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WCVB-TV

CityLine: Teaching social justice and leadership through hip hop

WCVB's CityLine profiles Dee-1, a hip hop artist and inaugural Alan Solomont Artist/Scholar-in-Residence at Tisch College, who teaches students how to include social commentary in hip hop without glorifying violence, misogyny, or drug culture in his class "Hip Hop and Social Change."

Virtues & Vocations

The Spirit of Freedom

Can courage of conviction co-exist with civic virtue? Check out Dean Cunningham’s latest article, published in the journal Virtues & Vocations, on The Spirit of Freedom: Black Thought, Civic Virtue, and the Courage to Transform Democracy.

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Where We Are Now in American Politics, and Where We Might Go

A Tufts political scientist on polarization, news bubbles, and the dangers of presidential republics

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Forbes

How Educators And Leaders Can Prepare For Post-Election Uncertainty

Associate Dean Peter Levine is quoted at length about how educators can help prepare students for potential domestic political unrest by sharing historical context, teaching nonviolence, and cultivating constructive methods for achieving social change. Levine’s "Blog for Civic Renewal" is also referenced.

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Tufts Named a Top Institution for Community Engagement

The Carnegie Classification recognizes the university-community partnerships that advance the public good

The Conversation

OpenAI is a nonprofit-corporate hybrid: A management expert explains how this model works − and how it fueled the tumult around CEO Sam Altman’s short-lived ouster

Tisch College and Fletcher School Professor Alnoor Ebrahim explains the “hybrid governance” structure of Open AI in the wake of its recent leadership tumult.

The Boston Globe

Massachusetts should move local elections to even-numbered years

Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of CIRCLE, and Peter Levine, Tisch College associate dean, co-author this opinion piece outlining the benefits of aligning local and federal elections to even-numbered years, which include fostering higher and more diverse voter turnout.

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The Washington Post

Opinion: How corporate liberalism is changing both parties

Tufts University and Tisch College Professor Eitan Hirsch is quoted in this op-ed piece on the relationship between corporations and the democratic process.

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Jackson Lubke’s Window Into Housing Equity

The budding economics researcher studies gentrification, wealth economics, and the power of home ownership