Summer 2002 news
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The New Century's Boom
in Planning School Enrollments Enrollments
are up at the nation's top planning schools, but will the trend continue?
By Dowell Myers As we move into the 21st century, planning schools nation-wide are
experiencing a profound boom in applications for their graduate professional
degrees in urban planning. Many of the schools are hard-pressed to cope and
have been forced to cap their enrollments at levels dictated by limitations
of room capacities or available faculty. A recent survey I conducted of the "Big 12" planning schools
found widespread incidence of surging applications and enrollments over the
past two years. The Big 12, defined for the survey based on enrollment levels
and faculty size, includes MIT, UC-Berkeley, North Carolina, USC, UCLA,
Rutgers, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois-Urbana/Champaign and
Illinois-Chicago, and Georgia Tech. Where capacity is available, current
enrollments for fall 2002 are running an average of 40% ahead of last year,
repeating approximately the same rate of increase as experienced in 2001 over
2000. Sources of increases are primarily among domestic applicants, but
substantial growth is also being drawn from abroad, especially from Chinese
and Indian applicants. |
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Hugh Semple comes from Toronto This Fall semester will find
a new faculty member in the Department and the Urban and Regional Planning
Program. After an international
search, the selection of Dr. Hugh Semple was the conclusion of an intense
effort to find someone to coordinate the many GIS courses being developed in
the department. Semple was born in Guyana and had his early planning
experience there. More recently, he has worked at the University of West
Indies in Jamaica, where he set up the initial GIS curriculum and was also
involved as a GIS consultant. He did most of his advanced studies in Canada,
where he and his family are currently living near Toronto. They will be
moving to Michigan during the summer and he will take on the permanent
position of GIS program coordinator.
Welcome Hugh to our program when you meet him. |
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Rocky retiring
Rocky has served for many
years as advisor to the graduate program, and was author of the new program
in GIS/Planning. He has also served as Planning Program Alumni Coordinator
and Chair of the Department Personnel Committee for many years. A request has been made to
the University to begin a search for a replacement for rocky for Fall 2003,
but it will be difficult to replace his dedication to the program and the
department, and especially to his students and alumni, which over many years
have become his family. |
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Student resumes Over and over we have heard
that employers love hiring EMU Planning students. If you would like to
consider some of the current crop, there is an online location where you can
look at their resumes. Just click in the left column on Students and find the link to resumes. It will be updated and
expanded regularly, so make a point of checking it out. |
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Scholarship winners Three students were awarded
Urban and Regional Planning Program scholarships this year. They were
Michelle Cousineau, Chris Gruba, and Karen Pohl. Congrats to all three
deserving candidates. Money for these scholarships
comes from the endowment created through the annual golf outing, and is the
result of the volunteer efforts of students in PLACE, the Planning Program's
student club. |
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Golf Outing 2001: The Results This year's golf outing
coordinator will be undergrad student Michelle Cousineau, who has already
begun early planning. The date of this fall's golf outing is Friday, the
13th, in September, a good day to try out your luck (good or bad)! More information and photos on
the 2001 Golf Outing can be found at the PLACE link. |
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