A preview of some of the articles that will be published in the July issue.

In August 1963, I drove from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Washington, To begin the year-long Congressional Fellowship Program. In the orientations that followed, the fellows met with journalists, House and Senate members, lobbyists, and bureaucrats, among other Washington notables. But the most memorable person who talked to us was Theodore Sorenson, counselor to President Kennedy, and reputedly his most influential staff advisor.

The co-leaders for the 2009 APSA Africa Workshop (Accra, Ghana, June 21–July 11) were officially selected by the Project Steering Committee after an open and competitive process that concluded in January. The U.S.-based leaders of the workshop will be Dr. Dan Smith (University of Florida) and Dr. Kevin Fridy (University of Tampa) and their Africa-based colleagues will be Dr. Beatrix Allah-Mensah (University of Ghana, Legon) and Dr. Ukoha Ukiwo (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria). The theme of the 2009 workshop will be “Elections and Democracy: Exchanging African and Comparative Perspectives.”

The Administrative Committee consists of the president, president-elect, treasurer, and four other Council members whose main duties include preparing agendas for Council meetings and annual business meetings and acting on behalf of the Council to dispose of policy issues deemed of insufficient weight to require decisions by the Council.

The following is from AAUP's July–August 2009 issue of Academe. A more detailed history of the censure list can be found on the AAUP Web site: http://www.aaup.org.