Our faculty aspire to be catalysts for vibrant, interconnected, communities that value equity and social justice as guiding and core principles in our shared work.
Smith Receives Chicago Community Foundation Support in Role with Elevated Chicago
Geoff Smith of the Institute for Housing Studies was awarded $20,000 from the Chicago Community Foundation to support DePaul as the co-chair of Elevated Chicago’s Knowledge Sharing Working Group. Elevated Chicago is a collaborative that promotes more equitable development of public spaces, buildings and vacant land around Chicago’s public transit infrastructure.
Big Shoulders Books Celebrates 10th Aniversary
Big Shoulders Books, a nationally recognized social-justice publishing venture out of the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences cebreated its 10th Anniversary this year. Established by Chris Solis Green, Miles Harvey and Michele Morano, the press publishes titles by or about Chicagoans whose voices might not otherwise be heard and focuses on issues of social justice. The books are distributed free of charge, and students — undergraduates and graduates from DePaul's Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing —work intimately on every stage of the manuscripts, from editing and design to publicity. Read More.
Albiol Secures Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois Support
Sioban Albiol of the College of Law was awarded $75,000 by the Lawyer’s Trust Fund of Illinois to fund the work of DePaul’s Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic. Read More.
M. Stuhlmacher and Curran Study Equity in Greenspaces
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Assistant Professor Michelle Stuhlmacher and Professor Winnifred Curran have been awarded a grant by the College’s Urban Collaborative Community Research Initiative (UCCRI) for their project, "Designing for Just Green Enough: Greening without Gentrification." The project team will examine the environmental justice paradox: How can we improve equity in greenspace access without displacing the very residents the increased greenspace is intended to benefit, using Chicago’s Pilsen community as a case study. Link
Michel’s Project Aids Chicago’s Homeless Population
With funding from PNC Foundation, DePaul University's Career Success Program (CSP), under the direction of College of Education faculty Rebecca Michel, is supporting individuals experiencing the intertwined issues of homelessness and poverty with strengths-based career advising, mental health counseling and social emotional training to effectively prepare them to secure and maintain meaningful employment.
Zeigler’s Multi-Faith Veteran Support Initiative Engages Veterans
Robert R. McCormick Foundation funded Multi-Faith Veteran Support Initiative (MVI) delivers outreach services to veterans and their families through the creation and maintenance of a network of Chicago- based community sites. Sites in the network work with MVI to develop an awareness and knowledge of veterans’ social, emotional and economic issues while also increasing their skills and capacities to work in tandem with a wide variety of local resources, supporting veterans. Maximizing access to coordinated resources and services improves Chicago-based veterans and their family’s quality of life, and decreases incidence of suicide among the veteran population.
Schober Leads Gun Violence Collaborative
With funding from the Sinai Urban Health Institute, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences‘ Daniel Schober’s Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative supports faculty-fellow teams that develop, implement, and disseminate an applied research project related to gun violence in Chicago.