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) | Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development |
| Community Service Studies | Criminology |
| Geography and GIS | Public Health |
| Social Work | Refugee and Forced Migration Studies |
| School of Public Service | Sociology |