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

Political Science Now

Beyond the Classroom: Building Faculty Capacity for Success Friday, May 2, 2025 | 1:30 PM Eastern | Register Here This joint American Political Science Association and Western Political Science Association virtual workshop expands on the 2025 WPSA Community College Mini-Conference roundtable, Beyond the Classroom: Collaborating for Success.

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Curricular Innovations in Political Science at Community Colleges: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Community Colleges Virtual Workshop Series

Political Science Now

Levy holds advanced degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies in Adult Education emphasis on teaching diverse at-risk learners and in Political Science, emphasis on Political Philosophy, earned at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-four years.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. Enrollments have been falling since 2017; for the past three years the university has dipped into its financial reserves.

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

The Hechinger Report

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

The Hechinger Report

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I Marine Corps as an intelligence analyst, and is now a sophomore at Brown University, studying political science. I was an awful student,” said Aimee Chartier, now a sophomore political science major at Brown University. “I

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2024 Post-Election Reflection Series: Reflecting on Predictions: Why Do We Often Get Elections Wrong?

Political Science Now

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSAs Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections , for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on key moments, ideas, and challenges faced in the 2024 election. earned his Ph.D. earned his Ph.D.