CSUCI Hosts Author and Former Congressman Mickey Edwards for Discussion

Camarillo, Calif., Jan. 16, 2009 – The Political Science Program at California State University Channel Islands will host a discussion featuring Mickey Edwards, a lecturer in public and international affairs and former congressman on Monday, Jan. 26. The discussion, entitled, “Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost – And How It Can Find Its Way Back,” will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Aliso Hall room 150 on the CSU Channel Islands campus.

This event is free and open to the campus community and public. Limited parking is available on campus and is $6 for a daily permit. Free parking is available at the Camarillo Metrolink Station/Lewis Road parking lot in Camarillo with shuttle service to and from the campus. Riders should board the CSU/CI VISTA Bus and the fare is $1 each way. Buses arrive and depart from the Camarillo Metrolink Station every 30 minutes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. For exact times, check the schedule at www.goventura.org.

Edwards is a lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. Before arriving at Princeton he taught for 11 years at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the John Quincy Adams Lecturer in Legislative Practice. Edwards has also been a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Law School and a visiting professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. Before beginning a teaching career, Edwards was a member of Congress for 16 years and was a member of the House Republican Leadership, a member of the Appropriations and Budget Committees, and the ranking member of the House subcommittee on foreign operations.

Edwards' primary interest is in the field of constitutional studies. He is a director of The Constitution Project, has co-chaired task forces on the war power, on judicial independence, and on the constitutional amendment process, and was a member of the American Bar Association Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements. He has written, appeared on radio and television, and testified before Congress repeatedly on these and other subjects related to the Constitution. Edwards has been a weekly political commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered" and a weekly opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers. He is author or co-author of three books, has written chapters in others, and is currently writing a book on American conservatism and the Constitution to be published next spring by Oxford University Press.

For more information about this event contact Sean Kelly, Associate Professor of Political Science, at 805-437-3309 or sean.kelly@csuci.edu

For media inquiries contact Nancy Covarrubias Gill, Director of Communication & Marketing at CSU Channel Islands, at 805-437-8456 or nancy.gill@csuci.edu.

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