Activities at the University of Illinois at Springfield observing Earth Week 2007 (April 16-20) will focus on two presentations: a talk by environmental activist Winona LaDuke and a panel discussion of the state's renewable energy sources. Both events will take place on the UIS campus and are free and open to the public.
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March 21, 2007
Sean Crawford, Statehouse bureau chief for public radio WUIS/WIPA, received a second place award in the recent Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association Journalism Excellence Contest.
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March 16, 2007
Michale Callahan, the Illinois State Police officer whose investigation into the case of Randy Steidl led to a lawsuit against state police officials, will speak on "Demoted for Pursuing the Truth" beginning at 6 p.m. Monday, March 19, in University Hall room 2034, on campus at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
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March 9, 2007
ABC-TV will devote a portion of its March 9 edition of 20/20 to the exoneration of Julie Rea Harper, who in a July 2006 retrial was found not guilty of murdering her son. The University of Illinois at Springfield's Downstate Illinois Innocence Project was involved in Rea Harper's case and worked to develop significant evidence presented during her second trial.
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March 7, 2007
Kavitha Cardoza, Springfield bureau chief for public radio WUIS 91.9 FM, has received a Special Citation in the prestigious 2006 National Awards for Education Reporting competition sponsored by the Education Writers Association.
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March 7, 2007
A dozen women who changed their community for the better will be recognized in "Skirting Convention: 12 Women Who Changed Springfield," a new oral history series produced by public radio WUIS 91.9 FM. Underwritten by a $10,000 grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, the series will begin March 8, International Women's Day.
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March 6, 2007
The Institute for Legal and Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield and the Illinois Environmental Health Association will host two public lectures examining issues in environmental health on March 6 and 7...The topic of first lecture, on Tuesday, March 6, will be "Environmental Health: The Invisible Guardians in Every Community." The featured speaker will be Nelson Fabian, executive director of the National Environmental Health Association...The subject of the lecture on Wednesday, March 7, will be "Lessons Learned the Hard Way: After 9/11" presented by Francesca Lyman, a freelance environmental reporter and contributor to MSNBC.
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February 19, 2007
"African Heritage in Classical Music" is the topic of a new four-part series aired Fridays at 11 a.m. and Mondays at 8 p.m. throughout February on public radio WUIS 91.9-WIPA 89.3. The program is made possible with support from the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield and New Mission Church of God.
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February 5, 2007
The Certified Public Manager Program of Illinois (CPMPI), a nationally recognized professional development program, will be offered beginning in March through the Institute for Legal and Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Although the program is designed specifically for public-sector managers, enrollment is open to anyone. Advance registration is required.
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February 5, 2007
Public Radio WUIS 91.9-WIPA 89.3 will host a concert showcasing some of central Illinois' best young classical musicians at 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 2, at First Presbyterian Church, 321 S. Seventh Street, in Springfield. Both the performance and the reception and award presentation immediately following are free and open to the public.
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January 25, 2007
Ten local high school students will go into the studio at public radio station WUIS-WIPA this week to record original essays of their personal beliefs. Winners of the station's This I Believe essay contest for Sangamon County students, the essays will be broadcast weekdays on 91.9-89.3 FM at 7:55 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. between January 29 and February 9.
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January 22, 2007
Young classical musicians in area elementary and high schools are invited to enter the third annual Young Musicians Concert Contest sponsored by Public Radio WUIS 91.9FM -WIPA 89.3FM.
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December 7, 2006
The Downstate Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois at Springfield will host a presentation by Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the National Innocence Project, beginning at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 28, in Brookens Auditorium, located on the lower level of Brookens Library on the UIS campus. The presentation is free and open to the public.
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November 8, 2006
Nearly 1,000 listeners of public radio WUIS 91.9 FM-WIPA 89.3 FM participated in the station's recently concluded membership drive, pledging more than $117,000 in support this fall.
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October 26, 2006
Karl Scroggin, music director and on-air host for public radio WUIS 91.9 FM at the University of Illinois at Springfield, is among the 75 recipients of the 2006 Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award presented by the Illinois Humanities Council.
