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24 | UCR Spring 2013
SERVING THROUGH KNOWLEDGE The newly launched UCR School of Public Policy will bridge the university and the Inland community by generating research-based solutions to local and global problems From traffic on Highway 91 to air pollution in Mira Loma and poverty in Coachella, the Inland Empire is wrestling with many of the same problems that face emerging countries around the world. The new UC Riverside School of Public Policy aims to train the policy professionals who can help identify potential solutions to such problems. Their work could help governments across the globe with problems like water quality and access to health care, while also providing much-needed guidance to decision-makers closer to home. BY PHIL PITCHFORD “We need people who can determine which public policies are going to be the most cost-effective because many of these issues are quite complex,” said Anil Deolalikar, an economics professor and the school’s founding dean. “A lot of the policies we have in place now are a knee-jerk reaction to some situation that has occurred. We need people who are able to distill that knowledge, determine what the options are and what the likely (intended and unintended) outcomes are.” The School of Public Policy, currently scheduled to admit its first students in fall 2014, UCR Spring 2013 | 25
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