Rethinking Political Science Education Presidential Task Force

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

In 2021, former APSA President John Ishiyama appointed the Task Force on Rethinking Political Science Education. Higher education has changed drastically in the last twenty years, and the future promises even more sweeping changes. The emphasis on measurable outcomes of programs, the forthcoming steep decline of traditional undergraduate students, the decreasing number of tenure track positions, and systemic global challenges to democratic governance have impacted the discipline of Political Science. With the last systemic examination of undergraduate education, published in 1991, and little disciplinary analysis of graduate education, the profession needs a collective examination of our shared goals and values. Relying on the scholarship of the last two decades, this report examines best practices and makes recommendations for departments as they reconsider their own programs and curriculum. This roundtable will share Task Force report recommendations and best practices.

Sub Unit

• Panels

Chair

• John Ishiyama University of North Texas

Presenters

• Michelle D. Deardorff University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

• David A. Lake University of California, San Diego

• Sara McLaughlin Mitchell University of Iowa

• Fletcher McClellan Elizabethtown College

• Bennett Grubbs American Political Science Asociation