| The
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs is a nationally recognized
innovator in education, research, and engagement in support of the
nation's cities and metropolitan areas. Our adherence to our unique
blend of basic research, university-community engagement, policy
analysis, and profession-based graduate programs attracts the best
and brightest students and reinforces the connections between our
research centers and our academic programs. The college has:
• Bachelor of Arts Degree in Urban and Public Affairs
• Masters Degrees in Public Administration and
Urban Planning and Policy
• Doctor of Philosophy Degrees in Public Administration, Urban
Planning and Policy
• Certificate in e-government
• Over 500 current students
• Links with more than 100 public service organizations and
private companies in the Chicago area who host CUPPA students in
internships each year
• More than 36 courses in Urban Planning and Public Administration
• 38 tenure and research faculty
• Over 300 full and part time employees
• Over 1,400 alumni
• Eight research centers and institutes
• New certificates in Geospacial Analysis and Visualization and Survey Research Methods
• Extensive international links with urban planning and public
administration research institutes worldwide
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The
CUPPA Mission Statement:
To provide
innovative urban planning and public management education that puts
engaged research to purposeful use at home and abroad.
Core
values:
We share a commitment
to:
- Striving
for academic excellence and providing inspirational learning experiences
for our students
- Making a
contribution beyond the university that informs and empowers citizens,
clients and communities in the neighborhood, city, region, state,
nation and across the globe
- Respect for
the unique individual contributions of faculty to scholarship,
students to learning, and staff to service with a concern for
each member's intellectual and professional development
- Encouraging
cultural diversity in the composition of faculty, staff and students
given the importance of multi-cultural understanding for effective
governance of a rapidly urbanizing world
- Collaboration
that crosses disciplines, programs and other institutional divides
to generate more successful inquiry, learning, and service outcomes
than insulated approaches
- Innovation
in the pursuit of new resources and responsibility in the stewardship
of existing ones
- Learning
that anticipates future needs and crafts sustainable solutions
The
Distinctive Contribution:
The College
pursues its mission by weaving together three commitments: to innovative
education, to engaged research, and to making an influential contribution
to policy and practice. The intertwining of these three strands
of multi-disciplinary scholarship is special. Day in and
day out CUPPA strives to interweave the discovery of new knowledge
with the education of students and the application of research findings
to pressing public problems.
The
Intertwining of Three Commitments:
CUPPA faculty,
students and staff design and implement multi-disciplinary scholarship
using knowledge, tools, resources and talents drawn from the domains
of education, research and service. The collaboration adds
value to more routine activities within each domain. For
example, classroom learning is enlivened by new research and practical
case studies, research reports are informed by relevant policy concerns,
and collaboration with partners gives access to excellence for those
outside the university.
By offering
innovative courses attracting talented students and professionals,
by working closely with colleagues in other UIC colleges to enhance
urban scholarship, by attracting funds from external organizations
and individuals, and by providing informed advice to city leaders,
public service professionals and urban communities, CUPPA aims to
show how UIC can make a difference locally, nationally and internationally
to the discourse about urban planning and public affairs as well
as the practice of city planning and public management.
CUPPA
Student Body Profile
CUPPA’s
public administration and urban planning and policy programs consist
of over 300 students from all walks of life. Some have professional
experience in either field and some have an established work history
in unrelated fields. Still others migrate from traditional undergraduate
programs into master’s coursework and from master’s programs
into the PhD coursework.
The University of Illinois at Chicago maintains no ethnic majority
and CUPPA has students and/or alumni representing almost every continent
on the globe.
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