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Today, IGPA works with dozens of scholars who want to see their work impact the state and nation in meaningful, substantive, and fact-driven ways.
75 Years
Since 1947, IGPA has maintained a deep connection with state government, including playing a role in the 1969-1970 state constitutional convention.
150+ Scholars
IGPA working group members collaborate substantively and share knowledge. In addition to policy impact, working group partnerships have enabled new research avenues, funding streams, and more.
COVID-19 Task Force
IGPA assembled more than four dozen interdisciplinary experts across the University of Illinois System to assess COVID-19’s effects on the state. Members of the task force stand ready to consult with state and local officials and provide any information they can to assist.
Policy
Research and Experts
IGPA’s working groups and the collaborative scholarship that they produce map onto human needs and desired outcomes in our state.
Members of this working group engage in research in all areas of education, learning, resilience, and child and family well-being to promote justice, equity, and inclusion in all educational, service and community settings.
Members of this working group engage in research and policy promoting justice, inclusion, equity, and fullest life chances, through innovative and often transdisciplinary lenses.
Members of this working group research ways to make Illinois’ economic and fiscal structure equitable, dynamic and sustainable.
4 Working Groups
IGPA’s working group structure maps onto human needs and desired outcomes in our state. Each group is interdisciplinary, interdepartmental and built to enable relationships among its members.
44 Collaborating
Scholars
Collaborating Scholars are members of the working groups who dedicate their time to IGPA policy publications or large-scale policy examinations.
150+ Members
IGPA working group members collaborate substantively and share knowledge. In addition to policy impact, working group partnerships have enabled new research avenues, funding streams, and more.
Since its creation in 1947 by the Illinois General Assembly and a resolution of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, the Institute of Government and Public Affairs has been the place where objective, world-class research and public policy meet.