The University of Illinois at Chicago ( UIC ) is a public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois system, UIC is also the largest university in the Chicago area, has approximately 30,000 students enrolled in 15 colleges.
UIC operates the largest medical school in the United States with research spending exceeding $ 412 million and is consistently included in the top 50 US institutions for research expenditure. In 2015 US. News & amp; World Report 'college and university rankings, UIC ranks as 129 best in the "national university" category. World University Rankings Education Times 2015 ranked UIC ranked the 18th best in the world among universities less than 50 years.
UIC competed in the NCAA Division I Horizon League as UIC Flames in sports. UIC Pavilion is home to all UIC basketball games. It also serves as a venue for concerts.
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History
Beginner
The University of Illinois at Chicago traces its origins to several private health colleges established in the late 19th century, including the Chicago College of Pharmacy, which opened in 1859, the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1882), and the Columbian College of Dentistry 1893).
The University of Illinois was hired in 1867 in Champaign-Urbana, as a state-grant state university. In return for approving the Champaign-Urbana location, Chicago regional legislators are promised that the "polytechnic" branch will be opened in Chicago. The Chicago-based health college affiliated with the University in 1896-97, became fully incorporated into the University of Illinois in 1913, as the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy . Medical education and research flourished over the next few decades, leading to the development of several other health science academies, united as the Chicago Professional College . In 1935, the first act of newly elected representative Richard J. Daley was to introduce a resolution calling for the establishment of a Chicago undergraduate campus at the University of Illinois.
When World War II was almost over, Congress passed G.I. Bill in 1944, who tried to reward veterans for their military service. Among other benefits, it provides educational funding, making college degrees far more achievable by the American public. In 1945, Daley, then a state senator, introduced four bills demanding a university in Chicago. In 1946, realizing that they would be "besieged by the app", University of Illinois officials opened what would be the temporary branch campus called Chicago Undergraduate Division (CUD) in the Navy Pier. The campus is not a junior college, but has a curriculum based on the Urbana course, and students who successfully complete the first two year requirement can proceed to Urbana and complete their degree.
Classes at the CUD campus began in October 1946, and about 4,000 students were enrolled each semester. Nicknamed "Harvard on the rocks", three-quarters of the students are veterans at G.I. Bill, many of them are immigrants and most of the other part-time work to support themselves. It also accommodates first-class students from worker families who commute from home. (Navy Pier made an appearance on Robert Pirsig Zen and the Motorcycle Maintenance Art, his protagonist teaching new English there.)
Demand for public university education in Chicago remains high, the University made plans to create a permanent degree campus in the Chicago area. Indeed, since it is a two-year school, students at the University of Illinois at Navy Pier need to move to a higher private college in Chicago or go to the main campus in Champaign-Urbana, where there is less employment.
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Daley managed to get the state senate in 1951 to pass a bill calling for the Chicago campus. Daley later became the mayor of Chicago in 1955 and pressed the University of Illinois to upgrade the Chicago Undergraduate Center into a full four-year institution. After a long and controversial site decision process, in 1961, Mayor Daley offered the Harrison and Halsted Streets websites for the new campus. In December 1961, the final decision to establish a four-year university in Chicago was made. That same year, Chicago Professional Colleges became University of Illinois at Medical Center (UIMC).
In 1963, construction began on the new campus of the University of Chicago at Harrison and Halsted Streets. In February 1965, the newly opened Chicago campus and named University of Illinois at the Congress Circle (UICC) referring to Circuit Intersections I-290 and I-90/I-94). Shortly before the opening, the Congress Expressway was renamed the Eisenhower Expressway and the campus was renamed to University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC). UICC was designed brutally by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, a Chicago-based architectural firm responsible for many of today's tallest skyscrapers. In contrast to the CUD campus, Circle is a titling institution. Within five years of opening the campus, in addition to a bachelor's degree, almost every department offers a bachelor's degree.
Consolidation
In September 1982, the University of Illinois system consolidated UICC and UIMC to form the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). In 2000, UIC began to develop the South Campus. The UIC expansion south of Roosevelt Road improves living space and research facilities on campus.
