Chapman Rackaway Professor and Chair, Political Science Radford University (VA) Chapman Rackaway, Ph.D.serves Radford University as Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science.  Civic engagement is the core of Rackaway’s academic mission.  Rackaway has participated in AASCU’s American Democracy Project since its inception in 2003, and he is currently a national Civic Fellow where his portfolio focuses on the institutional support of civic work at ADP schools.  Rackaway is an active scholar, the author of Communicating Politics Online, now in its second edition; Civic Failure and its Threat to American Democracy: Operator Error  co-editor of The Unorthodox Presidency … Continued