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UChicago’s 217-acre campus was designed as a botanic garden (complete with ponds, hundred-year-old trees, and ivy-wreathed gargoyles) and provides students with the best of two worlds: a comfortable home in a neighborhood with a college-town feel, and easy access to everything else going on in a world-class city.
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The University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is an urban research university located in Chicago’s historic, residential Hyde Park neighborhood. Hyde Park is a home to lifelong residents, diverse ideas, beautiful vistas, thriving culture, and more than 60 percent of our faculty and their families. UChicago’s 217-acre campus was designed as a botanic garden (complete with ponds, hundred-year-old trees, and ivy-wreathed gargoyles) and provides students with the best of two worlds: a comfortable home in a neighborhood with a college-town feel, and easy access to everything else going on in a world-class city.
Founded in 1890, UChicago distinguished itself with a focus on principles of inquiry and free expression without prejudice towards gender or identity from its earliest days. William Rainey Harper, UChicago’s first president, incorporated into UChicago’s early charter a commitment to gender equality in both undergraduate and graduate education and, remarkably, considering the initial intention to found a Baptist institution, to an atmosphere of nonsectarianism. This commitment to an accepting environment and equal opportunity distinguished the University in its early years and holds firm today.
Founded in 1890, UChicago distinguished itself with a focus on principles of inquiry and free expression without prejudice towards gender or identity from its earliest days. William Rainey Harper, UChicago’s first president, incorporated into UChicago’s early charter a commitment to gender equality in both undergraduate and graduate education and, remarkably, considering the initial intention to found a Baptist institution, to an atmosphere of nonsectarianism. This commitment to an accepting environment and equal opportunity distinguished the University in its early years and holds firm today.
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