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Academics
One in ten citizens of Chicago with a bachelor's degree are UIC alumni. About one in eight doctors in Illinois is a graduate of UIC College of Medicine (the largest medical school in the country). One in three Illinois pharmacists is a graduate of the College of Pharmacy. Half of all dentists in Illinois are graduates of the UIC College of Dentistry.
Organization
The University of Illinois at Chicago offers 83 undergraduate degrees, 93 master's degrees, and 64 doctoral degrees through 15 colleges, in addition to the special Honors University (for students) and the University Graduate omnibus (for graduate students).
UIC offers eleven inter-college programs, some of which are organized as centers: Cancer Centers, Structural Biology Centers, Neuroscience programs, Teacher Education Boards, Graduate Education in Medical Science, Guaranteed Professional Program Admissions Program, Mobile Image Art Program, National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, Office of International Affairs, Overseas Study Office, and Office of Special Scholarship Program.
The university is governed by a chancellor backed by seven vice rectors, one CEO for administrative functions, and fifteen university deans. There is a library dean and three regional deans for the academy of medicine.
Honors College
In December 1961, a final decision to establish a four-year university in Chicago was made, and for the first time, a full-scale four-year program was envisioned. An Honorary Board of faculty is thus established with plans to develop an enriching and challenging academic program for superior students. Dr. Arthur Pickett, Professor of Biology, was appointed the first Director of the Honors Program of the University of Illinois-Circle after the new Circle Campus opened in 1965.
In 1982, the Honor Board developed a proposal to transform the Campus Honors Program into Honors College, with the aim of enriching the academic experience of honor students. Honors of new students are required to enroll in an interdisciplinary core order throughout the year, and each honors student is given a faculty advisor. Senior are required to complete the honors project every semester. The proposal stressed that "Above all, it is expected that Honors College will improve the intellectual environment for all students and faculty." The proposal was approved by the University of Illinois Supervisory Board that year. Susanna Pflaum, Professor of Education, was appointed as the first dean of the College.
Today, Honors College functions as a resource in and to a larger campus. The Honors College is home to students looking for additional intellectual challenges as well as campus and community engagement. It is also home to faculty members seeking collaboration with some motivated students on campus.
Burnham Hall has Honours College offices, classrooms, student rooms and quiet study areas. In addition, students accepted at Honors College are eligible to stay on the designated floor of the UIC boarding house. They have their own study rooms, computer labs, and individual professional advisers.
Students accepted at Honors College must complete additional applications to college, upon receiving a bachelor's degree. To be accepted and retained at Honors College, students must maintain a GPA of 3.4 or above and participate in Honors College activities each semester, separate from their regular classes. Honors College offers scholarships and tuition waivers for incoming new students, transfer students, and continuing students. Other awards support undergraduate research, study abroad, and community engagement.
The current dean of Honors College is Ralph Keen.
Demographics
The student body at UIC consists of over 27,000 students in total, of which nearly 17,000 are undergraduate students. Demographic statistics for students in 2014 are:
The Chancellor operates six committees related to diversity in Asian, Black, Latin America, LGBT issues, Disabled, and Women. UIC has been recognized by the public as diverse. US News & amp; World Report has repeatedly placed UIC in the 10 most diverse universities in the country.
Rankings and statistics
Overall
In US News & amp; 2015; World Report rankings at colleges and universities, the University of Illinois at Chicago ranks as the 129th best national university, the nation's 78th best state university., Washington Washington 2014 ranked national university, UIC is ranked 86th as a national university best in the US. In 2014-15, the World University's Academic Rank places UIC in the 150-200 bracket in the world and 68-85 in the US. In 2016-17, the University of the World Higher Education Rating ranked UIC 63rd in the US and 200th in the world. By 2014, Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 University Rankings (university comparison less than 50 years) puts UIC in the 3rd place in the US and 13th in the world. Rank QS Worldwide University 2014/15 puts the UIC in 186th position. Forbes ranked University of Illinois at Chicago 361 out of 650 universities in "America's Top Colleges 2014".
Research
UIC is one of 96 universities in America that receive the highest research classification ("RU/VH") by the Carnegie Foundation. (Under the previous Carnegie classification system, UIC is one of 88 "Research I" universities.) In 2005, the National Science Foundation's statistics on research funding placed the 48th UIC from more than 650 universities receiving federal research money. UIC's research funding level goes beyond one Big Ten and University of Chicago universities.
