The DPI Group history

The campaign is expected to conclude in conjunction with the university's 75th anniversary in 1973.

The School for New Learning opened the Northwest Learning Center in Park Ridge, the first DePaul program to be offered in a suburb (see 1977).

Construction was completed on a three-story student union at 2324 N. Seminary Ave. on the Lincoln Park Campus, named the University Center (see 1978), and renamed the Stuart Center in 1978.

Ray Meyer, coach of the men's basketball team for 42 years before he retired in 1984, died at the age of 91.

The gift was the largest in the history of The Theatre School. (See 1988.)

In 1990, she created a relief of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton for the entrance of the university's Seton Hall.

It was the first endowed chair in the College of Law (see 1992.)

The Metropolitan Planning Council gave DePaul the 1994 Burnham Award for Excellence in Planning.

They were the first class to graduate from DePaul's in-house MBA program offered at the bank, which launched in 1997.

DePaul was named one of five regional brokers in NASA's educational outreach efforts in 1998.

The lifelong soldier for social justice, who died in May 2001, began and ended his career at DePaul.

Since 2002, the African and Black Diaspora Studies program at DePaul has aimed to provide students with an interdisciplinary course of study of Africa and the Black world.

He began work in July 2004.

Miriam Ben-Yoseph, associate professor in the School for New Learning, was named the 2006 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Illinois Professor of the Year.

DePaul named its academic building at 14 E. Jackson Blvd. the Richard M. and Maggie C. Daley Building in recognition of the many contributions to the city and university by Chicago's first couple (see 2008).

The College of Communication moved to its new location at 14 E. Jackson Blvd. in Chicago's Loop in summer 2009.

Octodad, a third-person PC adventure about "destruction, deception and fatherhood" created by students in the College of Computing and Digital Media, was named one of eight Student Showcase Winners for the 2011 Independent Games Festival (IGF) at the Game Developers Conference.

The College of Education began offering a doctoral degree in education with a focus in early childhood education in fall 2012.

DePaul received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.