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Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025

Political Science Now

The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant supports the advancement of research goals and professional development of early career political science scholars. The grant will award scholars whose research areas focus on one of the following target research areas. Applications are due May 6, 2025. Apply Now !

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New faces on campus: Students of all races welcome first black presidents to largely white colleges

The Hechinger Report

By 2020, the majority of U.S. He said, ‘Kenyon is working on it, but there is a predominant brand of young person who attends the school,’” recalled Margolin, now a political science major who loves her school but recognizes it has a lot of work ahead to become more diverse. By 2020, a majority of college students in the U.S.

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OPINION: When books are banned, ‘education is impoverished, and everyone loses’

The Hechinger Report

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. How can English teachers discuss Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain” or Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” without considering race and social justice?

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Cathy J. Cohen Receives the 2024 Frank J. Goodnow Award

Political Science Now

Goodnow Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor distinguished service to the profession and the Association. Citation from the Award Committee: As a scholar, as a teacher and mentor, as an institutional and disciplinary leader, and as a political activist, Cathy J.

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The colleges that won’t die

The Hechinger Report

In 2020, it accepted no new students at all, and its future remained uncertain. Antioch College in Ohio, which focuses on activism and social justice and is governed collectively by its faculty and students, reopened after closing for three years, during which faculty and alumni sued and raised money to revive it.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

More than half of Americans ages 18 to 24 turned out for the 2020 general election , according to the U.S. The political division they’ve witnessed hasn’t discouraged young voters, said LoMonte, a sophomore political science major from Bloomfield, New Jersey, who was wearing a “TCNJ Votes” T-shirt. Census Bureau.

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2024 Post-Election Reflection Series: Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump

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Scholars have also shown campaigns often mistake Latinx as a monolithic group and overlook the community’s nuanced identities ( Stokes 2003 ; Morales, Rodriguez, and Schaller 2020 ). Although Harris performed worse with Latino voters than Joe Biden in 2020, she still garnered most of their votes in 2024.