Welcome back! The academic year begins with classes on Monday, and the faculty and staff of the Department of Political Science are looking forward to seeing you. For our entering students, their welcome included viewing the partial eclipse here in Cleveland in the circle in front of Kelvin Smith...
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We begin the academic year with considerable attention to universities in the mass media. The appalling march, complete with torches and racist and anti-Semitic chanting, through the Lawn of the University of Virginia, is evidence of serious challenges to higher education. Our colleagues at UVA and elsewhere have been...
Drop/Add/POSC396. Today is the last day for students to register for Fall 2017 and the last day to add or to drop a course. In addition, for political science majors hoping to complete their POSC396 Senior Capstone in the fall semester, today is the deadline for filing your Capstone prospectus...
The Department of Political Science has a busy schedule for this fall semester. We have many events planned and in the planning stages. Two are taking place soon, and I want to feature them first and foremost. Professor Pete Moore has returned from his Spring 2017 sabbatical, and will...
Happy autumnal equinox! Those of us who have spent a few years in northeast Ohio will know how rare it is to have such lovely warm weather into late September. I hope everyone has been able to enjoy it. While you’re reading outdoors or simply lazing in the late...
On Monday, September 25, a vote on establishing an independent Kurdish state was held in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Turnout was relatively high, at a reported 72 percent, and 92.73 percent of those who voted supported independence, in response to the question “Do you want the...