The University of Chicago will launch a new program for graduating College students during the next academic year, continuing efforts to expand meaningful career opportunities for College students. The new...Read more

John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, has been appointed to a sixth term as dean of the College , continuing an unprecedented 25-year tenure that has brought historic advances for UChicago’s...Read more

Campus North Residential Commons to include Boyer House, named for Dean John W. Boyer and his wife Barbara The Campus North Residential Commons, scheduled to open in fall of 2016,...Read more

Widespread student, faculty interest drives academic path

Gift from Harriet Heyman, AM’72, and Sir Michael Moritz supports Odyssey program

In his keynote talk, Thomas Ricketts, AB’88, MBA’93, advises students to welcome unexpected on career...

James Nondorf, dean of College Admissions and Financial Aid, leads initiative by coalition of 80 colleges to create application that helps ease the process of applying to college

Orientation Week kicks off first-years’ new College adventure

In a sign of the impact from recent efforts to enhance affordability for students attending the College, the number of first-year students at the University of Chicago who took out...Read more

The Spring 2015 College Diploma Ceremony was held on the Main Quadrangle on June 13, 2015. President Robert J. Zimmer offered opening remarks, followed by Provost Eric D. Isaacs' introduction...Read more

Program offers first bachelor’s degree in engineering in University’s history

As a young writer during the late 1920s and 1930s, author Richard Wright was a denizen of Chicago’s “Black Belt,” a narrow strip of South Side neighborhoods that became the...Read more

No Barriers program contributes to growth in diversity; admissions yield tops 60 percent

Three members of the University of Chicago faculty have been elected to the American Philosophical Society , the oldest learned society in the United States. The new members are Glenn...Read more

In the midst of new initiatives to support students and broaden access to a University of Chicago education, the University anticipates an undergraduate financial aid budget of $117 million for...Read more

Alumna Amy Lehman challenges one of UChicago’s most famous myths—that if you step on the bronze seal in the floor of the Reynolds Club, you won’t graduate in four years—before...Read more

Empathy. Education. Experience. “That’s what allows you to find your pathway through this complex world,” keynote speaker Amy Lehman told more than 800 current College students at the 2015 Taking...Read more

When fellow College students describe Nadia Ezaldein, they recall a caring young woman who showered kindness on others. “She had a thoughtfulness that was unmatched,” said Rachel Silver, AB’13, a...Read more

On October 1, 2014, the University of Chicago announced a comprehensive undergraduate initiative to broaden access to the College, reduce college debt, simplify the application process, and provide expanded career...Read more

New initiatives include No Barriers program for college access and aid, enhanced Odyssey Scholarships, and...