CWRU President Edward M. Hundert, representatives from the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, Cleveland Convention and Visitors' Bureau and several University officials recently hosted a site visit team from the Commission on Presidential Debates.

CWRU has been named as a finalist to become a potential host site for one of the 2004 presidential debates, the commission announced. During the site visit Hundert and the other officials provided the commission with details on campus facilities and supplemental information about University Circle, the surrounding community and the local infrastructure that would support such an event.

"The University's trustee leadership and our faculty leadership are very excited about the possibility of having one of the 2004 presidential debates in the city of Cleveland and on the Case Western Reserve University campus," Hundert said. "The civic experiences of America are a great lesson to our students and to the community."

Among the civic leaders consulted about the University's initial proposal to host the event include Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell and Dennis Eckart, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association.

The commission will conduct site surveys during the next several months and plans to announce the final sites in November 2003. It is the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that sponsored all the general election presidential and vice presidential debates in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000.

 

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