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CATEGORIES: January 2015, Voices

NPR’s Liasson shares insights on 2014 midterm election

With leftover questions about what happened just a week and a half earlier in the 2014 midterm election, some 650 Iowa State students and community members filled the Memorial Union’s Sun Room to hear answers. National Public Radio’s national political correspondent and FOX News contributor Mara Liasson analyzed what she called “a typical six-year-itch election” … Continue reading NPR’s Liasson shares insights on 2014 midterm election

CATEGORIES: January 2015, Voices

Of note: news about center faculty, staff and students

The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics is pleased to recognize the accomplishments and activities of its faculty, staff, students and supporters: Clint Stephens and Cameron Beatty, lecturers in leadership studies for the Catt Center, co-authored an article, “Leading and Thriving: How Leadership Education Can Improve First-Year Student Success,” which has been accepted … Continue reading Of note: news about center faculty, staff and students

CATEGORIES: Mary Louise Smith Chair

Fall 2014 – Mara Liasson

On November 13, 2014, Mara Liasson presented the lecture “What Just Happened? The 2014 Elections and Beyond.” Mara Liasson is the national political correspondent for National Public Radio and a contributor to the FOX News Channel. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR’s award-winning newsmagazines “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition.” Liasson also serves … Continue reading Fall 2014 – Mara Liasson

CATEGORIES: November 2014, Voices

NPR’s Mara Liasson to analyze election results on Nov. 13

National Public Radio political correspondent Mara Liasson will analyze the results of the 2014 mid-term elections and explain what it all means in her public lecture, “What Just Happened? The 2014 Elections and Beyond,” on Thursday, Nov. 13, at Iowa State University. Liasson is visiting Iowa State as the fall 2014 Mary Louise Smith Chair … Continue reading NPR’s Mara Liasson to analyze election results on Nov. 13

CATEGORIES: November 2014, Voices

Catt Center offers global leadership study abroad to Sweden

Applications are being accepted from students interested in participating in a new global leadership study abroad program that will be offered for the first time by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics in summer 2015. Students selected to participate in the new global leadership study abroad program will earn six hours of … Continue reading Catt Center offers global leadership study abroad to Sweden