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2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships

Society for Classical Studies

In 2025, the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program will offer 16 two-year fellowship opportunities with mission-driven social justice nonprofits for recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs. The full roster of partnering organizations and positions is available here.

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Is There Still Time to Build Equity into Virtual Reality Edtech?

ED Surge

Not everyone is sold on the idea that virtual reality technology could or should bring higher education into a future of avatars and holograms. If the use of virtual reality in higher education grows without careful planning, it could make this digital divide even more severe. Community colleges are central to this.”

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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Meet 2024 RBSI Scholar, Karis Rivers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Political Science Now

Karis Rivers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Karis Rivers is a rising senior at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor majoring in political science and minoring in quantitative methods in social sciences. Throughout her academic career, she has maintained status as a James B.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. We could play Fantasy Geography.

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APSA Member Spotlight: Dr. Timothy Lewis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Political Science Now

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University. How did you learn about APSA?

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OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree

The Hechinger Report

I know now that this question was meant kindly — and was informed by the older generation’s desire to see their children enjoy a return on investment (ROI) on a college education similar to what they themselves experienced as first- and second-generation college-goers. College degrees changed the trajectories of their lives.