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Beyond the Classroom: Building Faculty Capacity for Success: Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. In 2017, she was elected to serve on APSA council and was the first community college faculty member to ever be elected to this position. Department of Agriculture and the U.S.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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PROOF POINTS: Pandemic relief money is flowing to class-size reduction but research evidence for it isn’t strong

The Hechinger Report

A large 2017 study of 14 nations in Europe, including Germany, Austria and Italy, found that reducing class sizes neither increased achievement nor reduced achievement gaps. This wouldn’t be the first time that the federal government has spent gobs of money on smaller classes.

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A Mauseoleum of Our Everydays/Nai nsang negu herouki

Sapiens

A humanities and social science doctoral student from Manipur, India, takes readers on a journey through ordinary moments interwoven with violence. “A 2017 December. Local lifeways are an afterthought for the state and central governments. 2017 Nduikeu. Read the introduction to the collection here. ✽

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Three Political Science Professors Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Political Science Now

Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships to individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located.

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Meet Yifan (Flora) He, 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantee

Political Science Now

Yifan (Flora) He is a PhD candidate at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, with a research focus on land and natural resources governance in the Global South using causal inference methods and geospatial tools.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

In response to widespread social unrest caused by the collapse of digital Ponzi schemes, the Chinese state intensified regulation in 2017, accelerating the market’s decline. Despite the hope for formal licensing for surviving platforms, many struggled to adapt to new rules. Now I am part of a crime in their definition.”