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...Another reality the founders could not have possibly foreseen was that a country that originally enslaved African Americans would be a majority non-white nation by 2050. Robert Putnam, the famed Harvard political scientist who wrote about the decline of civic engagement in Bowling Alone, recently released a new study that showed the more diverse a community is, the less people care about and engage with that community. Diversity, in fact, seems to breed distrust and disengagement. The study lands in the midst of a rackety immigration debate, but even if all immigration were to cease tomorrow, we would still...
...rare for students students to spend hundreds of dollars for a semester's coursepacks. The $464.50 sourcebook that accompanied Spring 2004's Government 90qa, "Community in America" was met with so much student outcry that Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam decided to print the coursepack elsewhere in addition to making it available online...
...Anyone who has been a president has sympathy for a president,” Putnam says, adding that for Keohane, spending her first year dealing with a leadership crisis was “the last thing she wanted...
...However, her background gave her the ability to serve as a communicator between displeased professors and the Corporation, Putnam says...
...thing Nan did have...was a good feeling for what it’s like to live in a university and manage university life,” Putnam says. “So the reason that she came to play such an important role in that period is that she was the one person in the Corporation who was able to translate what was actually happening on campus to the Corporation...