<p>while enrolled at the U of Chicago?</p>
<p>I know other schools have cross registration programs. Does Chicago have anything like that?</p>
<p>btw, I'd want a class here and there. Maybe some glass blowing or some painting.... nothing too serious.</p>
<p>“Nothing too seriious”? And you want UofC to pay for it through cross registration? Good luck.</p>
<p>Chicago’s big three universities (UIC, UofC and NWU) have a long history of no cooperation bordering on hostility toward one another. As a result, there is little sharing of academic resources (other than things like Fermilab and state/federally funded programs that forced folks to come together) and little enthusiasm to do so. I think this is one of the things that has held the Chicago region back regarding higher ed and even perhaps entrepreneurialism. </p>
<p>This is not to say you could not take classes there. You just won’t get UofC credit and you’ll need to pay for the class yourself.</p>
<p>Be aware too that most kids find plenty of creative outlets right on campus. UofC is hardly an artistic desert.</p>
<p>The University of Chicago definitely offers a number of studio art classes, and even has a studio art major (there were four of them last year, of whom two I believe were double-majors).</p>
<p>Sometimes I get the feeling UofC is just one big performance art piece.</p>
<p>What isn’t?</p>
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<p>I couldn’t disagree more, nmd, and I’m here in the area and know people in the administrative capacities at both schools. UofC and NU have a very healthy regard for one another. If (say) UofC is recruiting a faculty member from another part of the country, and the faculty member also has a professor-spouse, if UofC doesn’t have an opening for the spouse, they’ll work with NU to see if NU has an opening for the spouse and thus accommodate the move. (And vice versa, of course) I am aware of several specific cases in which this has occurred. Both my friends at NU and UofC report their relationships with one another to be very collegial.</p>
<p>UIC plays in another ballfield, really. It’s just a different type of school, with a different focus and a different population served (lots of first-gen college students, commuters, medical and business focus).</p>
<p>Wait, UIC and U of C are different schools? Have I been complaining about the wrong place all this time!!</p>
<p>UIC is University of Illinois at Chicago. It is a public school on the near west side.
U of C is the University of Chicago. It is a private school on the south side.
On the health care side, there is more interaction amongst the three big Chicago schools.<br>
Northwestern, UofC, and UIC are all large research oriented schools. They do have different focuses and student populations, though.</p>
<p>Wait, but UIC is part of UofC right? I went to the circle, so I went to UofC.</p>
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<p>Too bad you have never had the experience of living in areas where the universities really cooperate, places like SF bay area, or Boston, where many of the universities allow cross registration, including MIT and Harvard. </p>
<p>I also had the experience of living and working recently in Chicago for a year, at UofC, and dealt with some of the efforts pushed by others to get the places to work together. It was difficult. You see very few research collaborations among UofC and Northwestern faculty members for example. </p>
<p>Contrast this with Boston, where Harvard researchers collaborate with others at places like Northeastern University (another ballfield, really) on a regular basis. I can speak of this first-hand. </p>
<p>Want another example? Roam the hallways and look for announcements from any other place for seminars and such. See any? </p>
<p>Administrator talk is easy - after all, it is PC to talk cooperation. But finding the signs of it, joint projects for example, is very difficult.</p>
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<p>MIT and Harvard are side by side. How would an undergraduate in Evanston easily get to Hyde Park for a class (or vice versa) without eating up half his or her day?</p>
<p>How did this turn into a discussion of NU vs. U of C?</p>
<p>All I want to know is if there’s any way I can take a glass blowing class or a pottery class. I don’t need to know anything else about Northwestern. :)</p>
<p>I’m choosing between here and a school that has a 24 hour, flat fee pottery lab. I’m trying to find something similar at Chicago so I can convince myself to go there.</p>
<p>kkk, welcome to CC, where every topic meanders in many directions.</p>
<p>PG, I just use one example. But now that you ask, some years ago, Stanford and Berkeley allowed cross registration, and even had a shuttle bus for students. They are even further apart. Where there is a will, there is a way. And downtown Chicago, where Northwestern’s med school is located, is not that far from UofC, but no one goes between the two regardless.</p>
<p>Fair enough; I can’t speak to the grad piece. Actually I can – there’s not a lot of cross-sharing between Booth and Kellogg from what I know. I was focusing more on the undergrad experience.</p>
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<p>When I first came to UofC as a post-doc in the early 1980s, the first thing I noticed was the complete lack of interaction between UofC and anywhere else. When I moved to Boston later on, and especially when I began to work at a well known university in the area, I was amazed at how much interaction went on at every level among institutions there. </p>
<p>When I returned for a year back at UofC a few years ago, and saw the continuing lack of cooperation in Chicago (and saw it from an institutional perspective, too), I realized how much this cost institutions in Chicago. You are right, though, it is not hostility as much as active neglect, I think. </p>
<p>Anyone have any knowledge about other places? Philadelphia, Penn and Temple for example (now there’s a study in contasts!)? Duke and UNC? UCLA and USC? I just don’t know.</p>
<p>Penn and Temple? How about Penn and Drexel, which essentially share one contiguous campus? I am not aware of much, that’s for sure. I do think there is a fair amount of collaboration between Penn’s Medical School and hospitals and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia now) two blocks away, but that’s a pretty natural fit without a lot of competitive overlap. </p>
<p>Penn has a cross-registration program with Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr that actually gets some use, and I know of some faculty collaboration, too (although what I know about is in the humanities and essentially consists of sitting around talking).</p>
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<p>UIC is a part of the University of Illinois system. In 1982, Chicago Circle and Medical Center merged to form what is today the University of Illinois at Chicago.
UofC and UIC are two separate institutions.</p>
<p>I went to the circle campus, so this means I’m wrong when I tell everyone I went to UofC?</p>
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<p>The best thing to do, of course, is ask the Visual Arts faculty directly. I suggest contacting the [department</a> chair](<a href=“http://dova.uchicago.edu/faculty/fac_letinsky.html]department”>http://dova.uchicago.edu/faculty/fac_letinsky.html).</p>
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So, you are a pre-1982 grad. You can say you either graduated from University of Illinois, University of Illinois Chicago Circle (UICC), or University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). If you ever need a transcript, it’ll say University of Illinois Chicago Circle. I went to UIC, and almost everyone knew the correct abbreviation for the school. Think, if you heading to the East campus on the Blue Line, you get off at UIC/Halsted. The signs in front of all the buildings say UIC on them. How could any UIC student not quickly realize the obvious, correct abbreviation because it is everywhere on campus?</p>