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		<title>navigating the social sciences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35679</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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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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