11/18/11 bv

HAYS, Kan. -- Members of Insight Kansas Consortium, a group of Kansas political science and journalism professors who double as political columnists, will meet for a symposium on the first year of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's administration.

The symposium will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, in the Memorial Union's Fort Hays Ballroom on FHSU campus.

The panel discussion is open to the public.

The first Insight Kansas symposium was held at Washburn University last November to review the 2010 elections.

Members of the Insight Kansas consortium are Dr. Chapman Rackaway, associate professor of political science at FHSU; Dr. Bob Beatty, Washburn University; Dr. Michael Smith, Emporia State University; Dr. Edward Flentje, interim president of Emporia State University; Dr. Burdett Loomis, University of Kansas; and Dr. Gwyn Mellinger, professor of journalism, University of Kansas.