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October 20, 2006
Kathleen Best, the assistant managing editor at The Sun in Baltimore, and Bill Lambrecht, Washington bureau chief for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, are the charter inductees into The Bill Miller Public Affairs Reporting Hall of Fame at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
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October 16, 2006
Dr. Mark A. Noll and Dr. Ronald C. White, Jr. will be the speakers at the University of Illinois at Springfield?s 2006 Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series, beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 26, in Brookens Auditorium, located on the lower level of Brookens Library at UIS. The theme of this year?s program is "Lincoln and America?s Faith."
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October 10, 2006
Public Radio WUIS 91.9FM-WIPA 89.3FM will broadcast two special programs on Halloween night, Tuesday, October 31.
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October 5, 2006
Public radio 91.9 WUIS (Springfield) - 89.3 WIPA (Pittsfield) will carry a special two-hour broadcast of NPR?s Talk of the Nation, focusing on the future of deaf education and culture, on Thursday, October 12. Area residents can join the conversation online at 1 p.m. CDT. Hearing-impaired individuals will have the opportunity to follow and participate in the discussion in real-time through live captioning at www.NPR.org.
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October 4, 2006
Ronald Michaelson, visiting assistant professor of Political Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, is one of three experts on state campaign finance recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Campaign Finance Institute, a non-partisan, non-profit institute affiliated with The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
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September 28, 2006
Charles N. Wheeler III, director of the Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois at Springfield, has been inducted into the Lincoln League of Journalists of the Illinois Associated Press Editors Association. The honor was announced September 21 at the IAPEA annual awards banquet, held at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.
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September 26, 2006
Charles N. Wheeler III, associate professor and director of the Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois at Springfield, recently received top honors for magazine commentary/news analysis in the annual competition sponsored by Capitolbeat, a national organization of journalists covering state and local governments. This is the third year in a row that Wheeler has won a first-place award in the contest.
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September 19, 2006
Public radio WUIS 91.9 FM will host the station's first-ever Passports Tour, a weeklong trip to Italy, May 16 - 23, 2007. Music Director Karl Scroggin will lead the group to stops in Florence, Tuscany, and Rome.
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September 12, 2006
Christopher Mooney, professor of Political Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, was recently recognized for his work as founding editor of the State Politics & Policy Quarterly with a reception in his honor. The reception, part of the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association held in Philadelphia, was hosted by APSA's Public Policy and Policy Studies Organization sections.
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September 8, 2006
Despite the not guilty verdict in the retrial of Julie Rea-Harper, the Downstate Innocence Project housed at the University of Illinois at Springfield points to her case as another example of a flawed criminal justice system in Illinois. The Innocence Project has provided significant investigative assistance to Rea-Harper and her legal team for the past several years.
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July 26, 2006
"The Sangamon Valley Roots Revival Radio Hour," a new locally produced music program, will premiere on Public Radio WUIS 91.9FM-WIPA 89.3FM in July.
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June 28, 2006
"Politics and Religion: Conflict and Coexistence at Home and Abroad" is the topic of the fourth annual Public Policy Summit, to be held Tuesday, June 20, at the University of Illinois at Springfield. The event is sponsored by UIS' Center for State Policy and Leadership and is open to the public.
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June 1, 2006
The University of Illinois at Springfield has announced the appointment of Dr. Anthony P. Halter as executive director of the Center for State Policy and Leadership at UIS, following approval by the U of I Board of Trustees today.
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May 12, 2006
Starting in April, Public Radio WUIS 91.9FM-WIPA 89.3FM will add two programs geared toward people with an appreciation of art and artists to its weekly line-up. In May the station will broadcast an eight-part documentary on the history of Asian-American immigration.
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April 3, 2006
Ecologist/author/cancer survivor Dr. Sandra Steingraber will speak at the University of Illinois at Springfield on Wednesday, April 19, in observance of Earth Day. Dr. Steingraber's presentation, "Contaminated without Consent: How Chemical Pollutants in Air, Food, and Water Violate Human Rights," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Brookens Auditorium, located on the lower level of Brookens Library at UIS.
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March 31, 2006
Illinois Issues? Statehouse Bureau Chief Bethany Carson launched the magazine?s first online journal in time to track the scheduled end of the spring legislative session. Carson?s Web log can be read at
http://illinoisissuesblog.blogspot.com.
