Faculty from departments, professional schools and academic units from across the university have been involved in a variety of ways with collaborative research at CURL. In most cases, individual faculty have worked closely with team-based projects. In other instances, faculty with strong ties to community organizations and institutions have initiated community-based research and have been supported as CURL Faculty Fellows. In both cases, the following academic units have been represented:

• Anthropology
• Asian and Asian American Studies
• African Studies and the African Diaspora 
• Biology
• Center for Organization Development
• Chemistry
• College of Arts and Sciences
• Communication
• Criminal Justice
• Economics
• English
• Environmental Studies
• The Graduate School
• History
• Institute of Pastoral Studies
• Global and International Studies
• Italian
• Modern Languages and Literatures
• Neuroscience
• Peace Studies
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Psychology
• School of Business
• School of Education
• School of Law
• School of Nursing
• School of Social Work
• Sociology
• Theology
• Women's Studies