Faculty Activities Log

• Dr. Lewis began work as an article reviewer for the International Studies Review
• The political science speaker series included a former chief judge, political campaign operators from both parties (including some young alumni) and a successful candidate for state representative. 
• Dr. Lewis was again elected chair of the Committee on Tenure, Promotion and Development, for a fourth term.
• Dr. Lewis prepared a new seminar for freshmen, PACT 103, Practising the Art of Critical Thinking.
• Dr. Lewis continued to serve on the board of Alabama World Affairs Council and as webmaster for AWAC.US.
• Eight more political science students completed their senior capstone projects.

• Dr. Lewis's chapter was published, "From Electronic FOIA (EFOIA) to e-Government: the Development of Online Official Information Services, 1985-2009," in Handbook of Public Information Systems, Third Edition, Chris Shea and G. David Garson, eds. CRC Press, 2010.
• Dr. Lewis's chapter was published, "Tide of Security Secrecy, Tide of Transparency: The G.W. Bush and Obama Administrations, 2001-2009," in Handbook of Public Information Systems, Third Edition, Chris Shea and G. David Garson, eds. CRC Press, 2010.
• Dr. Lewis presented a paper to the conference of the Alabama Political Science Association (ALaPSA) and created a website, ALaPSA.US.
• Dr. Lewis continued to serve on the board of Alabama World Affairs Council and as webmaster for AWAC.US, creating a new FaceBook page for the group.
• Dr. Lewis took students on civil rights tours of downtown Montgomery, including the museums of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Rosa Parks Museum, the Dexter Avenue Baptist church and the Martin Luther King parsonage. 
• The political science speaker series was again successful, with guests from global science, politics and law.
• Three more students (Maegan McCollum, summa cum laude, Richard Riley, and Shane Stinemetz) graduated with the major field in political science.

• Dr. Lewis was again elected chair of the Committee on Tenure, Promotion and Development, for a third term.
• Another successful political science speaker series was inaugurated.
• A good number of political science students participated in Alabama World Affairs Council speaker events.
• Dr. Lewis took vanloads of political science students to events in Atlanta, at the Jimmy Carter Center, CNN headquarters, the Roosevelt little white house museum, and the confederate naval museum in Columbus, GA.
• Three more students (Maegan McCollum, Richard Riley, and Shane Stinemetz) completed their senior capstone research projects in political science.

• Dr. Lewis's chapter, "From Electronic FOIA (EFOIA) to e-Government: the Development of Online Official Information Services, 1985-2009," has been accepted to Handbook of Public Information Systems, Third Edition, Chris Shea and G. David Garson, eds. CRC Press, forthcoming 2009.
• Dr. Lewis's chapter, "Tide of Security Secrecy, Tide of Transparency: The G.W. Bush and Obama Administrations, 2001-2009," has been accepted to Handbook of Public Information Systems, Third Edition, Chris Shea and G. David Garson, eds. CRC Press, forthcoming 2009.

• Dr. Lewis has been honored with membership of the editorial board of Open Government: A Journal on Freedom of Information, an international journal.
• Dr. Lewis welcomed to class PSC 212 on Friday 6 Feb., Scott Simmons, campaigning for the mayor of Montgomery, and a property developer involved in downtown redevelopment.
• Dr. Lewis reviewed more academic journal article manuscripts over the winter break, for Scientific Journals International.
• Dr. Lewis helped the Model United Nations team present to World Affairs Council Board of trustees in January, and then to AWAC members at a reception in February, their project to represent Turkmenistan in the New York Model United Nations, 5-10 April 2009.
• The Model United Nations team held a successful pancake breakfast fundraiser, at which Dr. Lewis enticed a local attorney and a candidate to donate substantially to the team.

• The Bright-Love Debate for the Second Alabama Congressional District, held Wednesday, October 22, at 7:00 p.m. in the College's Ligon Chapel, chaired by Dr. Lewis.  See Darryn Simmons, "Colleges Hot spots for political debates", Mgmy Advertiser, 4 Oct. 2008, p.A2.  He noted that this is being organized partly by a student and the questions will be written by seniors in political science.  Page version | Printer-friendly version .
• Dr. Lewis held a third presidential debate watching discussion for about 40 HC students, with quotations, plus several participants commenting to cameras and reporters.  Lead story on two channels plus front page story in local newspaper.