Subject area - program-specific
In 2012 ranking by the Higher Education Institute in Shanghai, UIC is bound to 51st-75 in the field of social sciences, 76th-100th in the field of medical subjects, and 101-150 in the field of life sciences/agriculture and natural sciences and mathematics.
The University of Illinois at the Chicago College of Business Administration is recently ranked No.1 among Chicago area schools and is tied to 56 overall among undergraduate business programs accredited by US News & World Report. Ranking places UIC among the top 15 percent of 467 programs accredited by the Association for Advance Collegiate Schools of Business or AACSB, the main accreditation organization for business schools.
In AS. News & amp; World Report's 2015 ranking, published in 2014, The University of Illinois at Chicago Liautaud Graduate School of Business is ranked 92th for one of the best business schools for a full-time MBA program.
Many programs are included in the top 50 graduate program rankings overall by the U.S. News & amp; World Report in 2013 (released in 2012) includes: Clinical Psychology (42) Criminology (19), Education (38), English (41), Art (45), History (36), Mathematics (36), Nursing 11), Occupational Therapy (4), Pharmacy (14), Physical Therapy (16), Public Affairs (37), Public Health (16), Social Work (24), and Sociology (41). The June 2007 edition of the Communications Association for Computing Machinery publishes a ranking of computer science courses graduates based on the latest scientific publications. The list was rated UIC 34th, tied with Caltech, among the top 50 US graduate programs. The UIC philosophy program has been repeatedly included in 40 postgraduate philosophy graduate programs in the US, by the Philosophical Gourmet Report.
The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine survey of over 700 American schools places the 9th (undergraduate) and 12 (undergraduate) UIC entrepreneurship programs. In US News & amp; World Report ranked UIC 58 undergraduate business programs and 57 undergraduate engineering programs in the United States. US News & amp; World Report also rated the UIC MBA part-time from more than 300 national programs and the 19th graduate financial program; Undergraduate program rankings are accounting (28) and finance (17 in 2010). In 2010 the Princeton Review ranked UIC in the top 50 undergraduate game design programs from 700 US and Canadian universities. Criteria include curriculum quality, faculty, facilities and infrastructure. The Princeton Review also looks at data on scholarships, financial aid, and career opportunities.
Diversity
The University of Illinois at Chicago is a federally designated Hispanic Presentation (HSI) and one of the most ethnically diverse universities in the United States.
Campus
UIC consists of three campuses that support over 28,000 students and 2,400 members and faculty staff. These campuses cover 311 hectares (125.9 ha) in Little Italy and University Village in Chicago.
The Eastern Campus was designed in a brutal style by Walter Netsch. The plan includes a second floor walkway that connects all the buildings. Some later buildings in the Netsch design are not rectangular (Behavioral Science Building) and even their irregular shapes (Southern Science and Engineering, and Buildings of Art & Architecture are never finished). This shows his idea of ​​"field theory": designs that use squares and squared rotations superimposed on each other. While most buildings were still intact, the paths were lowered gradually during the early 1990s to make campus more hospitable. Enough efforts have been issued to modify the original Netsch campus plan to create a traditional college campus feel. For example, the area in front of the main administration building, the University Hall, has been the site of several renovations in the last decade; and, the UIC Pavilion (sports arena) was added in 1982.
The Eastern Campus is located on the Near West Side, just south of Greektown and a 15-minute walk from downtown Chicago. Campus alignment and commercial density are the direct result of large-scale urban renewal led by Mayor Richard J. Daley.
The Western Campus, also on the Near West Side, is much older and includes several buildings built in college gothic style. Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Applied Health Sciences and Public Health, as well as the Library of Health Sciences are all located on the Western Campus. The Western Campus is in the heart of the Illinois Medical District where the University of Illinois Medical Center is located.
The Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority, part of Chicago 'L', runs through the median Eisenhower Expressway along the north side of the campus. Three Blue Line stations close to the university: UIC-Halsted, Racine, and Illinois Medical District. The Pink Line serves UIC's west campus on Polk Street and goes directly to the Ogilvie Transportation Center.
