Truman School Centers
- Center for Regional Competitiveness
- Web: http://www.rupri.org/regionalcomp.php
- The RUPRI Center for Regional Competitiveness is heavily engaged in understanding how regions compete in the global economy and how regions can diagnose their competitive advantage. The Center’s work is focused on four key areas:
- Creating a competitiveness dashboard of indicators that help regions understand and prepare for the challenge ahead.
- Developing a diagnostic tool to help regions diagnose their most promising new competitive advantage.
- Building an innovation bridge to connect university innovation with the region that can best use it.
- Supporting new governance models which better align the public and private sectors in building competitive regions.
- Center for the Study of Organizational Change
- Web: http://truman.missouri.edu/csoc/
- (CSOC) is an interdisciplinary research center that contributes to the scholarship and practice of organizational consultation and change. Associates engage in field research, which involves analysis of a wide range of institutions and organizations, with particular emphasis on change processes and related organizational dynamics.
- Community Information Resources Center
- Web: http://circ.rupri.org
- (CIRC) makes policy-relevant information and resources available to community-based decision makers throughout rural America. Specifically, CIRC addresses the spatial and temporal dimensions of issues impacting rural America, by incorporating Internet-based geographic information systems, remote sensing technologies, and other data visualization and analytic tools. CIRC's principle goal is to rapidly transform data and static reports into interactive visualization and analytic tools for local decision support.
- Institute of Public Policy
- Web: http://truman.missouri.edu/ipp
- The Institute of Public Policy is a public service and research organization committed to providing support to policy-makers and citizens through its program of research and through services provided directly to policy-makers on specific issues and provides program evaluation services under grants and contracts.
- Missouri P-20 Education Policy Research Center
- This newly established center is a campus wide collaboration designed to conduct rigorous scholarly research on student learning and education policy.
- Rural Policy Research Institute
- Web: http://www.rupri.org
- (RUPRI) is the only national policy institute in the U.S. solely dedicated to assessing the rural impacts of public policies. This comprehensive approach to rural policy analysis involves scientists from member institutions at Iowa State University, the University of Missouri and the University of Nebraska, as well as numerous researchers, policy analysts and policy practitioners from other universities, research institutions, governments, and non-governmental organizations. To date, over 200 scholars representing 16 different disciplines in 80 universities, 40 states, and seven countries have participated in RUPRI projects.
