The new politics and policy specialization—and its spiritual predecessor, the business economics specialization—has little to no overlap with the standard track and should be its own standalone major.
Without significant investments in research faculty, expansion will dilute the undergraduate experience; the University’s track record suggests those investments are unlikely.
A program that grants prospective students a fast track to acceptance, as long as they can pay, makes an already competitive admissions process less fair.
The University must expand its protections for students and clearly articulate its position in the face of a heightened federal immigration enforcement presence.
Despite its institutional commitment to freedom of expression and inquiry, which relies on access to information, the University of Chicago has long operated under a shroud of secrecy relative to its peers.
The Maroon Editorial Board endorses Better Slate Than Never for Undergraduate Student Government’s executive slate, Arsima Araya for trustee and faculty governance liaison, and Andrea Pita Mendez for vice president of advocacy.
"Your campus is on the South Side?” We all know that expression of concern from well-meaning relatives and neighbors when we tell them where we go to school. This is not to imply that there is something...
The University stands out against many of its peer institutions for its storied, albeit eccentric, traditions, but now it stands out for another reason: its fall in rankings. Should UChicago continue moving forward as is or pause and reflect on the situation?
As the new quarter approaches and students select classes, the Maroon Editorial Board asks how beneficial our Core classes are to the UChicago experience.
The renaming of the Oriental Institute to the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures is a welcome change, but it can’t eradicate the former name’s pejorative, misleading connotations.
The Maroon Editorial Board endorses upLIFT for Undergraduate Student Government’s executive slate, Jackson Lee for trustee and faculty governance liaison, and Nina Hafner for vice president of campus life.
Over the past four months, The Maroon Editorial Board deliberated how the University of Chicago can improve its relationship with the South Side. This series, the product of interviews with various community members, activists, and University associates, lays out those recommendations.
The University should fund a Center for Reparative Justice and incorporate a Community Board into the Office of Civic Engagement to direct their initiatives on the South Side.
The University’s self-interested development strategy has long displaced low-income Southsiders. It must take direct action to support affordable housing in the area and create an institutional framework to ensure that its development decisions are guided by community input.
As Chicago enters a new stay-at-home advisory period, it’s on the University to respond to skyrocketing cases with more robust testing and informational measures, and on its members to take advantage of these programs and stay home.
Mandatory universal testing should form a cornerstone of the University's plan to reopen this fall. Currently, the University's testing plan is inadequate and creates unnecessary risks in an already uncertain quarter.
Given the University’s decision to reopen campus, the institution owes its members information about how many infections it will tolerate before changing plans—and frequent updates about just how close to that change in plans we are.
In the absence of stronger expectations from the University around mitigating the spread of COVID-19, UChicago students must buy into prevention measures themselves—at the peril of their fellow students and the South Side.
As the nation reckons with its relationship to largely unaccountable, racist law enforcement, the University of Chicago must do its part to bring justice to the South Side by abolishing UCPD.
The University of Chicago should make its decision about opening campus for the fall quarter based not on its bottom line, but on its status as a South Side anchor institution.
Given students’ different learning environments this quarter, flexibility with timing and learning media, not relying on real-time Zoom classes, is the best way to ensure a rigorous quarter while being considerate of such different situations.
Of the four groups running for Student Government’s Executive Slate this year, no one slate showed both big thinking and administrative know-how. However, voters should be aware that they are not choosing between equal options.
In line with a broader trend of ignoring students, administrators failed to meaningfully involve undergrads in the recently announced, major changes to the academic calendar.
The administration trots out Greek organizations when it proves lucrative to do so, then cries “non-recognition!” to avoid association with Greek life's less savory aspects.
In light of recent difficult events, students' need for easily accessible mental health services remains pressing. Here's a roundup of current resources.
New changes to Ph.D. programs expose the dishonesty of the administration’s stated aim to guard the faculty-student relationship—and departmental autonomy—from interference.
The University should honor its contract with Faculty Forward, the union of non-tenure-track faculty, and make all non-tenure-track faculty eligible for the Quantrell teaching award.
The Maroon Editorial Board endorses Toni Preckwinkle for mayor because she demonstrates the political know-how and fresh ideas necessary to lead Chicago.
The binding Early Decision admission plan unfairly disadvantages students who need to take financial aid into consideration when making their college decisions.
President Zimmer continues to advertise the University's support for freedom of speech in a variety of off-campus forums; an invitation to do the same on-campus has gone unanswered.
The 2016–17 budget gives graduate student resources a needed boost, but leaves the future of funding uncertain.
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