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Congressional Term Limits: Pro & Con:
1. Congressional Term Limits: Pro & Con:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Richard F. Fenno, Jr., a Professor of Political Science and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Rochester.
Mark P. Petracca, an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine and co-author of The American Presidency.
Robert Struble, Jr., a historian, teacher and political activist.
Dorothea Thomas-Vitrac, the Executive Director/Co-Chairman of LIMITS.
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
David Bartlett, president and chief operating officer of the Radio- Television News Directors Association.
Lyle Denniston, the Supreme Court correspondent for The Baltimore Sun.
Marilyn Greenwald, an Assistant Professor of Journalism in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio and formerly a news reporter at three Ohio daily newspapers.
Reed Irvine, the founder and chairman of Accuracy in Media.
George Kennedy, the managing editor of the Columbia Missourian.
Jeff Lifson, a general assignment reporter for CBS affiliate WWMT in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Ron Lovell, an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Oregon State University and a former writer for Business Week, Medical World News and McGraw World News.
Peter V. Miller, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Associate Professor of Journalism and Director of the Institute for Modern Communications at Northwestern University.
3. Lying: An American Pandemic:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Bella M. DePaulo, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
Paul Ekman, a Professor of Psychology at the University of California at San Francisco and the author of Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage.
Michael Josephson, the founder of the Josephson Institute for the Advancement of Ethics in Marina del Rey, California and a former Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Robert J. Kelly, a Professor of Social Sciences at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of The City University of New York.
G. Daniel Lassiter, Associate Professor of Psychology at Ohio University.
Ronald E. Riggio, Professor of Psychology at California State University.
Leonard Saxe, Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center of CUNY and a Research Professor at Brandeis University.
Andrew Wengraf, a teacher of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the author of several articles in philosophy, law and public affairs.
Are Standardized Tests Contributing To Social Stratification?:
4. Are Standardized Tests Contributing To Social Stratification?:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
William C. Hiss, the Vice President for Administrative Services and Dean of Admissions at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and Vice Chair of the federal Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance.
Jay Rosner, Director of Special Projects and General Counsel for The Princeton Review, which coaches students in taking standardized tests.
John Fremer, a Senior Development Leader at Educational Testing Service.
Cinthia Schuman, a director of a women’s advocacy organization, and a program officer for the Rockefeller Family Fund.
Herbert Walberg, a professor at the University of Illinois, who has also taught at Harvard University and has held research appointments at the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin and Educational Testing Service.
George F. Madaus, Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy at Boston College and former director of the College’s Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy.
Alan C. Purves, Director of the Center for Writing and Literacy, a project leader in portfolio assessment for the National Research Center for Literature Teaching and Learning, and Professor of Education and Humanities at the University of Albany, State University of New York.
Robert Calfee, currently a Professor of Education at Stanford University and author of numerous critical papers on the effects of testing.
Pamela A. Moss, an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Michigan.
Dennie Palmer Wolf, the director of the Performance Assessment Collaborative for Education, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Is Effective Government Impossible?:
5. Is Effective Government Impossible?:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Tom Lewcock, the City Manager of Sunnyvale, California.
Roger Vaughan, an economic consultant and author based in Santa Fe, Mexico.
Daniel Mitchell, a John M. Olin Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.
Gar Alperovitz, President of the National Center for Economic Alternatives, and a Fellow for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC.
Jim Flanagan, the City Auditor for Phoenix, Arizona.
Larry Good, the President of the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, a not-for-profit organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Alfred Malabre, the Economic News Editor of The Wall Street Journal, and the author of a number of books on the economy.
Michael Veseth, a Professor of Economics and Director of the Political Economy Program at the University of Puget Sound.
John J. Bethune, Chairman of the Department of Economics at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky.
Carol Cox Wait, the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and head of Carol Cox and Associates, an economic consulting firm.
Barry Bluestone, the Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, the Director of the University’s Public Policy Ph.D. Program, and a Senior Fellow at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs.
