Political Science Educator: volume 27, issue 1

Call for Editors: Are you interested in being the managing editor of the Active Learning in Political Science blog? Chad Raymond, the current editor, must step down to focus on other projects as of January 2024. Duties consist of writing content, soliciting and editing guest posts, and simple back-end maintenance of the blog’s WordPress website. The blog requires no coding knowledge. Soomo Learning, the digital textbook company, shall continue paying for the blog’s web hosting costs in exchange for an ad on the blog’s homepage until mid-June 2024. There blog requires no attention to raising funds or commercial matters, as it is non- commercial. Questions? Interest? Email the current editor at chad.raymond@salve.edu.

Deardorff Receives Chancellor’s Medal of Excellence: Michelle Deardorff received the Chancellor’s Medal of Excellence at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga commencement ceremony on Dec. 17, 2022. She became the award's first recipient. She currently serves as the Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Government and Department Head of Political Science and Public Service at UTC. Her teaching focuses on constitutional law, judicial politics, and political philosophy; her research focuses on the constitutional and statutory protections surrounding gender and race and explored the insights provided by political theory. In 1997, she helped found the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy, a coalition of academics who promote civic engagement and popular sovereignty by examining the struggle for civil rights in the United States. In her career, she served on the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) governing council, chaired the Political Science Education section of APSA, and worked on the editorial boards of PS: Political Science and Politics, the Journal of Political Science Education, and College Teaching, as well as on the Advisory Board of the Consortium for Inter- Campus SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Research. She most recently co-authored Pregnancy and the American Worker (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016) with James Dahl, professor at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Before joining UTC in 2013, she taught at Jackson State and Millikin University.

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The general policy of this newsletter is to publish all teaching-related articles that are submitted, as far as possible. We will, however, offer suggested revisions to improve the quality of the presentation, to verify academic integrity and citation standards, and to make the writing more accessible. We may occasionally require significant revisions or require authors to hold their submissions until a later issue, in order to ensure that ideas will be suitably ready for distribution, and we may occasionally refer articles or research notes to better-suited outlets.

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Many thanks to Nick Kapoor for help in soliciting and proofreading articles, and to the PSE Section for its continued support.

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