Political Science, International Relations, and Public Policy Section.

The participants in Internationalizing the Curriculum I took a multi-level approach to considering the challenges of incorporating global issues into higher education. Our discussion—facilitated by track moderator Pamela Zeiser (University of North Florida)—focused primarily on the challenges of internationalizing the curriculum on four levels: the student, the course, the program, and the institution. Within this general framework the group addressed many related pedagogical issues, such as active learning, the role of technology, the effective use of distance learning, and how each complements or challenges the learning environment and the goal of internationalizing the curriculum.

For the record.

New media historically have had difficulty obtaining access to the U. S. Congress. As technological changes have shifted the competitive balance among news organizations, the more established media have traditionally fought back by attempting to exclude the upstarts from the corridors of power. For example, Associate Senate Historian Donald Ritchie (1991) recounts the struggle by radio to gain a foothold against the opposition of entrenched newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s. The newspaper-controlled Standing Committee of Correspondents, which was responsible for granting credentials to the Capitol Hill Press Gallery, refused to credential radio reporters unless they also worked for newspapers. The dispute was finally settled in 1939 when Congress created a separate Radio Gallery, making Congress “the only national legislature to divide its galleries among different forms of media” (Ritchie 1991, 217).I thank Jeffrey Biggs and Jerry Gallegos for helpful suggestions. Generous financial support for this research was provided by the Congressional Fellowship Program of the American Political Science Association.

The Social Science Research Council in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies is proud to announce the recipients of the 2008 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF).

Congressional Fellowship Program 2007–2008 office assignments.

In the news….

Recent technological changes, particularly in the field of communications, have brought the world much closer than ever in the history of humankind. These changes, sometimes called globalization, require a paradigm shift in our thinking, teaching materials, and methods of delivery. This quantum leap is required not only in the subfield of international relations, but rather in all subfields of political science. There is also a dire need to learn from each others' experiences and give new direction to our teaching subfields.

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy provides grant funding in the major areas of the social sciences for scholars who are in the initial phases of their research careers. For more information on the Horowitz Foundation awards, visit http://www.horowitzfoundation.org. Following are the 2007 grant recipients in political science.

In 2007, PS: Political Science and Politics published myriad articles covering a vast range of topics. Symposia alone in 2007 focused on the 2006 Mexican election, the state of the editorial cartoon, the U.S. military, how to incorporate the politics of the Iberian Peninsula into your syllabus, and the future of state election reform. Upcoming symposia will focus on institutional review boards, research ethics, gender and the presidency, and French politics. And remember, these are only the symposia. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and on the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a wide array of topics, calls for an equally broad stable of expert reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and open-mindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalism and generosity of those who contribute their time to read and evaluate the work of others. The editors of PS thank the following scholars, who served as manuscript reviewers between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2007. Very special thanks go to those scholars whose names appear in bold; they reviewed for PS in both 2006 and 2007.

People in Political Science.

This section lists upcoming book publications across the broad field of political science. This list is fully reader-generated. If your first-edition book is scheduled for publication in the three months before publication of the next issue of PS, enter the details of publication in the box found at PS's web site: www.apsanet.org/section_223.cfm. We hope that spreading word of upcoming work will help keep our members even more attune to new scholarship within the discipline.

In a legal brief filed in federal court, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) stated that by the end of March it would be releasing approximately 10,000 pages of Senator Hillary Clinton's (D-NY) daily schedule records from her time as first lady. However, the Archives told the court it would be one to two years before it could begin processing the approximately 20,000 pages of telephone logbooks that were requested by the watchdog group Judicial Watch under a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2006. The Archives says the delay is exacerbated by the fact that the Clinton Presidential Library has only six archivists on staff for processing all of its pending FOIA requests for textual and electronic records. The Archives also stated that there are currently 30 FOIA requests pending ahead of Judicial Watch's telephone logbook request and that the group has no legal basis to move ahead of others in the queue.

In memoriam.

The Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has five visiting fellows in residence for the 2008–2009 academic year.

The political science department at George Washington University hosted 40 congressional scholars from around the United States and England in May for a discussion of current work on the evolution of legislative institutions and behavior Professors Sarah Binder, Forrest Maltzman, Eric Lawrence, and Gary Young organized the 7th annual conference, which had previously been hosted by Columbia, MIT, Stanford, Washington University, Yale, and Princeton. The conference was partially funded by the Alben W. Barkley Endowment Fund.

On the February 28, 1947, by way of royal decree, the University of Oslo (UiO) was allowed to grant a degree in political science; Norway's first department of political science was established at the same university in 1957. Today, 60 years later, political science departments can be found on each of Norway's largest university campuses; their graduates are active and evident locally, nationally, and internationally—with jobs in both the public and private sectors. While it is difficult to provide an accurate survey of the breadth and depth of contemporary Norwegian political science, this short article aims to supply a brief historical and institutional map for American political scientists interested in working in Norway or with Norwegian political scientists.I would like to thank Nils Petter Gleditsch, Torbjørn Knutsen, Ola Listhaug, Willy Martinusen, and Knut Erik Solem for their helpful advice and comments. Any errors and omissions are obviously the sole responsibility of the author.

APSA President (2007), Dianne M. Pinderhughes: full professor in the departments of Africana studies and political science, University of Notre Dame; Ph.D. University of Chicago.The authors would like to dedicate the biography of APSA President Dianne M. Pinderhughes to the celebrated legacy of Linda Faye Williams (1949–2006). Once graduate school roommates, their friendship has undoubtedly contributed to their career success as political scientists of great distinction.