About

The Chicago Transit Authroity's pink line train passes over the 300 block of South Wabash Ave. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. (DePaul University/Jeff Carrion)

What we do
 

Through creative partnerships across academic disciplines and with community organizations and institutions, members of DePaul’s Urban Collaborative pursue cutting-edge research with a commitment to ethically-engaged experiential learning. Our faculty and students worked to identify and address the pressing questions facing cities and the people who live in them.

Who we are

DePaul's Urban Collaborative (UC), home to the university's scholarship, teaching, and city-focused projects near and far, drew on expertise from numerous units and centers in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, including:
 

​Center for Community Health Equ​​ity
(a partnership with Rush Medical Center)
Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development
​Community Service Studies
​Criminology​
​Geography and GIS
Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
​School of Public Service
​​Social Work
Sociology
​Sustainable Urban Development