The legislation will decrease the amount of money graduate students can receive for federal student loans, impose new limits on Pell Grant recipients, and increase taxes on schools with high endowment-to-student ratios. The changes will not affect UChicago's current tax rate.
Provost Katherine Baicker and CFO Ivan Samstein sat down with the Maroon to discuss the impacts of grant freezes, visa revocations, and other federal policy changes on the University’s finances.
A look at gender discrimination and sexual misconduct at UChicago and how the Trump administration’s policy changes could affect Title IX cases at the University.
"This is the one school across the country that promotes speaking for what you believe in, and I don’t feel comfortable doing that," an undergraduate student from India said in an interview with the Maroon.
The University filed a joint suit against the National Science Foundation after the agency announced it would reduce funding for indirect costs of research to a universal 15 percent rate, down from a previously negotiated 64 percent rate.
The Maroon sat down with a member from each student political organization to discuss the major policy changes reshaping higher education and the government from Trump's first few months in office.
The Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Scholarship sought to increase the number of minority tenure-track faculty at Illinois colleges and universities.
In an interview with the Maroon, Hallett spoke about the Trump administration’s mass deportation program, the rights of noncitizens, and how the administration’s efforts may cause conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court.
