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

Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as center at DePaul University, Division of Community and Government Relations, Steans Center, Lincoln Park. Documentation is partial or indirect, so the listing is treated as likely current. Community engagement hub supporting service learning, partnerships, and related research/engagement programs. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ~

  • College / school: Division of Community and Government Relations
  • Sub-unit: Steans Center
  • Campus/Location: Lincoln Park
  • Last Verified: June 14, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Description & capabilities

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

Access status

  • Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation
  • 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 current
  • 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)

Last verified: May 28, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts when publicly documented.

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; institutional report).

Documented connections

Generated from documented publication and people connections. 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

People on linked publications

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
  7. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  8. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  9. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  10. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  11. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  12. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  13. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

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 (institutional report).