The phonograph presented American presidential aspirants with an opportunity to surmount eighteen... more The phonograph presented American presidential aspirants with an opportunity to surmount eighteenth-century campaigning standards and meet the challenges of an expanding democracy and electorate. Thomas Edison's invention-with its corresponding records-arguably was the first mechanical media technology to find its way into political campaigning on a mass scale. By 1908, canned, recorded speeches were poised to become a marketable alternative to soliciting ballots in person while also facilitating a candidate's direct engagement with voters, thus enabling contenders and media firms like Edison's National Phonograph Company to curate personas that were sold both commercially and at the polls. As a result, the phonograph's practical role allowed the public to hear candidates directly and in their own words, marking an important but underrecognized step forward in the democratization of access to information (and the concomitant risk of manipulation and distortion that came along with it) that one finds in today's social media.
While civic engagement continues to be a buzzword in political science, there is still a lack of ... more While civic engagement continues to be a buzzword in political science, there is still a lack of discussion about what practices work, and in what context. In particular, are there certain initiatives to engage that do particularly well at twoyear colleges versus larger universities? What about colleges with diverse student populations? At the 2014 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, seven scholar-teachers came together to discuss civic engagement at their respective institutions and to share ideas about what worked. Collectively, we represented a diverse group of institutions, including teaching and research universities as well as multi-campus community colleges. All of us, however, were focused on implementing practices that ameliorated American civic knowledge among students, faculty, staff, and universities as a whole. While some of us focused on global civic engagement and giving students the skills to succeed after graduation, others tailored projects on media literacy, public policy, humanitarian law, poverty, and citizenship.
A group of faculty members representing six colleges at a public university formed a learning com... more A group of faculty members representing six colleges at a public university formed a learning community to study the Agile Way of Working – a method of workplace collaboration widely used in software development – and to determine whether the concepts, practices, and benefits of Agile are applicable to higher education settings. After more than two years of study, experimentation, and reflection, this group found that its adaptations of Agile to higher education produced positive outcomes by increasing student engagement, encouraging students to take responsibility for their learning, enhancing the level and quality of collaboration, and producing higher quality deliverables. In this paper we propose an Agile Manifesto for Teaching and Learning that can be used to direct the work of higher education faculty in the classroom and beyond. Second, we describe our diverse experiences incorporating Agile tools and techniques into the classroom. Third, we present the results of a student s...
President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative, introduced with great fanfare in early 2001, m... more President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative, introduced with great fanfare in early 2001, may seem at first glance to represent little more than a clever rebranding of various church-state partnerships that have been mainstays on the federal domestic policy landscape for years. After all, religiously affiliated organizations such as Catholic Charities USA, Lutheran Social Services, and the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services have been receiving significant federal support of their charitable works since at least the early 1900s. Church-linked hospitals and nursing homes likewise have been participating in federal health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid for generations. At the local level, churches and other religious bodies have long since become the primary providers in many communities of publicly funded counseling, job training, disaster relief, and family support services. At the same time, members of the clergy now have long track records of service ...
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 2006
At least within the church-state community, one is hard pressed to find a Supreme Court ruling he... more At least within the church-state community, one is hard pressed to find a Supreme Court ruling held in lower esteem than Employment Division v. Smith.1 According to many commentators, Smith marked an abrupt and nonsensical departure from a decades-old practice of safeguarding religiously motivated conduct under the Free Exercise Clause. At least since Sherbert v. Verner, religious objectors who had challenged burdensome public policies-even facially neutral oneshad enjoyed a general First Amendment presumption in favor of exemption unless government officials could show both a compelling state interest and least restrictive means.2 Yet in Smith, a sharply divided Court displaced this general strict scrutiny standard in favor of a long-dormant rule rooted in Reynolds v. United States. 5 Henceforth under the Free Exercise Clause, Smith declared, instances of overt religious discrimination by government would still trigger the most stringent form of judicial review. But when a generall...
Page 1. ORGI REEDO Nativism, Education, and the Constitution, 19 17-1927 William G. Ross Page 2. ... more Page 1. ORGI REEDO Nativism, Education, and the Constitution, 19 17-1927 William G. Ross Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. In several landmark decisions during the mid-1920s, the US Supreme Court signif1cantly expanded the scope ...
While civic engagement continues to be a buzzword in political science, there is still a lack of ... more While civic engagement continues to be a buzzword in political science, there is still a lack of discussion about what practices work, and in what context. In particular, are there certain initiatives to engage that do particularly well at two-year colleges versus larger universities? What about colleges with diverse student populations? At the 2014 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, seven scholar-teachers came together to discuss civic engagement at their respective institutions and to share ideas about what worked. Collectively, we represented a diverse group of institutions, including teaching and research universities as well as multi-campus community colleges. All of us, however, were focused on implementing practices that ameliorated American civic knowledge among students, faculty, staff, and universities as a whole. While some of us focused on global civic engagement and giving students the skills to succeed after graduation, others tailored projects on media literacy, public policy, humanitarian law, poverty, and citizenship.
