The University of Chicago

Addresses

Aims of Education

The Aims of Education Address is a University of Chicago tradition for incoming first-year students. Given by a different distinguished senior scholar each year, the speech highlights Chicago’s distinct educational experience.

• Jonathan Lear (Sept. 24, 2009)
• Aims of Education addresses archive

Convocation

• 504th Convocation Address: “Be Careful What You Rub Out,” by Rocky Kolb (August 27, 2010)
• Convocation addresses archive

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Annual Reports

The University of Chicago Annual Report

• Annual Report (2011)
• University annual report archive

The Center in Beijing Annual Report

• Center in Beijing Annual Report (PDF)

The Annual Report of the Provost

• 2005–2006
• Provost annual report archive

Annual Report to the Faculty of the College

• “Teaching at a University of a Certain Sort”: Education at the University of Chicago over the Past Century (2011) (PDF)
• Not As a Thing for the Moment, But for All Time: The University of Chicago and Its Histories (2010) (PDF)
• A Noble and Symmetrical Conception of Life: The Arts at Chicago on the Edge of a New Century (2009) (PDF)
• The Kind of University That We Desire to Become (2008) (PDF)
• All College Publications

Annual Report of the Provost’s Initiative on Minority Issues

• AY 2004–2005 Annual Report (PDF)
• Provost’s Initiative on Minority Issues annual report archives

University Research Administration Year-End Report

• FY2011 (PDF)
• FY2010 (PDF)

Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories Annual Report

• Annual Report (2010)
• Annual Report (2009)

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The Chicago Record

The Record collects official University addresses, including convocation and Aims of Education addresses, policies, reports, etc.

• Vol. 42, No. 3 (May 29, 2008) (PDF)
• Chicago Record archive

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College Publications

The College produces a number of publications throughout the year, ranging from quick current event updates to deep historical essays.

• The College Newsletter Fall/Winter 2009 (PDF)
• The College Newsletter: Spring 2009 (PDF)
• All College Publications

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Additional Reports

Reports of the Independent Review Committee for the University of Chicago Police Department

• Annual Report, November 2011 (PDF)
• Complaints Reviewed by the Independent Review Committee, 2010–2011 (PDF)
• Archive

The University's response to Senators Baucus and Grassley

• The University of Chicago's response to Senators Baucus and Grassley (Chair and Ranking Members, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance) on the subject of the affordability of higher education (February 2008) (PDF)

UChicagoTech's Five-Year Report

• Bringing Innovation to Life (2006) (PDF)

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