The Summer 2009 issue of NEJHE featured a forum on President Obama's goal to make the U.S. the world leader in college degree attainment as well as commentaries exploring policy journalism in the new media age. Authors in this forum included U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Capitol Hill education expert Terry Hartle; Muriel Howard, the first minority woman to lead one of the big D.C. higher education associations; and Nellie Mae Education Foundation President Nicholas C. Donohue. NEJHE also explored the future shape of education policy-related publishing in an age of blogging and Twitter with articles by social technology guru Brian Reich and two NEJHE editorial advisors: Robert Whitcomb, then vice president at the Providence Journal, and Ralph Whitehead, a journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Other features included Salem State University education prof R. Clarke Fowler on teacher reciprocity; Bowdoin College associate director of dining services and executive chef Kenneth Cardone on learning to eat in the college cafeteria; Amherst College athletic director Suzanne R. Coffey on development of student-athletes; and Donna Loring, who served in the Maine Legislature as a tribal representative of the Penobscot Nation for 12 years, on teaching Native American history in schools.