The next meeting of CUCAC (City-University Community Advisory Committee) will be held:
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Place: UW Tower, 4333 Brooklyn Avenue, Seattle, WA 98105 – 22nd Floor
Items on the agenda include:
| University District Livability Partnership Presentation |
| Sound Transit U District Station Update |
| Community Conversations |
Take a break from the never-ending 2012 political news cycle with a trip back to the administration of Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal in Documents that Changed the World: An 18 1/2-minute presidential mystery, the latest installment of the Documents that Changed the World podcast series from the UW Information School.
The Living Voters Guide, an interdisciplinary collaboration among the UW Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Communication, and Political Science, and presented in partnership with Seattle City Club, won the 1st Place Social Venture Partners Award in the 2012 SIFP (Social Innovation Fast Pitch) competition rewarding new ideas for social impact. The Living Voters Guide is an on-line, citizen-generated guide to state, regional, and local measures on the November 2012 ballot, allowing voters to work together to refine their positions.
October 9 meeting notes for the City University Community Advisory Committee are available in pdf format.
In a new global ranking of universities across four categories, the University of Washington ranked 24th in the world and fourth among American public universities.