J. Morton Davis, owner and Chairman of D.H. Blair Investment Banking Corporation, a New York City investment bank.
Stephen Moore, the Director of Fiscal Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington DC, and a researcher on public policy issues.
Eliot Janeway, a noted economist, columnist, and author of several works, including The Economics of Chaos.
Does America Need A Third Political Party?:
6. Does America Need A Third Political Party?:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Eugene J. McCarthy, a member of the House of Representatives from 1949-1959 and of the Senate from 1959-1971, and a candidate for President in 1968.
Frank B. Feigert, a Regents Professor of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Texas.
Walter Dean Burnham, holder of the Frank C. Erwin, Jr., Centennial Chair in Government at the University of Texas.
John B. Anderson, formerly a Congressman from Illinois and a presidential candidate in 1980.
Nicolas R. Sabatine, III, a lawyer in Wind Gap, Pennsylvania and State Chairman of the Patriot Party of Pennsylvania.
Richard Winger, the editor of Ballot Access News, a newsletter that tracks changes in ballot-access laws across the nation.
Frank Sebok, the Illinois State Chairman of United We Stand America.
Has American Education Forsaken Critical Thinking?:
7. Has American Education Forsaken Critical Thinking?:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Teresa Brady, the Head of the Business Division and Assistant Professor of Management/Marketing at Holy Family College in Philadelphia, PA.
Hugh Aaron, the author of Business Not As Usual and a contributing editor to The Wall Street Journal.
Diane F. Halpern, a Professor of Psychology at California State University, San Bernardino, and the author of several books on critical thinking, including Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thought.
Adam Sweeting, formerly the Director of the Writing Program at the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover.
Richard Paul, the Director of the Center for Critical Thinking and Chair of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking.
J. David Singer, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where he is Director of the Correlates of War project.
William A. Dorman, a teacher of courses in critical thinking, media studies and foreign policy at California State University, Sacramento, where he also is coordinator of Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies.
Matthew Lipman, a Professor of Philosophy at Montclair State College and Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children.
Eleanor White, head of design and development of training for the Saturn Corporation in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
Assessing Responsibility For the Plight Of Minorities:
8. Assessing Responsibility For the Plight Of Minorities:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Robert L. Woodson, Sr., the founder and President of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise.
Daniel C. Maguire, a Professor of Ethics at Marquette University and the author of articles and books dealing with moral issues, including The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity.
Randy Senzaki, the National Director of the Japanese American Citizens League, a national civil and human rights organization.
Peri Jude Radevic, the Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Vivian Verdell Gordon, a Professor in the Department of African Studies at the State University of New York at Albany.
Lois Smith Owens, the Director of the Equal Opportunity Program at the State University of New York at Cobbleskill.
Douglas Velvel, an attorney.
Edmund W. Gordon, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University, a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at City College of New York and City University of New York, and the Director of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC).
Maitrayee Bhattacharyya, an Editor and Researcher at IRADAC.
Dr. Leslie R. Wolfe, the Executive Director of Women’s Policy Studies.
Tony Brown, the Host and Executive Producer of Tony Brown’s Journal.
Law Clerks: The Transformation Of The Judiciary:
9. Law Clerks: The Transformation Of The Judiciary:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Abner J. Mikva, a former federal court of appeals judge and a former Counsel to the President.
Alex Kozinski, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Thomas E. Baker, a Professor at the Texas Tech University of Law.
Sean H. Donahue, an associate in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Jenner & Block.
Joan Oakley, a Professor of Law at the University of California at Davis School of Law.
Jonathan Cohen, an attorney and a former clerk for both Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and for federal appellate Judge Richard Posner.
Sports In America -- A Distortion Or Reflection Of Life:
10. Sports In America -- A Distortion Or Reflection Of Life:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Lou Holtz, former head football coach at the University of Notre Dame, and currently the head football coach at South Carolina.
John A. DiBiaggio, the President of Tufts University.
Dr. M. Joseph Roberson, the Director of Athletics at the University of Michigan.
Mark Russell, formerly an Assistant Professor at MSL and a former Editor of The Long Term View.
