College Vision and Future
College programs dynamically address challenges of the 21st Century. The urban planning program focuses on issues of metropolitan growth and sustainability; while the architecture school adapts to technological and global change and explores new models of collaborative practice, new specializations, green building, and developing graduates with a holistic view of the discipline.
Five-Year Strategic Goals
- Double the City and Metropolitan Planning department faculty from four to eight.
- Become an accredited urban planning program in 2009.
- Establish a PhD. program in metropolitan studies, with an emphasis in real estate.
- Establish and fund a new research center focused on the real estate development, design and planning of the intermountain west, and emerging metropolitan growth issues.
- Become a nationally-ranked urban planning program by 2011.
- Develop and extend partnerships to solve local and regional growth issues.
- Focus architectural research and practice on green building and sustainability, new methods of practice, urban design, and building and project delivery technology.
- Maintain and grow a faculty with international experience, design innovation, and research and outreach success.
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