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De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Sign Partnership Agreement

Political Science Now

PRESS RELEASE De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Announces Partnership Agreement on New Political Science Professional Development Book Series WASHINGTON D.C. We are proud to publish these new Book Series together with the American Political Science Association.

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How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?

The Hechinger Report

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. It’s a lot more challenging to be able to concentrate and fully deliver,” said Gallardo, 20, who is a junior majoring in political science, and the first in his family to go to college. “I It’s just a very unpredictable time.”.

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What Does It Mean to Deliver a ‘Black College Education’ Online?

ED Surge

“It comes down to the curriculum — being able to talk about the Black experience in class, even if it is online, in almost every field, from economics to political science.” Digital tools may not fully convey the experience of going to HBCU football games and step shows, then. But college courses?

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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

The Hechinger Report

Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. Hope Perry, college access counselor for The Ayers Foundation Scholars Program, in the library of Summertown High School in Lawrence County, Tennessee.

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State Terror and Long-Run Development: The Persistence of the Khmer Rouge

Political Science Now

State Terror and Long-Run Development: The Persistence of the Khmer Rouge By Donald Grasse , University of Southern California Does mass repression have a long-term economic legacy, and if so, what explains persistence? My findings add a novel pathway to the library of mechanisms which explain why historical coercion undermines development.

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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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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. Thomas University. With her undergraduate degree, “I couldn’t get anything more than serving jobs,” says Vazquez-Aldana.

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