Category: Ackerman

A Purdue University College of Education faculty member organized a kick-off training day for the inaugural cohort of Dialogue 250 (D250), a one-year professional learning fellowship that brings together secondary educators to sharpen their civic inquiry instructional skills. The program...

Celebrate U.S. Constitution Day on September 17! Purdue University will officially celebrate U.S. Constitution Day in the Purdue Memorial Union to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Hosted by the College of Education’s James F. Ackerman Center...

The tradition continues! Purdue University will officially celebrate Constitution Day on Sept. 17 in the Purdue Memorial Union to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

Over the past several months, The Conversation has asked scholars of the Electoral College to explain how this system was developed and how it works and to describe whether – and how – it gives advantages to certain people based on where they live.

Phillip J. VanFossen, interim dean and civics educator, explains how the U.S. Electoral College came about.

Artificial Intelligence, with all of its power and peril, is the topic of this year’s talk in the Purdue Series on Corporate Citizenship and Ethics.