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• Top earner at U of I at Chicago brought home $750K in 2016

  LocalLabs News Service | Aug 31, 2017

  

  Dean and Senior Officer Dimitri Azar was the highest-earning individual at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016, with total compensation reaching $750,239 according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of Illinois Board of Higher Education data.

• UIC offers unintentional lesson in pension overspending

  Schools

  Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 16, 2017

  

  The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) is a prime example of the factors driving the state’s higher education crisis: high tuition, compensation and retirement costs, according to the Illinois Policy Institute.

• Illinois Chicago campus doled out nearly $100,000 for speakers in five years

  Schools

  Caitlin Nordahl | May 15, 2017

  

  The University of Illinois Chicago has spent nearly $100,000 on commencement speakers in the past five years, according to information provided by the school following a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

• Chicago can't carry state on its big shoulders, data suggest

  Local Government

  Caitlin Nordahl | May 4, 2017

  

  Call it trickle-up economics.

• University of Illinois at Chicago Student Government remodels website

  Local Government

  Louie Torres | Dec 24, 2016

  

  The University of Illinois at Chicago Undergraduate Student Government met Sept. 19 to remodel the website.

• Slutkin to accept UNICEF humanitarian award

  Schools

  Carol Ostrow | Aug 3, 2016

  

  University of Illinoic at Chicago epidemiology professor Gary Slutkin, the founder and CEO of Cure Violence, has earned the prestigious Chicago Humanitarian of the Year designation from the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for his positive impact on children’s lives.

• Eleven Illinois-Chicago students become Schweitzer fellows

  Schools

  Carol Ostrow | Aug 3, 2016

  

  Eleven outstanding students in social work, public health, occupational therapy, nursing, dentistry, medicine and disability studies at the University of Chicago were recently designated as Schweitzer fellows to create service learning programs for underserved Chicagoans.