UNIVERSITY SERVICE

  Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Arts and Science, 2006-07, 2007-08

  Frequent commentator to local and national press about public opinion, elections, campaigns, and presidential behavior. I have worked with The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, USAToday, NPR, CBS Evening News, CNN Inside Politics, The O’Reilly Factor, NBC Evening News, Fox News, ABC’s This Week, and MSNBC. In 2004, I was interviewed over 200 times on topics tied to the presidential election. In 2006, I was interviewed over 250 times on topics tied to campaigns and advertising.

  Speaker to Vanderbilt Alumni groups around the country about elections and public opinion.

  Speaker to University School of Nashville, November 2004.

  Founding Member of the “Education Roundtable of Tennessee,” a group designed to inform the public and policy elites about the state of education in the state, September 2001.

  With funding from the Peabody School, I headed the effort to launch the first “Vanderbilt Poll.” Its results were released in a press conference on 10/22/01.