Loyola University Chicago
Here you will find all of CURL's research projects and publications.
The City of Evanston Human Relations Commission and CURL collected information on a broad range of organizations in Evanston that contribute to the quality of life and connections among all Evanston residents. Expected outcomes will be an up-to-date listing of organizations and services ranging from youth and senior citizen services to religious congregations and food security.
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Professor Crumrine explains Spectrometers to students from Erie Neighborhood House.
In 2012, a new interdisciplinary initiative at Loyola – The Healthy Homes Initiative - sought ways in which universities and communities could come together to discover new toxins, understand their effect and work with communities to reduce and eliminate negative impacts.
Read MoreCURL worked in partnership with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) and the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a faith-based organization serving Greater Roseland, to conduct a livability study of the impacts of a proposed Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Red Line Extension. The proposed extension would allow the CTA Redline to go beyond its current South branch terminal at 95th street to a new terminal near 130th street, with intermittent stops near 103rd, 111th, and 115th streets. This project builds on the partnerships that have been developed by DCP and its Red Line Oversight Committee (ROC) over the past 8 years to advocate for and support the Red Line Extension project.
Read MoreIn May 2011, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) partnered with the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University Chicago to conduct a process evaluation of the Chicago 100,000 Homes Campaign, with a focus on outreach and housing coordination. The 100,000 Homes Campaign was a national effort led by Community Solutions to identify and permanently house 100,000 of the country’s most vulnerable homeless by July 2013.
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Heart Women and Girls, an organization working with women and girls in faith-based communities – especially in Muslim communities – to build “leadership and self-esteem through health and wellness programming” collaborated with CURL to conduct an assessment relating to health. The research was designed to measure attitudes, opinions, and knowledge of young Muslim college students as it relates to a variety of health issues. The outcomes will allow HEART and others in the field to be better equipped at targeting resources by understanding the community need.
Read MoreThis pilot oral history project examined both these impacts and how a community organization “lives on” in the form of how it shaped both public policy and individual activists’ careers. In addition to being of specific interest to those seeking to understand community safety, the project also hopes to establish a model for understanding a community-based organization’s impact years after the actual work took place.
Read MoreCURL partnered with the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) to evaluate their Victim Assistance Program (VAP). The VAP provides assistance to public housing residents who are victims of violent crimes that occur on CHA property or are impacted by a traumatic event.
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 MoreIn 2003 McCormick Foundation invested in agency-sponsored childcare programs to enhance organizational health and build their capacity to recruit, train, and retain high quality directors and teachers, thereby sustaining high quality childcare programming. To sustain this collaborative network of mutual support CURL will continue to utilize this collaborative (inter- and intra-agency) and cohort-based (i.e. policy fellows and program leaders) model for the next two years (2010-2012).
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