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

Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Richards served as chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the profession for the American Political Science Association, the report of which led to the creation of the Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession on which Richards served from 2015-2018.

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

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

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. Changing how teachers teach can sometimes be more powerful than how many students are in the classroom. Internationally, small classes often don’t make a difference.

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

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Heather Van Benthuysen, director, Chicago Public Schools Department of Social Science and Civic Engagement. The turnout for 16- and 17-year-olds in local elections between 2013 and 2017 averaged roughly 42 percent, compared with 20 percent overall, according to data from the city clerk’s office. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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A Mauseoleum of Our Everydays/Nai nsang negu herouki

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A humanities and social science doctoral student from Manipur, India, takes readers on a journey through ordinary moments interwoven with violence. “A 2017 December. 2017 Nduikeu. A Mausoleum of Our Everydays” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict.

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

Political Science Now

APRIL 17, 2024

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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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The early results of her randomized control trial were so extraordinary that her study influenced not only CUNY in 2016 but also California lawmakers in 2017 to start phasing out remedial education in their state.

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

Political Science Now

MARCH 21, 2024

Before joining UCSB, Flora worked as a social scientist at Conservation International from 2018 to 2020, where she studied the diversity and dynamics of global area-based conservation governance systems. Learn more about the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.

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

Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

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.

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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

Social Science Quarterly* #> 93(5): 1202–17. #> What Americans Think about Gun Control: Evidence from the #> General Social Survey, 1972-2016.” Social Science Quarterly* 100(1): #> 272–88. #> From 1992 to 2017.” *The The Social Science #> Journal*. and Steven V.

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Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})

Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

NA #> 4 Afghanistan AF AFG 2017 97.7 5.90 #> 10 Albania AL ALB 2017 99.9 Convert a Panel to a Cross-Section (From “Easiest” to “Still Easy (but with Five More Lines of Code)”) The data created above and assigned to an object called rawData is what we’d call a “panel” in the social sciences. 0.662 NA 89.5

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OPINION: Can you denounce female circumcision — and also extreme depictions?

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

For example, in 2017, assaults on Muslims in the U.S. In my American homeland, far away from my ancestral home, our response to such extreme and brazen hate has been to do exactly the same — to demonize our different, though no less aggrieved, minority brethren. exceeded post-9/11 levels , according to the Pew Research Center.

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Diversity on the Bench: A Conservative’s Advantage?

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The authors also used a second dataset, including all civil rights cases in every federal district court in 2016 and 2017. She holds a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and a Master’s in Political Science from Eastern Illinois University.

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Member Spotlight: Dr. Matthew Stein, College of Southern Nevada

Political Science Now

JUNE 5, 2024

Meet Dr. Matthew Stein APSA Member since 2018-Present Instructor in the Department of Social Sciences College of Southern Nevada How did you learn about APSA? The (amazing) chair of the political science department, Robin Kolodny, ensured that doctoral students and candidates had APSA memberships. Truman Scholarship.

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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

In 2017, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to “ban the box” on public college and university applications, prohibiting school officials from asking whether an applicant has a criminal record. Then, in March 2017, a man named Hakim Kashif visited the halfway house. But Metz didn’t want to lie on an application.

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

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Recent years have seen extensive discussion over how to achieve scientific progress in the social sciences. Cambridge University Press published her first book, Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence during Civil War in 2017. This is no easy task.

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

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

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

A Mauseoleum of Our Everydays/Nai nsang negu herouki

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

PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

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

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

Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})

OPINION: Can you denounce female circumcision — and also extreme depictions?

Diversity on the Bench: A Conservative’s Advantage?

Member Spotlight: Dr. Matthew Stein, College of Southern Nevada

From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

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

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

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

Trending Sources

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

A Mauseoleum of Our Everydays/Nai nsang negu herouki

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

PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

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

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

Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})

OPINION: Can you denounce female circumcision ­— and also extreme depictions?

Diversity on the Bench: A Conservative’s Advantage?

Member Spotlight: Dr. Matthew Stein, College of Southern Nevada

From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

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

Stay Connected

OPINION: Can you denounce female circumcision — and also extreme depictions?