Scholarship Learning Communities (UNI-017)

Scholarship Learning Communities is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as program at DePaul University, Office of Research Services / Academic Affairs, Scholarship Learning Communities (ORS), Multi-campus. ORS Scholarship Learning Communities convene faculty cohorts around shared research and creative-practice themes to build methods capacity, collaboration, and proposal readiness. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ✓

College / school: Office of Research Services / Academic Affairs
Sub-unit: Scholarship Learning Communities (ORS)
Campus/Location: Multi-campus
Last Verified: August 21, 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

ORS Scholarship Learning Communities convene faculty cohorts around shared research and creative-practice themes to build methods capacity, collaboration, and proposal readiness.

FY 2026 (second) cohort topics (ORS Annual Report FY 2026): - Open Science in Practice: Tools and Workflows for Transparent, Reproducible Research - Healthy Aging in the United States - Social Media Video for Public Engagement - Virtual Reality (VR) for Interdisciplinary Research

Fall 2026 (third) cohort topics (same source): - Agentic Computing Across Disciplines: Transforming Research and Creative Practice - Can We Trust the Data? Reasoning About Evidence Across Disciplines - Conducting Mixed Methods Research in the Social Sciences - Global Creative Collaboration Lab: Language, Power, and AI in Creative Practice Across Borders

Access status

Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation
Rationale: ORS Scholarship Learning Communities are cohort programs coordinated by ORS; participation is by application/invitation.
Access URL: offices.depaul.edu/research-services/Pages/default.aspx
Contact name: Office of Research Services
Contact email: ors@depaul.edu
Verification date: 2026-08-21
Source URLs:
offices.depaul.edu/research-services/Pages/default.aspx
archived institutional source

Verification

Status: ✓ Confirmed
Rationale: ORS Annual Report FY2026 (Chief of Staff submission) documents SLC cohorts and topics as ORS programs.
Last verified: 2026-08-21
Evidence:
ORS Annual Report FY2026 overview — Scholarship Learning Communities (archived institutional source)

Equipment

ORS scholarly community program; no dedicated equipment inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Website: Office of Research Services
Email: ors@depaul.edu

Documented Relationships

Sibling ORS capacity programs with UNI-001 (ORS/TTO) and UNI-018 (Research Faculty Mentor Program). VR cohort topical adjacency to UNI-015 / COM-001 XR spaces; open-science cohort adjacency to UNI-011 Library research support (not claimed as shared facilities).

Notes

Promoted 2026-08-21 from institutional report (Lauren Miller / ORS Chief of Staff). Quote: second cohort launched with four 2026 topics; third cohort begins Fall 2026 with four additional topics (archived institutional source).