Ashley Hopkinson, "Collegians Bring Critical Eye to Debate," 15 Oct. '08, in Montgomery Advertiser  [Local]

same by Sally Pitts on WSFA TV news [click on "Candidates" video thumbnail -- may expire soon]

• Dr. Lewis was quoted about the effect of the financial services bankruptcies on voters' perceptions, on Perspectives, 6pm Wed. 24 Sep. '08, on WVAS-FM 90.7, the public radio station of Alabama State University.
• Dr. Lewis was quoted by Bob Lowry in "Court Candidates Close in Money: Differences Come in Number and Types of Donors", Huntsville Times, 19 Sep. '08.
• Dr. Lewis was pleased to welcome to his course PSC 311: Voters Parties & Elections, Jan Crawford Greenburg, Supreme Court and elections reporter for ABC News, and the former reporter for PBS Newshour.  She presented findings from her 2007 book, Supreme Conflict.  Ms. Greenburg, a native of north Alabama, and graduate of the law school of the University of Chicago, was a popular and lively speaker, and also the Stallworth Lecturer that evening. 
• A political science alumnus of 2004, Capt. Gabriel Thorn, returned to the PSC office 22 Sep. '08, to discuss his work in Iraq as Executive Officer of his 3ID infantry company, which, having  lost two soldiers to an explosion on an early patrol, established good relations with local people and survived a number of firefights on their 15 month tour, gradually establishing order.  Capt. Thorn, an Arabic speaker, earned a Bronze Star, an early promotion to company command and a selection course for US Special Forces.
• Dr. Lewis volunteered to teach the "Citizen of the World" merit badge to Boy Scouts for six hours on Saturday 13 Sep.  The Merit Badge day was organized by Larry Newton (political science), and teachers included Chrys Lake and Richard Moore, other seniors in political science. 
• In Sep. '08, Dr. Lewis reviewed a full book manuscript on British and European politics for Rowman & Litttlefield publishers.
• Professor Jeremy Lewis participated in the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association on 26-30 Aug. 2008 in Boston, MA.. His objectives there were to distill for class, cutting-edge research in American politics, European politics and international relations.  He also participated there in a one-day course in pre-Law advising offered by the Association of Pre-Law Advisers, held at Suffolk University law school and Boston University law school, the better to advise his pre-law students. 
• The following clubs are sponsored by Dr. Lewis for 2008-09: Model United Nations, newly organized, under Emily White, and the Political Science Club.  Dr. Lewis also continues to advise the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. 
• Dr. Lewis participated on the board of Alabama World Affairs Council, and acted as webmaster.
• In August 2008, Dr. Lewis reviewed several articles submitted to the political science journals of Scientific Journals International. 
• Dr. Lewis conducted another expert guest speakers' program in political science.
• Dr. Lewis again sponsored the political science club.

• Dr. Lewis travelled in the United Kingdom

At the Greek Awards Convocation, the Outstanding Faculty Member Award was presented to Dr. Jeremy Lewis. 

Dr. Lewis was awarded the Chappell award for academic enrichment and scholarship, at commencement May 2008.

The HC Bench & Bar Society (alumni who are lawyers) spoke at a forum on law school and legal careers, hosted by Dr. Lewis. 

Dr. Lewis provided the Primary Blog | Election 2008 Blog | discussion and debate '08 notes | Election links

Dr. Lewis conducted another expert guest speakers' program in political science.

Dr. Lewis again sponsored the political science club.

Dr. Lewis also continued to advise the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Dr. Lewis participated on the board of Alabama World Affairs Council, and acted as webmaster.

Dr. Lewis conducted another expert guest speakers' program in political science.

Dr. Lewis again sponsored the political science club.

Dr. Lewis also continued to advise the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. 

Dr. Lewis participated on the board of Alabama World Affairs Council, and acted as webmaster.

• Dr. Lewis took students to explore Bavaria, based in Munich; then travelled around Switzerland and Italy

A record number of expert guest speakers came to political science classes, covering topics from all over the world. 

Dr. Lewis participated in a film showing and discussion (with recently acquitted, former inmates) on the death penalty held at the Equal Justice Initiative. 

Speakers from the Equal Justice Initiative came to PSC 314: Constitutional Law on 15 March.  Bryan Stevenson (MacArthur Fellow) presented a film and discussed EJI's work in representing indigent prisoners in Alabama's death row cases.

Dr. Lewis participated in the conferences for Chairs and for Teaching and Learning of the APSA in Charlotte, NC.

Dr. Lewis presented to the ALaPSA conference at AUM, "The Battle of the Falklands /Malvinas: on the Twenty Fifth Anniversary."

