School of Public Policy and Social Research

school of
public policy and
social research

	HIGHLIGHTS
	Enrollment 3-quarter average
	graduate students enrollment	405
	# of full time employees	177
	'97-'98 salary expenditures	$ 9,787,267

The School of Public Policy and Social Research was established in 1994 to set a new direction for policy education, research, and action. The School's distinctive approach emphasizes solving problems across boundaries-- political, cultural, national -- and particularly at those points where the public, private and non-profit sectors converge.
Although it is one of the country's newest policy programs, the School is also one of the largest, incorporating two distinguished UCLA units of long standing -- the departments of Social Welfare and Urban Planning. Together with a vibrant new Department of Policy Studies, the School offers master's degrees in public policy, social welfare and urban planning, and doctoral degrees in social welfare and urban planning. It is also one of the few policy schools with a major commitment to undergraduate education, offering a popular minor in public policy. The School houses 10 active research centers, including the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, the Center for Policy Research on Aging, and the Center for International Science, Technology and Cultural Policy, which address such issues as immigration impacts, Social Security reform, and the influence of government policy on the arts and sciences.
The School's chief outreach program, the UCLA Policy Forum, acts both as a catalyst for dialogue on critical issues and as a leader in training and other programs that draw on the expertise of the entire UCLA campus to improve the performance of public, private and non-profit organizations.

1997-‘98 MILESTONES INCLUDE:
The School graduated its first-ever class of Master of Public Policy students. Members of the Class of 1998 are now working with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C.; with Catholic Relief Services in Zimbabwe; and with private environmental consulting and executive research firms.
The School's Child Welfare Training Center received a three-year, $6.1 million contract from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services to provide training for public child welfare workers and supervisors as part of the Inter-University Consortium, a collaborative effort of the graduate programs of social work at UCLA, USC and Cal State LA.
The School named its first class of Senior Fellows, distinguished policy practitioners who included a former Canadian prime minister, the head of NASA's Mars Pathfinder space mission, and a veteran Republican political consultant.

SOURCES

USES

TOTALS

	Instruction	Research	Academic Support	Public Service	1997-'98	1996-'97
State General Funds & Special Appropriations	$ 4,939,300	$ 767,494	$ 2,214,556		$ 7,921,350	$ 7,801,129
State Government Contracts & Grants	729,216	839,503	-	-	1,568,719	1,010,204
Federal Government	826,810	222,288	10,438	218	1,059,754	1,411,737
Local Government	1,422,449	32,286	-	-	1,454,735	1,369,692
Private Gifts, Grants & Contracts	398,525	948,717	-	-	1,347,242	1,211,922
Endowments	(1,299)	26,846	4,059	-	29,606	95,208
Sales & Services	-	91,770	-	148,973	240,743	292,230
Other Sources	294,111	223,411	49,267	-	566,789	495,231
TOTAL EXPENDITURES	$ 8,609,112	$3,152,315	$ 2,278,320	$ 149,191	$ 14,188,938	$ 13,687,353


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