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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon

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UChicago Faces Justice Department Inquiry Into Admissions Practices, International Students

By Kalyna Vickers and Evgenia Anastasakos / July 26, 2025
The University disclosed the information requests in a July 11 bond statement to investors.
UChicago Medicine's Center for Care and Discovery. Courtesy of the University of Chicago.

UChicago Medicine Halts All Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

By Celeste Alcalay and Gabriel Kraemer / July 19, 2025
Hospitals across the country have suspended care offerings for transgender youth amid threats from the Trump administration to withhold federal funding.
The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

“Big Beautiful Bill” Cuts Federal Student Loans, Increases Taxes on Some Universities

By Isaiah Glick / July 15, 2025
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.
The UChicago Medicine campus. Courtesy of the University of Chicago.

Federal Court Sides With UChicago in Challenge to NSF Funding Policy

By Nicole Ochoa / July 15, 2025
A federal judge struck down the National Science Foundation’s 15 percent indirect research cost cap, calling the policy “arbitrary and capricious.”
The Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington, D.C.

A Timeline of Recent Federal Funding Cuts to Higher Education

By Derek Hsu, Grace Beatty, and Kyle Lin / May 22, 2025
The Maroon has compiled a timeline of federal funding cuts that the Trump administration has implemented and how they have affected UChicago.
Edward H. Levi Hall, which houses many of the University’s administrative offices.

“Really Hard Choices”: University Provost and CFO on Uncertain University Finances Under Second Trump Administration

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.
Examining Title IX at UChicago in the Trump Era

Examining Title IX at UChicago in the Trump Era

By Agathe Demarolle / May 14, 2025
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.
A misty day on an empty main quad.

International Students React With Fear, Uncertainty to Federal Immigration Policy Changes

By Celeste Alcalay / May 8, 2025
"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.
Edward H. Levi Hall, which houses many of the University's administrative offices.

UChicago Joins Second Lawsuit Against Federal Funding Cuts

By Nathaniel Rodwell-Simon / May 6, 2025
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 Institute of Politics building.

UCDems and College Republicans Reflect on Trump’s First 100 Days in Office

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 U.S. Department of State building in Washington, D.C.

State Department Reinstates Visas of International Students and Alums

By Isaiah Glick / May 3, 2025
The Trump administration reinstated the visas of ten students and alums whose visas were previously revoked.
Edward H. Levi Hall, which houses the Office of the University Provost.

UChicago Absent From AACU Letter Criticizing Government Intervention in Higher Education

By Isaiah Glick / April 28, 2025
The letter was signed by many leading U.S. universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, MIT, Duke, and Northwestern.
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