Dr. Lewis again sponsored the political science club.

Dr. Lewis also continued to advise the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. 

Dr. Lewis participated on the board of Alabama World Affairs Council, and acted as webmaster.

Dr. Lewis judged the congressional debate at St. James school's tournament, 7 Oct. '06

Dr. Lewis taught the Citizen of the World: Merit Badge Session for Boy Scouts at the HC Merit Badge Day, organized by Larry Newton (political science), National Vice Chief of the Boy Scouts of America.

Faculty ANTS moving-in crew, Aug. 2006 again included Dr. Lewis.

Dr. Lewis conducted another expert guest speakers' program in political science.

Dr. Lewis again sponsored the political science club.

Dr. Lewis also continued to advise the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. 

Dr. Lewis participated on the board of Alabama World Affairs Council, and acted as webmaster.

• Dr. Lewis joined the Sig Phi Epsilon fraternity in their annual epic, kayak adventure on the Coosa River rapids.
• Dr. Lewis travelled in England and explored locations in Barcelona for a possible HC future travel experience.  .

HC Travel experience to London and Oxford, with seminars in both locations with eminent faculty.

ACSC National Security Workshop on Ecological Security, notes, April 10, '06.

Charles Walters, a student in political science, joined Prof. Jeremy Lewis in presenting a paper, "Conflict, Character and Succession: Politics in the Royal Tragedies of William Shakespeare," for a faculty and student panel, chaired by Dr. Lewis, on 29 April, at the Alabama Political Science Association annual conference held at the University of Alabama. 

Dr. Lewis was awarded the national Methodist Board of Higher Education's teaching award at Founder's Day, 10 Feb. '06. 

Dr. Lewis conducted another expert guest speakers' program in political science.

Dr. Lewis again sponsored the political science club.

Dr. Lewis also continued to advise the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. 

Dr. Lewis participated on the board of Alabama World Affairs Council, and acted as webmaster.

• Dr. Lewis spoke on "Interpreting Recent and Controversial History", in the HC presidential colloquium, 7 Nov..
• Dr. Lewis spoke on British politics with the title, "From the Minors to Major," 12-13 Sep., in an endowed lecture series, to the ACES cultural program to Buena Vista University in Iowa. 
• Sunday 11 Sep. Montgomery Advertiser newspaper printed a teacher profile of Dr. Lewis.
• Dr. Lewis conducted another expert guest speakers' program in political science.
• Dr. Lewis again sponsored the political science club.
• Dr. Lewis also continued to advise the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. 
• Dr. Lewis participated on the board of Alabama World Affairs Council, and acted as webmaster.

• Faculty News: Dr. Lewis has been invited to speak to Buena Vista University in Iowa during September as part of a sponsored lecture and discussion series (like HC's Stallworth lectures).  He will present a lecture and hold ACES seminars on aspects of British politics. He'll be in good company.  The next lecturer in the American Heritage Lecture Series will be the Right Honourable John Major, Conservative prime minister 1990-97, and the member from Huntington [sic].
• Faculty News: Dr. Lewis participated in a residential faculty seminar, "Interpreting recent and controversial history," with Professor Ernest May, at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 21-23 June 2005. The topics covered case studies of controversial presidential decisionmaking from the dropping of the atom bomb, via presidential tape recordings of the cuban missile crisis and civil rights confrontations, to the 9/11/01 attacks and drafting of the official report.  A large stack of readings was kindly provided by the Gilder Lehrman foundation.  Dr. Lewis will be using some of this material for his new seminar for Fall '05 on world politics and terrorism. 
• Faculty News: By invitation of the Secretary of the Air Force, Dr. Lewis participated in the Air War College's week-long National Security Forum in May.  Lectures from both general officers and civilian professors stimulated intensive discussions ranging from the uses of special forces to the future of networked sensors in space. 
• Faculty News: Dr. Jeremy Lewis, political science, taught a summer graduate seminar in Area Studies of Western Europe to officers and civilians at Maxwell Air Force Base.  The course covered such topics as social movements, the European Union and the politics of developed countries, for the Master's program in International Relations.  See http://fs.huntingdon.edu/jLewis/Syl/MIR/ .
• Faculty News: Dr. Jeremy Lewis was interviewed about the 07/07/05 bombings of London by WAKA-TV8 and quoted extensively by the Montgomery Advertiser on 07/08/05 (see http://fs.Huntingdon.edu/jLewis/Prof/NewsQuotes/LondonBomb070705.htm .  He is preparing material on world politics and international terrorism for a seminar at HC in Fall '05.



