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Our Success

Since 1937 the Urban Affairs and Planning program has endeavored to educate future planners and policy analysts and to apply faculty expertise in related research and outreach. To achieve success in such an endeavor means that those students, alumni, faculty, staff and associates engaged the program’s lessons and have gone on to improve the world and themselves. And there has indeed been success. Evidence of this is found herein, and through the experiences of our graduates in molding themselves and the world, and in the increasing need for forward thinkers, planners, by society. As such, this program has expanded across time – for 50 years, and space – our program is now offered in both Blacksburg and Alexandria, Virginia.

On this page the reader will find narratives of our success, encapsulated in images or documented in student and alumni feedback.

Success, however, does not come without challenge. The UAP program’s success has also relied on its ability to improve based on critical input. This is why this page comes with its necessary compliment, Our Challenge, where students and alumni provide commentary on the aspects of the program that require change.

Blacksburg

Forthcoming - as information is collected from students, alumni and faculty who are associated with the Blacksburg component of the UAP program, here the reader will find a summary of how UAP has fulfilled its promise in that region.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.uap.vt.edu/home.html

Alexandria

Forthcoming - as information is collected from students, alumni and faculty who are associated with the Alexandria component of the UAP program, here the reader will find a summary of how UAP has fulfilled its promise in that region.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.nvc.vt.edu/uap/index.html

Success Stories

Students, alumni and faculty share stories about their positive experiences with the Urban Affairs and Planning Program. As these stories are collected from these groups, they will be shared below.

Resources: < Student feedback page - Alumni feedback page >

The Urban Affairs and Planning Program Celebrates 50 Years of Service

2007 marks the 50th year of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning. To celebrate this milestone, UAP hosted events on October 26, 2007 at the Inn at Virginia Tech for the Blacksburg component of the UAP program and December 6, 2007 at the Arlington Economic Development Office for the Alexandria component of the UAP program. Speeches were given, toasts were made, pictures taken, and history reviewed – some of the material captured for these events may be found using the links below.