As I wrote in my Sunday column, a group of Sonoma State University students is in Washington, D.C. this week participating in a special presidential inauguration educational program through the non-profit Washington Center.

Tonight, the group, led by Associate Professor David McCuan, is hearing from CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer, moderator of "Face the Nation."

Wednesday's session will be broadcast live (and rebroadcast later in the day) via C-SPAN, but you will have to get up early. The session starts at 6 a.m. PST.

The session will feature a special program with Brian Lamb, president and CEO of C-SPAN. McCuan left me a message today saying the students may hear from White House Press Secretary Dana Perino who is tentatively slated to show up.

Later in the day, the students also will hear from Ted Koppel, former host of ABC News Nightline and Chicago Tribune Columnist Clarence Page.

To read the students blogs, go to D.C. Dispatch on our new Inauguration 2009 Web page.

- Paul Gullixson