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         <title><font color="996600" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Join the Alumni Board</strong></font></title>
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         <description><font color="996600" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2">Annual Meeting and Board Election June 5.</font></font></description>
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         <title><font color="996600" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>CUPPA International Lecture by Professor Sandro Balducci, Politecnico di Milano</strong></font></title>
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         <description><font color="996600" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Responsible for the new strategic plan for the province of Milan, Alessandro Balducci will illustrate the process of developing a strategic plan for a weak institutional actor &#8211; the Province - in an environment where all administrative borders are losing much of their meaning.</font></description>
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         <title><font color="996600" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>CUPPA International Lecture by Sue Charteris</strong></font></title>
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         <description><font color="996600" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Charteris presents Innovations in Public Management - And the Politics of Space</font></description>
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         <description><font color="996600" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Local governments can demand that companies receiving tax abatements, low-interest loans and other &quot;corporate welfare&quot; either create good jobs and public benefits or return the money, according to a new handbook co-authored by a University of Illinois at Chicago professor.</font></description>
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Pagano
              named interim CUPPA Dean</font> </span><font color="#996633" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="08_29_07Paganointerimdean.htm">Read More&gt;&gt;</a></font></p>
            <p><span class="style2">Public Personnel Management Expert</span> <span class="style7">acting Director of Public Administration <a href="09_03_07ActingdirectorofPA.htm">Read More&gt;&gt;</a> </span></p>
            <p><font color="#996600" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">CUPPA</font></strong> will serve as the local host for the 2008 <strong>Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)</strong> </font> <font color="#996600" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://tigger.uic.edu/cuppa/upp/congress/index.htm">Read more&gt;&gt;</a></font></p>
            <p><font color="#996600" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Dean Robin Hambleton<br>
              Moves On</strong></font><font color="#996600" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> </strong><br>
              </font><font color="#996600" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="07_17_07DeanHambletonMovesOn.htm">Read More&gt;&gt;</a> </font>            </p>
            <p><strong><font color="#996600" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Congratulations</font></strong><font color="#996600" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> to the 42 <strong>CUPPA Alumni Association</strong> board members elected at the June 5, 2007 board meeting! <a href="http://uic.edu/cuppa/alumni/about.html">Read More&gt;&gt;</a></font></p>
            <p><strong><font color="996600" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now 
              Available: Online Gifts to CUPPA </font></strong> <font color="996600" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">CUPPA 
              has teamed with the University of <span class="Regulartype">Illinois Foundation to offer convenient 
              and speedy philanthropic gifts to the College</span>. </font> <font color="996600" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><a href="onlinegiving.html">Go
