UUP Annual Report UUP Annual Report: Fall 2004-Spring 2006 What does the UUP do for the State of Ohio? Advances Ohio's Economy! Click here for the slideshow The Urban University Program consists of eight public universities working together to serve the needs of Ohio's urban residents. UUP member schools conduct research and provide hands-on management and technical assistance in search of solutions to such challenges as Ohio's aging housing stock and reducing housing shortages; repairing an aging infrastructure (roads, bridges, sewers); helping local government officials manage better; stimulating an often fluctuating economy; reducing environmental pollution; and seeking innovative teaching methods for urban education. As Ohio's only statewide think tank for urban issues, the UUP was proposed by the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs in 1979 and enacted by the Ohio General Assembly. Statewide Public Policy Forum Urban Agenda for Ohio View Presentations from the Policy Forum held February 6, 2007