Tag: College of Arts and Sciences

Responsive actions in a campus student organization

Zoom gallery of student organization board members

SAA at ISU has recognized and responded to calls for reflection about bias in organizational structures. This group was fortunate to have individuals as members who initiated actions in the Fall of 2019 and Spring of 2020 to contribute to needed conversations; it is important to note that these actions preceded the national conversations that occurred in response to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others.

Rankin published ‘Practice Political Civility’

Erik Rankin head shot

Erik Rankin ’00, M.S. ’03, the director of Enrollment Management and undergraduate Studies and an instructional assistant professor in the Department of Politics and Government, authored an essay titled “Practice Political Civility” in the October 2020 edition of The Stoic. The essay focuses on how stoic philosophy encourages us to recall our shared humanity. Civility

Voting in the 2020 Election by Dr. Lane Crothers

Image of buttons with the word VOTE on each, surrounded by the stars and stripes of the American flag.

Dr. Lane Crothers, Thomas E. Eimermann Professor in Political Science (2020-2022) and Managing Editor of Populism, provided some guidance in a short essay to students in his “U.S. Government and Civic Practices.”