Planning, Public Policy and Management

Department History

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The Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management was officially established in 1982. A university reorganization that year closed the Wallace School of Community Service and Public Affairs and relocated its departments and programs to other schools and colleges. The Wallace School’s Graduate Program in Public Affairs was merged with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts to form PPPM. The new department was authorized to offer the University’s accredited professional master’s degrees in urban planning and in public affairs as well as the BA/BS in planning, public policy and management.

The synergy created by bringing together faculty and students from planning and public affairs has been a vitalizing force for PPPM. We are the only department in the West that offers accredited degrees in both of these programs. Although faculty are primarily identified with one program or the other, their backgrounds and interests are highly complementary. Students from both graduate programs, as well as the undergraduate program, are encouraged to take courses across the department's offerings and to make use of all the faculty for academic and professional advice.

The department continues to develop and evolve. In 1994, the name of the urban and regional planning program was changed to community and regional planning, to better reflect the program’s focus on small towns and rural communities, and the name of the degree was changed from Master of Urban Planning (MUP) to Master of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP). Also in 1994 the Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) program was established. In 1996 the name of the public affairs program was changed to public policy and management, to give more clarity to the program title. In 2001 the degree for the Public Policy & Management Program was changed from an M.A. or M.S. in Public Affairs to a Master of Public Administration (MPA). Also in 2001, the department was granted approval from the Oregon University System to offer a one-year graduate certificate program in Not-for-Profit Management.

In 2007, PPPM enters its twenty-fifth year. We are recognized for

our scholarly and applied research on a wide variety of policy issues—from environmental planning to community economic development, from citizen involvement to nonprofit management, from health services to strategic planning;
the quality and variety of field based learning opportunities available to our students;
the assistance our faculty and students provide to small communities in Oregon and around the Pacific Basin; and
the excellent professional achievements of our alumni.



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