Public Affairs

Public Affairs is the campus-level strategic communications and marketing unit. Its role is to provide leadership in communicating the excellence of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to key audiences throughout the state of Illinois, the nation, and the world.

Public Affairs staff facilitates

• Campus-level media relations
• Marketing
• Publications
• Web site development
• Content creation
• Crisis communication
• Maintenance of the campus web site
• Freedom of Information Act requests
• Survey responses
• Wide array of special projects

Public Affairs offers assistance to every college and major unit at the university with the creation and implementation of marketing plans that complement the campus plan.

This web site provides the tools, services, and support that communicators need to effectively, creatively, and efficiently lead and to measure the effectiveness of communications and marketing efforts at the college or unit level.

Vision

Public Affairs will become a leader in establishing and sustaining successful communications/marketing systems and approaches which will be models for institutions across the nation.

Mission

The mission of Public Affairs is to create and implement communications and marketing strategies that translate the benefits of teaching, research, and public engagement at the Urbana campus to the people of Illinois, the nation, and the world.