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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is very pleased to announce that Dr. Kimberly A. Kim’s extensive experience at APSA, combined with her passion for political science and commitment to advancing the discipline, make her an ideal choice to lead our association. WASHINGTON, D.C. –

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Member Spotlight: Samantha Chapa, University of Houston

Political Science Now

University of Houston APSA Member since 2020 Ph.D. candidate in Political Science Samantha Chapa is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Houston. Her research interests include migration politics and policy, local politics, and race, ethnicity, and politics.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

By: Dr. Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education For the past several years, MPSA has been partnering with Wiki Education to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of topics related to Political Science. Thus far, Wiki Education has worked with 164 courses in the field of Political Science.

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Making their work count: Political Science students improve Wikipedia

MPSA

Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education Through its ongoing partnership with Wiki Education , MPSA has been helping political science and policy students engage with subject content in meaningful and lasting ways all while improving the world’s access to reliable knowledge in these very fields.

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Why are wealthier students getting lower prices than their low-income peers?

The Hechinger Report

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

A concerted campuswide campaign that includes interventions like the one that rescued Dickinson has since more than doubled that proportion, to nearly half in 2020, the last year for which the figure is available. Credit: Saul Martinez for The Hechinger Report. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

ED Surge

Lozada, who is majoring in political science and minoring in economics, initially thought she’d be a lawyer, but she is now set on becoming an elected official. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At Now, she plans to work as a health care manager in a hospital or medical center.

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