Rebecca A Glazier
Biographic Data
| ID | 254939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca A Glazier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca A |
| FAMILY NAME | Glazier |
| SIGNATURE | GLAZIER R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1121-152X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Linking Community-Based Research and Faith-Based Racial Justice
Race and Faith: The Role of Congregations in Racial Justice
Following the killing of George Floyd, some congregations more fully entered the conversation on race. Although sometimes reinforcing institutional racism, many religious traditions also have tools for conflict resolution, repentance, and reconciliation. Given this ambivalence, how do congregations engage questions of racial justice, and how is this engagement influenced by race and religious tradition? Our answers come through multimethod data c…
Faith and race: How African American pastors navigate dialectical tensions in collaboration
The African American church (AAC) is an anchor institution in disinvested communities. Retrenchment of government support has increased the need for AAC collaborative activity. Given this need, we interviewed 10 African American pastors (AAP) in Little Rock, Arkansas, a city with a long history of racial division. This purposeful sample is embedded in a longitudinal community-engaged research project that began in 2012 in order to understand and …
The Long-Term Effects of Covid-19 on Political Science Teaching
The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed political science higher education—shifting courses and instructors online with little preparation. What might be the long-term effects of teaching through this crisis? Combining both open-ended and forced-choice survey questions with focus-group conversations, the data reveal a picture of faculty who are doing more for students and feeling strained by the efforts. Despite the challenges of teaching online d…
Learning through Collaborative Data Projects: Engaging Students and Building Rapport
Many instructors strive to make students more active participants in their own learning. Yet recommended methods for this purpose, such as project-based learning or providing personalized feedback, are impractical in larger classes or virtual classrooms. To overcome these barriers, we designed a series of collaborative data projects to engage students even in large, online classes. Our goal is to describe and evaluate the efficacy of these projec…
Instructor Presence and Student Satisfaction Across Modalities: Survey Data on Student Preferences in Online and On-Campus Courses
Post-COVID-19, many, if not most, college and university instructors teach both online and face-to-face, and, given that online courses historically have higher attrition rates, designing and facilitating effective online courses is key to student retention. Students need online and on-campus courses that are well designed and facilitated, but even well-designed classes can be ineffective if students feel lost in the course or disengaged from the…
Self-coding: A method to assess semantic validity and bias when coding open-ended responses
Open-ended survey questions can provide researchers with nuanced and rich data, but content analysis is subject to misinterpretation and can introduce bias into subsequent analysis. We present a simple method to improve the semantic validity of a codebook and test for bias: a “self-coding” method where respondents first provide open-ended responses and then self-code those responses into categories. We demonstrated this method by comparing respon…
Using Social Media to Advance Community-Based Research
Community-based research can improve validity and benefit its subjects, but building trust with communities and research subjects can be challenging. Social media is a powerful tool that can be used to build connections and share information. Yet, little research has been done on how social media can be used as a recruitment and communication tool for community-based research (CBR) projects. Our study used Facebook to advance the goals of a commu…
Online teaching, student success, and retention in political science courses
The face of higher education is changing. One major trend is the fact that students are taking an increasing proportion of their courses online. That is, a growing number of students at not-for-profit private and public colleges and universities are taking some of their course work online and completing other parts in face-to-face courses. What impact does this mix of online and in-person course modalities have on student success? We answer this …
Making Human Connections in Online Teaching
1. Whereas "synchronous" learning happens in real time, "asynchronous" learning is done without real-time interaction. 2. All of the students who coauthored this article are white (as is the instructor), received A-level grades in the course, and had stable access to a personal electronic device and the Internet. To mitigate bias, we also drew from feedback given by a broader pool of students over email and via an anonymous survey. The generaliza…
The Differential Impact of Religion on Political Activity and Community Engagement
Many religions have an ethos of community betterment that can spur their members to contribute to society in meaningful ways. Yet much of the literature on religion and politics tends to focus on how places of worship increase explicitly partisan activities like voting or donating to a political campaign. Does religion affect community engagement in the same ways that it does political participation? A unique research design executed in Little Ro…
Framing, identity, and responsibility: Do episodic vs. thematic framing effects vary by target population
