DEPAUL STUDENT PROGRAMS
Federal TRiO Programs
The Federal TRiO Programs were established by Congress to help students from low-income and first-generation college families enter college, graduate and move on to participate more fully in America's economic and social life. While student financial aid programs help students overcome financial barriers to higher education, TRiO programs help students overcome class, social and cultural barriers to higher education.
There are two TRiO programs at DePaul:
- Student Support Services (SSS) provides advising, academic assistance, mentoring and career-related services to eligible first-generation and low-income undergraduates at DePaul to improve retention and degree attainment.
- McNair Scholars Program prepares carefully selected undergraduate students who are first-generation and low-income, or who are members of underrepresented groups, for doctoral study and entrance to academic careers. The program provides opportunities for undergraduate research, faculty mentoring and study abroad, as well as intensive advising and assistance with the graduate school admission process.
Other DePaul Student Service Resources
Career Center creates connections to the world of work, providing comprehensive, centralized employment and career services for students and alumni.
Center for Writing-based Learning features two offices at the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses. Both offices and services are open and free of charge to students, faculty, and staff who would like help with their writing.
DePaul Central is the university's premier information service for DePaul students, providing assistance with admission, advising, housing, ID card services, meal plans, orientation, parking and U-Pass.
Financial Aid provides answers and information about the financial aid application process and the many types of financial aid available at DePaul.
Office of Multicultural Student Affairs improves retention and graduation rates for students of color and first generation students by helping to ensure that marginalized group members, including African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American students and their families, have a positive “DePaul experience.
Productive Learning Strategies (PLuS) Program is a year-round comprehensive program designed to meet the needs of DePaul University students with specific learning disabilities and/or attention deficit disorders.
Students Together Are Reaching Success (S.T.A.R.S.) Program is a voluntary, comprehensive, first year retention initiative designed to target Latino/a, Asian American, Native American, and African American students in their transition to DePaul University and to higher education.
Other DePaul Resources
Center for Black Diaspora was established to promote and support the production of scholarly, cultural and creative work related to the experiences of Black people in the Diaspora.
Center for Latino Research invests in the empowerment of Latino communities in Chicago, the Midwest and the nation, by supporting qualitative and quantitative research, providing community based organizations with university resources, creating learning opportunities for future scholars and offering insightful and useful publications based on the research of our faculty and associates.
Center for Community and Organization Development provides consulting and research services related to clinical, community, and organizational psychology to not-for-profit service oriented community-based organizations in a manner that provides professional training and funding for our students at DePaul University.
Center for Urban Education provides training and resources to better prepare individuals for teaching in Chicago schools.
Cultural Center offers financial support for cultural and ethnic student organizations representing African American, American Indian, Asian, Ethnic Greek, GLBT, Jewish, Latino/a, and Muslim populations; opportunities for all students to interact with and learn about people from different racial, ethnic and/or cultural backgrounds outside of the classroom, and a venue for faculty and staff to present their work and/or interests.
Egan Urban Center represents DePaul University's tangible and enduring commitment to the research, development, deliverance and transfer of innovative education-based programs and services that have a significant social impact.
Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning Center seeks to develop mutually beneficial, reciprocal relationships with community organizations in order to develop a sense of social agency in our students through enrollment in Community-based Service Learning courses, community internships and placements, and community-based student employment.