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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Though they may not have the luxury of building from scratch, traditional universities could design degree pathways more like Minerva’s: interdisciplinary and project-based. I am a poster child for the English major.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

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Apply Now for 2025 APSA Dissertation Workshops | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Political Science Now

In this workshop, the co-leaders will support early career researchers in considering the utility and sharpening the application of mixed methods approaches to key political economy questions including, but not limited to, such topics as redistribution, democratization, economic policy, unionization, and social policy.

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We must not shut low-income students out of computer sciences

The Hechinger Report

We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics. The traditional definition of literacy only includes reading and writing. This means that without computer science education, we are not prepared for the economic needs of our future.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia. They also updated the article on Hong Kong-United States relations with newer and more relevant sources.

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Civics U: What Form is Best, and What’s the Difference? Part 2 – Comparing Countries

Civics U

These systems will be reviewed by generally applying the rubrics of government power and elections; property and economics; and human rights. The United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 2020 report on Russia’s human rights practices identifies a number of “significant human rights issues”.

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