Over the past decade, the share of students majoring in the humanities and arts has declined while business economics has exploded—realizing long-standing fears about the pre-professionalization of the College.
UChicago’s partnership with the Massachusetts research institution—which will end next month after 13 years—offered valuable opportunities for students and faculty but cost the University over $100 million.
The journalist and UChicago alum spoke with the Maroon about reporting on last fall’s federal immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, interacting with federal agents as a member of the press, and remaining objective in reporting.
Members of the American Association of University Professors gathered on Friday to protest the Laboratory Schools’s adoption of a policy calling for “viewpoint neutrality” in the classroom, which critics say will suppress academic expression and open inquiry.
The new Core writing course Inquiry, Conversation, Argument—which will be taken by approximately half of first-years in the 2026–27 school year—will also become a prerequisite for social science Core courses starting in autumn 2027.
Council of the University Senate members will meet for a previously unscheduled meeting on Friday to continue discussions about the creation of a new academic division, the first in nearly 100 years.
In a conversation with IOP Founding Director David Axelrod, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended her past comments about billionaires, criticizing a Washington Post editorial that she called a “veiled threat.”