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March 31, 2006
WUIS Statehouse Bureau Chief Sean Crawford was among the top winners in the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association 2005 Journalism Excellence Contest. Crawford took second place in the Best Investigative Series, Downstate Radio Division, for his report titled ?Trucking Money.?
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March 17, 2006
?What Works?? is the subject of the second forum in the Education Policy Series Closing the Achievement Gap to be held 9 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 23, at the University of Illinois at Springfield...Keynote speaker is Dr. Sam Redding, director of the national Center on Innovation and Improvement in Lincoln, Illinois, whose topic is ?Closing Gaps: An Optimistic View.?
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March 16, 2006
A leading scholar on global perspectives about women and gender will speak at the University of Illinois at Springfield on Wednesday, March 8, in celebration of International Women?s Day. Dr. Zakia Salime will present ?Feminization of Islamist Women and the Power of Women?s Rights? at 7 p.m. in Brookens Auditorium, located on the lower level of Brookens Library at UIS.
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February 28, 2006
The Center for State Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Springfield announces the publication of the Almanac of Illinois Politics - 2006.
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February 28, 2006
Public Radio WUIS 91.9 FM will broadcast Governor Rod Blagojevich?s annual Budget Address before a joint session of the Illinois general assembly live, in its entirety, beginning at noon on Wednesday, February 15(2006).
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February 8, 2006
Amanda Vinicky, most recently of Iowa City, Iowa, will rejoin Public Radio WUIS 91.9FM ?WIPA 89.3FM as a reporter for the WUIS Statehouse Bureau and the Illinois Public Radio news network in February.
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January 25, 2006
Public Radio WUIS 91.9FM-WIPA 89.3FM will present a variety of special programs in the next four weeks, ranging from the evolution/creationism controversy to country music to speeches that changed the world.
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January 23, 2006
"Pensions and the State Budget" will be the topic of discussion at a program to be held from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, February 6, at the Sangamo Club, 227 East Adams St., Springfield. The program is part of the Luncheon Series on Public Policy, Governance, and Administration co-sponsored by the Center for State Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Springfield and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs of the University of Illinois.
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January 20, 2006
Illinois Issues welcomes the season with its own holiday tradition. This December marks the 10th year the magazine has published an annual arts issue.
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December 19, 2005
Public radio WUIS 91.9 FM has received a pledge from long-time listeners and members Michelle and Guerry Suggs of Springfield that will serve as the major component in funding a new performing arts studio for the station.
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December 12, 2005
The Center and Phillip Shaw Paludan, Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair of Lincoln Studies at UIS, hosted the 2005 Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series at UIS. The series began on October 13 with Professor Allen C. Guelzo speaking on ?Lincoln?s Declaration of Economic Independence.? Michael F. Holt spoke on October 20 on ?Lincoln?s Whigs: Expanding Economic Opportunities.? The series concluded with Professor Gabor S. Boritt speaking on ?Lincoln and the Right to Rise? on October 26.
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October 27, 2005
Tom Ambrose, Senior Training Coordinator in the Center?s Institute for Legal and Policy Studies, has been named recipient of the Exemplary Service Award at the Illinois Probation and Court Services Association...The Exemplary Service Award, previously designated as the Citizen Award, is presented annually to an individual in recognition of his or her dedication and commitment to furthering probation and court services.
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October 21, 2005
The Institute for Legal and Policy Studies (ILAPS) has recently completed a three-year examination of the DUI statutes under a grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), which has resulted in the DUI Sentencing Guidelines. These Guidelines have been produced into CD-Rom, and four training sessions for Illinois Judges and States Attorneys on the DUI Sentencing Guidelines CD have now been completed.
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October 20, 2005
Shirley R. Madigan, Chair of the Illinois Arts Council, was presented with the 14th Annual Motorola Excellence in Public Service Award at a luncheon on October 12 at the Chicago Hilton. The award, which is co-sponsored by Illinois Issues and NORBIC (an economic development organization in Chicago), honors a non-elected public official employed by the City of Chicago, Cook County or State of Illinois, who has had a positive impact on the well-being of citizens through extraordinary leadership, teamwork and innovation.
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October 13, 2005
Illinois Issues held a magnificent event in Chicago on September 30 to culminate its year of celebration of the 30th anniversary of publication of the magazine. The event was held at the Union League Club and included a luncheon panel moderated by former Governor Jim Edgar.
