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The “M” In STEM When It Comes To Social Issues Is Alive And Well

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Marc Mason

Posted on October 13, 2014  by John Zobitz in Informal Science, CAISE The recent BISE blog post Where’s the “M” in STEM When it Comes to Social Issues?generated some discussion on social Continue Reading →

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Civic Science — Renewing the link between science and democracy

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Marc Mason

Huffington Post Blog by Harry C. Boyte on October 08, 2014 Science is not value neutral. It depends on democratic values of cooperation, free inquiry, and a commonwealth of knowledge. Before World War Continue Reading →

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Civic Science Workshop (October 2-4, 2014)

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Marc Mason

Harry Boyte, Director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Augsburg College The following report is a personal reflection and does not convey the full range of perspectives present at Continue Reading →

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Democracy at Work — the Scottish Referendum and Beyond

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Marc Mason

Huffington Post Blog by Harry C. Boyte on September 22, 2014 In thinking about the recent Scottish referendum on independence from the United Kingdom, it is worth remembering the way the great American Continue Reading →

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Democracy and the People’s Climate March

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Marc Mason

Huffington Post Blog by Harry C. Boyte on September 10, 2014 If organizers of the 1963 March on Washington were transported fifty years later to plan the forthcoming “People’s Climate March,” to Continue Reading →

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Residents must be integral part of any monitoring system

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Marc Mason

By Gwen Ottinger, guest commentary © 2014 Bay Area News Group Twenty years ago Saturday, residents of Crockett and Rodeo learned that the Unocal refinery had been leaking. And leaking. Continue Reading →

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Higher Education and the Politics of Free Spaces

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Marc Mason

Huffington Post Blog by Harry C. Boyte on September 03, 2014 On both left and right today, there is renewed attention to what might be called “middle spaces,” places between the individual Continue Reading →

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Why Cooperative Extension? Extending Knowledge . . . Changing Lives

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Marc Mason

Click here to read the article in PDF version. A livestock producer needs help meeting goals for lower water and pesticide use. A farmer wonders how to plug into the Continue Reading →

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Bayard Rustin and the Audacity of Hope

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Marc Mason

Huffington Post Blog by Harry C. Boyte on November 25, 2013 President Obama’s posthumous award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Bayard Rustin on November 20, 2013, marked overdue recognition Continue Reading →

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Beyond Polarizing Politics – Lessons from the Shutdown

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Marc Mason

Huffington Post Blog by Harry C. Boyte on October 20, 2013 In my last post (“Reclaiming Our Democracy – Lessons from the Trenches of Citizen Advocacy,” October 15) I described the highly effective Continue Reading →

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