Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
The Chicago Sun-Times reported on a study by the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. The study analyzed participation and response to "On the Table," a May event held by the Chicago Community Trust.
Starting this Fall, the Center for Urban Economic Development will be working with the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center and Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance to evaluate a workforce development program.
In a story on wage theft in Kentucky, Moyers & Company cites a study by the Center for Urban Economic Development that found rampant wage theft across the country.
GCI fellow and professor of urban planning and policy, Nik Theodore, has been named by Thomson Reuters as achieving the distinction of being one of the “Highly Cited Researchers” in the Sciences and Social Sciences.
A paper by Jered Carr, incoming chair of Public Administration in CUPPA and editor of the journal Urban Affairs Review, was the subject of an article from The London School of Economics’ American Politics and Policy Blog.
The UIC Global Excellence Task Force and the UIC College of Medicine’s Center for Global Health have established an annual seed grant program. DEADLINE EXTENDED - Thursday, May 8, 2014 – Noon
The Chicago Tribune quotes Yue Zhang, UIC assistant professor of political science and former GCI faculty scholar, in the second article of a three-part series examining the role of Chicago architects in the growth and reshaping of China's cities.
The Great Cities Institute is inviting proposals for its nineteenth annual Faculty Scholar competition, open to all full-time tenured, tenure-track, and clinical faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor and above. The deadline for submission is February 21, 2014.
Teresa Córdova, director of GCI is quoted in a Diverse: Issues in Higher Education story about the development of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, which now housed at UIC and directed by Maria de los Angeles Torres.
A New York Times editorial cites a study led by Nik Theodore, professor of urban planning and policy and GCI Fellow, that found that some Latinos are reluctant to report crimes to the police for fear of exposing their undocumented status.