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Research Associate @InstituteCicero

Joined June 2026
U.S. nonprofits receive roughly $300 BILLION a year in federal, state, and local government grants. States can bring nonprofit grant funding into the light by making records transparent to the public. ciceroinstitute.org/research…
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National Review: as long as states have licensing laws, they should prevent accreditors from demanding that schools embrace their ideology. That’s the problem our Research Associate @ERomboldi laid out this morning in @AcademicRenewal. nationalreview.com/corner/ac…
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Ella Romboldi retweeted
“How can we fix this?” We need leadership from university leaders. They should ask unspeakable questions themselves and invite their faculties to address them. Unfortunately, most university presidents are too risk-averse, too timid, and too unimaginative to move the needle.
87% of university faculty say there's at least one topic they can't discuss honestly on campus. That isn't just a free speech problem. It's a policy problem. Too often, researchers avoid important questions because controversial findings could jeopardize their careers. Without disruptive researchers asking bold questions, the social sciences stagnate. This inevitably produces policy failures. How can we fix this? Isabella Romboldi, one of Cicero's student research assistants, investigates:
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