Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
Great Cities Institute is pleased to announce the 2014-2015 GCI Faculty Scholars.The GCI Faculty Scholars Program provides awardees the opportunity to conduct research that contributes to their professional development and leads to changes in policy and professional practice outside the academy.
Dr. Pedro Noguera recaps his Monday, March 3 lecture with a special blog post for GCI. Noguera spoke on the perpetual state of reform for urban schools for the past thirty years, and what we should be doing differently to learn from these costly efforts.
As a part of the first Out and About with GCI series, we visited with Randy Heuser and his planning staff at City Hall for a comprehensive and thorough overview of city planning initiatives and brownfield redevelopment plans in Blue Island.
Education is a hot button issue that permeates through nearly every other aspect of community development including issues of poverty. Great Cities Institute is launching its Poverty to Prosperity initiative with its first forum, Great Cities, Great Schools.
Great Cities Institute (GCI) serves as a research hub and meeting place for scholars, policymakers, and stakeholders who share an interest in finding answers to the question, "What can cities and regions do to make themselves into great places?”