C-SPAN College Classroom
Several students in Professor Stephen Farnsworth’s political science classes and UMW honors students participated in the C-SPAN college classroom program and met with recent UMW political science graduates during a day-long program in Washington, D.C., on March 31. The C-SPAN program, which included a conversation about presidents and the mass media with UMW students and those at other universities, is scheduled to air on CSPAN3 at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 4.
Medicaid Expansion Holds Up Budget In Virginia Special Session (WAMU)
What It Means if the GOP Wins the Senate (INV News)
Farnsworth Presents at Virginia Festival of the Book
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a talk on his new co-authored book, “The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government,” at the 20th Annual Virginia Festival of the Book at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The Virginia Festival of the Book is the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ annual, five-day celebration of books, authors and reading.
VA GOP Districts Benefit from Medicaid (Daily Kos.Com)
Ammo for the Enemy (Virginia Business)
Terry McAuliffe’s Schmoozing for Naught — at Least for Now (WJLA)
Professors and Student Publish Collaborative Column
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and international affairs and director for the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, and Steve Hanna, professor and chair of the department of geography, published a collaborative column with UMW senior political science major Benjamin Harris in the Richmond Times Dispatch. The article is about the Medicaid expansion debate in Virginia.