Events
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- Great Teaching Round-up
- Leading from the middle
- fall conference for faculty leaders
- Webinars
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Events: 2009 Government Schedule
Government Summary
Friday, 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
"Public Opinion, the Media, and the New President: Can Obama Succeed in an Era of Impatience?"
Speaker: Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and The Press, Harvard University
Friday, 2:30 - 3:45 p.m.
"Teaching Critical Thinking to Millennials in the Information Age"
Speaker: Brigid C. Harrison, Professor of Political Science and Law, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey
Saturday, 9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
"The Role Played by the Media in the Last Presidential Elections"
Speaker: Kenneth M. Goldstein, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Friday, February 20th, 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
"Public Opinion, the Media, and the New President: Can Obama Succeed in an Era of Impatience?"
Speaker: Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and The Press, Harvard University
Biography:
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradleee Professor of Government and the Press in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was previously distinguished professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University. Raised in a small Minnesota town near the Iowa and South Dakota boarders, he was educated at South Dakota State University and the University of Minnesota, where he received his Ph.D. in 1971.
Currently running the “Vanishing Voter” study at the Kennedy School of Government, which has been widely used in the media and on college campuses, Tom is also the author of six books and dozens of articles that focus primarily on the media and elections. His book, Out of Order (1994), received national attention when President Clinton said every politician and journalist should be required to read it.
An earlier book, The Mass Media Election (1980), received a Choice award as Outstanding Academic Book, 1980-81. Another of Patterson’s books, The Unseeing Eye (1976), was recently selected by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the fifty most influential books of the past half century in the field of public opinion. His current research includes a study of White House communication and a study of the news media’s role in Western democracies. His work has been funded by major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Pew Charitble Trusts.
Friday, February 20th, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
"Teaching Critical Thinking to Millennials in the Information Age"
Speaker: Brigid C. Harrison, Professor of Political Science and Law, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey
Biography:
Brigid Callahan Harrison is professor of political science and law at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, where she teaches courses in American Government, Campaigns and Elections, Political Parties, Congress, and the Presidency. She is the lead author of American Democracy Now (with Jean Wahl Harris and Susan Tolchin), which is forthcoming from McGraw-Hill Publishers in December, 2008. She also is the author of Power and Society 11th Edition (with Thomas R. Dye) (Wadsworth, 2007) and Women in American Politics: An Introduction (Wadsworth, 2003), and various journal articles.
Her research interests include the civil engagement and political participation of Americans, especially the Millennial Generation; the U.S. Congress and the presidency, and New Jersey politics. She is a frequent commentator in print and electronic media on national and New Jersey politics. Harrison was the recipient of the “Distinguished Alumna of the Year” from the Richard Stockton College Council of Black Faculty and Staff, and the Atlantic County Zonta’s “Women Who Make a Difference” award. She received her BA from The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, her MA from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and her Ph.D. from Temple University, where she was a national MENSA graduate fellow. Harrison lives in Galloway, NJ and has three children: Caroline (14), Alexandra (8), and John (5).
Saturday, February 21st, 9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
"The Role Played by the Media in the Last Presidential Elections"
Speaker: Kenneth M. Goldstein, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Biography:
Co-author of Understanding American Politics and Government, Kenneth M. Goldstein is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin¾Madison and Director of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project. Professor Goldstein is currently a consultant for the ABC News elections unit and a member of their election night decision team.
Government Section Chair: Gabriel Ume, Palo Alto College