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		<title>profiles of engaged scholars</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>from the spring summit on civics in higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 10, the Tisch College of Civic Life, the Alliance for Civics in the Academy, and GBH (formerly WGBH-Boston) organized a national summit on civics in higher education. Some outputs from that summit are now public. Joanna Kenty kindly published a version of my opening remarks in The Renovator, under the heading &#8220;What was [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35793">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>universities and newsrooms as laboratories or debating societies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Higher education and the press are important sources of knowledge and insight in modern societies. I think that many people who are interested and concerned about these institutions view them as similar to either 1) labs or 2) debating societies. Both metaphors contain some truth but also mislead. If you imagine an academic program or [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35769">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>an overview of civics in higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 10, the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University and the&#160;Alliance for Civics in the Academy (ACA), with support from&#160;GBH, held a one-day national summit on civics in higher education. All day, we heard from leaders of exemplary programs that emphasize various combinations of community engagement, academic coursework, and research and experimentation [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35679">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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>
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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>
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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>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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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>
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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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