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Like many 20 year-olds on the Urban Studies program, my career goals at the time were to do something to help other people. On the program, I realized that social work - while necessary - is not the band-aid approach I wanted to be a part of. Upon graduating from college, I spent eight years working for the Minnesota State Senate, and now lobby on behalf of early childhood issues, where I have had a direct influence on the resources made available for early childhood programs for at risk families. The ACM Urban Studies program, for me, was as much about realizing what I didn't want to do in life as finding out what I did want to do. I would not be doing what I am today were it not for my experience in Chicago in the spring of 1994.
—Eric Haugee, Chicago Urban Studies, Spring 1994
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