Gallup and the Center for Advancing Opportunity (CAO) at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund recently released a set of results from their State of Opportunity in America 2020 report. The report makes it clear the voices of residents of fragile communities must be considered in the nation’s current debate about police and law enforcement reform
Curriki, a nonprofit education service that provides free, open educational resources, announced today the launch of CurrikiStudio, an intuitive authoring and publishing tool that will allow content creators and education organizations to affordably build and release interactive content for learners at every stage of life.
The Charles Koch Foundation has announced it will renew its support for New York University School of Law’s Policing Project. The Project, launched in 2015, aims to promote public safety, equal rights, and human dignity by building partnerships and applying cutting-edge scholarship to improve police-community relations.
The Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of America brings together entrepreneurs, academics, and students to teach principled entrepreneurship and to develop projects to grow companies, lift communities, and help individuals flourish. Since the coronavirus hit the country in March, the Center’s offerings have become even more relevant as D.C.-based small businesses reel from the coronavirus pandemic.
Because COVID-19 has forced many leading colleges and universities to delay, defer, or cancel their enrollment for thousands of students, upcoming on-campus plans have never been more uncertain. To address this need, Minvera has launched its Visiting Scholars Year—a remote, credit-bearing opportunity for university students.
Instead of abandoning the coursework for the year and simply resorting to teaching business strategy online, Lepisto and McIver leaned into the crisis. They decided they would not shield their students from it and instead would use it to expose them to the realities of being an entrepreneur, including the uncertainty and hardship, while trying to help local businesses as they struggled to survive.
With COVID-19 keeping students out of residence and lecture halls, TEL quickly pivoted, launching another program, Learn Together!, which provides free learning resources to high school and college instructors, students, and families during COVID-19.
The Center is using cellphone data to forecast the impact COVID-19 will have on various sectors of the state’s economy, including retail and manufacturing.
Mark Jamison, director of the University of Florida’s Digital Markets Initiative, and UF postdoctoral candidate Peter Wang recently published a column at RealClearMarkets that highlights how technology companies have “created or refined systems for distance learning, teleworking, telemedicine, news dissemination, and e-commerce” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the report’s many findings, the authors discovered that 63 percent of students feel that the climate on their campus deters students from expressing themselves openly, up from 54 percent in 2016.
