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Louisa Terrell to Serve as Tisch College Visiting Fellow for the Fall 2024 Semester
The former White House Legislative Director will lead special programming on highly-anticipated election season
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Alumni Profile: Alexandra Dingle
Alexandra Dingle’s passion for transnational approaches to education began in Tisch College’s 1+4 Bridge Year Program in Pune, India. She is now applying these experiences as a VIA Global Community Fellow and mentor to First Year Global Program students in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Big Data for Democracy
Tisch College has one of the biggest research teams in the U.S. devoted to understanding the challenges to our democracy—and the opportunities to build and sustain it. We use that scholarship to inform our own programming at Tufts and to drive national conversations about voting and elections, the role of citizens, the health of democratic institutions, and the power of young people.
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Meet 10 Pennsylvanians who could help decide the 2024 election
Data from the Cooperative Election Study on undecided voters who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 is cited in this article, which appears in six additional media outlets.
City tax increase looms amid talks between Wu and Beacon Hill leaders
Evan Horowitz, executive director of cSPA, is quoted from testimony he gave at a Boston City Council Ways and Means Committee hearing on ways to ease a possible crunch for homeowners and businesses triggered by a national downturn in market values for commercial properties.
As vote draws near, the restaurant industry is split on tipped worker ballot measure
This article links to cSPA's analysis of Massachusetts Ballot Question 5, which would raise the minimum wage for tipped employees in the state.
The truth behind Trump’s biggest illegal voter claim
Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner defends data from the Cooperative Election Study (of which he is co-principal investigator), which informed a 2014 article claiming that large populations of non-citizens voted in the 2008 and 2010 elections. Schaffner notes “it’s not possible to draw statistical conclusions from a relatively small number of survey participants.”
Get In Loser, We're Going Voting: How Young Women Are Shifting Left
Abby Kiesa of CIRCLE comments on increased civic engagement among young women saying, “The last presidential election, we saw young women turn out at rates higher than their peers who identify as men in every race and ethnicity for which we had data.” Multiple CIRCLE studies are referenced.