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James D. Long and Victor Menaldo 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS James D. Long is an Associate Professor of Political Science and co-founder of the Political Economy Forum at the University of Washington. He is the host of the Forum’s podcast series, “Neither Free Nor Fair?” about election security and democracy in the 21st century. James is a faculty affiliate at the University of Washington’s Ce...

Victor Menaldo (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2009) is a professor of Political Science and is affiliated with the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for Environmental Politics. He co-founded and co-leads the UW Political Economy Forum (along with James Long and Rachel Heath). He specializes in comparative politics and political economy. Menaldo has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of P...

Unfair Criticism of Notre Dames Response to Capitol Protests January 9, 2021 To the Editor: Questioning the condemnations by the presidents of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Pennsylvania of this weeks physical assault on Congress ("Empty Words?, Jan. 8) because of the formers celebration last year of the only Notre Dame alumna and law faculty member to be appointed to the Supreme Court, and the coincidence of Donald Trumps status as one of nearly 300,000 living alumni o...

Education Secretary resigns, citing the role of Trump's "rhetoric" in violent protests at the U.S. Capitol building.

You can view the letter here, and find all of our Letters to “As we mourn the violence and destruction that unfolded before our eyes yesterday, let us look to the One who put the planets in motion and holds the stars in His hands. He is still the Prince of Peace, and He is still Emmanuel -- God with us,” it said. “Therefore, let us humbly seek Him on our knees together. God can pick up the pieces of our wounded nation and heal us. He can renew our hearts and our love for each other until ...

29 Dec 2020 A research paper concluding that working with female mentors might hurt young women’s careers in the sciences has been retracted after fierce criticism from “group email threads” and on social media. The academic journal that published the paper apologized for “any unintended harm derived from the publication of this paper.” A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications was retracted following backlash from people who were uncomfortable with the p...

December 22, 2020 Congress passed the $900 billion pandemic relief bill last night, providing long-awaited aid to Americans struggling in the pandemic. Though most of the interest has centered around the authorization of stimulus checks and emergency unemployment benefits, the legislation also is notable for clearing one of the biggest hurdles for low-income students to attend college. One of the measures includes simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which is the test that ...

‘I categorically denounce white supremacism and, as a patriotic American, I abhor the concept of fascism and authoritarianism of any sort’ An IT manager for North Carolina State University is defending his reputation against charges of white supremacy from a local activist group. He also faces allegations from a socialist activist group leader that he posted personal information online and encouraged harassment. Chadwick Jason Seagraves, a desktop support manager for the public university, ...

dusan Stankovic/istock via getty images plus On the eve of Thanksgiving, just as many Americans were relaxing into a significantly diminished holiday shadowed by the many crises roiling the United States and the world right now, a long-respected colleague of mine sent an email to members of my university, drawing our attention to an opinion piece he’d just published in Inside Higher Ed. In his email, addressed to university leaders and members of the Towson University Academic Senate, which ...

  At Marquette, university officials are using the book Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, published in 2018 by Nathan Grawe, as their guide to realignment. Grawe’s book describes declining birth rates within multiple demographic groups, leading to a decline in the demand for higher education. Those changes mean the university needs to plan for a smaller Marquette, officials have said. “We do not want to build a university on the hope that students will come,” Marquette pr...