Hyde Park: The Midway Plaisance in December ❄️ 🏰

(Site of a future walking tour 🚶‍♀️‍➡️️)

#Chicago #UniversityofChicago #urban #urbanism #hydepark #southside #nature #natureToot #photography #photo #citylife

In an early #ManhattanProject success, #ThisDayInHistory in 1942 saw the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. #EnricoFermi built #ChicagoPile1 reactor underneath the west viewing stands of #StaggField at #UniversityOfChicago, risking disaster in a densely populated area.
Ah yes, the University of Chicago, where defending the humanities is apparently as fashionable as wearing socks with sandals. 🧦👡 But seriously, who needs arts and literature when you can major in Crosswords and Podcasts, right? 😂🎓
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/08/university-chicago-humanities-doctorate/684004/ #UniversityOfChicago #HumanitiesFashionable #ArtsAndLiterature #CrosswordsAndPodcasts #HigherEducation #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, the arts, and languages

The Atlantic
If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, the arts, and languages

The Atlantic
The other was a guest piece in #theeconomist from an economist from the #universityofchicago . It suggests that similar evaluations are done in the #us but use a much higher statistical value of life. Reading this I was pleasantly surprised although unsure how long such a rational and sensible procedure can be expected to survive in the current #us political climate! .

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/

Conservative ideology was undermining US higher education when Trump was just another obnoxious real estate guy in NYC.

#HigherEducation #Universities #UniversityOfChicago

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it does not expect to do research.

Compact

UChicago Library: UChicago Data Mirror website launched to protect access to public datasets. “In response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites, the DSI and the University of Chicago Library have partnered to launch the UChicago Data Mirror website to protect access to at-risk datasets. The website will preserve backups of these resources within UChicago’s […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/uchicago-library-uchicago-data-mirror-website-launched-to-protect-access-to-public-datasets/

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