McCarthy Center hosts Al Eisele as scholar-in-residence

02/29/2008

The Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy & Civic Engagement will host Al Eisele, Saint John’s University class of 1958, for a week-long residency March 10-14 as part of the Eugene J. McCarthy Scholar-in-Residence program.

During Eisele’s residency, the 40th anniversary of McCarthy's historic race against President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1968 New Hampshire Democratic primary will occur March 12. [Please note: Eisele is scheduled to be a guest on Minnesota Public Radio's Midday program at 11 a.m. CDT Wednesday, March 12. Also, Eisele wrote a piece recently about the 1968 New Hampshire Democratic primary for The Huffington Post titled "New Hampshire 1968: A Primary That Really Mattered."]   

In addition to classroom visits and community lectures, Eisele will participate in a panel discussion titled “Politics and the Changing Nature of Journalism” at 7 p.m. March 13 in Quad 264, SJU. This event is free and open to the public. He will be joined by Kitty Eisele, writer, editor and producer for National Public Radio; Nick Coleman, columnist at the Star Tribune newspaper; and Nick Hayes, University Chair in Critical Thinking at SJU.

In addition to being editor of The Hill, one of Washington, D.C.’s top political newspapers, Eisele was also a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication last fall. He was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is the former press secretary to Vice President Walter Mondale.

The Eugene J. McCarthy Scholar-in-Residence program is sponsored by The Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy & Civic Engagement at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.