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October 1, 2005
Public Radio WUIS 91.9-WIPA 89.3 has named Sean Crawford to be the new Statehouse bureau chief for the station and the Illinois Public Radio news network. Crawford succeeds Bill Wheelhouse, who recently accepted the position of WUIS-WIPA general manager.
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September 21, 2005
The Center sponsored UIS' first U.S. Constitution Day Forum on September 19, 2005. The topic, "Politics, the Constitution, and Supreme Court Appointments," was chosen due to the national attention focused on the U.S. Supreme Court and the nomination of Judge John Roberts for Chief Justice. The forum featured keynote speaker Martin H. Redish, Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. Professor Redish discussed the role of the Supreme Court in American constitutional democracy.
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September 20, 2005
?Politics, the Constitution, and Supreme Court Appointments? is the topic of a forum to be held at the University of Illinois at Springfield on Monday, September 19, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Brookens Auditorium. The event is being presented by the UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership in observance of U.S. Constitution Day.
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September 13, 2005
Graduate students enrolled in the University of Illinois at Springfield?s Graduate Public Service Internship program have found placements with participating state agencies in record numbers for the third year in a row.
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September 12, 2005
Sean Crawford, director of network operations at WUIS/WIPA, won a 2nd place award for radio journalism at the annual conference of Capitolbeat, the Association of Captiol Reporters and Editors (ACRE). The award was presented on August 19 in Seattle for excellence in state government reporting.
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August 20, 2005
Illinois Issues won three first place awards and a second place award for magazine journalism at the annual conference of Capitolbeat, the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors. The awards, given last month in Seattle, recognize excellence in state government reporting.
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August 19, 2005
Bill Wheelhouse, statehouse bureau chief for WUIS/WIPA Public Radio has been named general manager of the station effective August 16, 2005.
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August 16, 2005
For the second year in a row, a record number of new GPSI interns and agency supervisors attended the GPSI New Intern Orientation held August 11, 2005 on the UIS campus. According to Kim Hayden, Director of the Office of Graduate Intern Programs, this is the largest cohort to begin the fall term in the 31 year history of the program.
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August 12, 2005
Rich Bradley, veteran news director of WUIS-WIPA Public Radio, has been named recipient of the prestigious 2005 Leo C. Lee Award, presented by Public Radio News Directors, Inc. Presented at ceremonies held July 16 in Chicago, the award honors those who ?demonstrate a lasting commitment to public radio journalism and who exemplify the ideal, spirit, and passion of the profession.?
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July 18, 2005
Bill Wheelhouse, long-time statehouse bureau chief for WUIS 91.9 ? WIPA 89.3 Public Radio, has been named general manager of the station effective August 16, pending approval of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
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July 13, 2005
The third annual Society, Slavery and the Civil War Conference, ?With Hearts on Fire: Women in the Civil War: North & South,? was held at UIS on Friday, June 17 in Brookens Auditorium. The conference was sponsored by the UIS Public Policy High School Initiatives, Professor Phillip Shaw Paludan, Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair of Lincoln Studies at UIS, UIS Speakers Bureau, UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership, and Lawrence J. Smith and Sheila Stocks-Smith.
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June 20, 2005
Political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain is Illinois Issues? first Paul Simon Essayist. She argues in the magazine?s May issue that we need more religion in politics.
?Without morality,? she writes, ?there would be no civil society as we have come to understand it.?
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May 2, 2005
The Public Policies High School Initiatives Program hosted U.S. Congressman John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, at UIS on April 25 in Brookens Auditorium. Congressman Shimkus led a panel discussion about his bill, House Resolution (HR) 284, which was introduced at the 109th Congress on 1/6/05. HR 284 would ?amend the Safe and Drug- Free Schools and Communities Act to include bullying and harassment prevention programs.? The bill is currently co-sponsored by 24 members of Congress.
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April 25, 2005
The Center hosted a Graduate Assistant (GA) Appreciation Reception the afternoon of April 14, 2005 to thank the GAs working in Center units for their contributions to the Center this year. Nine of the twelve graduate assistants employed in the Center and their supervisors attended the reception and spoke briefly about the projects they have been involved with this academic year.
