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Budget crisis vocabulary guide

Budget crisis vocabulary guide

Jake Cox, Digital Managing Editor April 16, 2023

Here's a list of terms and definitions to help readers better understand DePaul's budget gap ongoing budget crisis. Budget Gap - Easily confused and misattributed as a “deficit”, DePaul is currently...

President Joe Biden walks to board Air Force One on April 11 with his son Hunter Biden, left, and sister Valerie Biden. Biden is traveling to the United Kingdom and Ireland to celebrate the Good Friday Agreement.

Biden announces he ‘plans’ to run for re-election, many say he shouldn’t

Kiersten Riedford, News Editor April 16, 2023

President Joe Biden announced on Monday, April 10 that he plans to run for re-election in 2024. “But we’re not prepared to announce it yet,” Biden told NBC’s “Today” show during an interview...

A DePaul student and resident in University Hall scans into the dorm building. The university allocates only enough money to the Basic Needs Hub to pay for two student employees.

Basic Needs Hub lacks funding, provides essential student service

Olivia Zimmerman, Staff Writer April 16, 2023

Despite the fact that 83% of DePaul University students live off campus, the Basic Needs Hub  (BNH) receives no set budget, according to a statement from Rick Moreci, associate vice president of Student...

DePaul partnered with The Cities Project mentor program to provide CPS students with training in coping with severe stressors that impede learning.

DePaul Cities Project hopes to reduce student stress

Noah Tomko-Jones, Contributing Writer April 16, 2023

With its art-covered walls, comfortable furniture and white boards filled with visitors’ drawings, DePaul’s Black Cultural Center provided an ideal backdrop for DePaul Clinical Child Psychology doctoral...

Student protestors cover the sidewalk outside the Lincoln Park Student Center, on the corner of Sheffield Ave. and Belden Ave. with phrases in support of DePaul faculty and staff.

Op-Ed: DePaul’s Budget Crisis: Where is student government?

Wesley Janicki April 16, 2023

The DePaulia staff is committed to providing the paper’s readers with information they need to know, while trusting the readership to reach its own conclusions on the basis of that information.   This...

Kevin Holechko is serving as SGA president for the current school year. In the role, he also serves as a representative on the Strategic Resource Allocation Committee (SRAC), a group involved in recommending strategies to DePaul's various colleges to combat the budget gap.

Op-ed: SGA president addresses budget gap

Kevin Holechko, Student Government Association President April 16, 2023

The DePaulia staff is committed to providing the paper’s readers with information they need to know, while trusting the readership to reach its own conclusions on the basis of that information.   My...

OPINION: ‘Here we do’ (cut faculty)

OPINION: ‘Here we do’ (cut faculty)

Lucia Preziosi, Editor in Chief April 16, 2023

Following the developing news of DePaul's budget crisis, university personnel and students are reacting to attempts made in the past week to patch a $56.5 million gap, partially through faculty cuts. Where...

Billy Drew makes Brandon Johnson signs with 12th ward constituents.

Latine youth take lead on informing their communities about mayoral elections

Jacqueline Cardenas, La DePaulia Editor-in-Chief April 11, 2023

Editor's Note: La DePaulia and The DePaulia use 'Latine' when referring to the community. Read our statement here. Seen out in the streets passing out flyers throughout Chicago’s South West Side,...

Megan Galarza, a student organizer, speaks to the crowd of protestors.

DePaul students organize in response to budget gap

Jake Cox, Digital Managing Editor April 10, 2023

On the same day expected to be marked with the first round of terminations at the hands of DePaul’s budget crisis, student organizers mobilized in support of DePaul faculty.  Information gathered...

Faculty: Decisions made hastily, without collaboration in effort to close DePaul's $56.5 million gap

Faculty: Decisions made hastily, without collaboration in effort to close DePaul’s $56.5 million gap

Patrick Sloan-Turner, Online Managing Editor April 9, 2023

The first 125 days of DePaul’s 2022-23 academic year came with hope for many in its community, as the arrival of President Robert Manuel was cause for celebration after disappointment with the previous...

Students respond, act on behalf of faculty and staff ahead of budget cuts

Students respond, act on behalf of faculty and staff ahead of budget cuts

Nadia Carolina Hernandez, Former Editor in Chief April 9, 2023

Jessica Patrick, a DePaul junior, decided to take action when she learned that impending budget cuts would impact adjunct and term faculty today.  Patrick and others took immediate measures by starting...

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson gathers with his family and waves to the audience after he was announced the winner of the Chicago mayoral runoff election. He won with 51.4% of the votes. (Amber Stoutenborough | The DePaulia)

‘We come alive’: Youth voter turnout secures Johnson’s spot as mayor-elect

Chicagoans voted Brandon Johnson to be the city’s next mayor on April 4. The increased turnout of youth voters pushed Johnson to his win. Youth voters ages 18 to 24 years old had the largest increase...

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