University of Illinois at Chicago
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| University of Illinois at Chicago | |
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| Image:UICLogo.jpg | |
| Motto: | Teach, research, serve, care. |
| Established | 1858, 1946, 1965 |
| Type: | Public, State University |
| Endowment: | US $120 million [1] |
| Chancellor: | Sylvia Manning |
| President: | B. Joseph White |
| Provost: | Michael Tanner |
| Faculty: | 2,300 |
| Undergraduates: | 15,148 |
| Postgraduates: | 6,766 |
| Location | Image:Flag of Illinois.svg Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Campus: | Urban, 311 acres (1.3 km²) |
| Public transit access: | UIC Halsted (CTA station) |
| Colors: | Blue and Red |
| Nickname: | UIC Flames Image:Ncaab illinoischicagoflames.jpg |
| Mascot: | Sparky D. Dragon |
| Athletics: | NCAA Division I Horizon League |
| Website: | www.uic.edu |
The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in the Near West Side of Chicago. It is the second member of the University of Illinois system and is the largest university in the Chicago area serving approximately 25,000 students within 15 colleges, including the nation's largest medical school with research expenditures exceeding $290 million.[2] Playing a critical role in Illinois healthcare, UIC also operates the state’s major public medical center and serves as the principal educator of Illinois’ physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and other healthcare professionals. UIC is also accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.[3]
UIC participates in NCAA Division I Horizon League competition as the UIC Flames in several sports, most notably Basketball. The UIC Pavilion is not only the home to all UIC Flames basketball games, it also serves as the home for the Chicago Sky and several concerts throughout the year.
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[edit] History
[edit] Beginnings
The University of Illinois at Chicago traces its origins to several private health colleges founded during the late nineteenth century, including the Chicago College of Pharmacy, which opened in 1859, the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1882), and the Columbian College of Dentistry (1891).[4]
The University of Illinois was chartered in 1867 in Champaign-Urbana, as the state's land-grant university.[5] The Chicago-based health colleges affiliated with the University in 1896-97, becoming fully incorporated into the University of Illinois in 1913, as the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy. Medical education and research dramatically expanded in the succeeding decades, leading to the development of several other health science colleges, which were brought together as the Chicago Professional Colleges of the University of Illinois. In 1961, these colleges became the University of Illinois at the Medical Center (UIMC).
[edit] Expansion after World War II
Following World War II, the University of Illinois increased its presence in Chicago by creating a temporary, two-year branch campus, the Chicago Undergraduate Division.[6] Housed on Navy Pier, the campus accommodated primarily student veterans on the G.I. Bill.[7] The campus was not a junior college, but rather had a curriculum based on Urbana's courses, and students who successfully completed the first two years requirements could go on to Urbana and finish their degree.
Classes at Navy Pier began in October 1946, and each semester around 4,000 students enrolled. As Chicago had no comprehensive public university at that time, most students were first generation college students from working families, who commuted from home. Demand for a public university education in Chicago remained high, even after the first wave of veterans passed, so the University made plans to create a permanent degree-granting campus in the Chicago area. After a long and controversial site decision process[8], in 1961, Mayor Richard J. Daley offered the Harrison and Halsted site, in Chicago's historic Near West Side, for the new campus.[9]
Named the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC), the new campus opened in February 1965.[10] Unlike the Navy Pier campus, Circle was a degree-granting institution. Many of the newly recruited faculty came because it was connected to a strong research university and they pushed for rapid development into a research-oriented school emphasizing graduate instruction. Within five years of the campus' opening, virtually every department offered graduate degrees.
[edit] Consolidation
In 1982, the Medical Center and Circle Campus consolidated to form the current University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). This merger strengthened the University's potential for scholarly excellence, and pushed UIC to Carnegie Research 1 institution status in 1987.[11]
UIC launched its latest initiative in 2000, the development of South Campus, providing increased resident living space and research facilities. Through its history, UIC has been a leader in the development of a new model of higher education: the comprehensive urban research university.
