UCO lunch series features senator
UCO event Rice is the guest speaker on public policy in Oklahoma

BY SARAH WARREN Comments 0
Published: October 31, 2009

EDMOND — State Sen. Andrew Rice, D-Oklahoma City, will discuss public policy at the University of Central Oklahoma’s Policy Institute’s "Lunch with a Policy Maker” series at noon Nov. 9 in the Cherokee Room of the Nigh University Center.

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The lunch costs $10 for UCO faculty, staff and members of the community; it is free to UCO students.

This is the second event in the new series, which kicked off in September.

Economics professor Mickey Hepner, creator of the series, said he hopes lunch with a policy maker will increase dialogue about public policy within the UCO and Edmond communities and will teach how to differentiate between policies and politics.

"It is only through engagement in the policy conversation that we are prepared to be informed citizens,” Patricia Loughlin, associate professor of history, said. "Therefore, my hope is that participants will come away from this lunch further equipped to engage in our democracy.”

The American Democracy Project has partnered with the UCO Policy Institute to pay for the cost of lunches for UCO students at all "Lunch with a Policy Maker” events.

The UCO Policy Institute is a nonpartisan, university-based think tank committed to enhancing the policy debate within Oklahoma.

Funded by UCO, the institute aims to be a tool for the development of effective state and local public policies, by providing policy makers with the results of the latest research on public policies.

Space is limited for the "Lunch with a Policy Maker” event, and preregistration is recommended. To register, go to http://busn.uco.edu/forms/policymakerlunch.

For more information, contact Sarah Warren, coordinator of communication and public relations for UCO’s College of Business Administration, at 974-2822 or send an email to swarren11@uco.edu.