OUR MISSION

SUPSO facilitates networking and community building among students and in the professional world, creating a unique educational experience valuing healthy urban landscapes that are socially equitable, economically resilient, and environmentally just.

OUR CORE VALUES

Our core values are: Active Learning, Advocacy, Democracy, Diversity, Research and World Engagement.

• Active Learning empowers stakeholders by giving them shared responsibility for outcomes. 

• Advocacy involves using the knowledge and language of cities to promote objectively desirable results that further the public good – especially in the decision-making arena, and in the face of competing interests.

• Democracy is key to planning in order to ensure that planning activities reflect the interests of the whole and not only those of an individual/s or otherwise narrow constituency.

• Diversity in the planning process matters because decisions must reflect the plurality the cultures, landscapes, people, societies, and systems that they impact. 

• Research is the engine of knowledge creation, and the scientific method is responsible for centuries of human progress. 

• World Engagement involves proactively looking outward to find opportunities to learn from and collaborate with others from nearby – and around the globe.