Center for Communication Engagement (COM-002)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Owner Unit: College of Communication
- Sub-unit: Center for Communication Engagement
- Content Type: center
- Campus/Location: Loop
- Last Verified: June 14, 2026
Description & capabilities
The Center for Communication Engagement is a College of Communication initiative that houses research labs and programs supporting communication research, media engagement, and public scholarship. Documented units include the VARC Lab (virtual and augmented reality communication), Media Engagement Research Laboratory (ME Lab), The Streaming Lab, the OpEd Project, and the Open Learning Project. The center supports faculty and student research on how media and technology shape public discourse.
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: Center labs and equipment require director booking; not open public access.
- Access URL: communication.depaul.edu/academics/initiatives/center-for-commun…
- Verification date: 2026-06-14
- Source URLs:
- communication.depaul.edu/academics/initiatives/center-for-commun…
Verification
- Status: confirmed (
✓) - Confidence: 90/100
- Rationale: Official College of Communication center page documents the center and constituent labs.
- Last verified: 2026-06-14
- Evidence:
- Center page communication.depaul.edu/academics/initiatives/center-for-commun…
- VARC Lab child page communication.depaul.edu/academics/initiatives/center-for-commun…
Equipment
ME Lab and Streaming Lab preserved as candidates RC-023/RC-024 pending dedicated pages.
Last verified: May 28, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Center for Communication Engagement
Source URL
Official links are listed under Contacts above.
Documented Relationships
Parent center for COM-001 - VARC Lab. Sibling labs ME Lab and Streaming Lab preserved as candidates pending dedicated pages.
Linked Relationship IDs
Notes
Promoted from candidate RC-022 on 2026-06-14. Source: packet 2026-06-14-cdm-csh-institutional-web-discovery.