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April, 2009 |
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June 1-4,2009.
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College Town Economies Receive National Attention
Dear College Town Leaders,
I hope that everyone has been enjoying and benefiting from the ITGA newsletters and communication services. Last week was an excellent example of the importance of being able to share information relevant to town and gown alike. The Wall Street Journal and Forbes Magazine both published articles on the positive economic benefits of college towns. Additionally, Fox News Network aired a report from Gainesville and the University of Florida on how collge town economies are outperforming national averages. The ITGA newsletter, The News Stand, featured these articles along with our twice weekly national news on Town/Gown Leadership,the Budget / Economy, Planning and Housing, Parking / Transportation, and Alcohol/Safety/Enforcement.
If you or your staff, whether members of ITGA or not, are not yet utilizing these services, we encourage you to try one or all of our communication tools to help you lead your college community to creating the best town & gown relationship possible. The ITGA offers to you the following tools:
ITGA staff assistance on specific issues
Our updated web site is expected to be on-line in a couple of weeks and will provide a very easy way to access all of these and more services. Until then, please visit us at www.town-gown.net to experience the ITGA benefits of click one of the above links to utlizie any of these benefits first hand.
The ITGA is assembling a growing list of partners and supporters working to strengthen town and gown relations across the world. We sincerely hope that you will elect to partner with these schools, cities and businesses by joining the ITGA and you may do so as simply at clicking here. This will take you to the ITGA membership web site. For further information, please feel free to contact me at 864.643.4199 or cboyles@town-gown.net.
Sincerely,
Chip Boyles
Charles P. Boyles, II
Executive Director
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ITGA Survey on Services and Products
The ITGA is working to fill the needs of our Members and all Town & Gown relationships. To assist in our efforts, will you help us by taking a short, ten question survey that will be used to guide our staff and Board of Directors in determining the products and services that we offer? The survey should take less than five minutes to complete. Thank you in advance for your help. You may access the on-line survey by clicking here, ITGA Survey.
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Does Your College or City Have a Publication, Document, Program or Policy That Other College Communities May Benefit From?
ITGA is Looking for Best Practice Examples
The ITGA is looking for sample documents, programs and practices that can be shared with other college communities across the world. In preparing for the updated ITGA web site, we are expanding our Resource Library of Documents and Presentations
Please e-mail any examples to info@town-gown.net. These will be shared via the ITGA web site and/or newsletter and will become eligible for one of the ITGA Best Practices in Town & Gown Partnerships Awards for 2009.
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International Town & Gown Association
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240 Madren Center Drive
Clemson University
Clemson, S.C. 29634
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