Extensive political communication research shows that people respond differently to the same policy problem depending on how it is portrayed, or “framed.” Specifically, Iyengar [1991]. Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press] finds that when news coverage about a policy issue is framed episodically, citizens tend to attribute responsibility to the individual, whereas when news is framed…
Media, information, and political participation: The importance of online news sources in the absence of a free press
Social media use is positively associated with political participation, but does this relationship persist when traditional and social media are restricted by the government? We argue that, under conditions of repression, social media and other online news sources play a key role in providing information free from government filters, which makes political participation more likely. We test this theory using data collected through an original, nat…
In the wake of a terrorist attack, do Americans’ attitudes toward Muslims decline
When a terrorist attack occurs, a natural response may be increased public concern about terrorism. But when a self-described Muslim perpetrates a terrorist attack, do negative attitudes toward Muslims also increase? If so, is this effect conditional on the nature of people’s past personal experiences with Muslims? We present natural experiment data based on a 2015 web-based survey of 2105 non-Muslims in the US, a survey that happened to span the…
How Religion Influences Peacemaking
Although a large amount of scholarly and popular attention has been devoted to understanding the relationship between religion and violence, comparatively less attention has been paid to the relationship between religion and peace. Yet, there are many reasons to believe that religion can be a powerful force for peacemaking. Qualitative research indicates that religious leaders and religious people are often credible peace brokers who are respecte…
Acting for God? Types and Motivations of Clergy Political Activity
Clergy members are often important political actors. Yet, scholars rarely distinguish among different types of clergy political activities. Here, I argue for three disaggregated categories of clergy political activity: personal, general congregation level, and election-specific congregation level. Data from two sources—the Cooperative Clergy Study and the Little Rock Congregations Study—demonstrate that important differences exist across these ca…
For God or Country? Comparing the Sources of Anti-American and Anti-Muslim Attitudes
Negative attitudes about Americans pervade the Muslim world. And many Americans hold negative views of Muslims. Although prior literatures provide many explanations for the sources of antagonism in each population, scholars have yet to provide a direct comparison between the two. Thus, instead of explaining the attitudes themselves, this research compares them. When the same questions are asked of Americans and Muslims, are the same variables sig…
Bridging Religion and Politics: The Impact of Providential Religious Beliefs on Political Activity
Past research shows that religious beliefs can shape political activity. Yet current literature leaves open many questions about the mechanisms at work. I point to the key role of a particular religious belief found across denominations: providentiality, or the belief that God has a plan that humans can further. When these beliefs are connected to politics, providential believers are likely to be active and dedicated participators. I test this no…
Satire and Efficacy in the Political Science Classroom
Political satire has become increasingly prominent in recent years, leading some political science instructors to use satire in their courses. Yet, recent work suggests that political satire may encourage cynicism and decrease political efficacy. In this article, the author develops and tests an approach to teaching effectively with satire. Frequent use, source diversity, and critical evaluation engage students while allaying satire’s potential d…
Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Fostering National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection
Scholars often rely on student samples from their own campuses to study political behavior, but some studies require larger and more diverse samples than any single campus can provide. In our case, we wanted to study the real-time effects of presidential debates on individual-level attitudes, and we sought a large sample with diversity across covariates such as ideology and race. To address this challenge, we recruited college students across the…
Real-Time Reactions to a 2012 Presidential Debate
How effective are presidential candidates at engaging viewers during debates? To answer this question, we designed a mobile app and conducted a large-scale national study of individual college students’ real-time reactions to the first general election debate of 2012. Previous studies have relied either on real-time but small-sample individual dial reactions or on large-scale public reactions to debates in their entirety, after the fact, and with…
Agenda Control in the 2008 Presidential Debates
Research indicates that, when engaging their opponents, strategic candidates will draw (and redraw) lines of conflict, pulling attention to their advantaged topics. But do these expectations hold up in debates, where candidates are at the mercy of those asking the questions? And do strategic debate behaviors matter? This study draws on past literature to hypothesize the specific types of agenda-control behaviors we should see in debates. These hy…
Playing to the Crowd: Agenda Control in Presidential Debates
