Jenna Robinson is President of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. She joined the Martin Center in January 2007 as campus outreach coordinator and later became the center’s director of outreach. Robinson graduated from N.C. State University in 2003 with a major in political science and French. She has studied at the University of East Anglia School of American Studies in Norwich, United Kingdom. She received her master’s degree in political science in 2005 and her Ph.D. in political science in 2012 from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught courses in American politics at UNC-Chapel Hill, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Wake Technical Community College. Among her many service roles, Jenna is a Vice Chair and Board member of the Alumni Free Speech Alliance (AFSA) and a leader of AFSA member group UNC AFSA. You can see more of her on our avid discussion of higher education on our podcast.
ACTA's Emily Koons Jae and Bryan Paul recently sat down with Jenna Robinson, president of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, a nonprofit institute dedicated to improving higher education in North Carolina and the nation, to discuss the successes and shortcomings of higher ed reform in North Carolina.
Cornell University’s Student Assembly recently approved Resolution 31, which “implores all instructors to provide content warnings on the syllabus for any traumatic content that may be discussed, including but not limited to: sexual assault, domestic violence, self-harm, suicide, child abuse, racial hate crimes, transphobic violence, homophobic harassment, [and] xenophobia.”
In October 2022, ACTA's ATHENA Roundtable Conference in Washington, DC was highlighted by two panels featuring extraordinary higher education thought leaders. Today we present the first of those panels – headlined as DIVERSITY DONE RIGHT, and hosted by our good friend Jonathan Rauch – Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
A new series at the Palm Beach Synagogue is bringing thought-provoking speakers to the island to discuss social and cultural topics. The Levy Series, sponsored by synagogue members and Palm Beach residents Paul and Karen Levy, begins Wednesday with New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens speaking on cancel culture and the Jewish community. The […]
Higher education professionals are reporting feeling overworked and underpaid with no opportunities for advancement as colleges and universities “staff up.” In a recent open-ended survey of over 150 “college workers,” respondents expressed “frustration at the lack of clear career ladders, bitterness at being passed over for jobs, and bewilderment at seeing those on the outside, often […]
$196 billion is quite a sum. According to Forbes, $196 billion is also the grand total given by the top 25 philanthropists over their lifetimes. Readers will recognize many of the names on the list, such as Bill and Melinda Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and MacKenzie Scott, as both the heroes and the villains of our society, […]
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