ISP Update / February, 2007
GREETINGS
Greetings, ISP Advisory Board Members, Liaisons, Friends, Advisory Council Members!! Most of us are probably involved in some state legislative activities and are watching the days fly by with bills either facing amendments, tabling, passed by indefinitely, and an occasional passage. I wish each of you success in your policy advocacy this spring. ISP has a few items to relate to you and I will try to do so very succinctly.
1. DEADLINES TO NOTE:
APRIL 27: DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS FOR CSWE'S ANNUAL PROGRAM MEETING IN SAN FRANCISCO IN OCT.
MAY 7: DEADLINE FOR STUDENTS TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS FOR ISP'S NATIONAL CONTEST
MAY 15: DEADLINE FOR PROGRAMS IN SW ED TO SUBMIT NUMBER OF STUDENTS' VISITS TO STATE CAPITOLS to ISP
OCTOBER 27-30: SAN FRANCISCO - ISP ANNUAL MEETING AND EXHIBITION BOOTH DURING CSWE APM
Go the ISP website at www.statepolicy.org for info on all deadlines and contest rules. Please be organizing your students' plans to submit a contest proposal and your own CSWE proposals. Most proposals are now on-line submissions. Give yourself a little more time.
2. A second notice for ISP dues is going out in the mail this week. If you have already paid, please ignore it. Otherwise, now is the time to help support ISP's mission. You can also download the membership form on our website under About Us and send it in.
3. The new Coalition Building video is under production. It will be part of ISP's video series, Policy Affects Practice. It will be available in late 2007. If anyone needs any of the other 5 videos or if yours are broken, etc., let me know and I will send them out immediately.
4.Here is a resource on a recent New York Times article about state issues: February 13, 2007
States and U.S. at Odds on Aid for Uninsured http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/us/13insure.html?ex=1171947600&en=ca5761040b6fc66e&ei=5070&emc=eta1
By ROBERT PEAR and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
In the absence of federal action, governors and state legislators are transforming the health care system.
5. Go the National Conference of State Legislatures at www.ncsl.org/programs/press/pr070104.htm and review the NCSL's top 10 Policy Issues for our fifty states this year. It's a forecast, but you will surely recognize the issues. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/us/13insure.html?ex=1171947600&en=ca5761040b6fc66e&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
6. Please note the launch of the University Channel (http://uc.princeton.edu), a website that gives the public free and on-demand access to a wide range of public policy lectures and panel sessions on current events, from a consortium of universities around the world. The University Channel Charter Members--the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin--comprise the Steering Committee of a larger consortium of universities that are pooling video and audio recordings of public affairs events in a central portal. Universities routinely host these kinds of public affairs events, but until now, lacked a way to bring these to a wider public. The University Channel was created so that the public can hear the full-length presentations of academics, researchers and policymakers who are dedicated to solving the problems of the world. The Woodrow Wilson School's dean Anne-Marie Slaughter said that the University Channel fills the need for a public platform for the serious discussion of the critical issues of our day. "Universities have access to such an extraordinary wealth of resources to help us think intelligently about the most pressing issues of the day -- both from within our faculties and from top practitioners around the country and the world who come in and share their analyses and experiences", commented Slaughter, "We want to make these resources available to a much wider public, to provide viewers with the kind of analysis and dialogue that rarely gets aired on commercial media." <http://uc.princeton.edu/>
The University Channel's executive director Donna Liu notes that the second or "beta" phase of the project proves there is a great demand for this kind of public affairs content, as demonstrated by the fact that the University Channel now experiences some 100,000 downloads/month from its podcasts and more than 650,000 hits/month to the website. The site presents a potential TV viewing audience of more than 5 million, through the its TV redistribution partners, for viewers who watch the programs on their local access, on-demand, or IPTV channels. If you have questions about participating in the University Channel, please contact Donna Liu at dmliu@princeton.edu, or by phone at (609) 258-8425.
7. Here's a link to Project Vote Smart's Web site, a site that you can use to track federal legislation: http://votesmart.org/issue_keyvote.php.
That is it for now.......don't forget: dues, students' entries to the contest, number of student visits to your state capitol. Any other questions, send them to me....all the best....Bob
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