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From the Dean It has been some time since we’ve last visited you by way of CUPPA Magazine – although I hope you will have seen our monthly email publication, CUPPABriefing, and have visited our website at www.uic.edu/cuppa. If not, do check the website often as we post the most up to date news and announcements for alumni and friends. You’ll also notice a new section expanding on the information provided in this magazine. Read More > Cover Story Private Resources
for the Public Good As local governments are strained for capital and operating funds, they are increasingly turning to the private sector for financial contributions. What are the implications of including an increasing amount of private funding to support public works projects such as park or bridges? Does contributing funds “purchase” the rights of private entities such as corporations or non-profit citizen groups to make decisions on the usage of facilities they have helped to pay for? Read More > Faculty
Editorial On Butterflies and Chaos: City Infrastructure Finance Today The massive rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina may presage the decision environment of many American cities in the not-too-distant-future. Even today as any new mayor assumes the position of city leader, she is dumbstruck by what appears to be a series of miscalculations made by previous administrations. Like the proverbial butterfly in the Amazon, a single perturbation years ago compounded by a series of minor, sometimes unnoticeable, changes and shifts now reverberate in a cacophony of crisis upon crisis. As the city’s fiscal situation looks even worse from the mayor’s new seat than it ever did before, the mayor asks: “How did I get stuck holding the bag?” It may not look exactly like Katrina and the scope of problems may not rival New Orleans’ devastation, but it certainly appears worse on the inside than it did from the outside. Read More > Advancing CUPPA CUPPA Loses Good Friend Alan Voorhees
Academic Programs CUPPA Launches New Undergraduate Degree Beginning Fall Semester 2007, UIC’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs will offer an undergraduate program of study for the first time in the college’s history. The Bachelor of Arts with a major in Urban and Public Affairs (UPA) will use the Chicago metropolitan region as a home for investigation. Students will experience and analyze urban issues from many different academic perspectives. UPA will feature an interdisciplinary curriculum offered jointly by CUPPA’s two academic programs – the Public Administration Program and the Urban Planning and Policy Program. Read More > Faculty Research and Awards Mastracci Heads Local Chapter of PA Society
UPP Site for Planners Network National Conference UIC’s Urban Planning and Policy Program hosted the annual conference of Planners Network, June 8-11. Read More > UTC Helps Train 'Computational Transportation' Scientists with $3.1 Million NSF Grant Today's cars are loaded with computers, roads are laden with sensors for real-time traffic monitoring, and high-tech portable devices are at the ready to help make travel a breeze. So why are we still stuck in traffic? Read More > PA Receives $1.2 M to Study Women in Science Networks Three faculty members of Public Administration have received a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to study how social and professional networks affect the careers of women scientists and engineers. Read More > National Day Labor Study by CUED Exposes Abuse Day laborers across the United States experience police harassment, wage theft, physical abuse by employers and dangerous working conditions, according to the first national study of day labor, conducted by the Center for Urban Economic Development in CUPPA with UCLA and New York's New School. Read More > Associate Dean Schorsch (PPA Ph.D. ’92) Receives UIC Chancellor’s Award
Class Notes and News Congratulations New CUPPA Alumni Board A record number of board members were elected to the CUPPA Alumni Association board of directors on June 6, 2006 for one-year terms. Read More > Attend CUPPA Alumni Association Board Meetings! All board meetings take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in CUPPA Hall, Room 110, 412 South Peoria Street, Chicago, IL. Call 312.996.2569 or email cuppalum@uic.edu to RSVP. Read More > Have
You Subscribed to the CUPPA Alumni Listserve? The
CUPPA Alumni listserve is an email list allowing for widespread
distribution of information pertinent to UIC CUPPA graduates of public
administration and
urban planning and policy. Read More >Bring
your family to lunch with the CUPPA Alumni Association in Garfield
Park On Sunday, September 17, at 12:00 noon, the
CUPPA Alumni Association will meet
for lunch in the Garfield Park picnic grove. Save the date: CUPPA alumni holiday party, Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Class Speakers! We need you! For the fourth year in a row, the CUPPA Alumni Association is working with Public Administration and Urban Planning and Policy professors to feature our alumni during the capstone and professional development courses in the Masters programs. Read More > Alumni: Where are they now? Read More > Alumni Receive Awards
CUPPA Alumni Honor Federal Executives
CUPPA Students Recognized for Superior Performance and Education
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Dean Editor Contributors Photography
CUPPA is published
by the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University
of Illinois at Chicago. ©2006 All rights reserved. All inquiries,
address changes, and comments should be addressed to: The College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs consists of the following academic units and research centers: Public Administration Urban Planning
and Policy Center for
Urban Economic Development Great Cities
Institute Great Cities
Urban Data Visualization Laboratory Institute
for Research on Race and Public Policy Nathalie
P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement Survey Research
Laboratory Urban Transportation
Center The following affiliated center is located in the College of Architecture and the Arts: City Design
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CUPPA
Alumnus Patrick Magoon, MUPP ’79 and CUPPA Dean Robin Hambleton
attended the UIC City Partner Award Reception on February 3, 2006.
