Congratulations Interfaith in Action!

Recipients of the Dads Association 2011 Outstanding Registered Student Organization Certificate of Merit Award! Each year, the Dads Association honors the outstanding achievements and contributions of one each; faculty staff, student and student organization at the Dads Association's Annual Banquet on Dads Weekend. The Dads Association presented the Certificate of Merit Award at their banquet on November 11.  There was a reception in the South Lounge of the Illini Union where Interfaith in Action representatives received the award. 


Greg Damhorst nominated Interfaith for the award!

See what they've been up to this year in the Y's Interfaith in Action Flickr photoset.

Dads Association Website

Governor Edgar to speak at the Y

The Gridlock of Public Policy Resulting from Polarization

This Friday, 11.11.11 at NOON 

University YMCA . 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign

(corner of Wright and Chalmers, just west of the Quad)

Jim Edgar was the 38th governor of Illinois. As governor, he made fiscal discipline and children the cornerstones of his two terms. First elected in 1990, Governor Edgar won re-election in 1994 by the largest margin ever for a governor. His popularity as governor prompted a Chicago Tribune columnist to write near the end of his administration that Edgar's popularity in Illinois was "second only to Michael Jordan's."

Edgar has served in a variety of leadership roles, including president of the Council of State Governments, as a member of the executive committee of the National Governors' Association and as chairman of the Midwest Governors' Association. He has also been a Resident Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Governor Edgar serves on a variety of civic and corporate boards of directors.

By the time he left office in January 1999, Governor Edgar had eliminated the backlog in payments of the state's bills, given the state a surplus and reduced the size of state government. He had also fought for and won passage of historic legislation on the way Illinois schools are funded and had overhauled the state's child welfare system.

Before becoming governor, Edgar served as secretary of state for 10 years and was elected to the Illinois House from Charleston in 1976. He received a B.A. in history from Eastern Illinois University in 1968.