Meet Victoria Ochieng '27, one of our Summer 2024 student staff members! Victoria is from Nairobi, Kenya, and has been with C2i since she started at Davidson last fall.
The College Crisis Initiative (C2i)
@c2initiative.bsky.social
C2i at Davidson College seeks to learn how colleges in crisis innovate.
Introducing our next summer student staff member, Abby Hulka '25! Abby is a rising senior Psychology major from Chapel Hill, NC, and has been working with C2i for one year.
Introducing our second full-time summer staff member, Sarah Butchko '25! Sarah is a rising senior Educational Studies major, and has been working for C2i since March 2023.
This week, we'll be introducing our summer student staff members, starting with Natalie Russell '25! Natalie will be with us on campus all summer. She is a rising senior Communication Studies major from Durham, NC, and has been working with C2i since May 2023. Welcome, Natalie!
This month The Annenberg Institute at Brown University posted a working paper on campus unionizations authored by C2i student Steve Mirabello '25, Assistant Director Rylie Martin, and Founding Director @chrismarsicano.bsky.social. Check it out at the link below! edworkingpapers.com/ai24-966
Organizing the Academy: Unionization Efforts in Higher Education
Labor organization efforts grew following the pandemic in the United States at tech companies, automakers, and even higher education institutions. This brief examines unionization trends at private co...
edworkingpapers.com
Highlighting more C2i publications from this semester! In January, a paper using C2i data was published in The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/207/arti...
Project MUSE - The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment
muse.jhu.edu
Last month, #C2i leaders @chrismarsicano.bsky.social and Rylie Martin, in collaboration with CJ Ryan and Ann F. Bernhardt, got their paper on higher ed's response to the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 published in the Florida Tax Review. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Gaming the Endowment Tax
The 2017 law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) enacted a tax on private, non-profit college and university endowments for the first time. Institutions w
papers.ssrn.com
4 of C2i's student workers presented at Davidson College's Verna Miller Case Symposium this morning. Check out their presentations here!
On Friday, #C2i Founding Director @chrismarsicano.bsky.social was featured on @npr.org Morning Edition, speaking about campus protests related to the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and protester demands that universities divest from companies with ties to Israel. www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1...
University protesters want their schools to divest from Israel over its war in Gaza
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Chris Marsicano of Davidson College in North Carolina about how higher education institutions might go about divesting from Israeli interests, as demanded by protesters.
npr.org
#C2i Founding Director and Davidson College faculty member @chrismarsicano.bsky.social was quoted in this @washingtonpost.com piece about campus protests related to Gaza and divestment from Israeli companies. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
Secret meetings, social chatter: How Columbia students sparked a nationwide revolt
The student protests over the war in Gaza are the culmination of months of activism and covert planning. Social media and smartphones have supercharged the growing revolt.
washingtonpost.com
#C2i Founding Director @chrismarsicano.bsky.social recently spoke with Natasha Fatah of CBC News about campus-based protests related to the Israel-Hamas conflict. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5y...
What does divestment from Israel actually mean for schools?
Students' demands that their universities divest their endowments from companies that do business with Israel are easier said than done, says Chris Marsicano, an assistant professor of educational studies and public policy at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C. »»» Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/1RreYWS Connect with CBC News Online: For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage: http://bit.ly/1Z0m6iX Follow CBC News on TikTok: https://bit.ly/3TnHioe Follow CBC News on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1sA5P9H Find CBC News on Facebook: http://bit.ly/1WjG36m Follow CBC News on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1Z0iE7O Subscribe to CBC News on Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3leaWsr Download the CBC News app for iOS: http://apple.co/25mpsUz Download the CBC News app for Android: http://bit.ly/1XxuozZ »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» For more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.
youtube.com
#C2i founder and director and Davidson College professor @chrismarsicano.bsky.social was quoted in an @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social article today on the nationwide call for colleges and universities to divest from Israel. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/...
‘Divest from Israel’: Decoding the Gaza protest call shaking US campuses
It’s a central demand in the pro-Palestine student protests on college campuses. But how easy is it to divest?
aljazeera.com
Early this morning, C2i founder and director @chrismarsicano.bsky.social was interviewed by @cnn.com on what divestment from Israel would look like for American colleges and universities. Find the transcript here: transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnr/dat...
CNN.com - Transcripts
transcripts.cnn.com
This Wednesday, Davidson students will be presenting their research at the annual Verna Miller Case Symposium on campus. Poster presentations will be in the E. Craig Wall Academic Center from 10-11:30am and 2:30-4pm. More information here, including a schedule of events and a list of presenters:
Verna Miller Case Symposium – Celebrating Student Research, Community Projects and Creative Work
Celebrating Student Research, Community Projects and Creative Work
vmcsymposium.davidson.edu