{"id":29725,"date":"2015-12-16T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2015\/12\/16\/course-explores-presidency-offered-at-necc\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:21:04","slug":"course-explores-presidency-offered-at-necc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/12\/16\/course-explores-presidency-offered-at-necc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Quest for the Presidency&#8221; Offered at NECC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2528\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2011\/12\/Richard-Padova-newsroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2528\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2011\/12\/Richard-Padova-newsroom-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"NECC Professor Rich Padova teaches Quest for the Presidency\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NECC History Professor Rich Padova will teach &#8220;Quest for the Presidency&#8221; beginning in January.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Richard Padova of Andover, who has worked on eight presidential campaigns, both Democratic and Republican, and teaches in the Global Studies Department at Northern Essex Community College will revive his history course titled \u201cQuest for the Presidency\u201d for the spring 2016 semester which begins January 20.<\/p>\n<p>The three-credit course will be offered on the Haverhill campus, 100 Elliott St., on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 11 to 11:50 a.m. It is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>This course, which is offered only once every four years, examines both the history and the mechanics of U.S. presidential campaigns from George Washington to the present.\u00a0 Candidates and issues in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign will also be studied within the context of the course.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, feel free to contact the instructor, Rich Padova, at <a href=\"mailto:rpadova@necc.mass.edu\">rpadova@necc.mass.edu<\/a> or 978-556-3297.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Padova of Andover, who has worked on eight presidential campaigns, both Democratic and Republican, and teaches in the Global Studies Department at Northern Essex Community College will revive his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":29727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Quest for the Presidency&quot; 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