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Emphasizing ‘people over position’: 2023 Exemplary Public Servant James Earp

American City & Country

Having worked in student call centers and volunteered for local campaigns in high school, Earp was immediately intrigued by the position. My peers, what we’re seeing are more and more people being elected to office because they’re popular on social media for throwing mud,” Earp says.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.