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• Lewis quoted in newspaper article on terrorist bombings in London, 8 July '05
• participant, Harvard faculty seminar with Professor Ernest May on recent & controversial history, 21-23 June '05. 
• Participant, US Air Force National Security Forum, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, May 2005.

• participant, US Air Force Educators' Tour, San Antonio, 22-25 Feb. 2005.
• Dr. Lewis took students to several guest speakers' evening events at Alabama World Affairs Council [notes, '04-05].
• "Electronic freedom of information, privacy and security issues during the W. Bush administration." [References] A paper presented to the Southern Political Science Association conference, New Orleans, 7 Jan. 2005.

• Dr. Lewis discussed the war in Iraq on a 30 minute television program assessing the year, recorded 16 Dec. '04 and broadcast 29 Dec. on APTV's For the Record. 
• Invited participant, US Air Force Officer Candidate School tour, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, 9 November 2004.
• Dr. Lewis took students to several guest speaker events at Alabama World Affairs Council [notes, '04-05].
• He also reviewed a doctoral dissertation for Andhra University.
• Dr. Lewis reviewed textbook manuscripts or prospecti in the fields of public administration, public policy and American politics, for several national publishers. 
• His paper was accepted for the Southern Political Science Association conference in New Orleans, January 6-8 2005.
• Dr. Lewis brought in to class a speaker on regimes in the middle east, Lt. Col. Michael Meyer, a recent former Air Attache in Syria.
• A second class speaker, Col. Donald Olds, spoke to class about his experiences in political negotiations at NATO headquarters in Beligium.
• Dr. Lewis was recognized for recruitment efforts, converting prospects to deposited students. 
• He conducted a comprehensive review, pursuant to President West's charge to reconsider all programs at the college, particularly those with small enrolments. 
• This resulted in the deletion of these programs (though political science continues): Public Administration, Public Affairs, and International Studies.
• A survey of graduates in Public Affairs showed that five of the first seven alumni are enrolled in graduate programs or law schools. 
• Of the first two graduates in International Studies, one is completing a master's degree and one has been admitted to the Diplomatic School of Spain.
• The first alumni in (the larger program) Political science have a strong record of enrolments in graduate and law schools.
• Two of the first Political Science alumni ('01) and one from Public Affairs have completed law school and passed the Bar.

Summer 2004:

• Professor Lewis researched the Bush administration and privacy and official information issues for a conference paper.
• He devoted three weeks of summer 2004 to recruitment for the college.

Spring 2004:

• Dr. Lewis again convened with Dr. Grant Hammond the Great Decisions in Foreign Policy [notes, '04] discussion series.
• This year the series included not just outstanding faculty from Ai University, but also visiting guest speakers from Saudi Arabia.
• Dr. Lewis took students to several guest speaker events at Alabama World Affairs Council [notes, '03-04].
• In January, the British Politics travel experience involved (besides the usual cathedrals, castles and culture) exceursions to Oxford university, the Hosue of Commons and London's interest group lobbby.  We enjoyed two tutorials in Oxford University, with Dr. Lewis's former colleagues, lunch in C.S. Lewis's pub, and dinner in Dylan Thomas's pub.  The next day involved two seminars with leading Members of Parliament in the committee rooms of the House of Commons, plus Question Time from the Strangers' gallery.  A final day gave us a long seminar in Bloomsbury with a leading public interest group director.

• Dr. Lewis taught a new course on British Politics, with a British travel option for January 2004.

• During the summer, Dr. Jeremy Lewis (political science) made two invited presentations,  "Strategy, Technology and Expertise in the Battle of the Falklands /Malvinas, 1982" to officers and faculty of the graduate school (SAASS) and a related presentation to those of Air War College at Air University. 
• He also reviewed a doctoral dissertation for Andhra university; and textbook prospecti for publishers. 
• In August he was interviewed by WSFA-TV on public opinion poll responses to the Governor's tax reform initiative. 

• Dr Lewis spoke to Dr. Gray's Symposium on Kings and Queens about monarchy with emphasis on the British. [Monarchy Notes]. 
• Dr. Jeremy Lewis, Political Science, gave two seminar presentations on international relations issues to the Great Decisions program of the Foreign Policy Association, organized by Air University faculty with participation by outstanding students from magnet and private schools. 
• "Unilateralism versus Multilateralism in diplomacy," January 13, 2003.
• "Problems and Prospects for European Integration," March 3, 2003.
• The Public Affairs Club also attended the speech by Attorney General Janet Reno, and the notes and images may now be found on the above web site.

