Gen. Colin Powell, speaking to our Fall 2008 Class; Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin meeting with our Winter/Spring 2009 students; and Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times, and Chuck Todd, NBC News, speaking to our Fall 2009 students.

Seminar Speakers, Winter/Spring 2010
The Politics & Journalism Semester

"Political Reporting: Past, Present and Future" Adam Nagourney, New York Times chief political writer, and Candy Crowley, anchor, CNN's "State of the Union"	"Politics: A Class Discussion" A discussion of political current events, including the first year of the Obama Administration, health care "reform," war in Afghanistan and partisan gridlock.	"American Political Parties" Terry Michael, former press secretary, Democratic Nat. Com., and exec. director,The Politics & Journalism Semester
"Cash, Campaigns, Governance and Free Speech" Jan Witold Baran, Wiley Rein LLP, Election Law Practice	"Congressional Party Committees and Campaigns" David Wasserman, The Cook Political Report	"Campaign Management" Terry Michael, exec. director,The Politics & Journalism Semester
"Politics of Policy and Ideology" Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform	"Racial and Other Group Identity Politics: Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Multi-Culturalism" ....a class discussion	"Immigration History and Politics" Michael Barone, author, "The New Americans" and columnist, The Examiner