July 26, 2023If popular movies are to be believed, penitentiaries are run by ruthless dictators with little concern for those they govern. A new Schar School book by Christopher Berk shows the reasons behind it—and what might be done to change it in the future.
July 25, 2023Lobbying for nonprofit organizations has always been a political balancing act. But a new study indicates that when advocacy is limited, so is influence. The solution may be in educating those who make decisions for nonprofits.
June 22, 2023In her new book, Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death (Cornell University Press, January 2023), Mason anthropology professor Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons.
March 10, 2023Alumna Sandra Cauffman and her work in NASA is featured in the children's book Women in Engineering, which is the fourth book in the Science Wide Open: Women in STEM series.
June 3, 2022Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning in high school studio arts classes. It poses a framework that identifies eight habits of mind taught in visual arts and four studio structures by which they are taught.
August 6, 2021A new book by Schar School associate professor Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera features an exclusive interview with the former secretary for public safety for Mexico. He happens to be in jail awaiting trial for corruption.