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		<title>full-time college students spend 90 minutes per day on academics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the American Time Use Survey, the median full-time college student in the USA spends 90 minutes per day on &#8220;non-work education activities, such as taking classes, conducting research and homework, administrative tasks, and extracurricular activities except sports.&#8221; The graph with this post shows that more than 45% of full-time college students report spending [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36390">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>public intellectuals and the fickle food of fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, at Amherst, I enjoyed a rich conversation about the purposes of liberal arts colleges. One proposal (not mine, but I appreciated it) was for liberal arts colleges to nurture public intellectuals. The colleges represented at the meeting use basically the same criteria and standards for hiring and promotion that research-intensive universities use. Should [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36340">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the university between a club good and the commons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late Elinor Ostrom taught us many useful things, including how to analyze complex situations rigorously to reveal ways to improve them. Instead of reacting to the world with anger and confusion, someone who has learned from Ostrom can break down a problem and look for remedies. I am teaching her work this week to [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36301">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>do the liberal arts accomplish civic education?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next weekend, I&#8217;ll participate in a discussion at a famous liberal arts college about the various crises facing such institutions. All the other participants will be liberal arts college professors. Although my institution is a research university, the intersection of the liberal arts and civic learning also matters to me. First, the crises that confront [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36290">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>navigating the social sciences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a tentative effort to map the social sciences for a novice, such as a student who&#8217;s thinking of taking some social science courses. (It is a counterpart to my recent post on the humanities.) I will risk over-generalizations to offer some pointers. I would start with three familiar cases: The bastions of these [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36189">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the humanities for specialists and for everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a person giving attention to an artifact, something that another human being has made. A toddler listens to a story, a runner hears a song on a headset, a tourist observes a painting in a museum, or a believer listens to a sermon. This is one fundamental experience of the humanities. Notice that anyone [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36159">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Universities Must Start Graduating More Good Citizens, by Anna Saavedra and Peter Levine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Anna Saavedra, Director of the Center for Civic Society at the USC Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service, and me. I am currently a Nonresident Senior Scholar at the Schaeffer Institute as well as the Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship &#38; Public Affairs at Tufts University&#8217;s Jonathan Tisch College [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36069">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>a civic common reading program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Alliance for Civics in the Academy, we say: Civic education should be a shared intellectual activity, grounded in texts, aimed at building a practical capacity for listening to and acting together with others, including those of differing beliefs. I believe that citizenship or civic engagement is about more than texts and spoken words. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36044">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>profiles of engaged scholars</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35887</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Civically engaged political science (CER) research &#8230;. involves political scientists collaborating in a mutually beneficial way with people and groups beyond the academy to co-produce, share, and apply knowledge related to power or politics, contributing to self-governance&#8221; (Rasmussen et al 2021). In this definition, the word &#8220;civic&#8221; refers to &#8220;How people govern themselves. Engaged research [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35887">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>civically engaged research in political science</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am at the eighth Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER), a program of the American Political Science Association. Each summer, we gather about 20 political scientists (advanced PhD students, professors, and PhDs working outside academia) for four days of discussions about engaged research, which generally means research conducted in partnership with people or entities [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35878">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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