The Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) is celebrating its move to Gordon Hall with an Open House from 3-5 p.m. on Thursday, September 23. Senator Stan Rosenberg and Representative Ellen Story will make remarks at the event, along with UMass faculty and administrators. All members of the UMass community are invited to the Open House, which will include a reception and tours of CPPA’s new space.
The move, which took place during the summer of 2010, enables CPPA to house student and staff offices in contiguous quarters, and also provides new office space for faculty.
“We’re excited by our new home, and especially by its possibilities,” according to CPPA Director M.V. Lee Badgett. “Gordon Hall is a beautiful building, both inside and out. The additional space will also allow for CPPA’s continued growth in the years to come.”
CPPA offices are located on Gordon Hall’s first floor, while the National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) and the Science, Technology and Society Initiative (STS)—projects affiliated with CPPA—now has offices on the second floor.
Gordon Hall was completed in 2003 as the home of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), housed on the second and third floors of the building. The building was designed by noted architect Sigrid Miller Pollin, who also is a faculty member in Architectural Studies and Interior Design, a unit of the UMass Department of Art.
For additional information about the open house or CPPA’s recent move, please contact Kathy Colón (kcolon@pubpol.umass.edu or 413.545.3956) or Susan Newton (snewton@pubpol.umass.edu or 413.577.0478).