{"id":13829,"date":"2018-12-07T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=13829"},"modified":"2018-12-07T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:23:29","slug":"symposium-speakers-urge-engagement-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2018\/12\/symposium-speakers-urge-engagement-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium Speakers Urge Engagement, Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado College hosted a Midterm Election Symposium featuring a variety of speakers, including journalists, politicians, and academics. Running from Sept. 24 to Nov. 29, a series of events, many of them open to the Colorado Springs community as well as members of the Colorado College community, were held in the weeks before and after the 2018 midterm elections. The symposium was organized<\/span> by Assistant Professor of Political Science Elizabeth Coggins and Associate Professor of Political Science Dana Wolfe.<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Coggins listens as New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall takes questions from students in her Ideology in America class and Dana Wolfe\u2019s American Politics and Government class. Edsall met with the combined classes the morning after his presentation on political polarization at the Midterm Election Symposium. Photo by Jennifer Coombes<\/p><\/div>\n

The symposium included:<\/p>\n

Vincent Hutchings<\/b><\/span>, professor of political science, University of Michigan Hutchings\u2019 general interests include public opinion, elections, voting behavior, and African American politics. He recently published a book, \u201cPublic Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn About Politics,\u201d that focuses on how, and under what circumstances, citizens monitor (and consequently influence) their elected representative\u2019s voting behavior. (Sept. 24)<\/p>\n

Thomas B. Edsall<\/b><\/span>, American politics writer for\u00a0 <\/span>The New York Times <\/i>Edsall is best known for his weekly opinion column for The New York Times<\/i> online and for his 25 years covering national politics for the Washington Post<\/i>. A New York Times<\/i> contributing op-ed writer, he covers American politics, inequality, campaign strategy, and demographics. (Oct. 24)<\/p>\n

Academics Panel<\/b><\/span>, featuring Professors of Political Science Anand Sokhey of the University of Colorado, Boulder; Deborah Schildkraut of Tufts University; and Joanne Miller, University of Minnesota. (Oct. 29)<\/p>\n

April Ryan<\/b><\/span>, political analyst for CNN<\/p>\n

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Ryan is an American journalist and author. Since 1997, she has served as a White House correspondent and is the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks. In 2017, she joined CNN as a political analyst. In May 2017, the National Association of Black Journalists named Ryan as the \u201cJournalist of the Year.\u201d (Oct. 30) Photo by Jennifer Coombes<\/p><\/div>\n

Thomas Holt<\/b><\/span>, professor of American and African American history at University of Chicago
\nHolt was a fellow of both the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1987 to 1988. He received the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University in 2014 and the Presidential Initiatives Award from the University of Michigan from 1987 to 1989. From 1990 to 1995, Holt held a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and from 1995 to 1996 was a fellow in the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. (Nov. 5)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b>Jim Stimson<\/b><\/span>, professor of political science\u00a0 <\/span>at University of North Carolina
\nStimson is the Raymond Dawson Distinguished Bicentennial Professor of Political Science at UNC and the author of \u201cTides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics.\u201d He returned to Chapel Hill in 1997 after appointments to the political science faculties at SUNY at Buffalo, Florida State, and the universities of Houston, Iowa, and Minnesota. (Nov. 7)<\/p>\n

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich listens as Zhuang Xu \u201920<\/strong> asks a question during a town hall-style visit by Kasich for the Midterm Election Symposium lecture series on Nov. 12. Photo by Jennifer Coombes<\/p><\/div>\n

John Kasich<\/b><\/span>, governor of Ohio<\/p>\n

Kasich, the 69th and current governor of <\/span>Ohio, was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Kasich is a member of the Republican Party; his second term ends on Jan. 14, 2019, and he is ineligible for reelection due to term limits. Kasich unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 2000 and 2016. Kasich refused to support the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and did not attend the Republican National Convention of 2016, which was held in his state; he reported that he wrote-in the name of U.S. Senator and former 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain. (Nov. 12)<\/p>\n

Colorado Politics Panel<\/b><\/span>
\nThe Colorado politics panel was made up of state representatives, public opinion experts, and Colorado political scientists. All experts in their fields, they broke down the election and how it matters for Colorado. (Nov. 29)<\/p>\n

The symposium was sponsored by CC\u2019s Department of Political Science, the Jovanovich Fund, the Sondermann Fund, and the Lopat Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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