Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
Federal surveys have been getting more expensive to administer, in part because the number of people who actually respond to surveys has been progressively declining.
Ziyad Marar argues that greater funding of the social sciences is needed, not less
Universities are starting to look like the behemoths of the US auto industry of the 1980s, with highly-paid CEOs buried in their offices looking only at numbers.
Congress just cut funding for political science because they don’t understand the good it does. Here are four excellent examples.
On social science, the sequester, and the need for a Human Rights Culture.
As a political scientist, I find it curious that my discipline has been singled out as being particularly wasteful of federal research dollars. How did we join welfare queens and spotted owls as convenient punching bags, things that must not be aided by taxpayer money during lean times?
We study social science because social phenomena affect people’s lives in profound ways. If you want to start with Cantor’s focus—physical illness and death—then social phenomena are tremendously important.
There are all sorts of things from which we are excluded by limited means. Is postgraduate education really so different?