BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - Key Persons
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- Rich Township Supervisor and Former Member, Illinois House of Representatives, 38th District
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Albert Schorsch, III joined the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs Dean's office in 1996 as associate dean. He was acting dean of CUPPA from 1999 to 2000, and associate dean until his retirement in June 2015. From 2004 to 2007, he also was interim director of the Great Cities Urban Data Visualization Lab, which he helped found in 1997.
He received psychology degrees from Loyola University, and later took professional education courses at MIT's Center for Real Estate, Harvard's Institutes for Higher Education, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and Business Innovation Services of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his doctorate in public policy analysis at UIC in 1992, and he returned to campus in 1994 to work at the UIC Center for Urban Economic Development on the UIC Neighborhoods and Non-Profits Network project.
After retiring in 2015, Schorsch began service in campus ministry as director of the Integritas Institute for Ethics of the St. John Paul II Catholic Newman Center and its School of Catholic Thought on the UIC campus.
Albert Schorsch, III died on Oct. 28, 2017 in Chicago after a lengthy illness. He was 66.
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- Assistant Professor / Public Policy, Management and Analytics
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- Managing Director - Public Finance Investment Banking, Fifth Third Securities
Allan Lerner served as deputy associate chancellor, associate provost for external education and director of the Office of External Education, associate dean of the Graduate College, professor of Political Science, professor of Public Administration, and CUPPA's first interim dean from 1994-1996.
He was instrumental in establishing several key elements of our college that stand today. The Public Administration Department's PhD program was implemented because of the ten year effort led by Professor Lerner and his PA colleagues. Professor Lerner also successfully established the structure of the college, negotiated the incorporation of the Survey Research Laboratory, founded external education projects for CUPPA, and coordinated the CUPPA Bylaws through faculty approval when the college was formed. At the University level, he served on a committee under then Vice President for Academic Affairs Sylvia Manning, which helped restructure the Promotion and Tenure process across the University of Illinois system. He served on many, many other UIC committees and task forces. He authored five books, countless monographs, conference presentations, articles, papers, and workshops.
Professor Lerner most recently served UIC as associate provost for international affairs and as executive director of the UIC Office of International Affairs until his retirement this past spring. He described his positions in International Affairs as providing strategic leadership, institutional oversight, and active involvement in international collaborations concerning research, education, and public service and developing customized initiatives and related inter-institutional agreements with more than 80 universities, government entities, foundations, business organizations, and organizations of civil society in over 40 countries on behalf of UIC.
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- Development Coordinator - Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
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- Hazel Davis and Robert Kennedy Endowed Chair in Government and Public Service at Texas a & M, Has Been a Longtime Collaborator With Pagano, Including Co - Authoring Two Books, Cityscapes and Capital
Ann Bowman, the Hazel Davis and Robert Kennedy Endowed Chair in Government and Public Service at Texas A&M, has been a longtime collaborator with Pagano, including co-authoring two books, Cityscapes and Capital: The Politics of Urban Development and Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies. While she's worked with many other scholars in her career, she says that Pagano stands out in her mind, not just as a researcher, but as an all-around interesting person.
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- Associate Director for Community Partnerships
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- Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
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- Associate Professor Emeritus / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- Assistant Professor / Public Policy, Management and Analytics
Benoy Jacob, now the director of the Community Development Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Division of Extension, says that Pagano's mentorship as a PhD advisor was instrumental in Jacob's future success. Even today, the two remain close, something Jacob values in his own ongoing leadership role.
"Far more than his work, Mike is a wonderful mentor and friend," Jacob says. "Even 13 years after guiding me to the completion of my dissertation, Mike continues to reach out and offer support and guidance."
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Director of Academic Programs and Staff Support
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- Postdoc Research Associate
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- Assistant Professor / Public Policy, Management and Analytics
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- Assistant Dean for Finance, Administration and Research Operations
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- Professor / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- Professor and Department Head / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
Hi everybody, my name is Carter Neubauer! I am a second year student and I am majoring in Urban Studies as a part of the CUPPA program here at UIC. I love sports and enjoy playing almost every one, although my favorites are baseball, basketball, and soccer. I also love listening to music, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. If you see me on campus don't hesitate to say hi!