[edit] Academics
[edit] Organization
The University of Illinois at Chicago offers 74 bachelor degrees, 77 master degrees, and 60 doctoral degrees[12] through its 15 colleges.[13] The colleges include Applied Health Sciences, Architecture and the Arts, Business Administration, College of Dentistry, Education, Engineering, Graduate College, Honors College, Liberal Arts, College of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, Jane Addams College of Social Work, and Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
UIC also includes eleven inter-college programs, including the Cancer Center, the Center for Structural Biology, the Neuroscience program, the Council for Teacher Education, the Graduate Education in Medical Sciences, the Guaranteed Professional Programs Admissions program, the Moving Image Arts program, the National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, the Office of International Affairs, the Study Abroad Office, and the Office of Special Scholarship Programs.
The university's chancellor is Sylvia Manning[14]. There are seven vice chancellors, one CEO for administrative functions[15], and one deans for each college at UIC, totaling 15. There is also a library dean and three regional deans for various colleges of medicine[16].
[edit] Diversity
The University of Illinois at Chicago consists of approximately 25,000 total students, of which nearly 15,000 are undergraduate students. UIC ranks fourth as the nation’s most diverse university.[17] The demographic statistics in 2005 were as follows.
| Race | Number | Percentage |
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| Caucasian | 6,561 | 43.3% |
| Asian American | 3,849 | 24% |
| Hispanic | 2,499 | 16.5% |
| African American | 1,377 | 8.9% |
| Middle Eastern | 1,013 | 6.7% |
| Native American | 37 | 0.02% |
The chancellor operates six different committees for Asian-Americans, Blacks, Latinos, Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgenders, persons with disabilities, and women.
[edit] MBA Program
The UIC Liautaud Graduate School of Business is home to one of the top MBA programs in Chicago. It's accredited by AACSB International and is a member of the Graduate Management Admission Council. The Liautaud MBA program offers concentrations in accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, international business administration, management, management information systems, marketing, operations management, and real estate, as well as the opportunity to earn joint degrees in accounting, economics, management information systems, medicine, nursing and public health. Students may also seek self-directed concentrations with approval.
Through project courses and a strong relationship with the business community, the program offers students an opportunity to gain valuable real world experience. In the past two years, several teams of MBA students have been successful entering their startup ventures in national and international business plan competitions, and are close to bringing new products to market.
The 2007-08 school year marks the 30th anniversary of the MBA program, which is highlighted by an impressive class with an average GMAT score of 611.
[edit] Rankings
UIC is one of 88 American universities recognized as Carnegie 1 Research Institutions by the Carnegie Foundation[18]. The U.S. News and World Report ranked UIC as a third-tier university in its 2007 issue. In 2005, National Science Foundation statistics ranked UIC 48th out of the more than 650 universities receiving federal research expenditures, surpassing one Big Ten Conference university and the University of Chicago[19].
In 2006, UIC tied for 59th-75th place in the best academic universities in North America and tied for 102nd place in the world by an annual listing of the Top 500 World Universities, published by the Institute of Higher Education in Shanghai, China.[20] The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine ranked UIC’s entrepreneurship program 9th in the nation for undergraduate studies and 12th for its graduate program in a survey of more than 700 schools. US News & World Report ranked UIC's part-time MBA at 24th out of over 300 programs nationally, the undergraduate accounting program at 28th, the undergraduate finance program at 22nd, and the graduate finance program at 19th. UIC's graduate accounting program was ranked #30 in 2003. In the journal The Chronicle of Higher Education, the College of Business was ranked #1 in the nation for scholarly output by faculty.
According to 2008 US News & World Report rankings, UIC's undergraduate business program is ranked #58 (top Chicago area undergraduate program) and the undergraduate engineering program is ranked #57 in the United States. Additional 2007 undergraduate rankings include: Finance (21st) (US News & World Report).
Additional 2007 graduate rankings include: Accounting (28th), Biological Sciences (90th), Chemistry (70th), Clinical Psychology (49th), Computer Science (58th), Criminology (20th), Education (42nd), Engineering (58th overall with specialty rankings of 62nd in chemical engineering, 74th in civil engineering, 54th in computer engineering, 61st in electrical engineering, and 57th in mechanical engineering), English (39th), Finance (22nd), Fine Arts (54th), History (42nd overall with a specialty ranking of 19th in modern US History), Mathematics (38th overall with specialty rankings of 19th in geometry, 5th in logic, and 12th in topology), Medical School (62nd amongst research schools), Nursing (8th overall with specialty rankings of 7th in nursing service administration, 9th in nurse practitioner (family), 11th in nurse practitioner (pediatric), 6th in clinical nurse specialist (adult/medical - surgical), 5th in clinical nurse specialist (community/public health), and 9th in clinical nurse specialist (psychiatric/mental health), Nursing - Midwifery (3rd), Occupational Therapy (4th), Pharmacy (8th), Physical Therapy (16th), Physics (62nd), Psychology (99th), Public Affairs (46th overall with specialty rankings of 6th in city management & urban policy and 21st in public finance & budgeting), Public Health (16th), Social Work (24th), and Sociology (46th).[citation needed]
The June 2007 issue of the Communications of Association for Computing Machinery published a ranking of graduate computer science programs based on recent scholarly publications. In their list of the top 50 U.S. graduate programs, UIC is ranked number 34. There are approximately 200 US PhD graduate programs in computer science.
