Gen. Colin Powell, speaking to our Fall 2008 Class, and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and President Obama's pollster, Joel Benenson, speaking to our Winter/Spring 2009 students.

Seminar Speakers, Winter/Spring 2009
The Politics & Journalism Semester

"Political Reporting: Past, Present and Future" Adam Nagourney, New York Times; Eleanor Clift, Newsweek and The McLaughlin Group	"Reporting Federal Election Commission Finance Records" Judy Ingram, FEC Press Officer, and Patricia Klein Young, Asst. Director for Public Disclosure	"American Political Parties" Terry Michael, former press secretary, Democratic Nat. Com., and director, Politics & Journalism Semester
"Campaign Management" Brian Lunde, former executive director, Democratic Nat. Com.; mngr., Simon for President 1988	"Congressional Party Committees and Campaigns" David Wasserman and Jennifer Duffy, The Cook Political Report	"Major Donor Fund-Raising" Debbie LeHardy, deputy finance director, Republican National Com.
"Politics: A Class Discussion" A discussion of political current events, including the first weeks of the new Obama Administration.	"Mail and Internet Fund-Raising" Frank O'Brien, president, O'Brien McConnell and Pearson (Democratic direct marketing)	"Presidential Politics: Running for the Nomination" Terry Michael, dir. of commun., 1988 Simon for President campaign
"Presidential Politics: Facing Voters in November" Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester	"Running and Covering Presidential Campaigns" Lynn Sweet, bureau chief, Chicago Sun-Times, and Kevin Madden, press sec., Romney 2008	"Strategic Communication in Campaigns and Governance" Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester
"The First Amendment and Media Collusion with Drug War Policy" Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester, leading a class discussion	"Voting in America: Myths and Realities" Curtis Gans, director, Center for the Study of the American Electorate	"Political Economics in the Great Recession" Brink Lindsey, Cato, author of "The Age of Abundance"
"Paid Media in Campaigns" Ed Brookover, Greener and Hook, (Republican media consultants)	Racial and Other Group Identity Politics: Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Multi-Culturalism" [a class discussion]	"Politics: A Class Discussion" A discussion of political current events, including the first two months of the new Obama Administration and its critics and friends.
"Interest Group Politics" Terry Michael, director, Politics & Journalism Semester (thanks to Jonathan Rauch, for his great book)	"The Politics of Foreign Policy" Will Marshall, president, Progressive Policy Institute	"Digital Politics" Patrick Ruffini, former director of "E-Campaigns," Republican Nat. Com.; blog: PatrickRuffini.com
"Presidential Leadership" Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester	"Congress: Politics and Policy" Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Assistant Majority Leader and Majority Whip (with Tim Alberta, Michigan State Univ.)	"Political Polling and Research" Joel Benenson, pollster to President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
"Talking Politics: TV and Speech Performance and Content" Michael Sheehan, Sheehan Assoc., television, speech, debate coach	"A Critique of Political Reporting" Tom Rosenstiel, Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism, and former media critic, L.A. Times