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- DIRECTOR
- MPA '17, Associate Director of Advancement Communications - UIC
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Information Technology Manager
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- Co - Director of the Institute for Research
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- Associate Director of Neighborhood Initiative
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- Director, Great Cities Institute Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
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- Academic Advisor / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Appointed Interim Dean
- Interim Dean
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Professor David Merriman has been appointed Interim Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA), beginning August 1, 2021, by the UIC Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Merriman, in his fifteenth year at UIC, is an expert in state and local tax and budgetary policies. He holds the title of Stukel Presidential Professor in the Department of Public Administration, an appointment in the Department of Economics, where he also served as head of the department from 2009-2010, and an appointment in the Institute for Government and Public Affairs. In CUPPA, he served as associate dean for faculty affairs from 2011-2012 and as interim head in Public Administration from 2019-2020.
Growing up in rural New Jersey with a father who was a chemist and a mother who was a CPA, Merriman followed his own interests in public policy and political and social movements to Washington D.C. to pursue his undergraduate education at American University. It wasn't long before he switched his major to economics, defining his academic future.
"I've always liked the analytics within public policy and how the world can work better with collaboration between government and the public sector," Merriman said. "I focus on long-term thinking and the guiding principles of public policy; to consider how people think about and make decisions."
After graduate school at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Merriman lived in Tokyo for two years. He returned to the states and had an academic appointment at the University of Texas at Dallas and eventually moved north to Chicago landing at Loyola University and Northern Illinois University. Merriman joined the UIC Department of Public Administration in 2007.
Merriman's research has helped state and local governments develop fairer and more efficient mechanisms to raise revenue and implement public policy. He has been heavily involved with property tax reform in Cook County and has written numerous articles on flaws in the design and implementation of tax increment financing.
While widely known for his work in tax increment finance, he has become a pioneer in researching cigarette tax evasion. Merriman created the methodology to study cigarette tax by using representative sampling, which is now replicated in cities around the world.
"We actually found and counted cigarette packages with tax stamps, which indicate payment. The study design was simple and the results were easy to explain to legislatures," Merriman said.
In 1997, Merriman and Lake Forest College Professor Richard Dye began the Fiscal Futures Project. This project became a core part of Merriman's many widely read analyses of state government policies. Tracking the Illinois state budget in a consistent way, Merriman explained, has helped state legislators understand the budget overall and has fostered long-term planning in the state including spending and revenue projections. Since Dye's retirement, Merriman has directed the project which annually produces a report on the state of the Illinois budget and several supplementary topics.
As interim dean in CUPPA, Merriman sees the next year as a transition period and a learning period, "We will be learning and experimenting; a bit of trial and error in our system which will become more blended and hybrid than ever before. Our consciousness about equity and diversity has been raised over the course of the last 14 months and we need to make this a central part of our thinking. We are going to be learning what this means together," he said.
Professor David Merriman was appointed interim dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA), beginning August 1, 2021 until June 30, 2022, by the UIC Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
At the time of his appointment as interim dean, Merriman, was in his fifteenth year at UIC and was an expert in state and local tax and budgetary policies. He held the title of Stukel Presidential Professor in the Department of Public Administration, an appointment in the Department of Economics, where he also served as head of the department from 2009-2010, and an appointment in the Institute for Government and Public Affairs. In CUPPA, he served as associate dean for faculty affairs from 2011-2012 and as interim head in Public Administration from 2019-2020.
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- Interim Dean
- Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning
David Perry is professor emeritus of Urban Planning and Policy in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He served for almost 12 years as director of the Great Cities Institute at UIC and the associate chancellor for the university's Great Cities Commitment. From 2000 to 2002, he served as interim dean of the CUPPA.
Perry is the author or editor of eleven books, including The Global University and Urban Development: Case Studies and Analysis and Universities as Urban Developers: Case Studies and Analysis, and over 150 articles, book chapters and reports on urban "anchor" institutions, urban and regional economic development policy, race, politics and urban violence, contested cities, public infrastructure and the production of urban space. He is presently working on two new books on the role of universities and community foundations in American cities, one to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press and one by M.E. Sharpe. Perry's work has appeared in such non-academic places at the New York Times, The Nation and Metropolis magazine. David is an equally experienced policy practitioner having worked with numerous community partners and having served on national and local public boards and commissions, including Chicago's Zoning Reform Commission, the Urban Land Institute's National Public Infrastructure Committee, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Rudy Bruner National Award Selection Committee, the National Task Force on Anchor Institutions and the Strengthening Communities Strand of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities of the Association of Public Land Grant Universities.
