About

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 work to identify and address the pressing questions facing cities and the people who live in them.

Who we are

DePaul's Urban Collaborative (UC) is the home for the university's scholarship, teaching, and projects related to cities, close to home and across the world. The Urban Collaborative draws upon expertise from a wide variety of units and centers in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, including:

	Center for Community Health Equity (a partnership with Rush Medical Center) Learn more		Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development Learn more
	Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative (a city-wide partnership currently hosted by DePaul) Learn more		Community Service Studies Learn more
	Criminology Learn more		Geography and GIS Learn more
	Public Health Learn more		Social Work Learn more
	Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Learn more		School of Public Service Learn more
	Sociology Learn more		Sustainable Urban Development Learn more

Any LAS unit with faculty or curriculum engaging urban issues may affiliate with the Collaborative. To do so, Department Chairs/Program Directors of interested units should send an email to Euan Hague (ehague@depaul.edu) and Jacqueline Lazu (jlazu@depaul.edu), outlining their unit’s urban-related course offerings/urban-focused faculty, and making a commitment to sending someone to the quarterly UC meetings. An affiliation will be for one year and will be renewable annually.