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Ethan Jantz, UIC alumnus, selected as U.S. Digital Corps fellow. Photo by Joe Carabeo

CUPPA Alum Named US Digital Corps Fellow

The U.S. General Services Administration has chosen a University of Illinois Chicago alumnus to be part of its 2023 cohort of U.S. Digital Corps fellows. Ethan Jantz, who earned his master’s and bachelor’s…

Stacey Swearingen White, dean

Dean Swearingen White Appointed to Civic Consulting Alliance

Stacey Swearingen White, dean of UIC’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, has been appointed to the Civic Consulting Alliance in Chicago. The Civic Consulting Alliance, a non-profit organization, brings leaders together…

Teresa Cordova and WGN news anchor

Great Cities Institute Featured on WGN News' Adelante Chicago

Adelante Chicago’s Lourdes Duarte interviewed Great Cities Institute director, Teresa Córdova, on the Institute’s Latino research initiative. Watch the interview on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUIOBwesOLc&t=4s.

Dr. David Merriman

What Happened to Foxconn in Pleasant Prairie, WI

David Merriman, interim director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and professor of Public Policy, Management and Analytics, was quoted in a story in the Washington Post on the “ill-fated” Foxconn…

CUPPA Dean Stacey Swearingen White

Dean Selected as PELP Fellow

CUPPA Dean Stacey Swearingen White was selected to participate in the 2023-24 President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) sponsored by University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen. As a PELP fellow,  Dean Swearingen White will…

Jered Carr

Carr Transitions PPMA Headship to Carroll

Jered Carr didn’t expect to stick around for so long. As leader of the Department of Public Policy, Management, and Analytics for the past nine years, Carr has shepherded the Department through a…

Angela Hurlock, Chief Executive Officer of Claretian Associates

Voorhees Center Announces Second Practitioner in Residence

Angela Hurlock, Chief Executive Officer of Claretian Associates, is joining the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement as the second Janet L. Smith Practitioner in Residence. Hurlock officially began her…