Brian Flood, Media Contact: Phone: (312) 996-7681 | Email: bflood@uic.edu | Twitter: @bfloodUIC|Posted on April 24, 2018
Cities, states and local governments rely heavily on sales, property and income taxes to increase revenues and contend with everything from aging streets, sewers and bridges to growing debt, long-term pension obligations…
Rachel Weber, UIC professor urban planning and policy, and David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, serve as featured experts in a St. Paul…
Shamira Quiñones, a senior majoring in public policy, will spend the fall semester in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Santiago, Chile, to compare and contrast the educational structures in these…
Shamira Quiñones, of Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, is one of 100 winners from various racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to receive up to $10,000 in support of study abroad for a minimum of…
WBEZ (91.5 FM) interviewed Michael Pagano, dean of UIC’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, in a story about future East Woodlawn development spurred by the Obama Presidential Center and particularly what…
Brian Flood, Media Contact: Phone: (312) 996-7681 | Email: bflood@uic.edu | Twitter: @bfloodUIC|Posted on April 24, 2018
Despite popular stereotypes that Asian-Americans are a “model minority” unaffected by racial discrimination, a new report from University of Illinois at Chicago researchers details the barriers that Chicago’s Asian-Americans face due to racial…
Congratulations to Professor Michael Siciliano for being nominated by the UIC senior class as a recipient of the Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching! Prof. Siciliano will receive an engraved memento, $500…
American Public Media’s Marketplace interviewed Rachel Weber, UIC professor urban planning and policy, in a segment on Opportunity Zone or Empowerment Zone programs via the new tax law that aim to boost business growth…
US News & World Report placed UIC’s MPA program at #34 nationally, up 11 spots from the 2016 ranking. The rankings of public affairs programs, completed in 2018, are based solely on peer assessment survey…
