The departments of urban planning, landscape architecture, and architecture teamed up to develop a model of community renewal for that area. They developed the goals and strategy of the program by responding to community input. We must continue to respond that way to other needs. With the Partnership Illinois initiative in place, the council hopes to be better able to inform departments across campus of shared public-service interests. To raise awareness among all Illinois residents about the full range of outreach programs and services delivered by University faculty to Illinois citizens each year.
Most people think of the university as a place where students are taught and research is done.
The university's public-service activities, while there are many of them, are often not very publicly known. Partnership Illinois is a way to let people know that the university is a valuable resource to the state. To reaffirm the university's relationship with the people of the state. The U. of I. is one of 37 land-grant universities founded after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862 granting federal land to the states for the establishment of public universities. The core idea of the land-grant act was that the university should be accessible to the citizens of the state.