DePaul Recognized for Dedication to Community Engagement
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the nation's top higher education research and advocacy organization, has awarded DePaul the foundation's highest rating for community engagement. DePaul is one of only 62 universities in the nation and the only one in Illinois to earn the rating – the new Community Engagement classification – for its efforts to deepen students' civic learning and address community needs.
Community engagement is at the core of the DePaul experience. In fact, U.S. News & World Report has ranked the university’s formal community-based service-learning program among the nation’s top 25 for four years running. For more information about the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and its Community Engagement classification, click here.
Three-Year Program to Explore Corporations' Role in Reducing Poverty
DePaul University's College of Commerce is launching an ambitious three-year program this month designed to promote business initiatives that reduce poverty and expand access to health care among underserved people in Chicago as well as in developing nations.
Sponsored by the college's Institute for Business & Professional Ethics (IBPE) and supported by a $45,000 grant from Abbott Laboratories, DePaul's initiative will begin Feb. 15 with the first of a series of lectures featuring distinguished scholars discussing how the for-profit sector can address poverty.
According to Laura Hartman, DePaul professor of business ethics and IBPE's director of research, IBPE continues the work of St. Vincent de Paul. "Just as St. Vincent brought together unexpected companions – the wealthy ladies of Paris and the poor – IBPE brings together social change and corporations," says Hartman. "Corporations have long contributed to society through their charitable arms, but not through their business divisions. IBPE's initiatives show corporations that partnering with the community for social change aligns with corporations' long-term strategic interest to be profitable."
SNL Launches the Center for Advancement of the Education of Adults
The School for New Learning's newly launched Center for the Advancement of the Education of Adults was created "to serve as a catalyst for change and improved practice in the education of adults," according to its mission statement.
And it intends to do just that by becoming a hub for research and – through programs, publications and consultancies – a resource for adult educators throughout Chicago, the United States and the world. The center's broad approach advances two goals of the university's VISION twenty12 strategic plan: enriching academic quality and modeling diversity.
The Center for the Advancement of the Education of Adults was created with the support of a $100,000 founding grant from alumna Trish Parson (SNL '78). Other donors to the center include alumnus and trustee Bertram Scott (SNL '80) and his wife, Liz Fender, who pledged $150,000 to support a distinguished lecturer series.
For more news, visit the DePaul alumni website.
Alumni Relations News
Benefit of the Month: Speed Networking
Want to strengthen your business network? Find new business partners? Discover new career opportunities? Join DePaul alumni from the Chicago business community for the fourth-annual speed networking event on Thursday, Feb. 22 at the Sears Tower.
Speed networking brings together professionals for a night of five-minute, one-on-one meetings to uncover complementary business interests. Prior to the event, advanced speed networking technology will prematch participants based on their interests, making it easier to find the perfect business partner. At the end of the night, participants will leave with at least 10 new business contacts. For more details and to register for the February event, visit www.speednetworking.com/depaul.
Spring Break Job Shadowing
The Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) program is seeking enthusiastic volunteers in Chicago and across the nation who are willing to invite a student to their workplace for a full- or half-day of job shadowing between March 19 and 30. Job shadowing is a chance for students to "test drive" their career options and for alumni to share their professional experience. Suggested job shadowing activities and materials will be provided, and scheduling is flexible. Interested volunteers should contact ASK at ask@depaul.edu or (312) 362-8281.
Save the Date for Reunion Weekend
Mark you calendars for the 2007 Reunion Weekend, Oct. 12-14. We will be honoring graduates from class years ending in a 2 or 7. For details, watch your mailbox or visit alumni.depaul.edu/reunions. And be sure to check out pictures from the 2006 Reunion Weekend on the Reunion Web site.
