Academic Year 2017-2018 | Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good

Affirming Our Commitment

Today, President Trump has decided to revoke protection against deportation for undocumented young people, also known as Dreamers, who registered with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. We know that this decision by President Trump affects our students, colleagues, and their families as well as our partners in community, creating hardship, anxiety, and…

Why Cities Matter

Tim Redmond is editor of 48 Hills, the official publication of the San Francisco Progressive Media Center and a faculty member of the Urban and Public Affairs MA program Rebecca Solint, the author of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York Atlas, notes that if you take a map of…

Making Every USF Student a Voter

Professor David Donahue is the director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good and a professor of education at USF’s School of Education. Making every student a voter is the goal of USF Votes, the McCarthy Center’s newest initiative to register 100% of all eligible USF students, educate them…

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