Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Kamala Harris’ Ambition: Free Chapter from ‘Why Don’t Women Rule the World?’
A free chapter from ‘Why Don’t Women Rule the World? Understanding Women’s Civic and Political Choices’ explores political ambition among women – a key talking point since the selection of Kamala Harris as a vice presidential candidate.
Watch the Webinar: Mobilizing Young Voters Focus of 2020 David Lecture
Will the recent wave of youth activism in protesting racial injustice translate into higher turnout rates in the 2020 U.S. presidential election? […]
National Academies Taps Social Science Expertise for Policy-Maker Use
While hopes for a medical answer to the current COVID-19 remain strong, the reality is that social, behavioral and economic science drives […]
A 12-Step Program for Decolonizing the University: Archived Webinar
In this free one-hour webinar, public sociologist Rodney Coates, professor of global and intercultural studies and coordinator for Black World Studies at Miami University, Ohio, will outline his 12 steps for accomplishing decolonization on the university.
Kathy Charmaz, 1939-2020: Developer of Constructivist Grounded Theory
Sociologist Kathy Charmaz, whose experience as an occupational therapist led her to develop a new take on the qualitative research methodology known as grounded theory, died of cancer on July 27. A professor emerita at Northern California’s Sonoma State University, she was 80.
House Appropriations Panel Aims to Increase NSF Budget
This week the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved the budget bill that includes funding for the National Science Foundation. The Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Act (CJS) proposes increasing funding for the NSF — which is the largest source of research funding for university social and behavioral science in the United States – by $270 million above the current year’s appropriation.
Virtual Festival of Higher Education Looks at British HE post-COVID
The University of Buckingham, in association with the Higher Education Policy Institute, in bringing the fifth festival of Higher Education online with […]
A Giant in Mentoring Political Leaders: Lucius Barker, 1928-2020
Political scientist Lucius Barker, a pioneering African-American academic whose influence in fields like constitutional law and civil liberties has been amplified by the high-profile leaders he mentored, died on June 21. He was 92.
