The Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalism, announced it will extend and expand its Poynter College Media Project. The program, supported by the Charles Koch Foundation, provides training to student journalists and encourages campus media to support and promote productive engagement with controversial topics. Poynter Institute Senior Vice President Kelly McBride said, “Poynter believes … Continued
Sometimes it’s the quiet voices that move people to change. Rick Aguilar was two years into a ten-year prison sentence for a drug conviction in Washington State when his eight-year-old son moved him to transform his life. And all that the boy had to do was ask some obvious questions. Aguilar was angry then. The … Continued
The Duke University School of Law has announced Professor Brandon Garrett’s plans to continue his groundbreaking research into how to improve the U.S. criminal justice system through criminal justice data collection and analysis. Garrett’s aim is to improve the fairness of criminal adjudication, prevent wrongful convictions, reduce recidivism, divert low-risk offenders from jail or prison, … Continued
Erik Luna’s passion for criminal justice reform was ignited as a teenager during the height of America’s “war on drugs.” Growing up in the 1980s in a sleepy surfing community in San Diego, California, Luna noted that people in his white middle-class neighborhood seemed to peddle and consume drugs with little fear of punishment. Yet … Continued
Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor Law School has announced a new grant to support professor Erik Luna’s development of a university-based center to build on the school’s criminal justice work. The university shared today: “Providing a physical and sustainable presence, the center will serve as a platform to expand upon the Academy for Justice … Continued
As a professor of justice administration at Texas Southern University (TSU) in Houston, Howard Henderson had long wanted to create a criminal justice research center. The nation needs research on issues ranging from overcrowded prisons to racially biased sentencing, and TSU—a historically black institution—could analyze data through a culturally sensitive lens. “There are questions we … Continued
In an open letter published today, Charles Koch shares his motivation for supporting higher education for more than 50 years. In the past several years especially, the Charles Koch Foundation has seen more and more schools reaching out. As Charles states, we continue to respond with increasing support and hope this letter reinforces and clarifies … Continued
In 2005, a forward-thinking Ivy League professor envisioned a powerful antidote to the polarization that now afflicts our society. He created a program that allowed students to interact freely with a diversity of ideas. It encouraged them to consider and evaluate alternate points of view—even if they didn’t ultimately find the ideas persuasive. The cornerstone … Continued
Gregory Price’s interests are as diverse as his academic work. As an economist at Morehouse University, Price has studied subjects ranging from slavery, to China’s impact on Sub-Saharan Africa, to the relationship between obesity and crime. As a scholar and a thinker, Price is as comfortable discussing Nietzsche as he is Dostoevsky—and he considers himself … Continued
Starting a business sounds intimidating when you’re 40, let alone when you’re in high school or college. But for Jordan Williams, a rising junior in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania studying economics and marketing, if you have an idea, “the perfect time is always now.” That entrepreneurial attitude led Williams, at age … Continued
