How Diverse Are DePaul Students?

Find demographic information about DePaul students (e.g. race, gender, geographical origin) on OIPR's fact file.

DePaul Publications and Projects
DePaul PLuS Program. The Productive Learning Strategies (PLuS) Program at DePaul University is a year-round comprehensive program designed to meet the needs of DePaul University students with specific learning disabilities and/or attention deficit disorders.

Interfaith Ministry fosters opportunities for religious understanding, dialogue and celebration among the different faith communities on campus; and it seeks to build a strong intercollegiate network of interfaith leaders.

Office of Diversity Education Mile Walkers. The Mile Walkers are a group of student leaders who are committed to the exploration of various issues such as contemporary human relations, social justice, identity and acceptance and the development of understanding of such issues through a student’s lens.

Women at CDM. A resource site for women in DePaul's College of Computing and Digital Media. Contains CDM organizations, national organizations, and financial resources for women.

Ideas for Supporting Diversity

Techniques for Facilitating Dialogue in the Classroom

Vanessa Bing and Rosemary Talmadge of LaGuardia Community College in New York City, who conduct faculty seminars entitled "Difficult Dialogues," suggest the following strategies for facilitating dialogue of sensitive topics.

• Set the environment: Establish ground rules, model appropriate sharing, be sensitive to timing, and make room for all voices.
• Avoid attempting to come to an agreement: Difficult dialogues require critical examination, not consensus.
• Manage the discussion: Encourage active listening, ask open-ended questions or questions for clarification, and refocus the topic when the conversation wanders.
• Avoid taking sides, but take steps so students who are presenting their positions alone aren't scapegoated.
• Be aware of psychological dynamics: Students may experience internal conflict surrounding religion.

Resources

Vision Twenty12 Video: Diversity - Recruitment and Retention of Faculty, Staff and Students of Color. This INSIDE twenty12 video segment illuminates DePaul's successes and challenges in achieving its Diversity goals by focusing on recruitment and retention of faculty, staff and students.

Diversity & Inclusive Teaching (from Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching). Resources organized into topics such as teaching strategies, gender issues, sexual orientation, disabilities, etc.

Teaching in racially diverse college classrooms (Harvard's Bok Center for Teaching and Learning). Created to assist faculty and teaching fellows seeking to enhance learning for all students, the Bok Center has put together this Tip Sheet, in the hope that it will empower educators to create the conditions under which diversity can flourish.

Teaching Adult Students (from Kansas State's IDEA Center). This article discusses common issues with teaching adult learners and some strategies to overcome these challenges.

Marginalized Students from the Tomorrow's Professor Blog, a joint effort between MIT and Stanford University, looks at how to address the issues faced by some groups of marginalized students.

Building Creativity and Collaboration in Diverse Classrooms, Jose Calderon of Pitzer College, California, argues, “The best way to advance the positive character of diversity is to have students from different backgrounds working together on common projects that are connected to their own lived experience.”

Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology from the University of Washington. Guides on universal design, accessible distance learning, assistive technology, and more.

Office of Diversity Education

Office of Institutional Diversity

University Ministry

Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Allies

Office of Students with Disabilities

Multicultural Sophomore Seminar