After many months of twists and turns, the 2008 election season has come to a close. And that brings us to the end of our Campaign U. blog, too.
Thanks for joining us over the past year as we covered the various ways that higher education intersected with the campaigns and the candidates.
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President-elect Barack Obama is still forming his transition team, but he’s already planning to include a college president with roots in the national higher-education establishment.
Mr. Obama has chosen Juliet V. Garcia, president of the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, to help him find top officials to serve in his administration, The [...]
As our campaign blog winds toward its demise, let’s revisit a few of the political scientists who have been featured in The Chronicle this fall:
1. Two weeks ago, we profiled Andrew Gelman, a political statistician at Columbia University. At the end of that article, we quoted Gelman saying that on election night, he’d stay up [...]
Before he can think about improving U.S. education, fixing the nation’s health-care system, or helping to repair the global environment, President-elect Barack Obama may have several more pressing priorities.
Among them: finding a replacement for the space shuttle and ensuring the continued availability of television.
That’s the advice of the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan investigative arm [...]
In her first post-election speech today, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said Democrats will move quickly on economic-stimulus legislation and a bill to relax federal restrictions on stem-cell research.
She also acknowledged that the nation’s economic struggles could put a crimp in the party’s plans, despite large gains in yesterday’s election. [...]
College students, many casting their first ballot for president, have not been immune to the long lines, registration problems, and general confusion that have affected many voters today. Here are several incidents that have already cropped up, with several hours of voting still to go:
A Virginia Republican is trying to challenge 300 college students who [...]
College newspapers across the United States may have a lot of variety. But on this Election Day, almost all seem to have one thing in common: They support Barack Obama.
A running tally by Editor and Publisher magazine shows that of 84 college newspapers to make endorsements, all but two are backing Mr. Obama for president. [...]
A visiting professor at St. Olaf College who confessed to stealing several Republican campaign signs has quit his teaching job.
Philip Busse, acknowledged last week in The Huffington Post that he had stolen signs touting John McCain from yards along a rural stretch of highway near Northfield, Minn., where the college is located.
Mr. Busse, who [...]
Let the Election Day tricks begin.
Hackers broke into the e-mail account of George Mason University’s provost and sent an e-mail message to more than 30,000 students and about 5,000 faculty and staff members with an odd announcement last night: Election Day had been moved.
“Please note that election day has been moved to November 5th. We [...]
After nearly two years of talking about the economy, health care, and the war in Iraq, Barack Obama used one of his final national television appearances before Election Day to advocate for yet another change he believes the country needs: a college football playoff.
Appearing at halftime of ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” broadcast last night, Mr. [...]