September 11, 2017 Newsletter

  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...

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September 18, 2017 Newsletter

  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...

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September 25, 2017 Newsletter

  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...

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October 2, 2017 Newsletter

  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...

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October 9, 2017 Newsletter

  This week the US experienced another mass shooting, unrelated to actual politics.  The shooting appears unmotivated by any political agenda; was not organized or advanced by any terrorist group; and sent no political message.  The shooting was “typical,” insofar as the shooter was male, using guns acquired legally; such information...

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Obama Foundation Fellowship

The Obama Foundation Fellows will be a diverse set of community-minded rising stars – organizers, inventors, artists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and more – who are altering the civic engagement landscape. By engaging their fellow citizens to work together in new and meaningful ways, Obama Foundation Fellows will model how any...

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