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Statement on the University of Wisconsin Regents’ Passage of a Mandatory Student Punishment Policy
Imposing mandatory minimum punishments without defining for students what actions will subject them to punishment will stifle campus dialogue rather than enrich it.
October 14, 2019
Statement from Will Ruger on the 18th Anniversary of U.S. Engagement in Afghanistan
William Ruger, Vice President of Research and Policy at STT, responds to the 18th anniversary of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan. Read his statement.
October 7, 2019
Statement from Will Ruger on Pullback of U.S. Troops from Syrian-Turkish Border
William Ruger, VP of Research and Policy at STT, responds to the pullback of U.S. troops from Syrian-Turkish border. Read his statement.
October 7, 2019
Statement from Will Ruger on John Bolton’s White House Departure
William Ruger, Vice President of Research and Policy at Stand Together Trust, on news that national security advisor John Bolton has left the White House.
September 10, 2019
Statement from Will Ruger in Response to Reports of a Plan to Withdraw U.S. Troops from Afghanistan
William Ruger, Vice President of Research and Policy at Stand Together Trust, on reports of an agreement to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
September 5, 2019
Statement from Will Ruger in Response to Reports of an Initial U.S. Peace Deal with the Taliban
William Ruger, Vice President of Research and Policy at Stand Together Trust, on reports that the U.S. has reached an initial peace deal with the Taliban that would include a drawdown of 6,000 troops.
August 2, 2019
Stand Together Trust Applauds Freedom of Information ‘Accountability Engine,’ Cites Immigration Data as Proof of Importance
As part of years of work requesting and organizing the findings of millions of public records requests, scholars at Syracuse’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse discovered immigrants now wait an average of 727 days for decisions on their cases.
July 17, 2019
Setting the table for discussion on how tech platforms address extremism
Media and technology firms are grappling to discover and refine the rules, tools, and standards that address substantive concerns about extreme content while allowing free expression to thrive. Communities Overcoming Extremism: the After Charlottesville Project is bringing together private sector leaders to talk about the questions and discoveries arising in different online communities.
July 16, 2019
How to Enrich Campus Speech and Protect Academic Autonomy
Higher education provides college students an opportunity to refine the skills necessary for tackling competing and challenging views as well as discovering how to collaborate with those they disagree with. In the wake of seven states enacting policy to clear the way for students and scholars fostering such an open, intellectual environment, Stand Together Trust Senior Fellow Casey Mattox issued the following statement.
June 17, 2019
Urban policy expert and scholar Adam Millsap to join Stand Together Trust
Stand Together Trust announced today that Adam Millsap, assistant director of Florida State University’s L. Charles Hilton Jr. Center, is now a visiting fellow and will join the organization full time in June.
April 19, 2019