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The National Endowment for the Humanities has approved a $5 million Transformative Citizenship Education Grant for the Chase Center – funds that will be applied toward four important initiatives.This announcement brings the total funds raised by the Chase Center in grants and gifts to more than $11 million in its 1.5 years of operation, and supporters have invested a total of $28 million in ...

Dr. John Thrasher, currently a visiting professor at the Chase Center, has accepted a faculty position at the Center starting Fall 2026.In addition to serving as visiting associate professor in civic thought, Dr. Thrasher is a core faculty member in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Program at The Ohio State University.“Dr. Thrasher is a leading scholar in the field of PPE, and he has...

The Chase Center has welcomed a new visiting professor to the ranks of its faculty for the Spring 2026 semester.Dr. Mark Bauerlein is Contributing Editor at First Things, trustee at New College of Florida, and Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University, where he taught after earning his PhD in English at UCLA in 1988. During his time at The Ohio State University, Bauerlein will be add...

Danielle Allen, one of the nation’s leading scholars in democracy renovation, will be the featured speaker at a public event hosted Jan. 22 by the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society.Dr. Allen proposes a new social contract for the future of higher education in the United States, drawing on her work on democracy renovation with the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation ...

Washington Post columnist George Will is recommending that high school students thinking about college consider The Ohio State University and its Chase Center. In his Nov. 26 WaPo column, Mr. Will says we are one of eight schools across the nation that are "reviving universities’ civic seriousness, that is reinvigorating the humanities, inspiring students eager to grapple with big ques...