{"id":13298,"date":"2015-12-03T12:14:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=13298"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:39:39","slug":"political-science-professor-elected-as-nazareth-area-school-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/political-science-professor-elected-as-nazareth-area-school-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Science Professor Elected as Nazareth Area School Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"newshide\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 900px;\" src=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/adam-mcglynn.jpg\" alt=\"Adam McGlynn\" \/>ESU Associate Professor of Political Science Adam McGlynn, Ph.D., will be enhancing his classrooms with real world experience after being elected Nazareth Area School Director. After months of campaigning, McGlynn was notified that he will be the representing voice of the Lower and Eastern District of Upper Nazareth Township.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tremendous opportunity for me to serve my community,\u201d said McGlynn. Writing his dissertation and several articles on education policy reinforced for him the importance of education, which has always been a high priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServing as school director was always a goal of mine. When the opportunity presented itself, I jumped at it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, he started a write-in campaign. McGlynn exhausted many hours standing outside the polls convincing people he deserved their vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI received enough write-in votes so that I was able to be cross-listed as a Democrat and Republican. I was officially elected November 3,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>During his term, McGlynn wants to focus on Pennsylvania\u2019s challenges and decreased school funding without raising property taxes. After being inducted, he will be expected to attend all school board meetings and vote on various policies and personnel matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClich\u00e9 or not, I believe that education can change the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>McGlynn\u2019s classes at East Stroudsburg University focus heavily on education policy. Having a professor with firsthand knowledge can help political science students understand more in depth what it takes to run in an election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe this will really help my students. This is a great opportunity to serve and help me be a better professor,\u201d said McGlynn.<\/p>\n<p>McGlynn will be sworn in for his four-year term on Monday, December 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU Associate Professor of Political Science Adam McGlynn, Ph.D., will be enhancing his classrooms with real world experience after being elected Nazareth Area School Director. After months of campaigning, McGlynn was notified that he will be the representing voice of the Lower and Eastern District of Upper Nazareth Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newshide\">\u201cThis is a tremendous opportunity for me to serve my community,\u201d said McGlynn. Writing his dissertation and several articles on education policy reinforced for him the importance of education, which has always been a high priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,22,42,50,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-facebook","category-news-release","category-political-science","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13298"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13320,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298\/revisions\/13320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}