On March 23, 2020, Susan Collins will be giving the 2020 Jack Paynter Lecture at James Madison College, Michigan State University, on the Spartans and their political order.

On October 7, 2019, James Madison College at Michigan State University, a JMC partner program, will host the Honorable Roza Otunbayeva for a discussion of democracy-building in foreign countries.

On March 11, 2019, Mark David Hall, a JMC faculty partner, spoke at James Madison College at Michigan State University, on the Founders' views of Christianity and government.

On February 19, Forrest Nabors will be giving the 2019 Jack Paynter Lecture at James Madison College, Michigan State University, on the Missouri Compromise and how it led to civil war.