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Madame Presidents
MVSU Teacher of the Year
Endowment for Lois Hollis
Call for Manuscripts
Letters to Barack Obama
20 Minutes with D. Clayton
Deadlines to Remember | |
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Barack Obama made history as the first Black elected as the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
To Our Fellow Americans:
We are pleased to announce our plan to publish Letters to President Obama this coming spring, 2009. We would like to invite you to participate in this unique and meaningful project by contributing one of the letters.
No one could have predicted even two years ago that Barack Obama had the prospect of taking the oath of office as President of the United States in January of 2009. For many, an African-American rising to the most powerful position in our country is one of the most significant milestones of the Civil Rights Movement. For others, it is the opportunity to support someone who represents a modern, culturally diverse and progressive vision of what America can and should be in the twenty-first century.
We hope that you will want to contribute your own words, thoughts, perspectives and dreams in a letter for this new era in our history to the book, Letters to President Obama. If you decide to contribute a letter for the book or if you decide not to, we still want to know the concerns and issues that you would like most for the new President to address.
The 'polls' section and the political cafe in the 'discussion' section of this web site are the places where you may also share your concerns and views on current political, social and economic issues.
Thank you,
Professor Hanes Walton, Jr.
Professor Josephine A.V. Allen
Dr. Sherman C. Puckett
Professor Donald R. Deskins, Jr. |
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20 Minutes: Dewey Clayton on President-Elect Barack Obama
Dewey Clayton, University of Louisville
Click here to read the interview:
40th Anniversary Meeting!
March 18-22, 2009
The Crowne Plaza - Downtown
1700 Smith Street
Houston, TX 77002-7317
Deadlines to Remember
Call for Papers/Proposals
Monday, December 1, 2008
Awards Nominations
Monday, January 5, 2009
Annual Meeting Pre-Registration
Friday, January 23, 2009
GAP Scholarship Applications
Friday, March 13, 2009
SEEKING INFORMATION FOR NEWSLETTER
Please help us celebrate you by sending us informaton you wish to see posted in our newsletter. This is a great way to let other members know how your career is progressing.
Thanksgiving Break Hours of Operation
Dear Colleagues,
The NCOBPS administrative offices will be closed during the Thanksgiving break beginning Wednesday, November 26, 2008 and re-opening on Monday, December 1, 2008.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Sincerely,
Sherri L. Wallace
Executive Director
Go Ahead, Communicate!
Dear members,
I strongly encourage you to play around with the new website. I invite each you to send a general email to the entire membership.
To do so, please logon to the site. Select "Member Groups" from the menu tab. Click on "All Members," then "National Conference." Once there, you will see "Send Message" at the top of the page. Click on Send message. You can send a general message or use the emoticons that are there at your disposal. Also, you can even upload a file and send it to a friend. Try it and see!
How about inviting members to join your connections, facebook, etc.? There is so much to this site. I invite you to try to it out and tell a friend!
NCOBPS, Inc.
For more information, please contact: Sherri L. Wallace, the Executive Director at slwall08@louisville.edu |
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Salute to the Madame Presidents!
NCOBPS in Chicago, IL (March 2008)
Conference Theme:
“Identity Politics in the US and Abroad: Race, the Black Diaspora, and Electoral Politics”
Celebrating a “Historic Moment” and saluting four “Madame Presidents,” who are also members of NCOBPS at the 2008 Annual Meeting. Standing L-R: Master of Ceremony, Minion K.C. Morrison (University of Missouri); NCOBPS President Desiree Pedescleaux (Spelman College); African Studies Association President Pearl Robinson (Tufts University); American Political Science Association President Dianne Pinderhughes (University of Notre Dame); 2008 Program Co-Chairs Michael Mitchell and Lisa Aubrey (both of Arizona State University); Julia Jordan-Zachery accepting for Western Political Science Association President Andrea Y. Simpson (University of Richmond); and Ife Williams (Delaware County Community College). |
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MVSU Humanities Teacher of the Year!
Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, former President and Executive Director of NCOBPS, has been named Mississippi Valley State University Humanities Teacher of the Year. She is the Director of the International Program at MVSU. Her MVSU address is entitled, "Global Education in the 21st Century: Comparative Socio-Political Literature," on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 11 a.m. in the Business Education Building auditorium.
A reception in the Business Education Building foyer will follow Dr. Golden's presentation. The public is invited to attend the free lecture and reception.
Dr. Golden will be recognized at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards banquet in February where she will join colleagues representing their community colleges and universities throughout Mississippi.
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Lois Hollis Endowment|Scholarship Fund of Albany State University
Colleagues,
I am writing to solicit your support for the Lois Hollis Endowment|Scholarship fund of Albany State University, Albany, GA. As some of you know, the late Dr. Lois Hollis was a long time member and executive director of NCOBPS and served with distinction. She also served for many years as the chair of the political science program at Albany State and upon her death several years ago, the University established an endowment fund to honor her and to provide scholarships for political science majors. Dr. Hollis was an indefatigable professor known not only for her outstanding work in the class room but also for her efforts to place her students in graduate school. She deserves to be remembered and celebrated as a source of emulation for future generations. May I kindly request that you join me in making a generous contribution.
Tax deductible contributions made payable to the Albany State University Foundation should be sent to:
Lois B. Hollis Endowment
C\O ASU Foundation
504 College Drive
Albany, GA 31705
We are grateful for your support.
Mack H. Jones
Professor Emeritus
Clark Atlanta, University |
Call for Manuscripts
"The 2008 Presidential Election"
The Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs will be publishing a Special Issue on the 2008 presidential election. The historic election undoubtedly has called into question previously-held beliefs and may have toppled conventional wisdom. The 2008 elections also allow scholars to propose and test new ideas and theories that can potentially add to the body of knowledge. The Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs welcomes those manuscripts and hopes they contribute significantly to our understanding in the major areas of political science, public administration, and public policy.
The Special Issue of the Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs seeks qualitative, quantitative, and theoretical manuscripts along with essays highlighting the importance of the contest and the uniqueness of the 2008 presidential election. Papers that address the voting behavior of individuals and groups during the primary and general election phase, the influence of race and gender, the effects of media coverage, and the impact of candidate qualities, are especially welcome.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 31, 2009. Submissions should not exceed 30 typed, double-spaced pages in total. They should use 12-point font, written using Microsoft Word, and conform to the guidelines in the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th.
All manuscripts will be peer reviewed using the double-blind process. Therefore, please include a cover letter with two versions of the manuscripts. One version of the manuscript should provide title, name, school affiliation, mailing address, email address, phone number, and fax number on the title page. A second version should remove all identifying information from the title page. Please include on the second page the title, abstract, and keywords. Begin the text on the third page. Submission to the Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs indicates that your manuscript has not been also sent to other journals or has not been published elsewhere.
Political science manuscripts should be emailed to: Maruice Mangum, Editor-in-Chief
Public administration and public policy manuscripts should be emailed to: Cryshanna A. Jackson, Managing Editor
Dr. Maruice Mangum, Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Cryshanna A. Jackson, Managing Editor
Texas Southern University Youngstown State University
Department of Political Science Department of Political Science
Houston, TX 77006 Youngstown, OH 44555
(713) 313-4834 (330) 941-2114 |
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