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CUPPA Advancement
The College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs Advancement Office was formed in 1996 to establish the fund-raising arm of the University’s newest college. Coordinating the efforts of UIC’s Central Development Office, the University of Illinois Foundation, the Scholarship Association for UIC, the University of Illinois Alumni Association, and UIC’s Office of Public Affairs, CUPPA Advancement primarily focuses on the fund-raising, alumni relations, and communications functions that contribute to the promotion of the college and attainment of its strategic goals.
CUPPA’s aims for the future are bold and ambitious. We take to heart Daniel Burnham’s words, “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized.”
Our vision and strategy for the future builds on the achievements of the past and are guided by seven core values embodied in our strategic plan. Our plan states our commitment to academic excellence, respect for individual contributions, cultural diversity, making a contribution beyond the university, collaborating across divides, constant innovation, and striving for sustainable solutions.
As part of the Brilliant Future set forth by the University of Illinois’s Capital Campaign [hyper link to http://brilliantfutures.uic.edu/], we at CUPPA aspire to be the premier public, urban planning and public affairs college on the globe by providing innovative education through engaged research, increased scholarship and fellowship support, and faculty recognition.
Joining together with our partners, friends, and supporters, we will indeed stir the blood of men and women, realize our goals, and make the world a better place.
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, “A nation may establish a free government, but without municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.” As a recognized leader in education, research, and engagement in support of the world’s cities and metropolitan areas, we are proud of our accomplishments at CUPPA and our alumni who are now engaged across the globe in all levels of the public sector. We are poised to build upon this foundation with the students of tomorrow, and we have set forth toward a brilliant future. We look within ourselves and our community for the support with which to get there.
Ways of Giving to CUPPA
A gift is a contribution made to the university for which you receive no direct benefit and it requires nothing in exchange beyond general assurance that the intent of the contribution will be honored.
Gifts may be received in CUPPA’s Advancement Office by mail or fax or you may make a gift online at http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/onlinegiving.html
Some giving options include:
Currency/Checks
Credit Cards
Securities
Gifts-in-Kind
Matching Gifts
Payroll Deductions (Available only to employees of the University of Illinois.)
For more information on endowment opportunities including current or deferred or planned gifts and how you can benefit by giving to CUPPA, contact the CUPPA Advancement Staff:
Karen Berthiaume, Director of Advancement College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, MC350
University of Illinois at Chicago
412 South Peoria Street, Rm.128
Chicago, IL 60607
312.413.8363
fax 312.413.8095
karenb@uic.edu
Michael Pagano, Dean
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, MC350
University of Illinois at Chicago
412 South Peoria Street, Suite 115
Chicago, IL 60607
312.413.8088
fax 312.413.8095
MAPagano@uic.edu
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CUPPA’s Brilliant Futures Campaign Priorities
Student Scholarship and Fellowships
Scholarship and fellowship support for students is the premier initiative for CUPPA’s campaign. This type of student support is vital in fulfilling the Colleges three commitments – to innovative education, to engaged research and to making an influential contribution to policy and practice.
At the undergraduate level, scholarships are vital in attracting the best and the brightest students to the new Urban and Public Affairs Program. It is fitting that a College committed to the positive growth of the world’s great cities can provide support of students who want to learn about theory and practices that can improve our everyday life.
Fellowship support at the graduate level also fulfills CUPPA’s commitment to providing leaders who will make an influential contribution to policy and practice. In our Public Administration Program, the majority of students earn their degree through evening classes. As working professionals, these students are responsible for the funding of their education. Fellowships enable the program to attract the best students by providing financial support. By enrolling the very best public administration students, our city and region will benefit with these graduates in the field, emerging as public service leaders. .
The Urban Planning Program (UPP) is one of the largest graduate planning programs in the country and the only accredited program of its kind in the Chicago area. Planning promises to comprehend and tame the uncertainties of modern urban life. To make good on such strong claims, planners must acquire knowledge and practical judgment. Our program provides students with the professional knowledge and skills they need to undertake such important and challenging work. To continue to attract students of varied backgrounds and experiences to UPP, scholarship support is needed.
Although engaged research runs rampant throughout the College, the cornerstone of engaged research can be found in the Great Cities Institute. The Institute is committed to an inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration through engaged research. Collaboration is crucial when researching and resolving urban issues – issues that bridge the areas of social policy, healthcare, regional governance and policy and neighborhood growth. To effectively tackle these issues, faculty from across campus collaborates and resides as scholars in the Great Cities Institute for a period of time in which to complete their research. Support is needed to release these faculty members from teaching responsibilities for one year, enabling them to focus on the issues at hand at the Great Cities Institute.
Another innovative research institute at the College is the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. The mission of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) is to promote, coordinate, and conduct innovative research at the intersection of race, ethnicity and public policy. IRRPP represents a major commitment by the university to better address growing racial and ethnic diversity in Chicago, the nation and the world. The research abilities of the IRRPP would be strengthened through stipends that provide the graduate students who would conduct related race and policy research and engage in other supporting projects.
Students also gain specialized training and unique research opportunities from each of the five research units within CUPPA. These research units design and build their research around the areas of housing, economic development, transportation, survey research methods and urban data visualization.
Faculty Advancement and Support
One of CUPPA’s core values is respect for the unique, individual contributions of faculty to scholarship. The talent of CUPPA’s faculty has resulted in the Public Administration program’s ranking of first nationally among such programs in public universities and the Urban Planning and Policy’s distinguished stature of being the largest program in the country. Our faculty is responsible for the training of current and future public administration professionals and urban planners and support is needed to retain this much sought-after group of educators and researchers. Peer institutions recognize the success of our programs and are persistent in attempts to acquire our faculty. In order to retain our group of highly talented faculty, it is our goal to provide professorships, faculty scholar awards and research endowments.
Facilities
With the addition of the new undergraduate Urban and Public Affairs, there is a need for an expansion of the current computer laboratory facility. CUPPA's present specialized student computer lab has 18 fixed positions in approximately 500 square feet of space. To expand our lab to accommodate our ever-growing graduate and undergraduate programs, renovation will take place to house up to 29 fixed computers, eight informal fixed computers and 29 laptop spaces. This new laboratory will enable students to learn in a hands-on computing and audio visual environment. The laboratory will also support the professional, continuing education opportunities that our alumni and other constituents expect from CUPPA.
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Brilliant Futures: The Campaign for the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs:
Endowment
Professorships $ 2,710,000
Graduate fellowships $ 725,000
Undergraduate scholarships $ 325,000
Research funds $ 450,000
Centers and Institutes support $ 2,250,000
Facilities
Classroom renovation $ 200,000
Lab renovation $ 1,000,000
Student space renovation $ 25,000
Annual Giving
Annual Fund $ 80,000
Current-use scholarships $ 75,000
Current-use fellowships $ 70,000
Grants $ 5,000,000
Total $ 12,910,000 |
