Calling all certified planners! The ITGA is excited to announce that we are now linked to the American Planning Association (APA). The ITGA is a new APA provider of educational opportunities for professional planners to earn mandatory credits and stay current with the latest trends, technologies and leading practices. The relationship with the world's largest planning association has immense potential for the ITGA, our communities and growing membership. Certified planners attending this year's ITGA City & University Relations Conference may receive credit hours for the APA Certification Maintenance (CM) program.

Conference sessions eligible for CM credit are noted in the ITGA Conference Schedule.

The 25-acre facility will be dedicated to academic research, professional education, and incubating tech startups that can help build technology investment in the region. A new technology and innovation campus is coming to Sacramento through a partnership between the city, the University of California, Davis, and members of the state legislature. The research center, named " Aggie Square," will sit on a 25-acre plot next to the UC Davis Health Campus in the Oak Park area and spur economic development and student engagement through public-private partnership as well as solidify the city's efforts to establish itself as a major player in the global technology sector. Statescoop

One way community colleges are becoming more proactive about diversity is with the increasing emergence of the chief diversity officer role. These administrators, at colleges like LaGuardia Community College in New York and Portland Community College in Oregon, have a direct line to the president as cabinet-level administrators and are holding academic departments on campus accountable for being inclusive. Carter and Sinclair are focusing more on equity and inclusion by carrying out the college's first diversity audit, which was organized by an independent consultant. Inside Higher Ed

Registration is open until May 15th for the 2018 ITGA City & University Relations Conference. To register or learn more about the conference, click here. Space is limited for Certificate workshops Level I and II. Register today and join your colleagues in COLUMB US. To see the conference schedule, presenters, speakers and topics, click here.

If all goes to plan, large, unsanctioned gatherings such a St. Patrick's Day on Ezra Avenue will be a thing of the past in five years. A group of community partners, including the City of Waterloo and Waterloo Regional Police Service, announced Friday that a task force has been struck to eventually eliminate the Ezra Avenue parties which have been troublesome in the past. Coming off the largest gathering ever on Ezra Avenue and the surrounding streets, an estimated 22,000, the city is drawing a line in the sand. The total cost of the 2018 St. Patrick's Day Street party is $713,500 combined from all agencies involved including paramedics and police. WaterlooChronicle.ca

The Binghamton University Town Gown Advisory Board (TGAB) recently held its second full-body meeting at the University Downtown Center, emphasizing the action-oriented purpose of the board and its five subcommittees: Safety, Transportation and Parking, Student Housing, Promoting Positive Community Engagement, and Dangerous Drinking/Underage Drinking. The TGAB, co-chaired by Randall Edouard, assistant vice president for student affairs, and Jared Kraham, Binghamton Deputy Mayor, is comprised of a wide coalition of students, community leaders and local government officials. Binghamton University