The Happy Professor: How to Teach Undergraduates and Feel Good About It
Coplin Fans
The drive to fund a new scholarship reminds us there is an alumni community bound in the ways of Bill Coplin.
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New Maxwell Perspective features climate change research
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Coplin talks about his new book with Inside Higher Ed
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Syracuse University Announces the Establishment of New Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
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Zwick discusses Uber, Lyft drivers strike in Agence France Presse
Austin Zwick, assistant teaching professor of public affairs, says the job actions are an attempt to shift the balance of power between drivers and platforms, which now have the power to arbitrarily determine compensation and benefits. "The joint strike plus boycott strategy appear unlikely to succeed nationally as it does not appear that all drivers and passengers are unified behind the cause."
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Scholarship Fund Honors Policy Studies Professor Bill Coplin
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Maxwell students Eldawy, Letona receive prestigious Truman Scholarship
The Truman award has become the premier graduate scholarship for aspiring public service leaders in the United States. The scholarship seeks to fund students who possess the leadership skills, intellect and passion that will make them “change agents” for the public good in any field.
Citizenship and Civic Engagement and the Policy Studies Major
At first glance, the new major in citizenship and civic engagement would seem to share a lot with another Maxwell major, policy studies. Both are interdisciplinary, nurture informed citizens, and emphasize action. But the similarities end there.
What Ralph Ketcham Meant to Maxwell
Ralph Ketcham taught citizenship at Maxwell longer than most of us have been alive. And, while doing so, he championed an approach to citizenship education that virtually defines the Maxwell School.
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Learning to Give
To understand how funding organizations evaluate potential grantees, undergraduates in PAF 410 field real requests and award real money.
Aligned Against Violence
A tragedy in Ashlee Newman’s family created a new legislative advocate.
10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College: The Skills You Need to Succeed, Revised
25 Ways to Make College Pay Off: Advice for Anxious Parents from a Professor Who's Seen It All
How You Can Help: An Easy Guide to Doing Good Deeds in Your Everyday Life