March 6, 2007

February CUPPA Briefing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Public Administration Program Tops Productivity List
The Public Administration program (PA) has been ranked first nationally among such programs in public universities, and third overall, in a new index based on faculty productivity. The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ranks 7,294 Ph.D. programs and nearly 178,000 faculty members at 354 institutions on the basis of each faculty's publishing in books and journals, citations of journal articles, awards and honors, and federal grants. The index is produced by Academic Analytics, an organization of
researchers at Stony Brook University and Educational Directories Unlimited, Inc. This success is underpinned by the strong scholarship of CUPPA's PA faculty, the research success of its faculty, and outstanding research productivity of the Survey Research Laboratory (SRL). Dean Hambleton sends
his congratulations to all the faculty in the PA Program and to all the team members working to such good effect in SRL.

Martin Jaffe elected to Regional Water Supply Planning Group
Urban Planning and Policy (UPP) Director and Great Cities Institute fellow Martin Jaffe was recently elected to the Regional Water Supply Planning Group of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), a group of 30 stakeholders and local officials involved in using, managing, or protecting
the region's drinking water resources. Over the next three years, CMAP's Regional Water Supply Planning Group will be developing a water supply plan for northeastern Illinois. This regional planning initiative is supported by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Illinois State Water
Survey, under a process established by Governor Blagojevich's Executive Order 2006-1. In late January, Dr. Jaffe also was the plenary speaker at the annual meeting of the Buffalo-Niagara Riverkeepers organization of Buffalo, NY, where he spoke on innovative strategies to reduce the water pollution risks from Combined Sewer Overflows discharged from sewage treatment plants.

Esteleta Cameron completes adoption process
Ms. Cameron, program services aide in the Center for Urban Economic Development (CUED) and the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Development, completed the official adoption process of Catherine Barnes on February 6. Ms. Barnes has been in Ms. Cameron's care for the past ten years. Congratulations to both!

MPA student receives conference scholarship
Manya Khan (MPA student, '07) has been awarded a conference scholarship from the Illinois City Management Association, an association promoting effective local government initiatives.

PASA president receives student leadership award
Natalie Kinney, president of the Public Administration Student Association (PASA), will be recognized by the University of Illinois Alumni Association as a 2007 Student Leadership Award recipient at an awards dinner on March 15. Chancellor Sylvia Manning will present the keynote address to the outstanding students in attendance and their families. Our congratulations!

Betancur participates in NBC's Black Latinos series
Professor John Betancur, Associate Professor in UPP and Acting Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP), provided background information and was interviewed for a series on Black Latinos produced by the NBC television network for its evening news. The first part
of the series can be viewed at http://www.nbc5.com/video/11097851/index.html?rss=chi& psp=video.

E-Government: Connecting Citizens with Government in the Digital Age
Thursday, March 8, 2007, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Room 110 CUPPA Hall Students free; Alumni Assn Members $10.00 at door; Non-Members $15.00 at door

Join fellow Chicago-area public administrators and planners, CUPPA alumni and students for a thought provoking discussion on electronic government. Refreshments will be served. Speakers include Kheir Al-Kodmany, Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy; John Karnuth, Deputy Commissioner, City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development; Karen Mossberger, Associate Professor, Public Administration; with moderator Vaughn Blankenship, Professor Emeritus, Public Administration. Please RSVP to Kara Knack at kknack2@uic.edu or 312.996.2569.

IRRPP Critical Issues Series
The institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) has launched its spring Critical Issues Lecture Series. Lectures are held on Wednesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in Room 110 CUPPA Hall. The first presentation was held February 21 and featured reports on research by Drs. Nilda Flores-Gonzales
and Sharon Telleen on Latino youth and academic achievement. The next lecture will be held on March 7 and will feature Dr. Lorena Garcia, Dr. Maria de los Angeles Torres, and Estela Margoza discussing Latinas' gendered and sexual realities.

