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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

This aspect of our project involved a significant amount of outreach across units and departments at UO, connecting with faculty colleagues who teach courses related to immigration, border and global studies, and inviting them to complete the toe tags in classes in advance of the exhibit installation.

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Meet 2024 RBSI Scholar, Laika Jerome, Hofstra University

Political Science Now

She is majoring in political science and global studies and minoring in civic engagement, criminology, and philosophy of law. In the future, Laika hopes to embark on research connecting past phenomena of political extremism in the U.S. She is also interested in research regarding the politics of countries in Africa and Asia.

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Learn More About: No Money, No Problem? A Study of Money, Social Capital, and Electoral Success of Women State Legislative Candidates Across Racial/Ethnic Groups

Political Science Now

A Study of Money, Social Capital, and Electoral Success of Women State Legislative Candidates Across Racial/Ethnic Groups Kenicia Wright, Arizona State University Kenicia Wright is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Read more about the funded projects here.

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Meet DFP Fall Fellow, Matiana Parra, University of California, Berkeley

Political Science Now

Her research examines how economic policies drive immigration out of the Northern Triangle countries and other states in Latin America as well as how other relevant factors cause migration, such as extreme poverty, widespread violence, and climate change/disaster. Matiana Parra originates from Los Angeles, California.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

“It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group. In some academic fields research is going global. The bad news?

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The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones

The Hechinger Report

In fact, the proportion of students on college campuses from the lowest-income families is going up , the Pew Research Center reports, while the share of students from the middle has fallen in the last two decades from 48 percent to 42 percent at private, nonprofit institutions, and from 48 percent to 40 percent at public four-year universities.

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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

It can’t happen,” said Brenda Tooley, director of global studies at Knox College, which is offering full-tuition scholarships to two Syrian students who will begin in January. A Harvard study , however, showed that people who enroll in MOOCs intending to earn degrees finish at a higher rate, of 22 percent. It’s not affordable.

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