Student housing
UIC offers 9 dormitories for its students. The East Campus contains four halls of residence, the South Campus contains three, and the Western Campus contains three. Until South Campus expansion, UIC students are still dominated by commuters. However, the government has managed to turn the campus into a campus where most of the students live in housing. Nearly 6,000 students live on campus and a half mile. 3,800 students, including more than half of all new students, live in 9 UIC boarding dorms. There are also thousands of apartments within walking distance to the classroom.
On the East Campus, Commons West and Commons South are traditional halls with double rooms that open into the common hallway; each floor shared a common bathroom. Courtyard and Commons North is a cluster-style building with rooms grouped to share a small private bathroom. These four buildings are connected with Student Center East which has a cafeteria, campus bookstore, department store, bowling/billiard, haircut, and Inner Circle (fast food restaurants).
Housing The Western Campus consists of Single Student Residence (SSR, apartments for graduate students) and Polk Street Residence (cluster-style rooms).
The South Campus is home to Marie Robinson Hall and Thomas Beckham Hall, both apartment-style buildings. In fall 2007, James Stukel Towers opened with stylish suite rooms with bathroom and living room.
In accordance with UIC culture, students often refer to boarding spaces with abbreviations instead of their full names (eg "TBH" instead of "Thomas Beckham Hall").
The main objective of the SSR is to place graduate students, undergraduate students from the ages of 24 and older, and professional students. Third floor and four undergraduate student houses ages 21 to 23 years. The nursing home is located on the 16th floor. The fifth floor of the SSR has a pilot program for students with families. This program can accommodate up to 15 families.
Residents of the family program are categorized into Chicago Public Schools. Families living in SSR are assigned to Washington Irving Elementary School and Senior High School.
Student recreation facilities
UIC Student Recreation Facility (SRF) is a recreation complex for UIC students. Opened in spring 2006, the SRF features a three-level climbing wall, a multipurpose court for games, and a swimming pool with a lazy river adjacent.
Medical center and College of Medicine
The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers a four-year program leading to an MD degree in three different places in Illinois: Chicago, Peoria, and Rockford.
UIC is a major part of the Illinois Medical District (IMD). While IMD collects its own "largest urban medical district in the country" is likely to be debated, it is a major economic power that contributes $ 3.3 billion to the local economy and supports 50,000 jobs.
In popular culture, UIC College of Medicine is a School of Medicine affiliated with Cook County Hospital in the television series E.R.
Campus renovation
After South Campus expansion of $ 550 million, the university began to renovate the existing facilities on campus. This focus is partly due to the limited state budget: state funds for new buildings are scarce. Because renovation is cheaper, this approach is used to update the facility.
Such renovations are for the original three "pill box" buildings: Grant Hall, Lincoln Hall, and Douglas Hall. The renovated building uses solar and geothermal power needed to dig fifty 500-foot wells into the ground east of the University Hall. Energy savings of 20-25% led to Lincoln Hall and Douglas Hall certified US LEED Gold. Grant Hall does not apply to LEED certification although it is a prototype for many of the features found in Lincoln and Douglas Halls. The new fascia of all glass and buildings contains facilities for faculty and students. There are plans to extend the renovation project to each lecture group if the pilot program succeeds.
Other campus renovations include the rooftops of the Behavioral Sciences Building and the terrace of Education, Performing Arts, and Social Work.
Sustainability
The University's Sustainability Office was established in January 2008. Current sustainability initiatives include improved lighting, increased refreshment, increased metallization, and landscape waste composting. Recent work at Grant, Lincoln, and Douglas Halls includes improving them to use geothermal heat pumps, which efficiently heat and cool buildings. The University has approved the Climate Action Plan.
Athletics
The name of the UIC team is the Flames, a reference to the Great Chicago Fire that started a few blocks east of the campus. The mascot is Sparky D. Dragon.
In September 2006, the men's soccer team earned the highest ranking in school history when SoccerTimes.com College Coaches Poll set the Flames in No. 1. 6 in the country. In November 2006, the UIC beat Western Illinois 3-0 in the opening round of the NCAA tournament before falling in the second round to Notre Dame 1-0. UIC ended the 2006 season as the best defensive team in the country after only allowing eight goals in over 1993 minutes to play for 21 games for a goal-on-average (GAA) 0.36. GAA was the top in the country in 2006 and also ranked fifth all the time in NCAA history. The UIC posted 13 closures and was never allowed more than one goal in the match. The UIC also allowed only two goals after the break throughout the season. Along with the GAA mark, UIC posted the nation's best savings percentage with a rate of 0.908.
