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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.
Since 1947, IGPA has maintained a deep connection with state government, including playing a role in the 1969-1970 state constitutional convention.
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.
IGPA’s working groups and the collaborative scholarship that they produce map onto human needs and desired outcomes in our state.
Education, Learning, and Child and Family Well-Being
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.
Main Page Featured Report Case StudyEquity, Justice, and Human Flourishing
Members of this working group engage in research and policy promoting justice, inclusion, equity, and fullest life chances, through innovative and often transdisciplinary lenses.
Main Page Featured Report Case StudyFiscal and Economic Policy
Members of this working group research ways to make Illinois’ economic and fiscal structure equitable, dynamic and sustainable.
Main Page Featured Report Case StudyIGPA’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.
Collaborating Scholars are members of the working groups who dedicate their time to IGPA policy publications or large-scale policy examinations.
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.
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