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News from the Center LaDonna Sullivan Managing Editor Professors Cindy Simon Rosenthal and Shad Satterthwaite collaborated in teaching a special, one-day course September 25, 2013 for members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at OU. The course, which focused on the relationship between Congress and the media, was titled “Making Laws and Making News: The Messy Business of Sausage.” Alumni Associate Professor Walter C. Wilson, a Carl Albert Graduate Fellowship alumnus who completed his doctoral degree in 2008, has been granted tenure at University of Texas – San Antonio. Alumnus Kenneth Cosgrove, Associate Professor of Government at Suffolk University, is co-editor of Political Marketing in the United States (Routledge, May 2014). He is also the author of Branded Conservatives: How the Brand Brought the Right from the Fringes to the Center of American Politics (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers , 2007). In 2011, Ken was the Fulbright Research Chair in North American Integration Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada for a semester and is now on a Fulbright Regional Peer Review Panel. In the past, Ken has also served as a Mellon Foundation Fellow, a Fulbright Hays Scholar (Brazil), a Salzburg Seminar Fellow (Austria), and a visiting professor at Tamkang University Institute of American Studies (Taiwan). Archives The Carl Albert Center co-hosted one session of a workshop on Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for archivists and archives students in the university library on November 8. The workshop was organized by the Ballet Russes Archives at the University of Oklahoma. Carl Albert Center Archivist Bailey Hoffner attended the
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workshop to gain an understanding of the coding language that helps to make our congressional finding aids available online in a standardized format. The Center’s archivists also hosted a meeting of the Central Oklahoma Archivists’ League (COAL) at the Carl Albert Center on December 11 where Bailey Hoffner gave a presentation on the processing of the James R. Jones collection. This presentation is being developed into a paper for the annual meeting of the Society of Southwest Archivists in May 2014. Archivist Robert Lay is finalizing a narrative report on the processing of the Jones collection as the grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission concluded on January 31. Notable accomplishments include a complete EAD finding aid for Jones’s congressional and ambassadorial papers, the launch of a new archival database for the Center (which can be found here: https://cacarchives.ou.edu/),
and the beginning stages of the Center’s photo-digitization project. Stay tuned for more information as this project progresses. Dr. Kurt Hohenstein, who received a visiting scholar grant from the Carl Albert Center in 2013, has launched an online exhibit utilizing material from the Carl Albert Center Archives’ collections of Mickey Edwards, Tom Steed, and Dick Armey. The exhibit, entitled “The Mechanics of Legislation: Congress, the SEC and Financial Regulation,” is displayed on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society at http://www.sechistorical.org/ museum/galleries/mec/. The archives recently hosted scholar Patrick Sandman of Oxford University, recipient of a Carl Albert Center Visiting Scholar grant. Sandman applied for the grant in August 2013 to support research at the Center for his doctoral thesis, Bringing Congress Back In: Watergate and the Politics of Institutional Change.
Community Scholars During the fall 2013 semester, six undergraduate students participated in the Community Scholars program, a public service learning opportunity for a cohort of undergraduates who experience first-hand the dynamics of working within community-based organizations. The internship experience is enriched through weekly seminars and briefings with leaders from the nonprofit sector. Community Scholars work 20 hours per week in their designated internship where they develop professional experience and skills, gain insights into the dynamics of community organizations, and learn how nonprofit organizations function and interact within their broader communities. Community Scholar
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Katy Goodrich
Oklahoma Academy for State Goals
Connor Cox
City of Norman Finance Department
Sara Wiesman
Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma
Layne Ferguson
City of Norman Development Coordinator’s Office
Jaclyn O’Neil
Association of Central Oklahoma Governments
KatieBeth Gardner
Variety Care/Health for Friends
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