Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This issue is arriving a bit late this month. We are deep into our preparations for the Tenth Anniversary Great Cities Winter Forum and this issue just took a little longer to reach you. Please check the Winter Forum website http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/events/wf2003/index.html, find those events that most excite you and then take a minute to register. We have every confidence that this will be the best event yet. Listen to Chicago Public Radio FM 91.5 WBEZ 's Eight-Forty-Eight for an early version of at least one of the sessions and come be part of their taping of the plenary. The goal of the Winter Forum, like that of public radio, is to make ourselves ever smarter about our city and its place in the nation and the world by informing ourselves through good expert and practice-led conversations at the Forum. This year we are not only partnering with WBEZ, but also with the National League of Cities to produce this day-long discussion of the major challenges and changes affecting urban America. In short, we want to answer the question "Where We Stand."

See you at the Winter Forum on December 5 and at the Great Cities Institute in November.

David Perry Professor and Director	Lauri Alpern Associate Director

News

This year is the tenth anniversary of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Great Cities Commitment and its signature event, the Great Cities Winter Forum. Through its Great Cities Commitment, UIC seeks to be the national model of the "engaged university." Please join us for a national conversation on the state of urban America under the title: Where We Stand: Cities, Challenge and Change. The Forum will be held on December 5, 2003, with registration and breakfast at 8am and concluding remarks at 2pm. For information on registration, please visit the winter forum website at http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/events/wf2003/index.html

The Great Cities Institute announces the 2004-2005 Faculty Scholar Competition. Please visit the following website for details and an application: http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/fellows_and_scholars/faculty_scholar_comp.htm
Applications are due by 4pm on Friday, January 16, 2004.

Calendar

Great Cities Brownbag Seminar
December 12, 2003 at noon in the GCI seminar room

"Sports and Downtown Development: Lessons from Success and Failure"

Mark Rosentraub
Dean and Professor
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Cleveland State University

Professor Rosentraub is one of the nation's leading experts on sports economics and downtown infrastructure. He is the author of several books including the influential Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying for It and has been a primary consultant to Major League Baseball and cities around the world.

Please attend the seminar and join us for light refreshments at a reception for Professor Rosentraub after his presentation.

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

Great Cities Faculty Scholar Laurie Schaffner, UIC Criminal Justice Department, is a member of a national advisory committee that is developing model standards for the care of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth in child welfare systems. The model standards will be available to the public later this fall free of charge from Legal Services for Children, Inc. (www.lsc-sf.org) or National Center for Lesbian Rights (www.nclrights.org).

Irma Olmedo, Great Cities Faculty Scholar, spoke at the Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Program's annual conference in San Juan Puerto Rico in mid October. She and her daughter, Diana Williams, were Ford Doctoral fellows and they were invited to be keynote speakers at this conference. Irma also gave a presentation at the American Educational Studies Association Conference in Mexico City at the end of October. Her presentation was on Mexican mothers' conceptions of education for their children in Chicago schools.

David Perry, Director of the Great Cities Institute, and Wim Wiewel, Dean of the College of Business Administration, and Robin Hambleton, Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, both GCI Fellows, attended the Association for Collegiate Schools of Planning Administrators Workshop at Amelia Island Florida where they each gave presentations.

Faculty Scholar Spotlight

Each month we are pleased to introduce to you one of the GCI faculty scholars spending the year with us.

Tanya R. Anderson currently serves as Associate Director of the Comprehensive Assessment and Response Training System (CARTS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. CARTS is an innovative collaborative assessment and treatment program that addresses the needs of severely ill wards of the state of Illinois. In this capacity, Dr. Anderson not only provides clinical care to these children in an inpatient psychiatric setting but also leads a multidisciplinary team that provides consultation to systems involved with the child in order to improve the quality of care and services provided in the community. Additionally, Dr. Anderson has worked on the development of mental health policy for wards of the state on several other DCFS initiatives.

Dr. Anderson has also been actively involved in organized medicine (e.g., American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Medical Association) as another arena in which to impact the quality of care for minority populations. She has served on a variety of national committees and assemblies representing the interests of children and adolescents with particular emphasis on urban, minority and disadvantaged youth. Dr. Anderson was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Mental Health Association in Illinois.