The phonograph presented American presidential aspirants with an opportunity to surmount eighteen... more The phonograph presented American presidential aspirants with an opportunity to surmount eighteenth-century campaigning standards and meet the challenges of an expanding democracy and electorate. Thomas Edison's invention-with its corresponding records-arguably was the first mechanical media technology to find its way into political campaigning on a mass scale. By 1908, canned, recorded speeches were poised to become a marketable alternative to soliciting ballots in person while also facilitating a candidate's direct engagement with voters, thus enabling contenders and media firms like Edison's National Phonograph Company to curate personas that were sold both commercially and at the polls. As a result, the phonograph's practical role allowed the public to hear candidates directly and in their own words, marking an important but underrecognized step forward in the democratization of access to information (and the concomitant risk of manipulation and distortion that came along with it) that one finds in today's social media.
While civic engagement continues to be a buzzword in political science, there is still a lack of ... more While civic engagement continues to be a buzzword in political science, there is still a lack of discussion about what practices work, and in what context. In particular, are there certain initiatives to engage that do particularly well at twoyear colleges versus larger universities? What about colleges with diverse student populations? At the 2014 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, seven scholar-teachers came together to discuss civic engagement at their respective institutions and to share ideas about what worked. Collectively, we represented a diverse group of institutions, including teaching and research universities as well as multi-campus community colleges. All of us, however, were focused on implementing practices that ameliorated American civic knowledge among students, faculty, staff, and universities as a whole. While some of us focused on global civic engagement and giving students the skills to succeed after graduation, others tailored projects on media literacy, public policy, humanitarian law, poverty, and citizenship.
A group of faculty members representing six colleges at a public university formed a learning com... more A group of faculty members representing six colleges at a public university formed a learning community to study the Agile Way of Working – a method of workplace collaboration widely used in software development – and to determine whether the concepts, practices, and benefits of Agile are applicable to higher education settings. After more than two years of study, experimentation, and reflection, this group found that its adaptations of Agile to higher education produced positive outcomes by increasing student engagement, encouraging students to take responsibility for their learning, enhancing the level and quality of collaboration, and producing higher quality deliverables. In this paper we propose an Agile Manifesto for Teaching and Learning that can be used to direct the work of higher education faculty in the classroom and beyond. Second, we describe our diverse experiences incorporating Agile tools and techniques into the classroom. Third, we present the results of a student s...
President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative, introduced with great fanfare in early 2001, m... more President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative, introduced with great fanfare in early 2001, may seem at first glance to represent little more than a clever rebranding of various church-state partnerships that have been mainstays on the federal domestic policy landscape for years. After all, religiously affiliated organizations such as Catholic Charities USA, Lutheran Social Services, and the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services have been receiving significant federal support of their charitable works since at least the early 1900s. Church-linked hospitals and nursing homes likewise have been participating in federal health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid for generations. At the local level, churches and other religious bodies have long since become the primary providers in many communities of publicly funded counseling, job training, disaster relief, and family support services. At the same time, members of the clergy now have long track records of service ...
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 2006
At least within the church-state community, one is hard pressed to find a Supreme Court ruling he... more At least within the church-state community, one is hard pressed to find a Supreme Court ruling held in lower esteem than Employment Division v. Smith.1 According to many commentators, Smith marked an abrupt and nonsensical departure from a decades-old practice of safeguarding religiously motivated conduct under the Free Exercise Clause. At least since Sherbert v. Verner, religious objectors who had challenged burdensome public policies-even facially neutral oneshad enjoyed a general First Amendment presumption in favor of exemption unless government officials could show both a compelling state interest and least restrictive means.2 Yet in Smith, a sharply divided Court displaced this general strict scrutiny standard in favor of a long-dormant rule rooted in Reynolds v. United States. 5 Henceforth under the Free Exercise Clause, Smith declared, instances of overt religious discrimination by government would still trigger the most stringent form of judicial review. But when a generall...
Page 1. ORGI REEDO Nativism, Education, and the Constitution, 19 17-1927 William G. Ross Page 2. ... more Page 1. ORGI REEDO Nativism, Education, and the Constitution, 19 17-1927 William G. Ross Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. In several landmark decisions during the mid-1920s, the US Supreme Court signif1cantly expanded the scope ...
While civic engagement continues to be a buzzword in political science, there is still a lack of ... more While civic engagement continues to be a buzzword in political science, there is still a lack of discussion about what practices work, and in what context. In particular, are there certain initiatives to engage that do particularly well at two-year colleges versus larger universities? What about colleges with diverse student populations? At the 2014 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, seven scholar-teachers came together to discuss civic engagement at their respective institutions and to share ideas about what worked. Collectively, we represented a diverse group of institutions, including teaching and research universities as well as multi-campus community colleges. All of us, however, were focused on implementing practices that ameliorated American civic knowledge among students, faculty, staff, and universities as a whole. While some of us focused on global civic engagement and giving students the skills to succeed after graduation, others tailored projects on media literacy, public policy, humanitarian law, poverty, and citizenship.
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