The UIC pharmacy, nursing, applied health sciences, public health, social work, and urban planning programs are consistently ranked among the top in the nation[citation needed]. The College of Dentistry is one of only two such programs offered in the State of Illinois[citation needed].
UIC has been publicly recognized as a diverse and welcoming community. US News & World Report repeatedly ranks UIC in the top 10 most diverse universities in the nation and in 2006, was ranked by Advocate College Guide as one of the nation's top 100 GLBT friendly campuses.
[edit] Campus
UIC is composed of three campuses supporting more than 24,000 students and 2,300 faculty members and staff[21]. The East Campus contains four residence halls, the South Campus contains three, and the West Campus three as well. These campuses cover 311 acres (1.3 km²) in the Little Italy neighborhood, and the University Village section of Chicago.
Students enjoy a traditional college campus feel with large park-like sections while being a 15-minute walk from downtown Chicago, a happy medium for students who want to enjoy the city but have a typical college campus.
The main campus is located in the Little Italy/University Village neighborhood of Chicago, just west of the downtown financial district. The neighborhood is home to scores of shops, restaurants, bars, bookstores, cafés and museums. It is currently in a transitional stage with several large-scale developments creating thousands of new residences. While the majority of UIC's 25,000 students commute from the city and surrounding suburbs[citation needed], University Village is home to nearly 5,000 students, 3,100 of which live in UIC's 9 residence halls[citation needed].
UIC's multitude of campuses offer a wide range of residences. Four Residence Halls are located on the East Campus. Commons West and Commons South are traditional halls, with double rooms opening into a common hallway. Each floor shares a common bathroom. Courtyard and Commons North are cluster style buildings, with rooms grouped together to share a small private bathroom. These four buildings are connected to the Student Center East which houses a Cafeteria, Bookstore, and the Inner Circle (which hosts a Wendy's, Subway, and a Sbarro's). Residents enjoy a stunning view of the Chicago skyline.
The West Campus houses Single Student Residence (an apartment building for graduate students), Polk Street Residence (Cluster Style), and Student Residence Hall (Traditional).
The South Campus is home to Marie Robinson Hall and Thomas Beckham Hall, both apartment style buildings. In the fall of 2007, James Stukel Towers opened containing suite style rooms with a bathroom and living room and Residents enjoy a stunning view of the Chicago skyline and the Dan Ryan Expressway.
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East Campus |
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Alley facing Student Center East |
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Grant Hall (Renovated) |
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The Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line, part of the Chicago 'L', runs through the median of the Eisenhower Expressway along the north side of the campus. Three stations are in close proximity to the university and its medical campus: Illinois Medical District, Racine, and UIC-Halsted. The Pink Line services UIC's west campus on Polk Street and runs directly to the Ogilvie Transportation Center.
The West Campus is home for UIC's health sciences program. The Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Applied Health Sciences and Public Health, as well as the Library of the Health Sciences are all located on the West Campus. The West Campus is in the heart of the Illinois Medical District, where the University of Illinois Medical Center is located.
[edit] Student Recreation Facility
The UIC Student Recreation Facility (SRF) is a state-of-the-art recreational complex for UIC students. Opened in spring 2006, the SRF features a three-story climbing wall; multipurpose courts for games such as basketball, indoor soccer, tennis and many others; and a pool with adjoining lazy river.