Michael Oriard, a Professor of English at Oregon State University and a former football player for Notre Dame and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Reverend Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., the President of the University of Notre Dame.
Frank Deford, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a sports columnist for National Public Radio and ESPN.
Diane Sullivan, a Professor of Law at MSL.
James E. Loehr, the President and CEO of LGE Sport Science, Inc., and President of the Mentally Tough Corporate Training Program located in Tampa, Florida.
Richard A. Rosenthal, the director of athletics at the University of Notre Dame.
Joel Kirsch, a sports psychologist and president of the American Sports Institute in Mill Valley, CA.
Morgan Wootten, coach of the five-time national champion boy’s high school basketball team at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, MD.
Fundamental Sources Of Morality In American Politics:
11. Fundamental Sources Of Morality In American Politics:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Gary L. Bauer, President of Family Research Council.
Larry Arnhart, Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University.
Reverend Ken Brooker Langston , minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
William C. Stephenson, recently a teacher at a small, Midwestern environmental college.
Aminah Beverly McCloud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University.
Keith A. Fournier, Executive Director of The American Center for Law and Justice.
Barney Frank, member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts.
Mark E. Souder, member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the Fourth Congressional District of Indiana.
William N. Tilchin, Assistant Professor in the College of General Studies at Boston University and recipient in 1992 of a Ph.D. in History from Brown University.
Elliot M. Mincberg, Vice President and General Counsel for People For the American Way, a 300,000-member constitutional liberties organization which is actively involved in issues relating to religion and politics.
Reverend Richard John Neuhaus, President of the Institute On Religion and Public Life, an interfaith research and education institute, which publishes First Things, a monthly journal of religion and public life.
Amitai Etzioni, University Professor at George Washington University and director of The Communitarian Network.
John Bellamy Foster, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon.
Assessing Competence In The Professions: Do We Know What To Measure:
12. Assessing Competence In The Professions: Do We Know What To Measure:
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Michael W. Apple, Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has written extensively on the relationship between education and power.
James M. Bieman, Associate Professor at Colorado State University, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Software Quality, and the General Chair of the IEEE-CS International Symposium on Software Metrics.
Lauren Dame, staff attorney with Public Citizen’s Health Research Group.
Robyn Dawes, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and author of House of Cards, Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth.
Ann Harman, Executive Associate for Assessment and Research for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
John Kotter, Professor at the Harvard School of Business, and author of The New Rules: How to Succeed in Today’s Post-Corporate World.
David McClelland, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, Professor of Psychology at Boston University, and the founder and Chairman of the Board of McBer & Company, and the Director of Research for Hay McBer Worldwide Practice.
Christine McGuire, adjunct professor of Medical Education and Evaluation at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Professor Emerita, Medical Education, at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
Dennis O’Leary, President of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Ronald E. Riggio, Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at California State University.
Jon Saphier, founder and executive director of Research for Better Teaching, Inc. in Carlisle, Massachusetts.
David Tallman, student at Washburn University School of Law.
Richard T. Turley, research and development manager for the Colorado Memory Systems Division of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Erwin Chemerinsky, Legion Lex Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law Center.
Marla Greenstein, Executive Director of the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct, Chair of the American Bar Association Judicial Division Lawyers’ Conference, Secretary of the Association of Judicial Disciplinary Counsel, and a member of the Board of the American Judicature Society.
Ellen Mattleman Kaplan, Associate Director of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts and co-author of The Peoples’ Guide to Government: The Executive Branch.
Robert Kastenmeier, formerly a Congressman representing the second district of Wisconsin, former chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Administration of Justice, and chair of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal.
Michael E. Keasler, Co-chair of the ABA National Conference of State Trial Judges’ Ethics Committee, Chair of the State Bar of Texas Judicial Section, Chair of the Texas Center for the Judiciary’s Board of Directors, and and a member of the faculty of the National Judicial College.
Larry Klayman, an attorney, Chairman and General Counsel of Judicial Watch, Inc. and author of many articles.
Sharon Anne Lockhart, Action Vice-President of the Johnson/Wyandotte Counties, Kansas Chapter of the National Organization for Women, and co-founder of Citizens for Good Judges.
