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UChicago Inclusive Economy Lab evaluation finds unique partnership between One Million Degrees and City Colleges of Chicago boosts student success at scale

New findings from a multi-year evaluation by the University of Chicago Inclusive Economy Lab (IEL) indicate significant gains in enrollment, retention, and course completion among City Colleges of Chicago students as a result of a comprehensive student support program.

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11/21/2025
Law School Public Interest Leadership Program
Law School launches Public Interest Leadership Program

The initiative aims to strengthen support for students pursuing public interest and public service careers
11/13/2025
Polsky Exchange ground level
Polsky Center welcomes the 2025 Innovate2Market cohort

The Polsky Center is welcoming the latest cohort of Innovate2Market, a five-week program designed to help community inventors and innovators explore the commercial potential and impact of their products.
11/12/2025
In a panel on Innovating Quantum Sensing, Dana Anderson of Infleqtion displays a component of Infleqtion’s quantum sensor for rotation and acceleration.Photo by Anne Ryan
Expanded Chicago Quantum Summit highlights role of coordinated action

Summit draws attendees from at least 15 countries, 32 universities and 168 companies
11/03/2025
Families at the Center conference
Families at the center: building a Chicago without homelessness

Nearly 200 social sector leaders, researchers, practitioners, and concerned community members gathered at the Crown Family School on Friday, October 24 to discuss and explore solutions to eradicating housing insecurity in Chicago.

11/01/2025
South Side Pitch 2025
Local vegan ice cream shop wins South Side Pitch

Business run by Bridgeport couple prevailed in annual competition run by the Law School’s Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship
10/24/2025
Chicago Booth Civic Scholars on Retreat
Chicago Booth welcomes new cohort of Edwardson Civic Scholars

A new group of social sector leaders entered Booth’s MBA Program this fall.
10/15/2025
Space Explorers October 2025 article
Space Explorers preparing Chicago youth for the future since 1991

The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics program connects students from Chicago Public Schools with UChicago astronomers and physicists
10/10/2025
College course with Arts + Public Life
Students explore cultural stewardship on Chicago’s South Side

College course with Arts + Public Life links academic study to community-based arts and engagement
10/06/2025
South Side Science Festival
Largest-ever South Side Science Festival puts UChicago STEM in kids’ hands

Thousands of families from across Chicago came to the University of Chicago campus on Saturday for the yearly South Side Science Festival. This was the largest event in the festival’s four-year history, with more than 700 UChicago scientists and 200+ volunteers from across campus sharing STEM with approximately 4,300 kids and parents from across Chicago, more than half of whom were from South Side communities.
10/06/2025
Chicago CTA
Q&A: Justin Marlowe on Chicago’s looming transit funding cliff

As the Chicagoland region faces what many call a “fiscal cliff” for public transit, the stakes for riders, workers, and policymakers are rising.

10/01/2025
Pritzker School of Medicine Quantum Exhibit
New STAGE Center exhibit at O’Hare welcomes travelers to the Quantum Prairie

A new exhibit from the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s STAGE Center, IBM and United Airlines brings quantum science and engineering to Chicago O'Hare International Airport
10/01/2025
Civic Leadership
Reflect, Connect, Lead: the Civic Leadership Academy enters a new era

With new leadership in Christopher Berry and Milvia Rodriguez, the Civic Leadership Academy builds on a decade of impact.
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