Community Engagement Activity
Inside-Out Prison Exchange brings DePaul students and inmates together to learn as peers, engaging in a variety of topics depending on the faculty member and the course offering. DePaul students visit the Cook County jail and Stateville prison weekly to express solidarity with those who live in the most dire circumstances. The Inside-Out Program increases opportunities for women and men, inside and outside of prison, to have transformative learning experiences that emphasize collaboration and dialogue, inviting participants to take leadership in addressing gender, race, class, incarceration, and other issues of social justice. All students involved in the program earn couse credit.
Public Service Activity
A dynamic 2-day workshop expanding on the core principles and applications of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in local communities. Presentations, discussions and exercises will include discussions of equity and social justice and enable participants to explore how ABCD can respond to these issues.
Community Engagement Activity
This project is a collaboration between the Department of Geography, Steans Center and Pilsen Alliance. Students collect publicly available data about housing, property taxes, house sales, zoning and associated information relating to the neighborhood of Pilsen (Lower West Side). Studies are shared with the Pilsen Alliance, which can use information for its organizing campaigns.
Community Engagement Activity
DePaul has engaged with the I/O program since 2012, offering one or more I/O courses every quarter. However, to date, no assessment of the program as it functions athas been conducted. Occasional program assessment is necessary in order to articulate best practices and to deliver the most effective and the most transformative educational experiences for both inside and outside students and other stakeholders. The Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning, who administrates I/O proposed to assess the program as it has been operating at DePaul, Stateville C.C., and CCDOC.
Students enrolled in program assesment course will be conducting interviews with six different study participant groups:
1) DePaul administrators associated with I/O;
2) Stateville C.C. and CCDOC administrators associated with I/O;
3) DePaul faculty associated with I/O;
4) Current and former teaching assistants (T.A.s) associated with I/O;
5) Campus-based students (outside) who have taken at least one I/O course; and
6) Detained or incarcerated students (inside) who have taken at least one I/O course.
Community Engagement Activity
Undergraduate students work in Chicago schools supporting classroom teachers in their early reading instructional periods, focused especially upon providing targeted scaffolds for children who need additional support.
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