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Opportunity: NSF Seeks Social Science Research on STEM
Academic Funding
December 10, 2019

Opportunity: NSF Seeks Social Science Research on STEM

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The Humanities as Human Relations
Higher Education Reform
August 13, 2013

The Humanities as Human Relations

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Attacks on US Funding of Social Science Will Continue to Intensify
Academic Funding
July 22, 2013

Attacks on US Funding of Social Science Will Continue to Intensify

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Save the Humanities—From Themselves
Academic Funding
June 21, 2013

Save the Humanities—From Themselves

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Gathering Data for Policy Makers, Business and the Public

Gathering Data for Policy Makers, Business and the Public

Federal surveys have been getting more expensive to administer, in part because the number of people who actually respond to surveys has been progressively declining.

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What Is the Value of Social Science?

What Is the Value of Social Science?

Ziyad Marar argues that greater funding of the social sciences is needed, not less

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Modernizing Universities?

Modernizing Universities?

Universities are starting to look like the behemoths of the US auto industry of the 1980s, with highly-paid CEOs buried in their offices looking only at numbers.

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Outlawed Research

Outlawed Research

Congress just cut funding for political science because they don’t understand the good it does. Here are four excellent examples.

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Will Social Science Research Cuts Affect the Human Rights Situation in the U.S.?

Will Social Science Research Cuts Affect the Human Rights Situation in the U.S.?

On social science, the sequester, and the need for a Human Rights Culture.

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The Politics of Attacking Political Science

The Politics of Attacking Political Science

As a political scientist, I find it curious that my discipline has been singled out as being particularly wasteful of federal research dollars. How did we join welfare queens and spotted owls as convenient punching bags, things that must not be aided by taxpayer money during lean times?

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Why Study Social Science

Why Study Social Science

We study social science because social phenomena affect people’s lives in profound ways. If you want to start with Cantor’s focus—physical illness and death—then social phenomena are tremendously important.

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Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?

Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?

There are all sorts of things from which we are excluded by limited means. Is postgraduate education really so different?

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