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| October 30, 2006 New Urban and Public Affairs Degree Program Announced The University of Illinois at Chicago has announced it will offer a bachelor of arts degree program in urban and public affairs beginning next fall. The program is designed
to prepare students for work in the public, nonprofit and private sectors,
or to succeed in graduate programs in public administration, urban planning,
law, business, political science The program differs
from other undergraduate urban studies programs in its use of metropolitan
Chicago as a laboratory and its multidisciplinary approach to learning
and personal development, said "Because we
have strong teamwork across the college, students taking this B.A.
will be taught by professors from both our public administration program
and our urban planning and policy program," Hambleton noted the possibility of internships in local organizations and national headquarters in Chicago. Valerie Werner, former assistant to the director of the urban planning and policy program, has been named director of the undergraduate program. Werner is a Ph.D. candidate in UIC's public administration program. She has 15 years of experience as an administrator in government and nonprofit organizations and as a counselor in health and human services. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at UIC. The undergraduate curriculum has been planned jointly by faculty in the public administration and urban planning and policy graduate programs, with support from the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the UIC Honors College. Martin Jaffe, director of the graduate urban planning and policy program, and Michael Pagano, director of the graduate public administration program, will oversee the undergraduate program. "Although our commitment to excellence in graduate education remains unshaken, the baccalaureate program will add another dimension. It will offer undergraduates the same access as graduate students to the top-flight scholarship, engaged research and experiential learning that are our hallmarks," Hambleton said. For information about the program, please call the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at (312) 413-2292. Application materials are available at www.uic.edu/depts/oar/applyonline UIC ranks among the
nation's top 50 universities in federal research funding and is Chicago's
largest university with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15
colleges and the state's major public - UIC - |