Public Affairs Conferences
At the outset of the 21st century, a confluence of social, economic, and political forces pose daunting new challenges to the state and the nation’s continued vitality. Higher education can play a key role in developing the intellectual and creative solutions confronting our communities and society.
Issues that demand our immediate attention:
- the sustainability of natural resources,
- the state and national budget crisis,
- race relations,
- poverty,
- immigration,
- an aging workforce,
- the provision of health care for all in a growing, aging population.
ILLAPS plans to offer a variety of events on topics across the public policy spectrum:
- Emerging Technology and Public Policy
- Women in Leadership
- Symposium on Immigration
- Building a 21st Century High Performance Workforce
- Social Justice
- Multicultural Education
- Child Welfare Issues
- Conference on Children in Poverty – March 23-24, 2017
- Juvenile Justice Trauma Informed Practice – June 29, 2017
- Child Welfare Experiential Training Pilot – September 15, 2017
- Building Non-profit Organizational Capacity
- Race Relations in America