Hofstra pushes front-line learning with presidential debate
About 7,500 students, or more than two-thirds of the student body, entered the lottery for only a few hundred tickets to witness the cycle's first presidential debate, being held Monday night in a campus basketball arena.
Qian Xiong, an exchange student from China and marketing major, will be posting on Chinese social media during the debate.
The university, with an enrollment of 10,870, was able to put together logistical plans for the debate in about 60 days, building on its experience of having hosted debates in 2008 and 2012.
The educational experience goes beyond the activities on the day of the debate.
Since the fall semester began two weeks ago, campus speakers have included former Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, Democratic strategist David Axelrod — a former adviser to President Barack Obama — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson and Stephen F. Hayes, a senior writer at The Weekly Standard and Fox News contributor.