The Chicago Maroon

09/06/2025

The University of Chicago celebrated its 539th Convocation yesterday, awarding degrees to graduates from the College and the graduate and professional schools.

📸 by Nathaniel Rodwell-Simon

28/05/2025

The University is offering a new archaeology major beginning in the 2025–26 academic year.

The University is offering a new archaeology major beginning in the 2025–26 academic year.

28/05/2025

W+, Project Reproductive Freedom, and Midwave Radio hosted a concert that raised money for abortion care and provided resources to the UChicago and Hyde Park community.

W+, Project Reproductive Freedom, and Midwave Radio hosted a concert that raised money for abortion care and provided resources to the UChicago and Hyde Park community.

28/05/2025

A Maroon analysis of data compiled by USG’s Elections & Rules Committee showed low overall turnout and high abstention rates in USG cabinet races.

A Maroon analysis of data compiled by Undergraduate Student Government’s Elections & Rules Committee showed high abstention rates in USG cabinet races.

27/05/2025

Katherine Weaver revisits the legendary album Views from the Reg with Jacob Johnson, better known as Average Johnson.

I first heard Views from the Reg in my first year, at the Ethics Bowl’s Halloween party. In hindsight, this was the most fitting place to hear this album: Ethics Bowl is notoriously nerdy and philosophically pedantic. As I later learned, it was tradition for the fourth-year hosting the party to pu...

27/05/2025

UChicago trustees’ donations to Republican candidates increased considerably in the 2024 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by the Maroon.

UChicago trustees’ donations to Republican candidates increased considerably in the 2024 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by the Maroon.

22/05/2025

In a speech at the Chicago Thinker's American Identity Summit, Dean of the College Melina Hale said the University's "institutional identity" prevented it from signing a letter criticizing federal intervention in higher education.
https://chicagomaroon.com/47677/news/speakers-debate-censorship-education-and-american-values-at-chicago-thinker-summit/

19/05/2025

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.

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.

17/05/2025

14/05/2025

The merger of the two divisions is intended to highlight and capitalize on the interrelationship between the humanities and the arts.

The Maroon spoke with faculty and administrators about the change.

10/05/2025

Weekly recap of Maroon news.
——⁠
Subscribe to our newsletter through the link in bio.

08/05/2025

Nevin Hall, the vice president of student organizations and chair of the Elections & Rules Committee, as well as three other elections committee members were impeached on May 7 after they allegedly attempted to change USG bylaws to consolidate power, denied RSO funding based on personal biases, and planned to invalidate the results of the spring 2025 USG elections.
https://chicagomaroon.com/47443/news/usg-college-council-impeaches-vice-president-of-student-organizations/