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U.S. SECRETARY
OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
MICHAEL
CHERTOFF
United States
Secretary of
Homeland Security
Michael
Chertoff will address the state of our
nation’s homeland security and the
challenges that lie ahead for President-elect
Barack Obama’s new administration
on Thursday, December
4, at 9 a.m. in Kean University’s
Wilkins Theatre.
Secretary Chertoff, an Elizabeth, N.J.
native, has served as the nation’s
chief security officer since 2005. He
has overseen a massive reorganization
of the department, which employs
more than 90,000 people. Secretary
Chertoff’s office has a broad range of
responsibilities, ranging from national
security to border patrol to disaster
response.
Secretary Chertoff’s distinguished
career in public service includes
serving as United States Circuit
Judge for the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals and Assistant Attorney
General for the Criminal Division at
the Department of Justice. Secretary
Chertoff also spent more than a
decade as a federal prosecutor, including
service as U.S. Attorney for
the District of New Jersey.
The Final
Installments of
Issues ’08
As the 2009 presidential election approached, Kean University’s Issues ’08 lecture
series reached its conclusion. While this historic election forever changed the political
landscape of the United States, the final installments of Issues ’08 have helped
shed light on what the election’s outcome means for New Jersey and our nation.
On October 6, Kean’s own Terry Golway, of the John Kean Center of American
History, moderated the panel discussion, Political Firsts in New Jersey, at
Liberty Hall Museum. Other panelists included Dr. Frank Argote-Freyre, assistant
professor of history at Kean, Barbara Salmore, an author and political scientist and
George Richardson, a pioneering African-American politician in New Jersey since
the 1960s.
Dr. James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public
Policy at Rutgers University, delivered some sobering facts about the state of our
economy in his lecture, New Jersey’s Changing Demographics, on October 28. Dr. Hughes
examined specific challenges facing New Jersey during this economic crisis and discussed
how New Jersey’s changing population would influence voting patterns.
The series concluded with Dissecting the Results on November 12. Jim McQueeny,
host of News 12 New Jersey’s Power and Politics, engaged a distinguished panel in
an extensive conversation on the results of the election, the dramatic shift in power
and its impact on the American people. Panel members included Terry Golway, Paul
Mulshine, a columnist with The Star-Ledger, Max Pizzaro, of www.politickernj.com,
and Brigid Harrison, a professor of political science at Montclair State University.
Be convinced. Click here to learn how the economy and new media
influenced the election’s outcome.
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