objects in motion.

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State takeovers of ‘failing’ schools are increasing, but with little evidence they help students

The Hechinger Report

The seeds for the HISD takeover were planted in 2015, with the passage of a state law mandating that the TEA step in if any school in a district were rated academically unacceptable for five consecutive years. In Houston, some blame the district, not the state. She believes in local democratic control, she said.