By Greg Hazley
Craig Shirley, a longtime GOP communications hand and president/CEO of Shirley & Banister Public Affairs in Alexandria, Va., will be the first Reagan scholar at the ex-president's alma mater, Eureka College, in 2011, as he teaches a course on presidential campaigns.
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Shirley will lead "A Survey of American Presidential Campaigns" during the May term as the first scholar in the Eureka, Ill.-based college's Ronald Reagan Visiting Scholars Program, which was developed to mark the centennial of the 40th president's birth next year on Feb. 6.
Reagan was a member of Eureka's class of 1932 and served for 18 years on its board of trustees.
Shirley wrote a 2009 book about Reagan's 1980 campaign and spoke at the college in March to promote the tome. He also penned a 2005 book on Reagan's 1976 challenge to President Gerald Ford in the Republican primaries called "Reagan's Revolution."
He is currently writing "Citizen Newt," a political biography of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Shirley's PR firm caters to mostly conservative clients like Ann Coulter and Delaware Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell.
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