 
• Dr. Lewis's American Policy System class took a field trip to Judge McLemore's district court for criminal docket day.  After observing the district attorney and public defender working with the judge on disposal of various cases, they were treated to a conference in judge's chambers.

 
• Dr. Lewis's Constitutional Law class attended a luncheon speech by Howard Zehr, the leading author on "Restorative Justice," at an event sponsored by Judge Tracey McCooey.

 
• He also judged the "Leadership" speech contest, sponsored by Alabama Power, Sat. 8 March 2003. 
• He is gave a  speech "Dilemma in the Des[s]ert: US foreign policy and the war with Iraq," to the Rotary Club of Montgomery, 17 March 2003.

 
• He is developing a new course on British Politics for Fall 2003, with a British travel option for January 2004.

• Dr. Jeremy Lewis, coordinator of the Political Science Program, was interviewed by Chris Holmes of WSFA-TV on the prevalence of negative TV spots (critical campaign advertising) in current Alabama campaigns, and the depressant effect on voter registration and turnout. 

 
• Dr. Lewis also gave two invited presentations in Anchorage, Alaska.  The first, on contrasting economic and national security models of US foreign policy under the presidencies of Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43, was to the Alaska World Affairs Council (comprising business, governmental and academic leaders), and the second, ranging from US foreign policy to external perceptions of US society from De Tocqueville to the present, to a large 'town hall' meeting of teachers and students. 

Dr. Jeremy Lewis, associate professor of political science, participated in the World Affairs Councils of America conference on the Future of the Americas, in January in Washington, DC. 

He was presented with their Michael Maybach Award for his efforts to introduce students to world affairs. 

Highlights of the conference included (among many presentations by leading officials) a major policy speech by President Bush and a presentation by the novelist Isabel Allende. 

Dr. Lewis has become the web master for the conference proceedings and images.

Dr. Lewis is also web master for the American Society of Access Professionals in Washington, DC, uploading notes from their conference last December.  The conference proceedings were heavily influenced by the new era of security threats, many presenters referring to the materials removed from government web sites following September's terrorist attacks. 

Dr. Jeremy Lewis, assistant professor of political science, attended a speech by President George W. Bush and other dignitaries last week during a visit to the nation's capitol for a World Affairs Councils of America meeting. 

Dr. Jeremy Lewis, associate professor of political science, will attend the conference of the American Society of Access Professionals in Washington, D.C., participating in discussions on open government, electronic government services, and national security secrecy in the light of the Bush administration's current anti-terrorism measures. 

• This past summer, Dr. Lewis chaired a panel on Comparative Administrative Culture (for Research Group 48) at the World Congress of Political Science, of International PSA, Quebec City, August 2000.  Re-elected a board member, he also became webmaster to the group and has since set up a couple of websites for scholars on several continents.
• Dr. Lewis also returned after a five year absence to England and France for several weeks, scouting out locations and speakers for future Huntingdon travel abroad plans.
• He also completed an instructor's manual for a new edition of William E. Hudson, American Democracy in Peril: Seven Challenges to America's Future. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers. Approx 70 pages. Third edition, January 2001; 
• Dr. Lewis made frequent appearances alone or with students on all Montgomery television news stations and in the Advertiser newspaper during election campaign season, autumn 2000.During the first presidential debate, students or professor appeared on all local channels.  He commentated on electoral college during vote counting dispute in Florida; and discussed middle east strategy and naval damage control tactics during USS Cole bombing.
• He also spoke on "American values from De Tocqueville to the present" to the Unitarian Universalist church.
• Dr. Lewis has spent most of his spare time in the last twelve months developing his political science website, which doubles in scale about every two months.  It is, he says, a regrettable addiction.
• Dr. Lewis will be sending four excellent undergraduates as delegates to the US Air Force Academy Assembly on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, in Colorado Springs, Co, in February 2001. Delegates will be Margaret Enfinger, Angela Graham Dupree, Carrie McDonough and Larry McLemore.  They will participate in the roundtables and workshops over three days with cadets and top students from colleges across the country.
• He proudly announces the fourth edition of the college's Justice reader for the liberal arts symposium has been delivered, with a number of new readings selected by faculty.

