NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Zirkel on wikimedia Can universities be effective community builders? Observers going back to the early 20th-century US philosopher John Dewey have also contended that universities play an essential role in creating a democratic citizenry. Since most universities are nonprofit or publicly owned, by law, they must be community-serving.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 12, 2023
Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. Not only are workforce development and university education required to sustain regional cooperative economies at scale, but this education should begin at an early age.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
They include a spate of police actions on campuses , anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits , weaponization of accreditation , and political tests for everything from curriculum to top institutional leadership. This view is truly disruptive of historic social relationships and university hierarchies.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 18, 2025
Experts often overcomplicate lectures with jargon and references that may not be culturally relevant to the people they are trying to teach. Recently, three US universities teamed up to propose research into long COVID-19 using an MCTT approach. It also allows agile sharing within and across departments.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 31, 2023
This is why our two groups—the Center for Economic Democracy (CED) and the Center for Popular Economics (CPE) —have created a curriculum rooted in popular education practices intended to educate people and communities about ways to challenge the unjust economic system at its root. We call this curriculum “ Economics for Emancipation ” (E4E).
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 22, 2023
Image Credit: Thiago Matos on pexels.com A new preliminary report by the American Association of University Professors is sounding alarms over a slew of legislative and political maneuvers by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature. Last year, Gov. The report highlights four key findings: 1.
Ken Goldstein
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
I''ve been thinking about this for a while, but it was brought to the fore for me last week when I attended Social Innovation Summit 2013 at Stanford University. The problem wasn''t that she or her students didn''t have access to uniform, national curriculum standards. The middle-class was the lowest rung we were expected to shoot for.
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