March 2007 Great Cities events
All events will take place in the GCI conference room, fourth floor of CUPPA Hall

Tuesday, March 6 at 5:00 pm
Reforming Reform in Urban Schools: Efficiency, Deficiency, and Equity
A Faculty Scholar Seminar panel presentation by:
Olivia Gude, Associate Professor, School of Art and Design; David Mayrowetz,
Assistant Professor, Policy Studies, College of Education; Thomas Moher,
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science; Kimberly Potowski,
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Tuesday, March 13 at 1:00 pm
Civic Capacity and Urban Power: A Theory of Governance
An occasional lecture in the Governance Lecture Series
Dennis Judd, Fellow, Great Cities Institute; Professor, Department of Political Science

Tuesday, March 20 at 1:00 pm
Moments of Hesitation: Situating Citizenship in the Excess of Fact
Helen Liggett, Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University

Voorhees Center and CMAP co-sponsor Innovation + Integration Summit
On February 6 the Voorhees Center and the Chicago Metropolitan agency for Planning (CMAP) co-sponsored a day-long summit on innovation and integration on the UIC campus. The summit featured Mike Moskow, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, as keynote speaker. He and other national leaders addressed the intersection of jobs, housing and transportation planning and the event attracted elected officials, policy advocates, transportation and land use planners, developers, and housing, labor, workforce as well as economic and community development practitioners.

PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS:

New working papers on the GCI website www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci:
Engaged Scholarship at the University by Ann Feldman, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the First Year Writing Program, and Great Cities Faculty Scholar 2003-2004.

Preparing Adolescents to Read-To-Learn in the 21st Century by Louis M. Gomez, Professor of School Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, and Kimberly Gomez, Assistant Professor in the College of Education, and Great Cities Faculty Scholar 2005-2006.

Does Form of Fiscal Governance Matter?: Fiscal Practices and Outcomes in Chicago Suburbs by Rebecca Hendrick, Associate Professor of Public Administration, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, and Great Cities Faculty Scholar 2002-2003.

Optimal Leverage in Real Estate Investment with Mezzanine Lending by John McDonald, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Director, Center for Urban Real Estate, and Great Cities Faculty Scholar 1995.

Recent Publications
Hoch, Charles. "How Plan Mandates Work: Affordable Housing in Illinois." Journal of the American Planning Association Winter 2007: 86.

Melkers, Julia. "On the Road to Improved Performance: Changing Organizational Communication Through Performance Management." Public Performance and Management Review 30:1 (September 2006): 73-95.

Ponomariov, Branco and P. Craig Boardman. "The Effect of Informal Industry Contacts on the Time University Scientists Allocate to Collaborative Research with Industry." Journal of Technology Transfer (February 2007).

Ponomariov, Branco and P. Craig Boardman. "Reward Systems and NSF University Research Centers: The Impact of Tenure on University Scientists' Valuation of Applied and Commercially Relevant Research." Journal of Higher Education 78:1 (January/February 2007).

Ryan, Brent D. and Rachel Weber. "Valuing New Development in Distressed Urban Neighborhoods: Does Design Matter?" Journal of the American Planning Association (Winter 2007): 100.

Welch, Eric, M. Jae Moon, and Wilson Wong. "What drives global e-government? An exploratory assessment of existing e-government performance measures." In George A. Boyne, Kenneth J. Meier, Laurence J. O'Toole, Richard M. Walker, eds., Public Service Performance: Perspectives on Measurement and Management, Cambridge University Press.

Recent presentations
Thakuriah, P. "LEHD: Potential for Transportation Planning and Programming." Joint Census Bureau and Brookings Institute Workshop on Local Employment Dynamics, Brookings Institute, Washington D.C., February 2007.

Thakuriah, P. "National Longitudinal Travel Data." Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington D.C., February 2007.

Thakuriah, P. Co-Organizer, Executive Session on "Economics of Traveler and Traffic Information" in Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress, Beijing, 2007.

Thakuriah, P. Organizer, Special Session on "Developing the Next Generation of ITS Professionals." Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress, Beijing, 2007.

The Publications and Presentations list is compiled from unit updates submitted prior to each CUPPA Cabinet meeting to angelas@uic.edu.


COMINGS and GOINGS:

Mary K. Feeney, Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Mary K. Feeney has accepted the Public Administration program's offer to join the faculty in Fall 2007. Ms. Feeney is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia. She holds a BS in political science from the University of Wyoming (2000) and a Masters in Public Policy from the Bloustein School of Urban Planning and Public Policy - Rutgers University (2004). Her research interests include public and nonprofit management, mentoring, science and technology policy, and survey research, and her teaching interests include public management, nonprofit management, survey research, qualitative methods, and public policy theory. A warm welcome to Ms. Feeney as she joins the CUPPA faculty.

SAVE THE DATE:

March 26-30: Spring Break, no classes, administrative offices open

April 19: CUPPA International Lecture on “UK Urban Planning after Tony Blair – Lessons for the US” by Jim Claydon, President of the UK Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), 4pm, 110 CUPPAH

May 12: CUPPA Commencement

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