May 2000:

• Dr. Jeremy Lewis is currently finishing another instructor's manual for a leading textbook from Chatham House Publishers: Ball and Peters, Modern Politics and Government 6/e.  Another two are expected this summer; all will be published online as well as in hardcopy. 

In January, his two chapters of G. David Garson (ed) The Handbook of Public Information Systems were published by Marcel Dekker.  Subsequently he has been working on an online conference paper and academic journal article in the same subfield, the uses of computers in open government.  For the World Congress of political science, meeting this year in Quebec, he continues to serve on the board of the research group on comparative administrative culture.

"FOIA and the Emergence of Federal Information Policy in the 1980s and 1990s," chapter 4 of G. David Garson (ed), Handbook of Public Information Systems (NY: Marcel Dekker, 2000). Contents. Bibliography. Table.

"Electronic Access to Public Records," chapter 15 of G. David Garson (ed), Handbook of Public Information Systems (NY: Marcel Dekker, 2000).  Contents. Bibliography.

 

During spring term, he spent most weekends creating two websites on the Huntingdon faculty server. The Political Science site (http://fs.huntingdon.edu/history/jlewis/) now holds all course syllabi and research links; the enhanced site for the Liberal Arts Symposium in Justice (http://fs.huntingdon.edu/las/1999-2000/102/102_syllabus.html) has numerous links, notes, events and images.  Both have numerous yearbook-like images of students and speakers for your edification.

 

After a process of trial and error, he passed on his observations and caveats on website creation to the Faculty development consortium conference on instructional technology, held in Montgomery in April. He gave two talks, one as a full presentation with papers and online demonstration, and one as part of a panel of Huntingdon faculty.

 

The most frequently enjoyed web pages for outsiders this term have been the action photos from the Coed Rugby Football Jan Term course, which was featured on local television.  (This is found on the political science home page).

 

In February, Dr. Lewis participated in the US Air Force Academy annual assembly on public policy.  This year's topic, "diversity", was also attended by two outstanding HC undergraduate delegates, Amy Garrett (a native American) and Woo-Jung Lee (a South Korean).  Both received highly favorable evaluations by their roundtable leaders.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dr. Lewis reports a good semester of the faculty seminar on Justice, with the faculty opting to add a number of classic readings for next spring.  As director of the college interdisciplinary symposium on Justice, Dr. Lewis had the pleasure of awarding HC tankards to the best received lecturers: to Dr. Harald Rohlig for "Growing up Under an Unjust Regime" (his memoir of persecution in Nazi Germany); to Rabbi David Baylinson for "The Holocaust"; and to the final speaker, D.A. Ellen Brooks, for "Prosecuting Justice Under the Constitution: The Role of the District Attorney".

• Dr. Jeremy Lewis has two anthology chapters in press, “The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Emergence of Federal Information Policy in the 1980s and 1990s,” chapter 4, and “Electronic Access to Public Records,” chapter 15, of G. David Garson (ed) Handbook of Public Information Systems, (NY: Marcel Dekker , 1999). 

• Dr. Lewis made two paper presentations to the American PSA Annual Meeting, in Boston, MA: "The Supreme Court's Role in Access Policy," a paper presented to the panel on Law and the Courts, and "Comparative Administrative Culture: Bureaucratic Transparency in Sweden, Canada, Britain and the United States," a poster session in Comparative Politics.

• Recently Lewis completed a large instructor’s manual for the Fifth Edition of B. Guy Peters, American Public Policy: Process and Performance, (NY: Chatham House Publishers, 1999).  In response, Chatham has requested a series of manuals over the next year.

• He has also been active as a reviewer of grant proposals for the Latin American area studies research grants consortium, with funding by the Ford Foundation.  Recently he reviewed for the publisher, G. David Garson (ed), Information Technology and Computer Applications in Public Administration: Issues and Trends (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 1999). 

• Dr. Lewis also attended the American PSA annual conference 1999 in Atlanta, GA, picking up 56 papers for undergraduates at Huntingdon.  He also took two students to the US Air Force Academy Assembly on US-Latin American relations, Colorado Springs, in February.  The political science undergraduates, Jared Lyles and Chad Hobbs, participated in workshops on foreign policy in the student assembly, while Dr. Lewis participated in the faculty seminars and reported the presentation by the first Western Hemisphere Ambassador,  Romero.

• The new major fields are rapidly growing in students: Political science is being pursued by ten undergrads, International Studies by two adventurous souls, and the demanding Public Affairs Tri-subject major already has engaged thirteen students.