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public policy summit
To make good decisions, people need more than information. They need insight. And they need insight not just from one source but from a variety of sources.
Bringing Scholars and Experts Together
What better way to make this happen than to bring together scholars and experts on a problem of concern to Illinois and then have them meet with policy makers and interested citizens to share their knowledge, answer questions, and discuss implications?
You can give to the excellent and beneficial Summit by making a gift to the Center for State Policy and Leadership Fund. Please state your intention within the Comment Box--that you intend your gift to go to the Public Policy Summit, and we will honor your intention. Donate
Past Topics
Politics and Religion
Dr. Diana Eck of Harvard University, author of A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation, gave the luncheon keynote address, and in the afternoon, a panel discussion on "Islam in America," was held.
Dr. Noah Feldman of New York University, author of Divided by God: America’s Church-State 
Problem and What We Should Do about It, delivered the evening keynote address.
In conjunction with this Summit, a Public Affairs Colloquia "Politics and Religion: Conflict and Coexistence at Home and Abroad," was offered online during the summer term by five UIS faculty as a team-taught, multidisciplinary course.
Cyber-Ethics
The event, held June 17 on the UIS campus, brought together participants from business, government, and education to discuss the practical and ethical implications for business and society of problems and possible solutions in 
dealing with such vexing issues as trying to tax Internet sales and trying to regulate “spam” (unwanted email messages).
Politics and Ethics
Former U. S. Appellate Judge Abner J. Mikva delivered the keynote address for this summit. Richard Schuldt, director of the Center’s Survey Research Office, also presented findings of a survey of the Illinois public on perceptions of state government corruption.
We hope you share our vision for a more informed Illinois. Please consider adding your support to this initiative.
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