Steven Lubet, Professor of Law at Northwestern University, co-author of Judicial Conduct and Ethics, and author of Modern Trial Advocacy.
Peter M. Malaguti, Professor of Law at MSL.
Marc Mauer, Assistant Director of The Sentencing Project, based in Washington, D.C., and the author of numerous research reports on public policy issues.
Elena Ruth Sassower, co-founder and coordinator of the Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc.
David J. Owsiany, Director of Legal and Legislative Services for the Ohio Dental Association, and a member of the Board of Officers of the Columbus Federalist Society.
Jan Schlichtmann, a partner in the law firm of Kiley and Schlichtmann of Andover, Massachusetts, and the plaintiffs’ attorney in the case which is the basis of the book and movie entitled "A Civil Action."
Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of Massachusetts School of Law and Editor-in-Chief of the Long Term View.
Mary L. Volcansek, Professor of Political Science at Florida International University.
Frances Kahn Zemans, former Executive Vice-President of the American Judicature Society, a teacher of political science at the University of Chicago, and a researcher for the American Bar Association.
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Jeff Bercuvitz, president of Community Innovations, an international consulting firm.
Andrew Gilman, instructor in Religion and Society at Andover-Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, and pastor in the United Church of Christ.
Mark Dery, cultural critic.
Tom Hanchett, coordinator of the Historic Preservation Program at Youngstown State University in Ohio.
Daniel Kemmis, Director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana.
Jay Rosen, Associate Professor of journalism at New York University, where he is director of the Project on Public Life and the Press.
Introduction: Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
Articles and Interviews:
Ballard C. Campbell, Professor of History and a professor in the graduate program in Law, Policy, and Society at Northeastern University in Boston.
Stanley I. Kutler, E. Gordon Fox Emeritus Professor of American Institutions and also Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin.
Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of MSL and Editor-in-Chief of The Long Term View.
Alan Stoskopf, Associate Program Director for Professional Development at Facing History and Ourselves, and the principal author of the forthcoming FHAO resource book, Confronting the Forgotten History of the Eugenics Movement.
Margot Stern Strom, Executive Director of Facing History and Ourselves and Co-chair of the Harvard/Facing History Project.
Peter Sacks, author of Generation X Goes To College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America.
Steven Conn, Professor of history at Ohio State University.
Gary W. Gallagher, Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
Edward Linenthal, Professor of Religion and American Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.
Stephen G. Ives, President of Insignia Films.
David Glassberg, Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts.
Lonnie G. Bunch, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs at the National Museum of American History.
Jo Blatti, historian and administrator who works in museums, broadcasting, and foundations, as well as in scholarship.
Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History, a national advocacy office supported by 54 historical and archival organizations.
Christina Jeffrey, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Kennesaw State University and founder and president of Operation Integrity, a public watchdog organization.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Professor of the Humanities at Emory University.
Introduction: Nancy Bernhard, Professor at Massachusetts School of Law and Associate Editor of The Long Term View.
Articles and Interviews:
Ann Jerome Croce, Associate Professor of American Studies at Stetson University. Julie Fairman, Assistant Professor of the School of Nursing, of the University of Pennsylvania, of The Center for the Study of the History of Nursing and of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research. Paula Kaldis Dickinson, Professor of Law at the Massachusetts School of Law. Roger P. Greenberg, Professor and Head of the Psychology Division at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse. Eli Ginzberg, Director of the Eisenhower Center for the Conservation of Human Resources at Columbia University. Amitai Etzioni, University Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, and leader of the Communitarian Network. Fred Burg, Associate Dean and Professor of Pediatrics at the Huntsville Campus of the University of Alabama School of Medicine, and from 1980 to 1996 Vice Dean for Education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Rosemary Stevens, Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.Doris Teichler Zallen, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech, and Director of the Choices and Challenges forum project.
Tee L. Guidotti, Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health and Health Services of the George Washington University Medical Center.
Michael H. Cohen, Visiting Professor of Health Law at Arizona State University East.