Public Forums
Peak Freedom Festival: May 8th, Save the Date!
2010.03.01
SAVE THE DATE! The Limited Government Forum and The Center for the Study of Government and the Individual will present Peak Freedom Festival, a day-long celebration of the ideas that made America great. The day-long event will take place on May 8, 2010. Additional information coming soon.

Public Forums
Was Arne Duncan Right? Observations on Education Reform in New Orleans
2010.02.26
The Center for the Study of Government and the Individual will present the Dinner Conversation, “Was Arne Duncan Right? Observations on Education Reform in New Orleans” on Thursday, March 11th, starting at 5:00 p.m.  Our speaker will be Kevin Kane, President, of the Pelican Institute for Public Policy. Seating is limited. Online registration is available and the $35 ticket includes dinner at the Downtown Antlers Hilton where the event is being held.

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2010 SPA Leadership Conference
2010.02.20

Null's Nuggets
Null's Nuggets 6:3
Volume 6, Issue 3
As 2009 is coming to a close, we would like to reflect on the past year and the events we have offered. We have been fortunate enough to have experienced successful attendance of our Center programs for many years. A few generous donors have continued to support us and we have always offered our programs free or at very low costs to participants. We intend to continue this policy in the future. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming events, please subscribe to the CSGI newsletter.

Lectures
The Cliff Effect
11.19.09
UCCS' Center for the Study of Government and the Individual presented The Cliff Effect: The precipice awaiting Colorado higher education. Our keynote speakers were President Tony Kinkel, Pikes Peak Community College and Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The presenters focused on the difficulties that higher education is and will be facing in the midst of all the budget cuts we're facing.

Null's Nuggets
Null's Nuggets 6:2
Volume 6, Issue 2
Welcome to the September 2009 installment of Null's Nuggets! I hope you enjoy this month's article. With the new semester well on its way CSGI has a huge line-up of very informative and interesting events. If you have any questions please contact Jane Muller, jmuller@uccs.edu  or 719.255.4093 for the particulars. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming events, please subscribe to the CSGI newsletter.

Lectures
C.S. Lewis on Power and Politics
10.20.09
This lecture took place on October 20th, 2009. In it, Dr. Michael Ward, Lewis scholar and author, outlined Lewis’s understanding of the relationship between hierarchy, equality, and power. Dr. Ward demonstrated that Lewis thought hierarchy and equality, tradition and liberal democracy were reconcilable ideas for using and constraining political power. The lecture was presented by The John Jay Institute, in conjunction with The Center for the Study of Government and the Individual (CSGI) and the Political Science Department at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS).

About CSGI
CSGI: An Overview
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CSGI offers the foundations for understanding and analyzing diverse perspectives of the appropriate role of government, its limitations and restrictions. Click the title to read about the Center's purpose, activities, and advisory committee members.

About CSGI
Advisory Board Members
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Lectures
Free People, Free Markets
08.01.09
This was an evening spent with America's founding principles, a time to get reacquainted with freedom's fundamentals. The quarterly FPFM (Free People, Free Markets) series is a shock course in political economy. Past seminars have focused on the political part of political economy. The July 14th seminar focused on the economy part of political economy.

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