Recent Awards
"...to enhance the Catholic and Vincentian identity of the University."
Balancing Mission and Market: Brian Spittle, Enrollment Management. $7,000 to support a the “Balancing Mission and Market: Exploring Catholic Identity in the Enrollment Process” symposium that explore issues of Catholic Identity and Social Thought in the enrollment process among enrollment, admission and mission practitioners at DePaul and other Catholic universities.
Operation Read and Restore: Brett Nunn, Library. $2,150 to assist with shipping costs for books, magazines, and movies sent overseas to U.S. servicepersons with ties to DePaul.
Bonds of Solidarity: Marie Donovan, School of Education. $5,000 to support an initial symposium regarding the new educational realities and possibilities brought to the educational community by Latino/a students.
Tangaza College/DePaul University BA Degree Program: Derise Tolliver, School for New Learning. $4,000 to support faculty travel to Nairobi, Kenya to provide extensive student mentoring to DePaul’s already established partnership with Tangaza College.
Protecting Indigenous Rights in Oaxaca, Mexico: Daniel Rothenberg, College of Law. $5,000 for a short-term project to improve legal advocacy skills for indigenous women in Oaxaca through a program that connects indigenous women leaders with DePaul University students, the larger DePaul community, and representatives of the Chicago Latino and Mexican immigrant communities
Common Ground Initiative: Fr. Christopher Robinson, University Ministry. $8,000 to bring together students from Catholicism, Protestant Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to Paris to learn and reflect about their common Vincentian heritage.
African Christian Works of Art: Louise Lincoln, Art Gallery. $4,500 to assist the Art Museum to acquire a crucifix made in the Kongo region, an area with a long but little-known history of Catholicism.
DePaul/Adamson/VINCAP Values-Centered Leadership: Patricia Bombard, $4,000 to support a Values-Centered Leadership Certificate at Adamson University, serving Adamson and the Vincentian Center for Asia Pacific.