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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

It’s been on the state’s “low productivity” list — calculated once every four years — in 2011, 2015 and last year, only barely meeting the requirement for master’s programs of producing an average of at least four graduates per year. Falling enrollment has already imperiled programs such as FIU’s African and African Diaspora Studies.

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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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Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Political Science Now

Recent years have seen extensive discussion over how to achieve scientific progress in the social sciences. It received APSA’s Ralphe Bunche Award for the best book on Race and Politics in 2015. His work has been funded by the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, and USAID. This is no easy task.