Loyola University Chicago
Here you will find all of CURL's research projects and publications.
CURL was approached to utilize Loyola’s expertise in a variety of interdisciplinary topics in order to conduct a literature review and analysis of the existing research and data focused on African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian American/Pacific Islander older adults in Illinois.
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We are working with Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH) to understand Chicago’s eviction crisis. Using mapping, quantitative analysis, and qualitative interviews, we have identified the communities hardest-hit by eviction and modeled the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on evictions.
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CURL partnered with the Loyola School of Education on a Democracy Schools grant from the McCormick Foundation. The intent of the grant was to support the advancement of civic education in public high schools by addressing race equity issues. This collaborative venture, the Equity Cohort Initiative, partnered with five public high schools (Senn, Curie, Grayslake Community, Hinsdale South, and Glenbard South) in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Loyola University Chicago sociologist Peter Rosenblatt served as the lead researcher on a CURL project to examine a security deposit assistance program in Milwaukee that used the incentive to encourage low-income residents to move to higher opportunity, lower poverty neighborhoods.
Read MoreThis project focused on identify formation of students in a Chicago public high school that has a formal partnership with a community organization through the Full Service Community Schools Initiative.
Read MoreFairfield University, Santa Clara University and Loyola University Chicago partnered and received a grant from the Ford Foundation to explore experiences of undocumented students at Jesuit universities. The project seeks to better understand challenges and obstacles faced by undocumented students and ways of eliminating those barriers. The project has several short-term and long-term goals.
Read MoreFollowing up on the Saving Our Homes research that was completed in 1996, this report provides the “stories” of successful organizing to preserve 10 Uptown high-rise buildings as affordable housing when they were threatened with going market rate prices.
Read MoreTo better understand the factors producing stable diversity, community leaders were interviewed in a select number of communities identified as stable and diverse according to the 2000 and 2010 Census data.
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