UEP is committed to diversity. This is reflected in our core values. In educating practical visionaries, we recognize the need to equip public policy and planning professionals with the understanding and the skills needed to promote the opportunities and face the challenges of an increasingly diverse world. We accomplish this goal in several ways.

First, our student body is increasingly diverse in terms of race and ethnicity, nationality, age, socio-economic status, and sexual identity. We believe this diversity strengthens the education we provide and embodies our commitment to educate the next generation of public policy and planning professionals.

Second, our curriculum purposely analyzes public problems, in part, in terms of their racial, ethnic, class, and gender dimensions. We acknowledge that so-called disadvantaged groups often bear the greatest burden of public problems including environmental degradation, poverty, lack of adequate child-care and inadequate access to social and environmental resources.

Third, our faculty is diverse, and we value this diversity for the range of perspectives it promotes in our teaching, advising and research.

Finally we encourage all students, future watershed planners and climate policy specialists alike, to make course selections and pursue independent projects that address inequity and injustice. They are and will increasingly become a part of your work. All of this, we believe, makes a UEP education relevant in the 21st century.