Fall 2000 Mission Statement Urban Development strives to create opportunities for students to reach out beyond the boundaries of the university. We dedicate ourselves to enacting social change through pooling our resources, building capacity to solve problems and address issues in the Champaign-Urbana community. By cooperating with neighborhood agencies we hope to build committed relationships between the university and the community, working toward a living environment that can continually improve to the mutual benefit of its members. We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Life is too short to be pissed off all the time.
Others stay for awhile and leave footprints on our heart and we are never, ever the same. These research statistics do not come from New York or Detroit, but rather the Douglas Park Neighborhood Action Plan for northern Champaign. Welcome to your world. Now, imagine your world, as it could be. That's where the VIP Urban Development Project comes into play.