Message from the Head of SUAPP

Dr. Stan Hyland, PhD

Pardon Our Dust...

Welcome and thank you for visiting our website.

As you may see, it is currently "under construction" as we endeavor to expand our mission of civic engagement into the local online community.

The School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy (SUAPP) has been providing academic & community resources to the Memphis area since 1999.

As a school within the College of Arts and Sciences, our programs and research centers prepare the next generation of leaders to assume community leadership roles while partnering with existing community leaders to provide place-based research and engaged scholarship.

When our web content redesign is complete, we hope to provide much more than a list of links to our programs - although that will still be included and hopefully the site will be more easily navigable as well.

Our broader goal is to transform the SUAPP site into an interactive resource for our students, alumni, Memphis residents and the greater MidSouth community.

SUAPP's academic programs and research centers:

• Prepare individuals to assume community leadership roles
• Provide assistance with issues confronting communities
• Emphasize community oriented, multidisciplinary research within a global perspective

After more than 10 years of community research partnerships, engaged scholarship, and service learning focused on our local community, we thought it was time to gather information into one place. We have also realized that being part of the 21st century community means being an active participant in the regional online community as well.

Since our faculty and students are producing excellent new resources every day, we have started development on a new Urban Affairs Spotlight Blog to allow for more in-depth coverage. There you will find highlights from some of our projects, partners, faculty and students. We also strive to include useful links to stories and programs of local, regional and national importance in urban studies, public administration, city planning, social work, criminal justice, and fields related to our focus areas.

From the Strengthening Communities Initiative to our Adopt-A-Street program, and from the Vance Avenue Collaborative to our HCD Fellows and Nonprofit Leaders Student Association working hard to make a difference in the community -- we want to make sure you know what is going on at SUAPP.

All of this will take some time, of course. In the meantime, connect with us on Facebook or Twitter to let us know what you think of the effort.

Sincerely,
Stan Hyland, Ph.D.