This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As communication consultants, we’re often brought in to help the leadership of colleges and universities navigate some of their biggest challenges. More and more, that means issues involving diversity, equity…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We have authority by martial law to shoot looters,” Captain James Scott of the New Orleans Police department, or NOPD, told more than two dozen officers just days after Hurricane…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colleges and universities lost about 191,500 transfer students in the 2020-21 academic year — representing a loss almost three times greater than the previous year’s decline of 69,300 students, according to new data…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Almost every business leader now finds themselves overworked, Zoomed out and attempting a heroic balancing act — trying to regain stability following an unprecedented year of change, bracing themselves for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Near the start of each school year, many U.S. schools wrestle with how to teach about 9/11 – the deadliest foreign attack ever on American soil. In interviews I conducted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Congress recently passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which has tremendous promise for improving roads and bridges ($110 billion allocation) and reconnecting communities divided by transportation infrastructure ($1 billion). Although these…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The reason we should care about refugees is because they are people. But, unfortunately, for many people that is an insufficient moral claim. Even for the tens of thousands of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the most visible fights against jail and prison expansion are often defensive—taking place in city council chambers or appearing on ballots—an old idea has gained new traction and is changing what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I was raised in the South Bronx in the late 1980s and ’90s. I came of age and into my consciousness while a generation of men of color were herded…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a foundation considering how to leverage the SDGs for your work, globally but also in the U.S., here are four ways to get started: Map Your Programs Against the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the 1950s, while doing research for a book on political participation, the social scientist James Q. Wilson found himself attending a lot of citizen engagement meetings on urban planning.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There’s an irony to the uproar over the claim that institutions of higher learning are advancing critical race theory to suppress white people. The reality is that many colleges and…