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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

The Hechinger Report

Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. There, too often, struggling students attempt to discredit the educator and the field of social science. Usually, when a student in a classroom is not understanding the material, they ask for help.

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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

Anthropology News

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.”

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Subjects like this provide “a more responsible and informed approach that is about creating justice and about righting the wrongs of the past,” she says. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And the responses come from students across the different majors.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

and Master’s from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology and political science.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

On data analysis and process tracing, we begin by considering the informal manner in which many scholars proceed; more important, we survey the growing number of techniques (e.g., He is the co-author, with Alexander George, of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Science (MIT Press, 2005), and co-author, with Jeffrey T.