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Chelsea Kaufman

@ckaufman.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wingate University. Research focuses on the rural urban divide in the US. Also interested in pedagogy. Board game, video game, and book nerd.

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Chelsea Kaufman @ckaufman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Other academic folks: I have had a high number of students in the last couple years reach out because it was raining to see if we are still having class. Is this a thing? Anywhere? What could lead to this assumption?

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Chelsea Kaufman @ckaufman.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

What a great example of how changing the measurement of "rural" can significantly change one's conclusions. Local folks, note the measure that includes NC-8 as a "pure rural" district. dailyyonder.com/analysis-con...

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Analysis: The Myth of Rural Voters' Power in the House of Representatives | The Daily Yonder

A Daily Yonder analysis of Census data shows that rural Americans don’t have outsized voting power in the U.S. House of Representatives, despite an

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Chelsea Kaufman @ckaufman.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

My cat enjoys "helping" me to grade by sitting nearby and watching (well, sometimes sleeping on the job). What grade do you think she gives this paper? 🤔

A brown tabby cat glaring and crossing her front paws, sitting inna cat tree.

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Chelsea Kaufman @ckaufman.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

One thing I have learned teaching methods over the years is that students dread quantitative analysis but when I ask them the most interesting thing they learned in class how to do these analyses is one of the most common responses!

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Chelsea Kaufman @ckaufman.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

I was grading a student reflection paper today and they said they would probably "fall apart" without Google calendar. Especially as we near the end of the semester, I am very much relating to this quote.

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