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April 14, 2005
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a former contender for the middleweight boxing championship who was wrongfully convicted in 1967 of the murders of three people in New Jersey, went on a whirlwind tour of Springfield, addressing several different audiences. Since being released from prison in 1985 by Federal District Court Judge Sarokin on a writ of habeas corpus, Carter has spent his time fighting to free innocent persons from prison who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit. Carter had maintained his own innocence at trial and throughout the lengthy period of his incarceration.
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April 12, 2005
Nearly 300 people attended the Center?s third annual public policy summit, which was held on April 11. This year?s theme was ?Politics and Religion: Global and American Perspectives.? There were two sessions at this year?s policy summit; a luncheon session and an evening session.
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April 11, 2005
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency was recently recognized for its exemplary contributions to the UIS Graduate Public Service Internship Program. IEPA Deputy Director Bernard Killian accepted the GPSI Loyalty Award on behalf of Director Renee Cipriano at the Annual Intern Recognition breakfast held on April 6, 2005. The presentation marked the culmination of the 30th anniversary of the GPSI program.
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April 6, 2005
The Center and the UIS Women?s Center co-sponsored a presentation by Sheila Simon in honor of Women?s Heritage Month on March 28, 2005. Simon, a clinical assistant professor of law at Southern Illinois University School of Law and a current member of the Carbondale City Council, as well as a member of a local Carbondale band ?Loose Gravel,? spoke to an audience of approximately 175.
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March 29, 2005
On March 29, 2005, the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform (ICPR) issued a press release summarizing the results from a recent public opinion poll on issues relating to judicial selection and election, conducted by the Survey Research Office of the Center. The Poll was jointly commissioned by the ICPR and the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
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March 29, 2005
From February 28 to March 11, 2005, twenty-one first year GPSI interns experienced the Illinois legislative process from behind the scenes. For over 20 years the UIS Office of Graduate Intern Programs and the Illinois General Assembly have collaborated in providing a two week legislative job shadowing experience. The Legislative Shadowing Program is designed to give first year GPSI interns a chance to spend two weeks with a legislator. In some cases this may be an intern who is matched with a legislator from their home district.
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March 21, 2005
Peggy Dunn, director, Public Policy High School Initiatives, and Alanna Sablotny, graduate assistant, participated as presenters at the 2005 Connections Conference, sponsored by Illinois State University, in St. Charles, Illinois on March 9 - 10, 2005. The title of their presentation was "Public Policymaking in the Illinois Classroom."
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March 10, 2005
The Office of Electronic Media (OEM) worked with the Institute for Legal and Policy Studies (ILAPS) at UIS, as well as their funder, the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts (AOIC), in creating videotapes used for training probation officers to be agents of change.
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March 1, 2005
The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) partnership, housed within the Institute for Legal and Policy Studies, recently received two technology grants from the SBC Foundation totaling $100,000 to help promote college readiness for low-income students.
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February 1, 2005
SBC Foundation has awarded grants totaling almost $136,000 to the University of Illinois at Springfield and partner organizations to fund technology programs for GEAR UP and the university?s Online Mathematics Teacher Certification.
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February 1, 2005
Sharron LaFollette, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Legal and Policy Studies has been elected chair of the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council (EHAC). EHAC accredits undergraduate and graduate programs of environmental health throughout the country.
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January 31, 2005
A faculty luncheon dialogue with Dr. Louis Fisher of the Congressional Research Service was organized and hosted by the Center on January 18, 2005. Fisher is a leading Constitutional scholar and one of the nation's foremost experts on separation of powers and presidential war power.
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January 18, 2005
The Institute for Legal and Policy Studies has been working with the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts in the design and development of DVDs which will be used for training Probation Officers who work with sex offenders. The project involves working with the staff and the facilities of the Office of Electronic Media on campus to develop a projected 20 DVDs which will help to provide mandatory training for sex offender officers.
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January 10, 2005
Nancy L. Ford, J.D., Professor of Legal Studies, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Legal and Policy Studies, has been appointed interim director of the Institute for Legal and Policy Studies effective January 1, 2005. Ford holds a J.D. from Temple University School of Law and a B.A. in English and Education from Indiana University. She is licensed to practice law and has practiced in Pennsylvania and Illinois.
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January 1, 2005
