Alan Keyes has decided he’s in for another presidential campaign. This is the third time the Republican, who once served as president of Alabama A&M University, has entered a race for the White House.

The last time Mr. Keyes ran for his party’s presidential nomination, in 2000, he answered a series of questions about his views on higher-education issues that The Chronicle of Higher Education posed to him and other presidential contenders.

Among his responses, Mr. Keyes said the federal government should prohibit preferential treatment of people by race in higher education, advocated abolishing the U.S. Department of Education, and argued that direct federal grants to institutions are “dangerous,” often involving “expensive and ideological regulations.”

One of Mr. Keyes’s Republican opponents at that time was John McCain, who, of course, is also running again in the 2008 race. (Mr. McCain’s views on higher education from the 2000 campaign also can be found in that Chronicle story.)

Mr. Keyes also is very familiar with another 2008 contender: Barack Obama, a Democrat. Mr. Obama beat Mr. Keyes in a 2004 campaign to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate. (That’s the race where Mr. Keyes proclaimed that Jesus Christ would not vote for Mr. Obama.)