Perry received his PhD from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and went on to teach in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin and chaired the Urban Planning Program at the University at Buffalo. He also held the visiting Albert A. Levin Chair at Cleveland State University and was a senior faculty fellow of the State University of New York's Rockefeller Institute.
Dean Swearingen White is an environmental planner with research interests in sustainability innovation at the local level, including campus sustainability. She and her spouse, Scott, have two sons, Thomas and Isaac.
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- Business Administrative Associate
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- Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Jing Wang teaches courses in public budgeting and finance, policy analysis, and urban policies and management. Her research investigates the effects of urban (re)development on local government's financial condition, the governance and fiscal structure of infrastructure and special districts, and social equity measurement in municipal service privatization. Dr Wang's research interests also include the community participation, urbanization and its fiscal consequences in urban China.
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- Dean
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Appointed CUPPA 's Next Dean
- Dean of the College
Stacey Swearingen White is the eighth dean of the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. She joins UIC from the University of Kansas, where she began her academic career.
Stacey Swearingen White is dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) at UIC. She joined the college on July 1, 2022 coming from the University of Kansas (KU), where she began her career as an assistant professor of Urban Planning. At KU, she served as the chair of the Urban Planning Department, co-founder and director of academic programs for the KU Center for Sustainability, and associate director of the Environmental Studies Program. Most recently, she served as director of the KU School of Public Affairs and Administration.
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- Public Information Coordinator / Urban Transportation Center
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- Director of Strategic Initiatives, HTNB
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- DIRECTOR
- MUPP '16, Senior Planner - Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
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- Director of Human Resources
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- Managing Director, URBAN ReSOLVE
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- Senior Executive, Civic Consulting Alliance
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- Assistant Professor / Public Policy, Management and Analytics
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- Assistant Dean for Student Success
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- Professor / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
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- Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
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- Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
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- Associate Director of Special Events
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- Public Administration Department Head
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Information Technology Manager
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- Assistant Dean for Communication
- Assistant Dean for Communications
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- Professor Emeritus / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- DIRECTOR
- MUPP '79, Government Relations Director UIC School of Law
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- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research
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- Budget Analyst - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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- Government Finance Research Center
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- Assistant Professor / Public Policy, Management and Analytics
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- Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
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- Associate Director of Business and Finance
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- Associate Professor / Public Policy, Management and Analytics
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- Planned Giving Officer - UNICEF USA
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- Manager of Research Operations
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- Senior Vice President, OPC Implementation Lead, Obama Foundation
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- Business Administrative Assistant
- Business Administrative Associate
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- DIRECTOR
- MUPP '91, Supervising Planner - WSP Parson Brinckerhoff
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Post Doctoral Research Associate
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- James J. Stukel Presidential Professor / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- Program / Student Advisor / Public Policy, Management and Analytics
Ask retiring College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs Dean Michael A. Pagano where his story starts, and he'll tell you it began in many ways with the US-Soviet space race. After the launch of the satellite Sputnik in 1957, the American government poured billions of dollars into the National Science Foundation, to keep the country apace with its Soviet counterpart. Pagano's father, Anthony Pagano, had already had his life changed by the GI Bill, allowing him to enroll in college to become a math teacher in Yuma, Arizona and avoid a hard life working in Pittsburgh's mills. With the aid of NSF funding, he was able to return from, Arizona to his native Pennsylvania, where he pursued an EdD at Penn State.
Without that fateful course, Anthony would have never met his wife Jean, an Iowan who left the Midwest after the War and moved to Phoenix, nor would they have given birth to their son Mike in Phoenix. As it stands, the family lived on Normal Avenue in the small town of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania for most of Pagano's childhood. Despite the rural idyll his early life presented, Pagano credits moments of sheer happenstance like this as foundational to his life trajectory.
"The opportunities my father was able to take advantage of were opportunities that you could have never predicted: a war, the GI Bill, and a race to the moon with the Soviets," Pagano says, including the chance meeting of his high school sweetheart, Deborah, with whom he's been married 48 years.
As the Dean moves towards retirement at the start of the fall semester, looking back on a lifetime of accomplishments proves bittersweet. Particularly in his time within CUPPA over the last two decades, he's witnessed changes within the program that will continue well past his retirement, fulfilling the college's promise as a premiere research program for those interested in studying cities and government structures. While his professional career might be ending, Dean Pagano's half-century of academic and administrative work have proven invaluable to countless others who have worked with him over the years, leaving an imprint on the college and countless colleagues, students, and friends.
