UIS joins COPLAC

UIS has been invited to join the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges and is now the only COPLAC college in Illinois.

COPLAC consists of liberal arts colleges that tend to have smaller student populations, class sizes and faculty-to-student ratios.

The announcement was featured in the June 24, 2009, State Journal-Register.

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20090624-COPLAC.pdf

SSU graduate has received four James Beard Foundation Awards for cookbooks

Former Springfield resident Cheryl Alters Jamison, a cookbook author, has received four of the prestigious James Beard Foundation Awards, considered the "Oscars of the food world."

Jamison is a graduate of Sangamon State University, where she received her M.A. in community arts management in 1977.

Jamison was featured in a June 24, 2009, article in the State Journal-Register.

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20090624-SJR-cookbookjamison.pdf

Wheeler uncertain about income tax increase passing before July

Charlie Wheeler, director of the Public Affairs Reporting program at UIS, has been watching goings-on at the Statehouse for nearly four decades, and he’s not hopeful that an income tax increase will pass before the new fiscal year begins July 1.

Wheeler was featured in a June 18, 2009, column in the State Journal-Register about the state's budget and funding.

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