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Designing DePaul Digest: January 2024

By Rob Manuel / January 25, 2024 / Twitter / Facebook

Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students:

During the fall quarter we made great progress on Designing DePaul, our collaborative approach to building a roadmap to guide us into the future. I see our Designing DePaul framework and initiatives having an impact on our everyday work as we enhance campus life and make connections throughout our community. As we settle into winter quarter, I am pleased to share just a few of our collective accomplishments below. Please visit the Designing DePaul website for more details and watch for a future digest covering our initiatives.

Thank you for everything you are doing to drive our university forward!

Sincerely,

Robert L. Manuel

President

Institutional Effectiveness & Vincentian Pragmatism

Retention: The university set a goal to eliminate the achievement gap within 10 years. Darryl Arrington, who became associate vice president for student retention and success, is leading this work. As a first step, Darryl worked with Institutional Research and Market Analytics to create a digital retention resource room, which offers the DePaul community the opportunity to explore various reports and data presentations on this topic.

Campus Safety and Security: More than 150 DePaul community members gathered at a Campus Safety Summit to share perspectives on safety issues and solutions. Based on community input, the university implemented multiple safety enhancements. A progress report can be found here.

Student Health Insurance: Beginning with the 2024-2025 academic year, DePaul will offer all undergraduate and graduate students access to a comprehensive and competitive health insurance plan.

Hispanic Serving Institution: The Hispanic-Serving Institution Task Force met to reinforce and formalize our commitment to become an HSI.

Black Equity Initiative: The Black Equity Initiative Committee met to explore ways to transform the experience of Black students, faculty, and staff on campus, and will unveil their BEI strategic plan this quarter.

One-Year Financial Planning: We launched DePaul’s Budget Blueprint website and a series of educational sessions to help the university community learn more about DePaul’s budget and finances. Educational sessions continue this quarter. Please sign up to attend.

Five-Year Financial Planning: In December, budget planners gathered to discuss the process for developing proposals for FY25 and strategic plans for FY25-FY29.

Program Distinction

Existing Programs: The strategic planning processes are underway in every college and school. These plans are evolving to reflect the changing needs and aspirations of our academic disciplines.

New Programs: We collected program ideas from our faculty and staff to gather their thoughts on making DePaul a national model for higher education.

Digital Presence

Digital Presence: Cristel A. Turner joined DePaul as our chief branding officer. She will have a lead role in developing our new branding and digital presence, which will kick off soon. We will share more updates about this initiative soon. See a timeline for the Digital Presence project here.

Philanthropy

Philanthropy: We announced a philanthropic expansion campaign to elevate our academic enterprise and modernize athletic facilities on campus. Updates will be shared as they are available.

Notes from Rob

Designing DePaul Digest: January 2024

Institutional Effectiveness & Vincentian Pragmatism

Program Distinction

​Digital Presence

Philanthropy

Digital Presence