Other amenities include:
- 18,000 sq ft (1,700 m²). exercise room with equipment
- 1/8 mile, 3-lane jogging track
- Lap and leisure pools
- Racquetball and convertible squash courts
- 4 court wood floor gymnasium
- 11,000 sq ft (1,000 m²). Multi Activity Court
- Group fitness suites, including Spin Suite, Mind/Body Suite, Large Multipurpose Suite and the MAC Suite
- Human performance lab
- 42 ft (13 m). rock climbing wall
- Outdoor adventures office
- Juice and coffee bar
- Active and passive lounge areas
- Daily and annual use lockers
[edit] Medical Center
UIC has the nation's largest medical district, operates the state’s major public medical center and serves as the principal educator of Illinois’ physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Approximately one in six Illinois doctors is a graduate of the UIC College of Medicine, one in three Illinois pharmacists is a graduate of the UIC College of Pharmacy, and more than 40 percent of the state’s dentists are graduates of UIC’s College of Dentistry.[22]
[edit] Athletics
- UIC's team name is the Flames, a tribute to the Great Chicago Fire, and its mascot is Sparky D. Dragon.
UIC's men's soccer team had a great Fall 2007 season (13-6-6), beating out several acclaimed teams during their winning streak. They made it into the Elite Eight Championship, and had they won against UMass, would have made it into the Final Four. They were also named the top 10 team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).
[edit] Crime and police
The school maintains its own police department. Theft is by far the most common crime in the area; in 2006 the department handled 506 thefts. [1] Emergency panels located across campus, as well as vigilant patrols and camera surveillance, help to keep students who remain on school property safe. The department also offers three student employment positions.
[edit] Student Life
UIC offers a variety of clubs, including vocational, religious, and activity groups. As it is largely a commuter school, few students spend free time on campus; most class breaks are taken in a computer lab or lounge. The university is located near to the Taylor Street and Greektown neighborhoods, providing a wide range of diverse restaurants, bars, and clubs for students who live in the area.
[edit] Student Media
- Chicago Flame Independent weekly newspaper
- UIC Radio Internet based radio station
- Red Shoes Review Literary Magazine
- Housing Cable TV Closed-Circuit Cable Station
[edit] Alumnus & Faculty
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Liautaud Graduate School of Business
- University of Illinois at Chicago Academic Computing and Communication Center (ACCC)
- University of Illinois Alumni Association
- Campus maps
- Jane Addams Hull House
- Official athletics website
- UICHoops.com - Unofficial UIC Flames Message Board
- UIC University Library
- University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
- University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago
- Office of the UIC Historian
- Association for Computer Machinery at UIC
- Linux Users Group at UIC
- IEEE at UIC
- Flourish! Conference, Free/Libre and Open Source Software Conference organized by LUG, ACM, and IEEE at UIC
[edit] References
- ^ UIC Development. University of Illinois Chicago. Retrieved on September 16, 2007.
- ^ USNews.com: America's Best Graduate Schools 2008: Medical Schools: Which are the largest and smallest medical schools. USNews.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
- ^ The University of Illinois at Chicago 2005-2007 Undergraduate Catalog. University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved on 2007-06-17.
- ^ Medical Education Roots of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Office of the UIC Historian Retrieved on November 16, 2007.
- ^ University of Illinois chartered, 1867. Office of the UIC Historian Retrieved on November 16, 2007.
- ^ G.I. Bill and History of UIC. Office of the UIC Historian Retrieved on November 16, 2007.
- ^ Permanent Campus Site Selection, 1958-1963. Office of the UIC Historian Retrieved on November 16, 2007.
- ^ Chicago Circle Campus Construction. Office of the UIC Historian Retrieved on November 16, 2007.
- ^ Circle Campus: 1965-1982. Office of the UIC Historian Retrieved on November 16, 2007.
- ^ Circle Campus: 1965-1982. Office of the UIC Historian Retrieved on November 16, 2007.
- ^ The University of Illinois at Chicago Fact Sheet. University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved on 2007-09-28.
- ^ Learning @ UIC – Academic Departments. University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved on 2007-09-28.
- ^ http://www.uic.edu/homeindex/administration2.shtml Administration at UIC
- ^ http://www.uic.edu/homeindex/administration2.shtml Administration at UIC
- ^ http://www.uic.edu/homeindex/administration2.shtml Administration at UIC
- ^ The University of Illinois at Chicago Fact Sheet. University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved on 2007-09-28.
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- ^ http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07318/pdf/tab27.pdf
- ^ http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_TopAmer.htm
- ^ UIC Facilities Plan. University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved on 2007-06-17.
- ^ UIC Fact Sheet. University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
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