The program’s faculty, staff, and students work together with communities to create community based plans, programs and policies that sustain and enhance their culture, resource base, built environment and economic vitality. As a student in our program, you’ll contribute to this process. Working with faculty, you will help shape educational materials and workshops that give community leaders and professionals the knowledge to guide Idaho’s surging population growth, which between 1990 and 2005 climbed an astounding 41 percent.