In part five of a new series profiling SSRC's new Criminal Justice Innovation Fellows, we spoke with Emma Rackstraw who recently completed a PhD in #publicpolicy at Harvard University, and will start as an assistant professor of economics at Swarthmore College in 2025. As part of the new SSRC fellowship, Rackstraw hopes to expand her work on the effects of reality TV featuring police, particularly how it impacts recruitment. She will also launch a new research project on how criminal histories affect people’s employment prospects in the labor market. Read more about her #research projects: https://lnkd.in/gmWdq2Dq Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
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After 18 months of intensive research, We (Sandra, Karla, and I) are thrilled to announce the completion of our manuscript, "Stress and Unrecognized Resilience: A Phenomenological Approach of Navigating the Journey of Hispanic First-Generation Undergraduate Students in Higher Education." This milestone represents an illuminating experience that we hope will shed light on the academic journey of first-generation students. We can't wait to see where this research takes us! #AcademicJourney #ResearchMilestone #FirstGenSuccess
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Universities are the new battlegrounds in the culture wars, and the stakes couldn't be higher. In his latest piece at The Dispatch, Matthew Kuchem, IHS Director of Outreach, examines the critical issues of free speech and viewpoint diversity in higher education. Are our campuses truly fostering diverse perspectives, or are they silencing dissent? Explore the challenges and risks in the fight for free speech on our campuses: https://lnkd.in/eT6RUf9q
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Are you caught up on #highered ? I found the Times' article roundup particularly informative: College Antisemitism Hearing: The presidents of Harvard, M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania were at the center of a contentious congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses. Here are some of the most pointed exchanges. (https://nyti.ms/41lRBev) Grade Inflation at Yale: Nearly 80% of all grades given to undergraduates at the Ivy League school last year were A’s or A-minuses, according to a new report. The findings have frustrated some students, alumni and professors. (https://nyti.ms/41jzWnF) Fleeing Florida: Many left-leaning professors are quitting coveted jobs with tenure to leave the state, citing Gov. Ron DeSantis’s effort to reshape the higher education system. (https://nyti.ms/3RAoKA2) Can Humanities Survive?: After years of hand-wringing about their future, liberal arts departments at a growing number of universities now face the chopping block amid budget cuts. (https://nyti.ms/46WjLxX) #highereducation #newyorktimes
3 Contentious Exchanges at the College Antisemitism Hearing
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Sharing this article from our executive director about the need for universities to speak with moral clarity, and to address crises as teaching moments at all levels of campus life.
Executive Director of Lawyers Defending American Democracy, Author of 4 books, Editor of Her Honor: Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges, Speaker, Trainer, Consultant
I wrote this article for The Fulcrum, moved by the failure of universities to address the deeper conversation that must take place about the duty of higher education to lead in times of crisis. The tragedy of the way in the presidents of Harvard and U Penn were sacrificed to mob hysteria completely obscured all the other underlying challenges that this moment in our history demands. Students, faculty, and administrators - indeed, all of us - deserve better.
Universities cannot be bystanders in these troubled times
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Check out this neat profile that the Department of PoliSci at University of Minnesota made about my experience during and after grad school!
Various Interests Piqued, Many Skills Learned: A Holistic Experience
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I got a warm reception when I auditioned the “bonsai theory of innovation” in a recent conversation with Ben Wildavsky Chegg Inc. Center for Digital Learning. So now I’m trying the written version out on you, my latest in Forbes, link below. https://lnkd.in/eNBasdig #innovation #culture #changemanagement #futureofhighereducation.
During our recent event at The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, Chegg Inc. Academic Advisor Ann Kirschner shared a powerful metaphor about the art of bonsai and innovation in #HigherEducation, from the perspective of her recent stint as interim president of Hunter College. Dive into Ann Kirschner's new Forbes article, "The Bonsai Theory Of Innovation....or, Reflections Of An Interim College President" now 👉https://lnkd.in/eNBasdig
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Conditionally Accepted: Navigating Higher Education from the Margins from University of Texas Press is here! Many thanks to my co-conspirator Denise Denise and all the contributors for helping bring this anthology to life! "Bringing together perspectives from academics of color on navigating intersecting forms of injustice in the academy, Conditionally Accepted offers situated knowledge about experiencing—and resisting—marginalization in academia. Contextualized within existing scholarship, these personal narratives speak to institutional betrayals while highlighting agency and sharing stories of surviving on treacherous terrain. Covering topics from professional development to the emptiness of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, and redefining what it means to be an academic in our contemporary moment, this edited collection directly confronts issues of systemic exclusion, discrimination, harassment, microaggressions, tokenism, and surveillance. Letting marginalized scholars know they are not alone, Conditionally Accepted offers concrete wisdom for readers seeking to navigate and transform oppressive academic institutions." Preorder your copy here with discount code UTXS24 (30% off!) : https://lnkd.in/eWZh2xiD
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It is vital to understand what Dr. Gay's resignation is about - the dismantling of higher education institutions as a place for critical thinking to make way for a single story as truth which is part of a deeply disturbing political agenda. Read her article and think about the narratives around her departure and how those stories shape history, as they always have..... "Having now seen how quickly the truth can become a casualty amid controversy, I’d urge a broader caution: At tense moments, every one of us must be more skeptical than ever of the loudest and most extreme voices in our culture, however well organized or well connected they might be. Too often they are pursuing self-serving agendas that should be met with more questions and less credulity. College campuses in our country must remain places where students can learn, share and grow together, not spaces where proxy battles and political grandstanding take root. Universities must remain independent venues where courage and reason unite to advance truth, no matter what forces set against them."
Opinion | Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me
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BC Law offering some clarity.
Kent Greenfield's Cognoscenti op-ed takes on the controversy of Harvard, Penn, and MIT president statements at a congressional hearing about free speech and antisemitism at their universities. https://lnkd.in/eDsSjPt6
What the college presidents got wrong about the First Amendment
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BOSTON UNIVERSITY: In this video, hear from BU Spark!’s new director to learn about the center’s history, it’s contribution to the campus community, and how to get involved
Learn More About BU Spark! BU’s Innovation and Experiential Learning Lab
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