Vision

DePaul University sits centrally in the Chicago business community in more ways than just its downtown Loop location. As a collection of colleges, it mentors a variety of industry skill sets to next generation leaders in the fields of technology, business management, and social improvement, to name a few. DePaul is a hub for diversity, attracting faculty, staff, and students from widely varying backgrounds, vocations, cultures, economic statuses, and walks-of-life. 

The Blue Demon Group will become a central repository for the hard work, ideas, theories, and experiences of faculty and students that live in every part of Chicago and the surrounding community. 

Summary

The Blue Demon Group institutionalizes a connection between DePaul’s intellectual resources and the Chicago business community’s real-world experience. 

The business community will benefit through closer contact with DePaul research, faculty initiatives, student project teams, recruiting, and connections to the initiatives of other DePaul-affiliated firms. The DePaul community will more directly access the leaders of Chicago’s institutions who will complement academic theory with real-world examples.

Goals

Foster a closer connection between the DePaul University community and the greater Chicago business community.

 
• Create opportunities for DePaul students to access area business leaders and ways for business leaders to interact with future leaders. 

• Expose the business community to DePaul research and initiatives in the areas of technology use, technology commercialization, and business management.

• With DePaul acting as a "switchboard," connect Group participants with opportunities throughout the Chicago area. 

• Leverage Group relationships to make better use of existing resources within DePaul (i.e. enhance placement opportunities for the Career Center by sharing business community’s needs).