About Dole Fellows & Fellowships
Each Fall and Spring semesters, Dole Fellowships are granted to one or two individuals who have hands-on experience and enthusiasm for public service. Selection of Fellows is based on their energy, originality and potential to invigorate student interest in politics. Each Fellow leads a public, 6-8 week, not-for-credit study group on a political topic based on his/her expertise. Students and community members have many opportunities to interact with these experts and their guests in a group and or one-on-one basis.
Dole Fellowship Application Process
Fall 2010 Dole Fellows

Kevin Jackson
Kevin Jackson is a leader in the consulting industry in America, having some of the world’s largest companies as his clients. Jackson is also a highly sought national speaker. He is author of The BIG Black Lie. Jackson has appeared numerous times on the Glenn Beck show, The Factor with Bill O’Reilly, and MSNBC. Jackson hosts a radio show and does many guest appearances on some of the more prominent conservative radio shows around the country. Jackson writes his almost daily blog, The Black Sphere, and is a contributing writer to Breitbart’s Big Government, American Thinker, and his work was has been featured in Townhall magazine.
Joseph C. Phillips
Joseph Phillips is a television actor, best known for the role of Lt. Martin Kendall, Lisa Bonet’s husband, on the hit series The Cosby Show. He has appeared on dozens of television shows, including General Hospital, Without A Trace, and Castle. A syndicated columnist, Phillips’ “The Way I see It” appears weekly in more than 30 publications across the country. Phillips is author of He Talk Like a White Boy. He has been National Co-Chair of the African American Steering committee for Bush/Cheney ’04, a member of the Republican National Committee’s African American Advisory Board, and a 2005 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow.
Peter Fenn
Peter Fenn is president of Fenn Communications Group, one of the nation’s premier political and public affairs media firms. They have worked in more than 300 campaigns, from President to Mayor, and represented a number of Fortune 500 companies. Prior to forming the firm, Fenn was the first Executive Director of Democrats for the 80’s, a political action committee. He also served on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee and as Washington Chief of Staff for Senator Frank Church. In 1983, Fenn founded and was the first Executive Director of the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Spring 2010 Dole Fellows
Wilma Goldstein now adds Spring 2010 Dole Fellow to her long and illustrious career in management, political consulting, survey research, public relations, political campaigns and associations, with a particular emphasis on women’s issues.
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David Strauss comes to the Dole Institute as Spring 2010 Dole Fellow with a resume familiar to people who have followed North Dakota politics, having served for nearly three decades in senior positions in the federal government.
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