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September 18, 2023

West Virginia Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed’s Future

…students (54% at WVU) hail from out of state. In addition, nearly a quarter of the students at WVU are eligible for Pell Grants, and many more are “Promise Scholars”…

September 18, 2023

A Degree of Risk

scholarships — is already free.)  When Biden took office, all were eagerly awaiting his move to cancel student debt. He didn’t move on that immediately, though. Biden announced his plan during…

September 17, 2023

Tracking ‘two-parent privilege’ in Utah

…Studies and a visiting scholar at the Sutherland Institute. David Bass is the director of communications for the Institute for Family Studies. Derek Monson is chief growth officer at Sutherland…

August 17, 2023

The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters

…Project, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at the Sutherland Institute. Patrick T. Brown is a fellow at the Ethics…

August 16, 2023

How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah

…sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at…

July 3, 2023

Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer

…Social Work late last year. His demotion apparently has not made Dettlaff any less of an ideological enforcer in child-welfare scholarship. Most recently, he has attacked a re-analysis by several…

June 20, 2023

Down Through the Ages

…from older ones. Twenge is the rare scholar who seems to play it down the middle. Her book, which contains complete portraits of all six generations living today, is based…

June 11, 2023

Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects

…stronger; scholars call such relationships, in which the two partners share important characteristics, “homogamous.” Homogamy matters for marriage when it predicts how a person thinks about their life goals, their ways…

June 8, 2023

Oklahoma Has Approved the Nation’s First Religious Charter School. What’s That Mean?

…the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at Notre Dame, the author of Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools’ Importance in Urban America, and the legal scholar probably most responsible for advancing…

March 24, 2023

How Religious Faith and a Sense of Agency Corresponds with Mental Health

“Sisterhood is powerful.” That was an early slogan of feminism, but it’s hard to imagine it being used to describe young women today. In fact, as a number of scholars…