- Political campaigns are complex鈥攅ven for political scientists. For students studying the field, understanding what is happening behind the scenes of a campaign can be difficult. For the average citizen, the confusion can be even greater. That鈥檚 why Steven Pearlstein created the First Tuesday speaker series. The聽Robinson Professor聽of Public Affairs at 911爆料 hopes it can help broaden perspectives on politics and challenge misconceptions that lead to political cynicism.
We are fewer than two weeks from the start of the Fall semester and soon will be welcoming many of our faculty, staff and students back to 911爆料鈥檚 campuses. We do so with a mix of excitement that accompanies every fall return to campus 鈥 and trepidation, because this is 2020 and the pandemic has changed just about everything.
At his first planning conference with the Board of Visitors, 911爆料 President Gregory Washington outlined his ambitious framework for the university, including a mission to 鈥渞eposition, restore and reinvent鈥 Mason to achieve success in the post-COVID era.