Presidential debates allow candidates to send a message directly to voters. We use an experimental design complemented with a content analysis of all presidential debates in 1992, 2004, and 2008 to explore how candidates should and do use agenda setting, framing, and message tone to shape the agenda in debates. We find that candidates are differentially attentive to various topics, depending on the comparative advantage provided by the topic. Yet…
A Two‐Tiered Method for Identifying Trends in Media Framing of Policy Issues: The Case of the War on Terror
Research on media framing of policy issues has flourished. Yet the varied approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing issue frames that make this literature rich also hinder its advancement. Here, we document the benefits of a two‐tiered method: the first level accounts for issue‐specific frames, while the second level tracks frames that generalize across issues. For this study, we draw on generalizable frames from prospect theory (loss vs…
Divine Direction: How Providential Religious Beliefs Shape Foreign Policy Attitudes
Journal Article Divine Direction: How Providential Religious Beliefs Shape Foreign Policy Attitudes Get access Rebecca A. Glazier Rebecca A. Glazier University of Arkansas at Little Rock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 127–142, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2012.00190.x Published: 17 April 2013
Real-Time Reactions to a 2012 Presidential Debate
How effective are presidential candidates at engaging viewers during debates? To answer this question, we designed a mobile app and conducted a large-scale national study of individual college students’ real-time reactions to the first general election debate of 2012. Previous studies have relied either on real-time but small-sample individual dial reactions or on large-scale public reactions to debates in their entirety, after the fact, and with…
A Two‐Tiered Method for Identifying Trends in Media Framing of Policy Issues: The Case of the War on Terror
Research on media framing of policy issues has flourished. Yet the varied approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing issue frames that make this literature rich also hinder its advancement. Here, we document the benefits of a two‐tiered method: the first level accounts for issue‐specific frames, while the second level tracks frames that generalize across issues. For this study, we draw on generalizable frames from prospect theory (loss vs…
Playing to the Crowd: Agenda Control in Presidential Debates
Presidential debates allow candidates to send a message directly to voters. We use an experimental design complemented with a content analysis of all presidential debates in 1992, 2004, and 2008 to explore how candidates should and do use agenda setting, framing, and message tone to shape the agenda in debates. We find that candidates are differentially attentive to various topics, depending on the comparative advantage provided by the topic. Yet…
Bridging Religion and Politics: The Impact of Providential Religious Beliefs on Political Activity
Past research shows that religious beliefs can shape political activity. Yet current literature leaves open many questions about the mechanisms at work. I point to the key role of a particular religious belief found across denominations: providentiality, or the belief that God has a plan that humans can further. When these beliefs are connected to politics, providential believers are likely to be active and dedicated participators. I test this no…
Divine Direction: How Providential Religious Beliefs Shape Foreign Policy Attitudes
Journal Article Divine Direction: How Providential Religious Beliefs Shape Foreign Policy Attitudes Get access Rebecca A. Glazier Rebecca A. Glazier University of Arkansas at Little Rock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 127–142, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2012.00190.x Published: 17 April 2013
In the wake of a terrorist attack, do Americans’ attitudes toward Muslims decline
When a terrorist attack occurs, a natural response may be increased public concern about terrorism. But when a self-described Muslim perpetrates a terrorist attack, do negative attitudes toward Muslims also increase? If so, is this effect conditional on the nature of people’s past personal experiences with Muslims? We present natural experiment data based on a 2015 web-based survey of 2105 non-Muslims in the US, a survey that happened to span the…
The Differential Impact of Religion on Political Activity and Community Engagement
Many religions have an ethos of community betterment that can spur their members to contribute to society in meaningful ways. Yet much of the literature on religion and politics tends to focus on how places of worship increase explicitly partisan activities like voting or donating to a political campaign. Does religion affect community engagement in the same ways that it does political participation? A unique research design executed in Little Ro…
Satire and Efficacy in the Political Science Classroom
Political satire has become increasingly prominent in recent years, leading some political science instructors to use satire in their courses. Yet, recent work suggests that political satire may encourage cynicism and decrease political efficacy. In this article, the author develops and tests an approach to teaching effectively with satire. Frequent use, source diversity, and critical evaluation engage students while allaying satire’s potential d…
Making Human Connections in Online Teaching
1. Whereas "synchronous" learning happens in real time, "asynchronous" learning is done without real-time interaction. 2. All of the students who coauthored this article are white (as is the instructor), received A-level grades in the course, and had stable access to a personal electronic device and the Internet. To mitigate bias, we also drew from feedback given by a broader pool of students over email and via an anonymous survey. The generaliza…
