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Greeting NCPSA Members,
Greetings and welcome to the North Carolina Political Science Association website. We are in the process of collecting e-mail addresses of all political scientists in four year institutions-public and private-in North Carolina. We will hopefully expand this effort to include political science instructors in two year institutions. The purpose of this effort is to have the ability to communicate with all PS in the state for the purposes of information and exchange. Our next annual meeting will take place on Saturday, February 28, 2009 at Greensboro College. Please mark this date on your calendars. More detailed information will be sent to all members later in the year. We plan to make a special effort to include panels of our undergraduate students. We hope faculty will monitor and encourage their best students to participate. We also encourage faculty to participate in panels and roundtables. This year will be historic in terms of a presidential election. Every presidential candidate of a major party in the past has been a white male. Not so in the 2008 election. The Democratic party will most likely break this long tradition. Forecasts predict a greatly increased turnout in primaries, caucuses and the general election on November 4th. The cost of the election will most likely break all records. There are several important issues that must be addressed by the next administration-the war in Iraq, the economy, energy, environmental problems like global warming, adequate health care for Americans, the problems of poverty and education-just to mention a few. It is an interesting time to be a political scientist and attempt to explain the processes of government, democracy and the like. This is your state, professional association. Its strength does not depend on the elected officers alone, but rather on a vibrant, participatory membership. Please become an active member of the organization by participating in our annual conference and the governance of the organization. Sincerely,
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