Travis Kraus, Director of Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC), received the 2021 Presidents’ Civic Engagement Leadership Award from the Iowa and Minnesota Campus Compact (IAMNCC).

Three School of Planning and Public Affairs alums have been instrumental in helping Cedar Rapids, Iowa, recover from the derecho that hit the city in August 2020. What is a derecho?

On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, the Iowa Board of Regents awarded Chuck Connerly, Professor and Director of the School of Planning and Public Affairs (SPPA), the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence for his “exceptional contributions and sustained record of excellence."

A new option is now available for graduate students interested in pursuing a master’s degree in Public Affairs and a J.D. (Law) degree at the same time, completing them both in four years.

We are pleased to share that creation of our new Certificate in Urban Studies has been included in a recent edition of Iowa Now.

Faculty member Phuong Nguyen’s recent paper on tax increment financing (TIF) in Iowa has been published on AERA Open.

City council members for the City of Tama, Iowa, recently adopted a 2040 comprehensive plan created by a team of urban planning students at the University of Iowa.