Framing, identity, and responsibility: Do episodic vs. thematic framing effects vary by target population
Extensive political communication research shows that people respond differently to the same policy problem depending on how it is portrayed, or “framed.” Specifically, Iyengar [1991]. Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press] finds that when news coverage about a policy issue is framed episodically, citizens tend to attribute responsibility to the individual, whereas when news is framed…
Acting for God? Types and Motivations of Clergy Political Activity
Clergy members are often important political actors. Yet, scholars rarely distinguish among different types of clergy political activities. Here, I argue for three disaggregated categories of clergy political activity: personal, general congregation level, and election-specific congregation level. Data from two sources—the Cooperative Clergy Study and the Little Rock Congregations Study—demonstrate that important differences exist across these ca…
Agenda Control in the 2008 Presidential Debates
Research indicates that, when engaging their opponents, strategic candidates will draw (and redraw) lines of conflict, pulling attention to their advantaged topics. But do these expectations hold up in debates, where candidates are at the mercy of those asking the questions? And do strategic debate behaviors matter? This study draws on past literature to hypothesize the specific types of agenda-control behaviors we should see in debates. These hy…
Race and Faith: The Role of Congregations in Racial Justice
Following the killing of George Floyd, some congregations more fully entered the conversation on race. Although sometimes reinforcing institutional racism, many religious traditions also have tools for conflict resolution, repentance, and reconciliation. Given this ambivalence, how do congregations engage questions of racial justice, and how is this engagement influenced by race and religious tradition? Our answers come through multimethod data c…
Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Fostering National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection
Scholars often rely on student samples from their own campuses to study political behavior, but some studies require larger and more diverse samples than any single campus can provide. In our case, we wanted to study the real-time effects of presidential debates on individual-level attitudes, and we sought a large sample with diversity across covariates such as ideology and race. To address this challenge, we recruited college students across the…
Online teaching, student success, and retention in political science courses
The face of higher education is changing. One major trend is the fact that students are taking an increasing proportion of their courses online. That is, a growing number of students at not-for-profit private and public colleges and universities are taking some of their course work online and completing other parts in face-to-face courses. What impact does this mix of online and in-person course modalities have on student success? We answer this …
Media, information, and political participation: The importance of online news sources in the absence of a free press
Social media use is positively associated with political participation, but does this relationship persist when traditional and social media are restricted by the government? We argue that, under conditions of repression, social media and other online news sources play a key role in providing information free from government filters, which makes political participation more likely. We test this theory using data collected through an original, nat…
The Long-Term Effects of Covid-19 on Political Science Teaching
The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed political science higher education—shifting courses and instructors online with little preparation. What might be the long-term effects of teaching through this crisis? Combining both open-ended and forced-choice survey questions with focus-group conversations, the data reveal a picture of faculty who are doing more for students and feeling strained by the efforts. Despite the challenges of teaching online d…
For God or Country? Comparing the Sources of Anti-American and Anti-Muslim Attitudes
Negative attitudes about Americans pervade the Muslim world. And many Americans hold negative views of Muslims. Although prior literatures provide many explanations for the sources of antagonism in each population, scholars have yet to provide a direct comparison between the two. Thus, instead of explaining the attitudes themselves, this research compares them. When the same questions are asked of Americans and Muslims, are the same variables sig…
Contemporary Islamism: Trajectory of a Master Frame
Islamism proposes a vision of a society united by religion above all else – a vision that the West has difficulty theorizing and even comprehending. This vision and the social movements that have accompanied it are firmly rooted in the Muslim world’s history and traditions. This paper adopts a frame analytic perspective to examine and understand the progression of political Islam from the nationalism of the interwar period and beyond to the radic…
Divine Direction: How Providential Religious Beliefs Shape Foreign Policy Attitudes
Journal Article Divine Direction: How Providential Religious Beliefs Shape Foreign Policy Attitudes Get access Rebecca A. Glazier Rebecca A. Glazier University of Arkansas at Little Rock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 127–142, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2012.00190.x Published: 17 April 2013
Agenda Control in the 2008 Presidential Debates
