Maxwell School News and Commentary
VIDEO: Faulkner a featured scholar at women's suffrage celebration
Maxwell Associate Dean and Professor of History Carol Faulkner was one of the featured scholars on day one of the VoteTilla voyage. VoteTilla is part of a year-long celebration recognizing 100 years of women’s voices and suffrage in New York state.
Reeher comments on health care reform, bipartisanship in The Hill
“The two parties are very close in number—it’s a very even split—and they are polarized,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. “Those things tend to reinforce each other, make it harder to work across the aisle, which makes it harder to pass any big bill.”
Purser report on treatment of dairy farmworkers cited in NY Times
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Schnell piece on transparency, anti-corruption published in Governance
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Bruno-van Vijfeijken comments on digital activism in Global Policy
"If we want citizen agency and activism to be strengthened through digital means, then we cannot complain that it works in both political directions: that is the nature of democracy," says Tosca Bruno-Van Vijfeijken, adjunct faculty member at the Maxwell School.
Maxwell and Cornell co-host International Studies Summer Institute on refugees in the classroom
This year's workshop for NY K-12 teachers equipped teachers with tools to address an increase in offensive and intolerant opinions expressed by children against minority groups, including often-targeted refugee students.
Andrew Cohen discusses history of internships on Marketplace
According to Andrew Wender Cohen, professor of history, the current system of training and acclimating young people to the work world has its antecedents in the Middle Ages. “Families couldn’t necessarily afford to feed all the members of the household, so this was a way of getting rid of children who had gotten too old to live in the house and not work,” he says.
Elman quoted on proposed Israeli academic ethics code in Algemeiner
Miriam Elman, associate professor of political science, commented on the Israeli academic ethics code and how it compares to that of the American Association of University Professors.
Purser cited in Albany Times Union article on state dairy worker injuries
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