by jpitney | Jan 27, 2023 | Conservative', Higher Education
Samuel J. Abrams at AEI: The time is now to invest in conservative graduate students who want to build up our communities and institutions. The Harvard program in Inequality and Social Policy did not develop overnight, nor did it have an influence immediately....
by jpitney | Jan 26, 2023 | Civic Education, Higher Education
Paul Carrese at AEI: Conservatives frequently bemoan the ideological monoculture on college campuses, but they too rarely propose constructive solutions. One notable exception has been Arizona State University’s School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership...
by jpitney | Nov 7, 2022 | Higher Education, Public Opinion, Violence
Samuel J. Abrams at Minding the Campus: [D]ata from the Future of Politics survey of over 1,500 currently enrolled students at 91 colleges and universities reveal that far too many students today believe that force may necessary to manage political or social...
by jpitney | Oct 5, 2022 | Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at AEI: A common refrain on campuses today is that students are likely to self-censor their views and ideas. Looking at the data, this is an experience shared by nearly all students and amongst almost all races. In 2016, when students were asked about...
by jpitney | Sep 23, 2022 | Deliberation, Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Fire’s 2022-23 College Free Speech Rankings samples the views of almost 45,000 currently enrolled students at more than 200 American colleges and universities, the largest study of its kind to date. Like earlier iterations, it shows that...
by jpitney | Aug 26, 2022 | Higher Education, Polarization
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Far too often, the headlines are missing the fact that so much closed-mindedness and balkanization in terms of openness toward engaging with political difference is far more pronounced on the left. And this is a phenomenon that I have observed as...