Research indicates that, when engaging their opponents, strategic candidates will draw (and redraw) lines of conflict, pulling attention to their advantaged topics. But do these expectations hold up in debates, where candidates are at the mercy of those asking the questions? And do strategic debate behaviors matter? This study draws on past literature to hypothesize the specific types of agenda-control behaviors we should see in debates. These hy…
Playing to the Crowd: Agenda Control in Presidential Debates
Presidential debates allow candidates to send a message directly to voters. We use an experimental design complemented with a content analysis of all presidential debates in 1992, 2004, and 2008 to explore how candidates should and do use agenda setting, framing, and message tone to shape the agenda in debates. We find that candidates are differentially attentive to various topics, depending on the comparative advantage provided by the topic. Yet…
A Two‐Tiered Method for Identifying Trends in Media Framing of Policy Issues: The Case of the War on Terror
Research on media framing of policy issues has flourished. Yet the varied approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing issue frames that make this literature rich also hinder its advancement. Here, we document the benefits of a two‐tiered method: the first level accounts for issue‐specific frames, while the second level tracks frames that generalize across issues. For this study, we draw on generalizable frames from prospect theory (loss vs…
Satire and Efficacy in the Political Science Classroom
Political satire has become increasingly prominent in recent years, leading some political science instructors to use satire in their courses. Yet, recent work suggests that political satire may encourage cynicism and decrease political efficacy. In this article, the author develops and tests an approach to teaching effectively with satire. Frequent use, source diversity, and critical evaluation engage students while allaying satire’s potential d…
Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Fostering National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection
Scholars often rely on student samples from their own campuses to study political behavior, but some studies require larger and more diverse samples than any single campus can provide. In our case, we wanted to study the real-time effects of presidential debates on individual-level attitudes, and we sought a large sample with diversity across covariates such as ideology and race. To address this challenge, we recruited college students across the…
Real-Time Reactions to a 2012 Presidential Debate
How effective are presidential candidates at engaging viewers during debates? To answer this question, we designed a mobile app and conducted a large-scale national study of individual college students’ real-time reactions to the first general election debate of 2012. Previous studies have relied either on real-time but small-sample individual dial reactions or on large-scale public reactions to debates in their entirety, after the fact, and with…
Bridging Religion and Politics: The Impact of Providential Religious Beliefs on Political Activity
Past research shows that religious beliefs can shape political activity. Yet current literature leaves open many questions about the mechanisms at work. I point to the key role of a particular religious belief found across denominations: providentiality, or the belief that God has a plan that humans can further. When these beliefs are connected to politics, providential believers are likely to be active and dedicated participators. I test this no…
For God or Country? Comparing the Sources of Anti-American and Anti-Muslim Attitudes
Negative attitudes about Americans pervade the Muslim world. And many Americans hold negative views of Muslims. Although prior literatures provide many explanations for the sources of antagonism in each population, scholars have yet to provide a direct comparison between the two. Thus, instead of explaining the attitudes themselves, this research compares them. When the same questions are asked of Americans and Muslims, are the same variables sig…
In the wake of a terrorist attack, do Americans’ attitudes toward Muslims decline
When a terrorist attack occurs, a natural response may be increased public concern about terrorism. But when a self-described Muslim perpetrates a terrorist attack, do negative attitudes toward Muslims also increase? If so, is this effect conditional on the nature of people’s past personal experiences with Muslims? We present natural experiment data based on a 2015 web-based survey of 2105 non-Muslims in the US, a survey that happened to span the…
How Religion Influences Peacemaking
Although a large amount of scholarly and popular attention has been devoted to understanding the relationship between religion and violence, comparatively less attention has been paid to the relationship between religion and peace. Yet, there are many reasons to believe that religion can be a powerful force for peacemaking. Qualitative research indicates that religious leaders and religious people are often credible peace brokers who are respecte…
Acting for God? Types and Motivations of Clergy Political Activity
Clergy members are often important political actors. Yet, scholars rarely distinguish among different types of clergy political activities. Here, I argue for three disaggregated categories of clergy political activity: personal, general congregation level, and election-specific congregation level. Data from two sources—the Cooperative Clergy Study and the Little Rock Congregations Study—demonstrate that important differences exist across these ca…
Framing, identity, and responsibility: Do episodic vs. thematic framing effects vary by target population
