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Center for Urban Affairs and Community Services

Center for Urban Affairs and Community Services – Quick Facts

  • Celebrating fifty-five years of service to the citizens of North Carolina.
  • Mandated to serve the citizens of North Carolina through research and technical assistance.
  • Founded by the North Carolina legislature in 1966 to provide research and technical assistance to state and local governments.
  • Original research focus was addressing problems associated with urbanization.
  • Mission quickly expanded to include a variety of survey, outcome, and program evaluation research and supporting K–12 public education programs.
  • Relocated from the NC State University’s 1911 Building to the Jane S. McKimmon Center in 1976.
  • The Center for Urban Affairs and Community Services is a division of the NC State University NC State Continuing and Lifelong Education.