Fourteen universities are joining a new pilot initiative launched by Chicago-based education nonprofit Interfaith Youth Core, bringing together students and faculty on campuses across the country to leverage their diverse beliefs and backgrounds to counter polarization.
UCLA’s new Institute for Technology, Policy, and Law will advance scholarship and address issues at the intersection of technology and the legal system, examining the impact of artificial intelligence, robotics, digital free speech and other new technologies on our society.
The Criminal Justice Innovation Lab (CJIL) at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Government recently launched The Citation Project, which aims to improve policing practices through rigorous evaluation of citation in lieu of arrest.
The Cardinal Manufacturing program teaches students skills like welding, machining, and woodworking, as well as accounting and office management. The result is a student-run, profit-sharing fabrication and repair business that has become so successful it now serves as a model for other school systems nationwide.
Scholars at the University of Louisville’s Center for Free Enterprise are pushing well past what is standard to expand exceptional opportunities for students in their communities.
Hidden Common Ground’s “Divisiveness and Collaboration in American Public Life” report, released this month by Public Agenda, found that Americans say we have more that unites us than voices on the extremes suggest.
Claremont Graduate University’s Computational Justice Lab will expand its data science efforts and grow the number of faculty, graduate students, and post-docs whose research leads to real-world applications and policy change.
The Center for Principled Leadership and Business Strategy, a unit of WMU’s Haworth College of Business, will foster integrative learning through immersive experiences that give students real-life business experience.
The Charles Koch Foundation supports research and educational programs focused on poverty, immigration, criminal justice reform, free expression, and other critical issues.