In 2007, UIC's successful soccer season culminated in an Elite-Eight appearance at the NCAA tournament by winning # 12 St. Louis, Northwestern, and No. 8 Creighton. In an effort to perform Final-Four, UIC fell to Massachusetts 2-1. At the end of the season, UIC has a 13-6-6 record and was named the top 10 team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).
The UIC baseball team recorded 30 or more wins in a nine-year span from 2001 to 2010, winning seven straight Horizon League Championships, and advanced to the regional NCAA four times (2003, 2005, 2007, 2008). UIC baseball has recorded a regional win against No. 1. 1 Long Beach State in 2007 and No. 2 Dallas Baptist University in 2008.
In 1978 and 1979 UIC Men's Gymnastics team won the only NCAA team title at school in the Second Division Championships. After the 1979 season, the men's gymnastics program entered the Division I competition and finished the 10th season, nationally. After a successful 1980 season, the rest of the UIC's athletic team went up to Division I. The 1996 men's gymnastic team finished the season in 9th place, the highest end-grade of the school. UIC Men's Gymnastics Individual Division I All American honors include: Paul Fina (Rings), Mike Costa (Pommel Horse, twice), Barry McDonald (Bar Parallel), Shannon Welker (Floor Exercises), Neil Faustino (Vault), and Andrew Stover (Horizontal Bar).
Student life
The university is located near the neighborhoods of Taylor Street, Greektown and Pilsen, with numerous restaurants and bars nearby. Downtown Chicago is a 10-minute walk or short CTA ride.
UIC is home to more than 200 student organizations, sports clubs, volunteer groups, fraternities and Greek associations, and other associations.
The main objective for most of these organizations is to support students in achieving their academic, personal and professional potential. In addition to hosting guest speakers and workshops, these organizations can help you meet new friends and contacts while discovering potential scholarships, internships, and career opportunities.
UIC organizations include:
UIC monthly/weekly event:
- Live Friday Night
UIC one-semester/year events:
Spark in the Park
Spark in the Park is an annual music festival held in Harrison field, off Halsted and Harrison, except in 2014 and 2015, when it was held at the UIC Pavilion due to construction at Eisehower Expressway Interstate 290 (Illinois). It was held during the second week of classes in the fall. The first year to be held is in 2010 where Kid Cudi is the headliner, followed by Lupe Fiasco in 2011, Childish Gambino in 2012, Kendrick Lamar in 2013, and J. Cole in 2014. By 2015, Twenty-One Pilot is the main leader and also features Wale (rapper). In 2016, rapper Young Thug was the opening act followed by appearances by Daya and Travis Scott. In 2017, Nick Jonas performs with DRAM.
Greek Life
The social organization of Greek letters at the University of Illinois at Chicago creates smaller communities within larger University environments for the purpose of facilitating growth in scholarship, personal development and leadership, campus engagement and community service. The creeds and rituals that guide the individual organization are based on the values ​​and ethics that foster the highest ideals and behaviors.
Fraternal organizations have been a core component of the campus community since the 1970s. Currently there are 27 social fraternities and student associations, including public and cultural organizations.
Fraternities
Sororities
Co-ed fraternity
- Alpha Psi Lambda
- Alpha Phi Omega
- Omega Phi Alpha Psi
- Alpha Kappa Psi
- Delta Psi Alpha
- Delta Epsilon Mu
Student media
- 234 Magazine - Art and Culture Publications run by students
- Chicago Flame (Pier Illini/Chicago Illini) - Former independent weekly newspaper
- Argus - The former independent weekly newspaper and media site
- UIC Radio - Internet based radio station
- Red Shoes Review - Literature magazine and art reviews
- Journals for Health Affiliated Affiliated Students (JPHAS) - Student-run medical journals
- UIC ONEWORLD - A journal that focuses on social justice issues
- UIC Today - Daily newspaper
- Housing Cable - Closed Circuit Cable TV Station
Famous Alumni
See also
- CASTp
References
External links
- Official website
- The UIC Athletics website
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