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Read President Paul Alivisatos's full message to the University community here: https://t.co/qaFA618Bvs

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UChicago announced today that it had partnered with AI company Anthropic to give students, faculty, and staff access to Claude Enterprise services on a rolling basis starting in July. All University community members will have access by fall quarter. Story to come.

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Over the past decade, the share of students majoring in the humanities and arts has declined while business economics has exploded—realizing long-standing fears about the pre-professionalization of the College. https://t.co/hConFIlooD

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Professors’ names will no longer be visible to students pre-registering for social science and civilization studies Core courses beginning with autumn quarter 2026, several professors in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division told the Maroon.
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UChicago’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors is currently holding a rally outside of Levi Hall to protest the Laboratory Schools’ policies of viewpoint-neutral education.

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UChicago will guarantee free tuition for undergraduate families with annual incomes less than $250,000 and cover tuition, housing, meals, and fees for families earning less than $125,000 per year beginning in the 2027–28 academic year.

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Council of the University Senate members will meet for a previously unscheduled meeting on Friday to continue discussions about the creation of a new academic division, the first in nearly 100 years.
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In a conversation with IOP Founding Director David Axelrod, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended her past comments about billionaires, criticizing a Washington Post editorial that she called a “veiled threat.”
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UChicago IT wrote in an alert at 3:54 p.m. that there “is no direct evidence at this time of unauthorized activity affecting UChicago Canvas accounts.” The office has temporarily disabled UChicago’s Canvas login page, the alert added.

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UChicago IT wrote in an alert at 3:54 p.m. that there “is no direct evidence at this time of unauthorized activity affecting UChicago Canvas accounts.” The office has temporarily disabled UChicago’s Canvas login page, the alert added.

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A criminal hacking group claimed to have stolen UChicago account data from Instructure, Canvas's parent company, in a message that appeared on UChicago's Canvas page today. The group gave UChicago and Instructure a Tuesday deadline to contact them before they released the data.

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UChicago is one of 9,000 schools whose data the hacking group—ShinyHunters—has claimed to have breached in the past few days. The initial message from the group had been replaced by a Canvas regularly scheduled maintenance notice by 3:35 p.m. Story to come.

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University Provost Katherine Baicker said that the College will embark on a “multiyear plan” to increase enrollment to around 9,000 undergraduate students during an invite-only budget town hall on Tuesday.

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The new University of Chicago Press union is seeking voluntary recognition by Friday, May 8, to begin contract negotiations. A supermajority of the 139 eligible workers have already signed union authorization cards, a union spokesperson said. https://t.co/MF7yI8ny4p

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University of Chicago Press employees announced today that they had formed a union—affiliated with Chicago News Guild Local 34071—and are seeking voluntary recognition to begin contract negotiations around principles of pay equity, sustainability, and transparency. Story to come.

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Kevin Guo and Aaron Horowitz, running on the CORE Collective slate, were elected president and executive vice president of USG for the 2026–27 academic year with 63 percent of the vote in the final round of ranked-choice voting, according to provisional results released Friday.

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The Maroon used internal funding documents provided by both current and former members of USG to compile a record of most of Student Government’s spending in the 2024–25 academic year. https://t.co/XZ1eyWKqXJ

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UCMed has increasingly turned to external partnerships with nonprofit foundations for additional funding, due in part to uncertainty surrounding government grants. https://t.co/MA2ubWw5l0

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Presidential candidates in the upcoming USG cabinet election will meet tonight at 7 p.m. in Kent Hall 107 to share their slates’ platforms and take questions. The Maroon will provide live updates and limited fact-checking on our website during the debate. https://t.co/briUPBktLD

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The University plans to recruit a cohort of 20 faculty members to work across the University as a part of the initiative, with funding supporting both hiring and investment in “the academic ecosystem for emerging topics in AI-related inquiry.”
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