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Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer is used to going against the tide. In high school she and another girl took on the task of coaching the boy’s baseball team. In college she chose to major in economics and minor in political science, rather than education like most of her women classmates. Upon graduating from college she [...]

Working with Partners to Increase Civic Engagement ORIGINS Our project began with a simple conversation. In February 2002, a group of chief academic officers, the college marketing manager from The New York Times, and I were discussing three troubling trends: a rising level of bitter partisanship in national politics, college students’ growing disenchantment with political [...]