Michael A. Pagano is the former dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, former director of UIC's Government Finance Research Center, professor of public administration, Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (elected 2006), former co-editor of Urban Affairs Review (2001-2014), and former Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program.
He has published eleven books, including The People's Money, Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic Turmoil , Cityscapes and Capital and The Dynamics of Federalism, and over 80 articles on urban finance, capital budgeting, federalism, transportation policy, infrastructure, urban development and fiscal policy; since 1991, he has written the annual City Fiscal Conditions report for the National League of Cities. He has delivered more than one hundred papers and speeches and received funding from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Research Council, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Pew Charitable Trusts, Brookings Institution, CEOs for Cities, National League of Cities, Chicago Community Trust, U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, and elsewhere.
He has served on a variety of professional organizations, including NASPAA (Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration), the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the Metropolitan Planning Council (Chicago), the Pension Committee of the Civic Federation, and the Urban Land Institute.
He is the 2019 recipient of the Aaron Wildavsky award for a lifetime contribution to the study of budgeting and financial management from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management of the American Society for Public Administration, the Donald Stone Distinguished Scholar award from the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management of the American Society for Public Administration (2015), and the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Scholar Award, from the Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations of the American Political Science Association (2011).
He earned a B.A. in Latin American Studies from the Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980.
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- Director of Academic Programs Support
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- Editorial Assistant / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- Business Administrative Associate
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- As Urban Planning Department Head
As Urban Planning department head Nik Theodore notes, Pagano has served as dean during several acute challenges for higher education, including an era of declining support for public institutions, and the shift to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. In that climate, Theodore says Pagano has provided the essential leadership that it needed.
notes, Pagano has served as dean during several acute challenges for higher education, including an era of declining support for public institutions, and the shift to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. In that climate, Theodore says Pagano has provided the essential leadership that it needed.
"Despite these challenges, the academic departments have added new degree programs; expanded their undergraduate offerings; and increased their visibility locally, nationally, and internationally," Theodore says. "Throughout this challenging period, Dean Pagano has held true to his core principles of fairness and transparency, setting the standard for future CUPPA Deans in terms of involving college stakeholders in decision-making and budget matters."
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- Dean Emeritus, CUPPA and Professor Emeritus, Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- Assistant Dean for Finance, Administration, and Research Operations
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- Community Impact Director - World Business Chicago
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- Director of Human Resources
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- DIRECTOR
- MUPP '21, Strategic Planner - Rail, CTA
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- President and CEO, Merritt Research Service, LLC
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- Lake Forest College Professor
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- Retired ), President, Community Care Alliance of Illinois
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- Emeritus Professor of City Leadership at the University
Robin Hambleton is emeritus professor of City Leadership at the University of the West of England, Bristol and director of Urban Answers, a company he founded in 2007, in the United Kingdom.
He has been an adviser to UK local government ministers, to select committees of the UK House of Parliament, and has worked on place-based leadership with cities in many different countries. He has held professorial positions in City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, in City Management at UWE, and in Urban Planning and Policy and Public Administration at UIC.
He was the founding president of the European Research Association (EURA) and was the dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2002-07). He has published eleven books and over 400 articles.
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- Community Development Planner
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- Visiting Senior Research Specialist
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- Post Doctoral Research Associate
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- Business Administrative Associate
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- DIRECTOR
- MUPP'21, Graduate Transportation Planner, Arup
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- Assistant Dean for Student Success
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- Associate Professor / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- Clinical Professor Emeritus / Public Administration
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- President and Founder, SB Friedman Development Advisors
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- Associate Director of Special Events
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- Director, Center for Urban Economic Development
- UIC Distinguished Professor
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- Associate Professor Emeritus / Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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- Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
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- Principal Planner - Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
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- Professor and Department Head
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- Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor / Public Policy, Management and Analytics
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- Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
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- Economic Development Planner
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- Dean 1996 - 2000 Heading Link Copy Link
- Retired
Wim Wiewel retired in 2022 as Lewis & Clark's 25th president. He took the helm there on October 1, 2017, after nine years successfully leading Portland State University. He assumed the presidency of Portland State University in August 2008. Prior to Portland State, Wiewel was the provost and senior vice president of Academic Affairs at the University of Baltimore.
Wiewel holds degrees in sociology and urban planning from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University.
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- Associate Professor Emeritus
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- Professor and Director of Graduate Studies