Scholarship Learning Communities (UNI-017)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Owner Unit: Office of Research Services / Academic Affairs
- Sub-unit: Scholarship Learning Communities (ORS)
- Content Type: program
- Campus/Location: Multi-campus
- Last Verified: August 21, 2026
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
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - 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
- sources/inbox/2026-08-19-annual-report-2026/uploads/ORS_Annual_Report_2026.pdf
Verification
- Status: confirmed (
✓) - Confidence: 90/100
- 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 (sources/inbox/2026-08-19-annual-report-2026/uploads/ORS_Annual_Report_2026.pdf)
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).
Linked Relationship IDs
- UNI-001 - Office of Research Services (Technology Transfer)
- UNI-018 - Research Faculty Mentor Program
Notes
Promoted 2026-08-21 from packet 2026-08-19-annual-report-2026 (Lauren Miller / ORS Chief of Staff). Quote: second cohort launched with four 2026 topics; third cohort begins Fall 2026 with four additional topics (sources/inbox/2026-08-19-annual-report-2026/uploads/ORS_Annual_Report_2026.pdf).