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		<title>What Counts As Success? Assessing The Impact Of Civics In Higher Ed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 18, the Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosted&#160;a webinar on &#8220;What Counts as Success? Assessing the Impact of Civics in Higher Ed&#8221;&#160;with Trygve Throntveit, Rachel Wahl, Joseph Kahne, and&#160;me. We discussed some of the advantages of developing reliable and consistent measurements of civic education, particularly the opportunity to learn from data and [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35323">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jaspers on collective responsibility and polarization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a scene that has certain resonances with the present, although the circumstances were certainly different. &#8230; It was the winter of 1945-6 in Heidelberg, Germany. Karl Jaspers, a distinguished professor, offered a lecture to a room full of demobilized solders, women, displaced civilians, and a fair number of wounded. Jaspers had been banned [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35215">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the case for viewpoint diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick interview of me for Tufts&#8217; Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education. I think the question was something like this: &#8220;Why is it important to include diverse points of view?&#8221; Even though I appear to be looking heavenward for answers, I stand by my claim that ethical reasoning is comparative; and [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35172">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>demystifying graduate education in the USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, I met with about 65 students at An-Najah National University in Nablus, the West Bank. For about two hours (until our time ran out), they asked me questions about how to pursue graduate education in North America or Europe. Our conversation helped me see that our system must seem mysterious and may be [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34969">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>civic education webinar</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34673</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed this recent discussion of civic education in colleges and universities with Josiah Ober, Jenna Silber Storey, Mary Clark, and our moderator Debra Satz. I thought the questions from the audience were particularly interesting. In case you are interested in the Alliance, this is the website. The next webinar will be &#8220;Out of Many, [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34673">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>design challenges for civics in higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Educating for American Democracy (EAD) initiative works to improve k12 history and civic education. One of EAD&#8217;s contributions is a list of five &#8220;Design Challenges.&#8221; Each challenge names tensions between a pair of valid principles. The tensions are not resolvable. Instead, we encourage teachers (and everyone else involved in civics and history education) to [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34614">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the rule of law and the Trump Administration versus higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, according to The New York Times, the Trump Administration sent letters to nine universities offering them financial benefits and relief from investigations if they agree (among other things) to &#8220;freeze tuition for five years,&#8221; provide &#8220;free tuition to students studying math, biology, or other &#8216;hard sciences&#8217; if endowments exceed $2 million per undergraduate,&#8221; [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34551">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>AAUP v Rubio</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34539</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 25, Tufts student R&#252;meysa &#214;zt&#252;rk was abducted by masked ICE agents because she had co-authored a clearly legal op-ed in our campus newspaper, not directly about Israel but about how the university had responded to our student government. According to Andre Watson, the Assistant Director of the National Security Division of ICE, this [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34539">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>holding two ideas at once: the attack on universities is authoritarian, and viewpoint diversity is important</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34353</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two points are valid, in my opinion, and we should address both: First, the Trump Administration is using almost every available tool, including unconstitutional methods, to harm universities and to interfere in their internal affairs. At my university, they literally abducted a beloved graduate student because she had written a completely appropriate op-ed in our [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34353">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>what causes works to be used in college courses?</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34236</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a valuable forthcoming article about bias in college syllabi. I don&#8217;t want to &#8220;scoop&#8221; that piece and won&#8217;t address its claims here. It did get me thinking more broadly about why some texts are widely assigned in college courses. See also: on hedgehogs and foxes; trying to keep myself honest; don&#8217;t confuse [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34236">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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