School of Planning, Public Policy and Management News

IPRE Faculty and PPPM MCRP Alumna, Melissa Graciosa, joins MCRP Alumnus, Eric Mongan, and PPPM Alumnus, Fabian Gomez Hernandez, on a Housing Taskforce for Lane County. The group will work on a project to guide how Lane County acquires, prepares and resells parcels of land, with an eye toward spurring affordable housing development in communities across the county.

PPPM Professor, Diana Mason, talked alongside other volunteer experts to KLCC about the new trends in volunteering, where volunteers are engaging in shorter terms of engagement instead of long, multiyear engagements with hundreds of hours of service dedicated to a single organization in a year.

The Sustainable City Year Program started with a simple question: How can students’ innovative work be put into practice for the benefit of Oregonians? In 2009, that question moved University of Oregon College of Design professors Nico Larco and Marc Schlossberg to launch a program that, over the past 16 years, has employed the ingenuity and hard work of thousands of students on hundreds of projects for communities across Oregon.

Ben Clark joins experts in an article from "THE BALTIMORE SUN" about the pros and cons of creating/instituting a statewide 311 network. With the 911 calls being burdened by important issues (e.g. potholes and trees falling down) that don't rise to emergency status (e.g. fires or a medical emergency), the 311 network is seen as a way to help relieve some of that burden on 911 operators. The article explores the pros and cons of such a statewide network.

Associate Professor and Director of the Master's in Nonprofit Management Program, Dyana Mason, talks with Mike Rogoway at "The Oregonian" about the circumstances surrounding Rep. Greg Smith, Inland Development Corp., Morrow Development Corp., and Windwave Communications.

RARE director, Titus Tomlinson, and others talk about the impact of Federal cuts to AmeriCorps funding, hurting young professionals and rural communities alike.

Nicole Ngo's work was recognized by Office of the Provost's Teaching Engagement Program. This particular Sustainability Award recognizes faculty who have developed pedagogy and curriculum that reinforce and advance principles of sustainability through course design and instruction. For more information, watch Ngo's video on Youtube!

Bill Gates has pledged to give away “virtually all” of his wealth through his namesake foundation over the next two decades. Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Renee Irvin, joins other experts to talk about the logistics surrounding the billonaire's commitment.

Nearly 200 students, faculty, staff and a variety of honored guests jammed into one of the Lillis Hall auditoriums to see senior Elliot Nopp earn first-place honors in the Third Annual Clark Honors College Three Minute Thesis Competition on Thursday, May 1, 2025.