Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning (UNI-004)

Summary 🟡 ~

• Owner Unit: Division of Community and Government Relations
• Sub-unit: Steans Center
• Content Type: center
• Campus/Location: Lincoln Park
• Last Verified: June 14, 2026

Description & capabilities

Community engagement hub supporting service learning, partnerships, and related research/engagement programs.

Access status

• Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
• Rationale: Steans Center community-based learning requires program enrollment and Steans coordination; not open equipment access.
• Access URL: steans.depaul.edu
• Verification date: 2026-05-30
• Source URLs:
• steans.depaul.edu

Verification

• Status: likely (~)
• Confidence: 78/100
• Rationale: Steans Center site active; Collaboratory export confirms dominant partner role across DePaul community-engagement activities.
• Last verified: 2026-06-14
• Evidence:
• https://steans.depaul.edu active (May 2026)
• Linked from DePaul community-engagement pages
• DePaul Collaboratory — 209 activity partner references (715-activity API export, June 2026)

Equipment

Community engagement center — no fabrication or lab equipment inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

• Website: Steans Center

Last verified: May 28, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

• Howard Rosing (Director) — hrosing@depaul.edu · Profile
• John Zeigler (Administrator) — Profile

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Related to SPARK community-facing programs. Named as an institutional asset for community-engaged research translation and regional partnerships (NSF ART institutional context). School of Nursing Community-Based Service Learning (CbSL) in the MENP program is developed with Steans (CSH-022; packet 2026-07-29-nursing-ot-programs-discovery).

Linked Relationship IDs

• UNI-003 - SPARK Center
• CDM-023 - DePaul Cybersecurity Clinic
• EXT-013 - Chicago Public Schools
• CSH-022 - DePaul Simulation Lab — School of Nursing

Documented connections

Generated from publication↔resource and person↔publication registries. Superscript numbers open Sources below. Multiple sources on one claim are grouped as ^1,4. Grant links are listed on publication and grant pages.

Publications

• Engaging in Service Learning: Using Mixed Methods to Examine Community Partner Perceptions (2022) — documented, uses · DOI¹
• Advancing Social Change Goals through Partnership: Community Partner Perspectives (2012) — documented, uses · DOI²
• Gender, Country and Community: Exploring Safety, Trust and Empowerment Among Immigrant and Refugee Women (2012) — documented, uses · DOI³
• Identifying and transforming sites of power in collaborative community-based research (2023) — documented, documents · DOI⁴
• Practitioner Perspective: Reflections of the Development of a Values-based Curriculum (2005) — documented, produced by · DOI⁵
• Connecting Courses, Curriculum, and Community, in Chicago (2020) — documented, uses · DOI⁶
• Assessing Occupational Stressors in Restaurant Work Prior to and During the COVI (2021) — supporting, mentions · DOI⁷
• Evaluation of the Grow Your Groceries Home Gardening Program in Chicago, Illinoi (2022) — supporting, mentions · DOI⁸
• Developing an Undergraduate Community Psychology Program in a Graduate Instituti (2019) — supporting, mentions · DOI⁹
• Equity and the Urban University: Introduction to the Chicago Conference Issue (2019) — supporting, mentions · DOI¹⁰
• Critical Empowerment Frameworks Paramount to Social Justice Work (2022) — supporting, mentions · DOI¹¹
• Farming Chicago: Prospects for Higher Education Support of Sustainable Urban Foo (2017) — supporting, mentions · DOI¹²
• “Let Us Pick The Organization”: Understanding Adult Student Perceptions of Servi (2015) — supporting, mentions · DOI¹³

People on linked publications

• Julia Lippert (author; PUB-272)⁷
• Euan Hague (author; PUB-524)⁶
• Howard Rosing (author; PUB-611)⁸
• Susan McMahon (author; PUB-696)⁹
• Sonya Crabtree-Nelson (author; PUB-699)¹¹

Sources

1. Steans Center distributed a Qualtrics survey; NVivo for transcripts. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
2. Research sponsored by the Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
3. Meetings occurred in the Steans Center at the Lincoln Park campus. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
4. Names Steans Center among offices that support justice-oriented community work. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
5. Laurie Worrall led the Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning at DePaul University. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
6. In 2003-04, with support from DePaul University’s Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning, I entered an on-going partnership with the Pilsen Alliance. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
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Notes

OA theses that name Steans: PUB-125 (Qualtrics + NVivo), PUB-126 (sponsor), PUB-127 (Lincoln Park meetings), PUB-128 (named campus office). QIC GRA-1169 proposes a service-learning apiary class in collaboration with the Steans Center (Urban Garden named; no garden resource ID; PI identity unresolved). PUB-173 is Laurie Worrall’s 2005 practitioner essay as Steans director (no PER-*). PUB-524 (Curran) names Steans support for a Pilsen Alliance GIS partnership (Excel + GIS in methods).

Center entry. Recurring institutional source: DePaul Collaboratory (he.cecollaboratory.com/depaul) documents Steans Center as the dominant campus/community partner hub across service-learning, clinic, and research activities. Treat Collaboratory as a primary provenance channel for future Steans-linked partner and program discovery (packet 2026-06-14-collaboratory-ingestion).