CPSJ Description and Goals

Here's the description the students worked up two years ago:

Several universities have student organizations of planners working on local projects and representing active and progressive movements. This group arose out of the realization that there is a lack of critical planning and a discussion surrounding the barriers in its development in the UCI planning student body. Planning students are actively looking to establish relationships with the surrounding community. It seems like Orange County could be ground zero for ethnic and class tensions, and many movements are taking shape. As planners and students our involvement within such movements not only enriches our educational experience, but it is also our responsibility.

Goals
• Creating an active student base of planners providing support (for local urban and social movements, alternative planning projects, etc)
• Help establish a network of student planners working for underrepresented and underprivileged communities
• Exploring our roles as planners working to change the status quo and not reproduce it.
• Creating a space for people of color within the program
• Recruiting progressive masters and doctoral students to the Planning and Policy Department of University of California, Irvine –

contact: cpsj.uci@gmail.com