The DePaulia
Cailey Gleeson, News Editor|February 21, 2021
DePaul Board of Trustees member Jennifer Steans and her two sisters, Robin and Heather Steans, have donated $5 million to establish the John Horan Endowed Scholarship program for incoming students.
“The John Horan Endowed Scholarship Program will make it possible for students from North Lawndale to attend DePaul with all costs of enrollment covered,” a Newsline release said. “The gift also will fund a graduate assistant in DePaul’s Office of Multicultural Student Success to oversee the cohort of Horan scholarship recipients. Finally, the gift will ensure that the John Horan scholars have access to peer mentoring, laptops and support for internships and study abroad experiences.”
The DePaulia
Theodora Koulouvaris, Staff Writer|February 21, 2021
Petitions
During her president’s report at Thursday’s meeting, Alyssa Isberto discussed three petitions currently circulating around campus: one calling on the university to reinstate the Pass/D/Fail option, another requesting that the university make graduation regalia free for the class of 2021 and the third calling on the Biden administration to cancel $50,000 of student loan debt for all students.
After presenting the petitions, SGA took a vote on each one, deciding to sign all three.
Vaccine Campaign Rollout
Robbie Merkel, SGA’s executive vice president of diversity and equity, recently attended a meeting with Health Promotion and Wellness (HPW) and DePaul’s communications team. They informed him that they sent out a survey to faculty, staff and student workers to “gauge interest in getting the [Covid-19] vaccine.”
The DePaulia
Cailey Gleeson, News Editor|February 15, 2021
NABJ is a nonprofit organization advocating for Black journalists and media professionals nationally and worldwide.
The chapter tentatively titled the DePaul University Association of Black Journalists will be led by adjunct faculty member Judith McCray.
“NABJ is open to not just African American students, but Latinx students and biracial students,” McCray said. “It is not limited to students in journalism or communications. People who are in history or any other major can also become members, it’s just two-thirds of the membership has to be students with majors in journalism or communications.”
An NABJ chapter at DePaul offers students unique networking opportunities they likely wouldn’t be able to find elsewhere.
The DePaulia
Theodora Koulouvaris, Staff Writer|February 14, 2021
DePaul’s Student Government Association provided a review of last quarter’s initiatives, events and activities in their Fall Quarter Transparency Report.
In the report obtained by The DePaulia, SGA discussed ways they worked to support the DePaul community over the past year.
“The past year has been very challenging due to the COVID-19 [pandemic], demands for racial justice, and a historic presidential election, but our commitment to the DePaul community remains the same,” the report reads. “As DePaul’s student government, we expressed student concerns on remote learning, advocated for mental health resources, created safe spaces for dialogue and continuously stood in solidarity with our students of color.”
The DePaulia
Theodora Koulouvaris, Staff Writer|February 14, 2021
Suffoletto discussed services offered through University Counseling Services (UCS).
Consisting of a team of psychologists, a psychiatrist and other staff, UCS provides counseling to students in different areas such as depression and test anxiety, according to the office’s website.
Suffoletto explained the steps that students take when seeking counseling services.
“When a student enters, they’re going to do a 15-minute initial consultation,” Suffoletto said.
Students go through an assessment process first so that the office can figure out why a student wants to enter counseling services according to Suffoletto. Then, a student is matched with a counselor and enters counseling.