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DEI Communities

In the Community

Community

Our Community Cares

Social justice at ºÚÁÏÃÅextends far beyond the classroom – it seeps into our community. Discover the impact diversity has on our community, locally and globally. It doesn't just seep into our community, but this systemic value is so core to us that we have created community outreach programs within our schools to further efforts on a variety of fronts.

Centers for excellence

Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility

The Baumhart Center prepares leaders to tackle society's most pressing challenges through education, engagement, and research.

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The Center promotes fair, informed, effective, and ethical criminal justice approaches through collaborative interdisciplinary research, professional development and targeted projects.

Loyola’s Curt and Linda Rodin Center for Social Justice

We strengthen and develop several leading programs that advance fairness, equity, and justice within the Law School and in marginalized communities throughout Chicago.

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The Center for Immigrant and Refugee Accompaniment

Supports the formation of social work professionals that in solidarity can accompany migrants in the construction of a more inclusive local and global community that affirms the human dignity of the person and in which migrants realize their capabilities, exercise their rights, and transform their social condition and institutions.

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Dan K. Webb Center for Advocacy

Advocacy is the heart of legal education at ºÚÁÏÃÅUniversity Chicago. With one of the most respected advocacy programs in the nation, ºÚÁÏÃÅcontinues to set a standard for excellence. ºÚÁÏÃÅgraduates are among the most effective trial, appellate, and dispute resolution lawyers in Chicago and across the country. Named for a ºÚÁÏÃÅgraduate and legendary litigator, the Dan K. Webb Center for Advocacy brings together the school’s many academic programs and cocurricular activities in the multifaceted discipline of advocacy.

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Our Community

Elevating the 'L'

ºÚÁÏÃÅUniversity Chicago graduate students Sam Siner and Tyler Arndt designed an app that allows users to report elevator outages at CTA stops, helping those with accessibility issues

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Bringing mindful balance to Chicago's South Side

ºÚÁÏÃÅUniversity Chicago alumna Latania Franklin is a clinical therapist at Sista Afya, a mental wellness clinic on Chicago's South Side.

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Resources

Stritch School of Medicine

Health Professionals Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP)

HPREP is the Stritch School of Medicine signature outreach program, for high school students in the Maywood, Cicero and Berywn area, designed to attract underrepresented students to careers in the health professions.

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Institute for Racial Justice

The Institute for Racial Justice at ºÚÁÏÃÅUniversity Chicago is a hub for the University and strategic partners to accelerate racial justice through transformative research, empowering education, and impactful community engagement.

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Stritch School of Medicine

The Proviso United with ºÚÁÏÃÅStudents for Educational Enrichment (PULSE)

Designed to provide high school students with educational enrichment in science and medicine, mentoring/career advice and college preparation assistance, PULSE is an excellent academic, professional,  and social development opportunity for Proviso high school students interested in a career in medicine.

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