Noteworthy
Dexter Voisin appeared on WTTW's Chicago Tonight as a member of a panel discussing gun violence.
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SSA's US News Ranking: The School of Social Service Administration has solidified its US News & World Report ranking at number 3 among graduate schools of Social Work.
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Breast Cancer in Black Women May be Connected to Neighborhood Conditions: Path-breaking project led by Sarah Gehlert, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research at the University.
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Featured Events
Professional Development Program
Summer Schedule now online
Rhoda G. Sarnat Lecture
Eileen D. Gambrill, Berkeley School of Social Welfare, The University of California
June 7th: Alumni Weekend
A World-Class University
Chicago is a dynamic and cosmopolitan university, and SSA students take advantage of all that it has to offer. The University's rich resources include outstanding facilities for computing, research, and athletics. The newly renovated student center features a food court, student lounges with pool tables and fireplaces, and offices for student organizations. A variety of coffee shops in nearby buildings provide places for reading, lively conversation, and a quick snack. Depending on the season, you can join an impromptu game of Frisbee at the lakefront, curl up with a book under a tree on the quadrangles, or ice skate on the Midway.
Events held each year include a blues and ribs party, Kuviasungnerk winter festival, a Mardi Gras celebration, a folk-music festival, and a day of fun called Summer Breeze. In a typical week, you can attend plays, concerts, films, sporting events, readings at local bookstores, lectures, and workshops. Many SSA students join campus ministries, music and theater groups, intramural sports teams, and political and community-service organizations. Chicago students are active, independent, and involved.
Our tree-shaded 203-acre campus is located a few blocks from Lake Michigan and seven miles from downtown Chicago.
Your Kind of Town
Chicago is a beautiful, livable, big city, with spectacular lakefront vistas, a thriving cultural scene, lively politics, and legendary sports teams. In Chicago, blues and jazz groups play nightly and neighborhood restaurants serve up authentic cuisine ranging from Ethiopian to Brazilian to Thai. Chicagoans enjoy a rich variety of attractions including world-famous museums, zoological and botanical gardens, neighborhood festivals, art and book fairs, and shopping on Michigan Avenue.
The University of Chicago is in Hyde Park, situated on Lake Michigan only fifteen minutes from downtown. A neighborhood of 41,000 residents, including most of the University's faculty and students, Hyde Park is often cited as the model of a racially integrated and prosperous urban community. Its good, affordable housing, services, shopping, and restaurants, as well as its tree-lined streets and stately Victorian mansions, make it one of Chicago's most attractive and desirable communities.
