Pittsburgh Activist To Help Present “American Blackout”
Professors Discuss Social Security Reform
Election Night Extravaganza Draws over 1,000 Students
Phil English and Steven Porter Debate at Allegheny
Congress to Campus Program Brings Former Congressmen to Allegheny
Campus Political Fair Educates Student Voters
What Is Working To Woo Young Voters?
Allegheny’s Center for Political Participation Joins National Effort
Photo Gallery of Washington DC Trip
Allegheny College will host the Bonner Foundation’s Summer Leadership Institute 2008, June 4-7. Read more...
Today’s primaries and caucuses may or may not reveal the identities of the Democratic and Republican nominees for the 2008 presidential race. While the events of this season’s contest have provided fascinating drama, political scholars, strategists, party leaders and public officials are also immersed in a debate about how to improve the current system of selecting candidates. Read more...
Today, while pundits analyze Iowa’s results and candidates shift their attention to New Hampshire voters, Allegheny College announced an initiative that directly involves citizens in the rest of the country as well. Read more...
Barack Obama may be only slightly more pleased by the youth vote in Iowa than Daniel M. Shea. Shea, a professor of political science and director of the Center for Political Participation at Allegheny College, has dedicated his career to energizing this sector of the electorate. Read more...
MEADVILLE, Pa. – Nov. 5, 2007 – Today, on the 150th anniversary of the birth of its pioneering investigative journalist, alumna Ida Tarbell, Allegheny College president Richard J. Cook invited institutions of higher education nationwide to join Allegheny in a... Read more...
Celeste Taylor, Pennsylvania state coordinator of African American outreach for People For the American Way, will visit Allegheny College to participate in a showing of the documentary “American Blackout” on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in Henderson Auditorium in Quigley Hall. Read more...
The Voter Turnout Archive Project (“VTA”) at the CPP finished its second and final summer of data collection. Voter turnout statistics have currently been collected from Beaver, Butler, Erie, Lawrence, Mercer, Somerset, Venango, and Washington Counties in Pennsylvania, with as many as four more Counties to be added this fall. Read more...