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By: Rebecca A. London (UC Santa Cruz) February 2022 Play is a critical input to positive child and youth development. Recess is the only time in the school day when students can learn and practice social and emotional skills as well as be physically active, connect with friends, and take a …

The Right to Play: A Policy Guide to California Recess PrioritiesRead More

By: Miriam Greenberg (UC Santa Cruz) Winter 2022 As demonstrated by this special issue of Footnotes, there is a growing and welcome recognition in sociology and allied disciplines of the value of community-engaged research (CER) and of its potentially transformative benefits for …

Community-Engaged Research (CER) in Contentious Times: Some ReflectionsRead More

By: Steve McKay (UC Santa Cruz) Winter 2022 Resurgent “culture wars” and American partisan politics have once again put higher education on the hot seat. Stoked by attacks from the Right, colleges and universities find themselves on the defensive, having to fend off charges of elitism, …

Critical Engagement: Deepening Partnerships for JusticeRead More

By: Rebecca London (UC Santa Cruz) Winter 2022 Rebecca London writes on her experience and expertise with community-engaged research, arguing that rather than sequester community-engaged research to the sidelines of academia, sociology should elevate it as a rigorous, theoretically rich, and …

Research for, by, and about the PeopleRead More

By: Rebecca Covarrubias and Katherine Quinteros (UC Santa Cruz) Winter 2022 The current research examines how faculty of color (FOC) experience Whiteness in structures of leadership in an HSI context, and how their own leadership perspectives and efforts reform such structures. …

Faculty of Color Exposing and Reforming Structures of Whiteness in LeadershipRead More

By: Nate Edenhofer, Alejandro Artiga-Purcell, Chris Benner, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Gary Rettberg, Beth Tamayose, Sahara Huazano, Maria Paz, and Silvia Paz October 2021 This policy brief provides guidance on frameworks and tools that can accelerate progress towards a more inclusive economic …

Our Salton Sea: Where Theory Meets Practice on Inclusive Economic DevelopmentRead More