Extensive political communication research shows that people respond differently to the same policy problem depending on how it is portrayed, or “framed.” Specifically, Iyengar [1991]. Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press] finds that when news coverage about a policy issue is framed episodically, citizens tend to attribute responsibility to the individual, whereas when news is framed…
Media, information, and political participation: The importance of online news sources in the absence of a free press
Social media use is positively associated with political participation, but does this relationship persist when traditional and social media are restricted by the government? We argue that, under conditions of repression, social media and other online news sources play a key role in providing information free from government filters, which makes political participation more likely. We test this theory using data collected through an original, nat…
Online teaching, student success, and retention in political science courses
The face of higher education is changing. One major trend is the fact that students are taking an increasing proportion of their courses online. That is, a growing number of students at not-for-profit private and public colleges and universities are taking some of their course work online and completing other parts in face-to-face courses. What impact does this mix of online and in-person course modalities have on student success? We answer this …
Making Human Connections in Online Teaching
1. Whereas "synchronous" learning happens in real time, "asynchronous" learning is done without real-time interaction. 2. All of the students who coauthored this article are white (as is the instructor), received A-level grades in the course, and had stable access to a personal electronic device and the Internet. To mitigate bias, we also drew from feedback given by a broader pool of students over email and via an anonymous survey. The generaliza…
The Differential Impact of Religion on Political Activity and Community Engagement
Many religions have an ethos of community betterment that can spur their members to contribute to society in meaningful ways. Yet much of the literature on religion and politics tends to focus on how places of worship increase explicitly partisan activities like voting or donating to a political campaign. Does religion affect community engagement in the same ways that it does political participation? A unique research design executed in Little Ro…
Instructor Presence and Student Satisfaction Across Modalities: Survey Data on Student Preferences in Online and On-Campus Courses
Post-COVID-19, many, if not most, college and university instructors teach both online and face-to-face, and, given that online courses historically have higher attrition rates, designing and facilitating effective online courses is key to student retention. Students need online and on-campus courses that are well designed and facilitated, but even well-designed classes can be ineffective if students feel lost in the course or disengaged from the…
Self-coding: A method to assess semantic validity and bias when coding open-ended responses
Open-ended survey questions can provide researchers with nuanced and rich data, but content analysis is subject to misinterpretation and can introduce bias into subsequent analysis. We present a simple method to improve the semantic validity of a codebook and test for bias: a “self-coding” method where respondents first provide open-ended responses and then self-code those responses into categories. We demonstrated this method by comparing respon…
Using Social Media to Advance Community-Based Research
Community-based research can improve validity and benefit its subjects, but building trust with communities and research subjects can be challenging. Social media is a powerful tool that can be used to build connections and share information. Yet, little research has been done on how social media can be used as a recruitment and communication tool for community-based research (CBR) projects. Our study used Facebook to advance the goals of a commu…
Learning through Collaborative Data Projects: Engaging Students and Building Rapport
Many instructors strive to make students more active participants in their own learning. Yet recommended methods for this purpose, such as project-based learning or providing personalized feedback, are impractical in larger classes or virtual classrooms. To overcome these barriers, we designed a series of collaborative data projects to engage students even in large, online classes. Our goal is to describe and evaluate the efficacy of these projec…
Faith and race: How African American pastors navigate dialectical tensions in collaboration
The African American church (AAC) is an anchor institution in disinvested communities. Retrenchment of government support has increased the need for AAC collaborative activity. Given this need, we interviewed 10 African American pastors (AAP) in Little Rock, Arkansas, a city with a long history of racial division. This purposeful sample is embedded in a longitudinal community-engaged research project that began in 2012 in order to understand and …
The Long-Term Effects of Covid-19 on Political Science Teaching
The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed political science higher education—shifting courses and instructors online with little preparation. What might be the long-term effects of teaching through this crisis? Combining both open-ended and forced-choice survey questions with focus-group conversations, the data reveal a picture of faculty who are doing more for students and feeling strained by the efforts. Despite the challenges of teaching online d…
Linking Community-Based Research and Faith-Based Racial Justice
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