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The goals of the Urban Planning and Policy Development Program can be summarized under six categories:
The core objective of the program curriculum is to enhance students' understanding of the theories, methods, and practice of planning.
The planning program seeks to increase faculty diversity and to capitalize on the school's faculty resources.
The planning program seeks to take full advantage of the Bloustein School's reorganization to strengthen program offerings while maintaining close connections with already existing initiatives.
The program will continue to seek high quality students with diverse backgrounds, with the goal of ensuring that women and students of color and other underrepresented populations enter the program in sufficient numbers. The program aims to continue to improve student services to support students once they enter the planning program.
The program seeks to maintain an excellent research and scholarship tradition that will impact both the scholarly advancement and practice of planning.
The planning program seeks to maintain the strong program tradition of encouraging direct faculty involvement in public and professional service activities.
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