Investigating the Impact of Politics in the Classroom:
Considering Whether Students Recognize and React to Faculty Politics
Matthew Woessner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Penn State University, Harrisburg
Department of Public Policy
Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg
777 West Harrisburg Pike
Middletown, PA 17057-4898
(717) 948-6489
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April Kelly-Woessner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Elizabethtown College
Department of Political Science
Elizabethtown College
One Alpha Drive
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
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Acknowledgement: We thank our research assistants, Kathleen Winters, Nadizda Ivanova and
Benjamin Adelman, for all of their valuable work and assistance. We would like to acknowledge
a debt of gratitude to the dozens of political science faculty throughout the country who took the
time to distribute our survey to their undergraduate students. This project would not have been
possible without their generous assistance. This research was funded through grants from both
Penn State University Research Council and the Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs.
Paper prepared for presentation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the
International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) Paris, France: July 9-12, 2008