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Center for Middle School Civic Leadership (C-MSCL) / OIPL (UNI-023)

Summary 🟡 ~

  • Owner Unit: College of Education — Office of Innovative Professional Learning (OIPL)
  • Sub-unit: Center for Middle School Civic Leadership (C-MSCL)
  • Content Type: center
  • Campus/Location: Multi-campus / College of Education
  • Last Verified: August 21, 2026

Description & capabilities

ORS Annual Report FY 2026 featured award: DePaul’s Office of Innovative Professional Learning (OIPL), housed in the College of Education, will establish the Center for Middle School Civic Leadership (C-MSCL) serving middle school students in grades 5–8 in underserved communities across Cook County. The model integrates Barat Education Foundation’s Our American Voice® curriculum and DePaul’s Future Leader Micro-credential Program along a Voice → Inquiry → Action → Leadership → Impact pathway. Award: U.S. Department of Education; PI Donna Kiel; $720,000; dates 6/1/2026–6/1/2029 (GRA-1215).

Access status

  • Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
  • Rationale: C-MSCL is established via OIPL (College of Education) under a U.S. Department of Education award; access is program-partner scoped.
  • Access URL: offices.depaul.edu/research-services/Pages/default.aspx
  • Contact name: Office of Innovative Professional Learning (OIPL) / C-MSCL
  • Contact email: ors@depaul.edu
  • Verification date: 2026-08-21
  • Source URLs:
  • sources/inbox/2026-08-19-annual-report-2026/uploads/ORS_Annual_Report_2026.pdf

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

Verification

  • Status: likely (~)
  • Confidence: 88/100
  • Rationale: ORS FY2026 featured award establishes C-MSCL under OIPL with US ED funding; dedicated public C-MSCL site not yet captured.
  • Last verified: 2026-08-21
  • Evidence:
  • ORS Annual Report FY2026 Featured Award — C-MSCL / OIPL (sources/inbox/2026-08-19-annual-report-2026/uploads/ORS_Annual_Report_2026.pdf)
  • GRA-1215

Equipment

Civic learning / professional learning program; no instrument inventory from this source.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

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Notes

Promoted 2026-08-21 from high-confidence ORS featured narrative. Capture OIPL/C-MSCL public URLs when published. Donna Kiel not forced into people.yaml without registry review.