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Making of SSRC |
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The
Social Science Research Center was established within the
College of
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences to centralize support
for faculty and students engaged in behavioral and social
science research (BSSR) at
DePaul University. The Center
resulted from nearly 18 months’ worth of discussion, planning,
and strategizing among members of the Social Science Research
Center Task Force, a diverse group of BSSR faculty within the
College.
Task Force members envisioned the Center as a
communications hub, a resource and data repository, and a
technical assistance provider that would help put socially
relevant research at DePaul into the service of “the public.”
The Center’s promotion of cross-disciplinary, multi-methodology
research and its intention to serve as a university-wide meeting
ground and intellectual-technical focal point embody and advance
the spirit of
VISION twenty12, a strategic
plan designed to make DePaul one of the country’s premier urban
Catholic universities.
Purpose and Mission
The SSRC promotes, enhances, facilitates, and supports faculty,
staff, and student engagement in methodologically diverse,
socially relevant research by providing the physical space and
human capital necessary to develop a robust infrastructure for
designing research projects, assisting BSSRs in procuring
intramural and extramural funding for research, implementing
funded research programs, and crafting mutually productive and
rewarding collaborations with community organizations and other
universities. This mission demands collaboration with other
research-oriented units within and beyond DePaul. To raise the
profile of BSSR work at DePaul, the SSRC works to position
faculty as well as current and future student scholars to create
mass media products and generate knowledge in the multifaceted
realm of public policymaking. |
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