By Chelsea Kaufman
Campuses across the United States are engaging in efforts to promote student voter registration as the 2020 election approaches. In my own efforts to promote civic engagement on my campus, I want to foster an environment where …
Engagement through Experience: Student-Led Voter Registration Efforts Read More »
Have Your Students Participate in the 2021 Virtual National Student Issues Convention
Friday October 22, 2021 12-3 pm CT
Students from universities, community colleges, and high schools across the country have for more than a decade held an annual student …
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On May 25th, a police officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Since then, protests, marches, and demonstrations have taken place around the country, bringing renewed attention to police brutality …
Will the Recent Black Lives Matter Protests Lead to Police Reform? Read More »
Julie L. Mueller, Ph.D., Southern Maine Community College
Eric Loepp, Ph.D.,University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Jane E. Frisch, M.S., Clinical and Counseling Psychology
As institutions of higher education struggle to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, professors are considering how …
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Charity Butcher, Professor of Political Science, Kennesaw State University
Building community within the classroom is always important for enhanced student learning. It helps students feel more comfortable expressing themselves and sharing their views and it encourages students to reach …
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Malliga Och, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Idaho State University
Lydia Wilkes, Assistant Professor of English, Idaho State University
This spring is still marked in the memory of many faculty who scrambled to move their face to face …
Danielle Hanley, Lecturer, Rutgers University
As I look back on Spring 2020, and forward towards the fall, I worry about building and sustaining community in our online classroom. In the scramble to retool my courses to fit the emergency …
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Rebecca A. Glazier, political science professor in the School of Public Affairs, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Teaching and learning online is hard. There is an inherent distance to the medium that makes it difficult to connect and …
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Stefan Kehlenbach, PhD candidate, University of California, Riverside.
As political scientists, we are trained to understand and utilize a wide range of methodologies in our own personal research. In both our graduate training and in our work at large, …
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By Sara Chatfield
This past year, I taught a senior capstone seminar focused on voting rights in the United States. Students selected a contemporary voting rights issue to research. Their topics included felon disenfranchisement, pre-registration of young voters, prison gerrymandering, …
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