Jerome Taylor<\/b>, a junior from East Stroudsburg, Pa., majoring in political science with a concentration in American government, recently attended The Washington Center\u2019s Inside Washington<\/i> two-part seminar from January 5-18 inWashington,D.C. The seminar gave students a chance to explore how bipartisan issues are approached in today\u2019s government during week one from January 5-11. Throughout the second week of the seminar from January 12-18, attendees were provided insight as to how the media plays a big part in the way citizens view politicians.<\/p>\n
Taylor said the discussion focused on how working together can benefit society and this should be of the utmost importance for politicians regardless of one\u2019s political affiliation. While attending the seminar, Taylor had the chance to meet important political figures such as Candy Crowley, CNN\u2019s chief political correspondent; Bill Plante, senior White House correspondent for CBS News; The Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, associate justice for the U.S. Supreme Court; and Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and former Lt. Governor of Maryland, as well as many others.<\/p>\n
The seminar made a lasting impact on Taylor. He was particularly impressed by Jason Grumet\u2019s response to his question about the hardest topic he had dealt with in his position as founder and president of the Bipartisanship Policy Center. Grumet, Taylor recalled, explained that every topic is hard, but it\u2019s essential to find someone\u2019s bottom line and work your way up from there to an agreement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will definitely add that way of thinking to my lifestyle when dealing with issues of compromising in the future,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Washington Center Seminar was beneficial both academically and socially.\u201d <\/p>\n
During the seminar, Taylor visited many educational sites, including The Bipartisan Center, Capitol Hill and the Associated Press. He also took a bus tour of Washington, D.C, and participated in a week-long presentation called, \u201cFinding Fair and Comprehensive Immigration Reform.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glenn Geiser-Getz, Ph.D.<\/b>, a professor in ESU\u2019s communication studies department, has been approved by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to serve as a Roster candidate for the Fulbright Specialist program.\u00a0 According to the website for the Council of International Exchange of Scholars, which administers the program, the <\/span> Fulbright Specialist Program<\/a> promotes linkages between U.S. scholars and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions abroad.\u00a0 <\/p>\n The program awards grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals in select disciplines to engage in short-term, collaborative, two- to six-week projects at eligible institutions in more than 140 countries.\u00a0 Previously, Geiser-Getz served for a year as a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of International Journalism at St. Petersburg State University in Russia.\u00a0 The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faculty and Students in the News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[22,42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook","category-news-release","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520"}],"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=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8530,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions\/8530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}