Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The academic year is well underway and we are excited by what the fall semester means for GCI. From the Great Cities Honors College Seminar to the fall Faculty Scholars Seminar series, students and faculty have the opportunity to participate in discussions focused on engaged urban research at UIC. The GCI Faculty Seminar series is something you will certainly want to put on your calendar. Come and enjoy a conversation with Arkalgud Ramaprasad on the topic of "Bridging the Digital Divide in e-Health Applications" on Tuesday, October 14th at 3:00 pm. Of course the conversation will continue after the seminar over refreshments.

See you at the seminars this fall!

David Perry Professor and Director	Lauri Alpern Associate Director

News

Online Fund Development Series For Nonprofit Organizations
The popularity of GCI's Online Certificate in Nonprofit Management has prompted the development of a new Fund Development Series for nonprofit practitioners beginning this September. The three new online courses can be taken as a whole or as a professional development sequence. Learn the skills you need to effectively seek out grant opportunities, write successful proposals and raise unrestricted funds. For more information, please visit http://cnm.cuppa.uic.edu.

John Mudd, Program Coordinator, 312-996-9257, jmudd1@uic.edu.

Multi-Year Grant for the Center for Urban Economic Development
The Center for Urban Economic Development has received a multi-year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to support applied research and technical assistance activities in support of community economic development, as well as state and local policies that will benefit low- and moderate-income communities.

Nik Theodore, Director, Center for Urban Economic Development, 312-996-8378, theodore@uic.edu.

Coming this Fall - The UIC Writers Series
Pooling together the vast resources of UIC, The UIC Writers Series is a non-credit program designed for individuals interested in improving their skills in Grantwriting, Business Writing, and Creative Writing. The Series also addresses non-native English speakers who seek to strengthen their writing skills. A multi-disciplinary program, the Series consists of a diverse offering of seminars taught in either online (O) or face-to-face (FTF) format. Fall seminar offerings include: Grant Writing (O), Business Writing (FTF), Grammar Workshop (FTF), Creative Writing (FTF), Women's Memoir Writing (FTF), Professional Writing (non-native English speakers) (FTF, O), Technical Writing (non-native English speakers) (O). For more information on the UIC Writers Series, please visit http://www.uic.edu/depts/oee/writers/index.htm or call 312-355-0423.

John Mudd, Program Coordinator, 312-996-9257, jmudd1@uic.edu.

Calendar

GCI Faculty Scholar Seminars Fall 2003
Tuesday, October 14, 2003, 3pm
Bridging the Digital-Divide in e-Health Applications
Arkalgud Ramaprasad, Professor and Department Head
Department of Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration

Tuesday, November 11, 2003, 3pm
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Urban Minority Children
Tanya R. Anderson, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Director, Comprehensive Assessment and Response Training System
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine

SAVE THE DATE!
Tenth Anniversary Great Cities Winter Forum
Where We Stand: Cities, Challenge and Change
Friday, December 5, 2003, UIC's Chicago Circle Center
Register now - space is limited!
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/events/wf2003/index.html

People

On July 17, Michael Pagano, Director of the graduate program in Public Administration and GCI Fellow, was an invited speaker on "City Finances in the US" by the Canadian Prime Minister's Privy Council Office meeting on "Fiscal Capacity and Canadian Cities", Ottawa. He was also invited to make a presentation to the Governmental Research Association annual conference in Chicago on "City Finances in a Rapidly Changing Intergovernmental Fiscal Environment," on July 30.

Nik Theodore, Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development represented the International Federation of Worker Education Associations at this year's annual meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The topic of the meeting was standard setting around the "disguised employment relationship" (e.g. subcontracting, contingent work, informal employment). He also was an invited speaker at the "Moving from Welfare to Work?" conference at the Freien Universität in Berlin, Germany.

GCI Faculty Scholar and associate professor of Education, Irma M. Olmedo, gave a presentation on her research on bilingual children in Chicago Public Schools at the University of California at Santa Barbara in August. She has had a paper on this research accepted for the journal Linguistics and Education. She has also had a paper accepted by Anthropology and Education Quarterly on Mexican and Puerto Rican mothers' views of education for their children in Chicago Public Schools and will be presenting on this research at the American Educational Studies Assoc. Conf. in Mexico City in November.

Martin Jaffe, in his capacity as the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program's staff at UIC, has also begun working with the Delta Institute, Grand Cal Task Force, and City of Gary in fashioning a plan for the Grand Calumet River, which is currently being remediated by the U.S. Steel Company. Jesse Elam, a first year MUPP student and graduate research assistant at GCI, is helping Marty with the Gary Riverfront Revival project.

GCI Graduate Research Assistant, Rebecca Retzlaff, passed the AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners) examination. It is the certification exam for the planning profession. Congratulations!