{"id":11329,"date":"2016-12-12T10:49:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2016-12-12T10:49:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:49:57","slug":"sondermann-presidential-symposium-brings-speakers-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2016\/12\/sondermann-presidential-symposium-brings-speakers-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sondermann Presidential Symposium Brings Speakers to Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred Sondermann<\/b> taught in CC\u2019s Department of Political Science from 1953 until his death in 1978. He conceived the idea for a presidential symposium and directed the first one in 1968. The symposium\u2019s success was such that the department decided to offer the presidential symposium in subsequent presidential election years, and Sondermann continued to direct them through 1976. The 2016 Sondermann Presidential Symposium, organized by Assistant Political Science Professors Elizabeth Coggins and Dana Wittmer Wolfe, is the 13th in a series that has become a signature college program. This year\u2019s speakers included:<\/p>\n

\"cc-bul-winter16-06-brazilesondermann\"<\/a>Donna Brazile<\/b><\/span>, veteran Democratic political strategist, television political commentator, syndicated columnist, and interim director of the DNC, on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n

A symposium panel, featuring alumni Vince Bzdek \u201982 <\/b><\/span>and Eric Sondermann \u201976 <\/b><\/span>and and Political Science Professors Bob Loevy<\/b><\/span> and Tom Cronin<\/b><\/span>, discussed \u201cColorado Politics 2016: The Big Races and the Ballot Issues,\u201d on Sept. 6.<\/p>\n

David Axelrod P\u201909<\/b><\/span>, former chief strategist and senior advisor to President Barack Obama, gave a lecture titled \u201cUncharted Waters\u201d on Sept. 6, and met with students for breakfast the following morning in Slocum Commons.<\/p>\n

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Gwen Ifill<\/b><\/span>, moderator and managing editor of \u201cWashington Week\u201d and co-anchor and managing editor of the \u201cPBS\u00a0 <\/span>News-Hour,\u201d taped two programs on Sept. 9, \u201cWashington Week with Gwen Ifill: Colorado Edition\u201d and \u201cWashington Week EXTRA: Colorado Edition.\u201d She also met with Coggins and Wolfe\u2019s political science classes. Ifill passed away on Nov. 14, 2016.<\/p>\n

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Marc Hetherington<\/b><\/span>, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University, delivered the Block 3\u00a0 <\/span>First Mondays talk, titled \u201cWorlds Apart: The Nature of Party Polarization and How We Might Overcome It,\u201d on Oct. 24. He also met with two political science classes and attended the Election Fellows dialogue, an initiative designed to get students talking in meaningful ways about the election.<\/p>\n

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Congressman Newt Gingrich<\/b><\/span>, former speaker of the House of Representatives, well known as the architect of the \u201cContract with America,\u201d and Fox News contributor and author, spoke on Nov. 2, discussing the factors that propelled Donald Trump to where he was at that point in the election cycle.<\/p>\n

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Jamelle Bouie<\/b><\/span>, chief political correspondent for Slate<\/i> magazine, where he writes on national politics, spoke on Sept. 27 in Kathryn Mohrman Theatre.<\/p>\n

Sarah Treul Roberts<\/b><\/span> gave a noon presentation on Election Day, Nov. 8, addressing the possible electoral outcomes. An assistant professor at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, she specializes in American political institutions, with an emphasis on the U.S. Congress. She met with Coggins\u2019 class in the morning.<\/p>\n

Jason Roberts<\/b><\/span> held a post-election debriefing on Nov. 9. An associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Roberts stayed up late on election night, updating his presentation and analysis as the results came in. He focuses on the U.S. Congress, congressional elections, and the historical development of political institutions. He met with Coggins\u2019 class prior to the discussion.<\/p>\n

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Fred Sondermann taught in CC\u2019s Department of Political Science from 1953 until his death in 1978. He conceived the idea for a presidential symposium and directed the first one in 1968. The symposium\u2019s success was such that the department decided to offer the presidential symposium in subsequent presidential election years, and Sondermann continued to direct…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-2016","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11514,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions\/11514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}