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The Egan Office works in partnership with communities to address critical social issues, promote social justice, and transform the structures of inequity in our society. We seek to understand and work with our community partners using an asset-based community development approach that recognizes and builds on a community's history and strengths. In doing so, we hope to strengthen DePaul University's connections to Chicago and to advance DePaul faculty and student engagement with public agencies, community-based organizations, and schools.

The Egan Office of Urban Education and Community Partnerships continues to provide a platform for community voices and a catalyst for change in Chicago’s most disadvantaged communities.

The Egan Office has a rich history of integrating academic excellence with authentic community engagement. Our students are situated front and center on critical issues confronting our schools and grapple with the ideal of social justice in those spaces. From our veteran project to the school-base initiatives, we strive to negotiate an intentional, systematic, and transformative university-community approach that would achieve community-identified outcomes.

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