Purdue students participate in C-SPAN discussion with Gingrich
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A conversation between Purdue University students and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will air on C-SPAN 3 at 10 a.m. on Friday (Jan. 20).Forty communication and political science students in Robert Browning’s Congress class joined students from University of Denver, Northwestern University and George Mason University for Tuesday's discussion via satellite link for C-SPAN's Distance Learning Class. Gingrich spoke to the students about "Republicans and the U.S. Congress."
C-SPAN 3 is channel 416 on Lafayette's Insight Communications digital service.
C-SPAN, the political network of record, records daily congressional proceedings and other public affairs activities for public viewing on cable or Internet. C-SPAN maintains the archive of all of its programming in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette. Browning is director of the C-SPAN archives.
"This a great use of technology to allow students in a Purdue Congress course to question a significant House leader," Browning said. "The class will participate in future class sessions with other current and former members."
Browning's class and the C-SPAN class make extensive use of C-SPAN clips drawn from the archives.
The course, "Issues in Media and Public Policy," is taught by Steve Scully, C-SPAN senior executive producer and political editor. Brian Lamb, chairman and chief executive officer of C-SPAN, created this virtual learning course. Lamb is a Purdue 1963 communication graduate. In 2005, Lamb was inducted in the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame and named one of the country's best 25 leaders by U.S. News and World Report.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Source: Robert Browning, (765) 494-4178, rxb@c-spanarchives.org
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