page_title: University of Illinois at Chicago
section_title: Navy Pier campus
hierarchical_section_title: University of Illinois at Chicago / History / Navy Pier campus
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: catalog196364univ (find matches) Title: Catalog ... Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: University of Illinois at Chicago. Undergraduate Division University of Illinois at Chicago. Undergraduate Division Subjects: University of Illinois at Chicago Education, Higher Publisher: (Chicago, Ill.&#160;: Office of Publications Services, The University of Illinois at Chicago) Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: and play production Recording equipment Bookstore Student newspaper and photography facilities Musical instruments for loan Record library and listening facilities Health Service ATHLETICS: 1. Varsity competition inBasketballBaseballCross CountryFootballGolf Gymnastics Soccer Swimming Tennis Track and Field Wrestling 2. Intramural sports program serves over 2000 students eachsemester. 3. Womens Athletic Association and Orchesis Sports Activities Dance Activities STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICES: Educational and vocational guidance counseling. See pages 63-65. CURRICULA IN MUSIC ARE NOT OFFERED ONTHIS CAMPUS. But certain courses in music are. See page 148. IS ROTC REQUIRED? Participation is urged, but not required. If started, it must becompleted. See pages 124-126. PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Generally, all students must earn four semesters credit inphysical education for the bachelors degree. See page 121.Registration in ROTC does not exempt students from the require-ments in physical education. Text Appearing After Image: Congress Circle—soon. • COLLEGES AND CURRICULA OFFERED ARCHITECTURE AND ARTArchitecture—General OptionArchitecture—Engineering Option Art EducationArts and CraftsIndustrial DesignHistory of Art Advertising DesignPaintingSculptureGeneral BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Common program for all Commerce StudentsCommercial Teaching PrejournalismPrelaw ENGINEERING Aeronautical Agricultural Ceramic Civil Electrical Engineering Mechanics Engineering Physics General Industrial Mechanical Metallurgical Mining Sanitary Combined Liberal Arts-Engineering LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES Chemical Engineering Chemistry Combined Engineering-Liberal Arts Forestry (one year only) General Home Economics (one year only) Occupational Therapy Physics Speech Correction Preprofessional curricula: Predentistry Prejournalism Prelaw Premedicine Prenursing Prepharmacy Preveterinary MedicineMedical TechnologyMedical Record Administration Teacher Education Curricula:BiologyChemistry Deaf and Hard of Hearing ChildrenEleme Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The University of Illinois at Chicago is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois system, UIC is also the largest university in the Chicago area, having more than 33,000 students enrolled in 16 colleges.
  UIC is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".
  UIC competes in NCAA Division I Horizon League as the UIC Flames in sports. The Credit Union 1 Arena is the Flames' venue for home games.
context_section_description: As World War II was drawing to a close, Congress passed the G.I. Bill in 1944, which sought to reward veterans for their military service. Among other benefits, it provided educational funding, making college degrees far more attainable to a much-wider selection of the American public. In 1945, Daley, who was then a state senator, introduced four bills calling for a university in Chicago. In 1946, realizing that they would be "besieged with applications", University of Illinois officials opened what was to be a temporary branch campus called the Chicago Undergraduate Division (CUD) on Navy Pier. The campus was not a junior college, but rather had a curriculum based on Urbana's courses, and students who successfully completed the first two years' requirements could go on to Urbana and finish their degree.
  Classes at the CUD campus began in October 1946, and approximately 4,000 students enrolled each semester. Nicknamed "Harvard on the rocks", three-quarters of its students were veterans on the G.I. Bill, many of whom were immigrants and most of whom worked other part-time jobs to support themselves. It also accommodated first-generation college students from working families who commuted from home. (Navy Pier makes an appearance in Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; its protagonist taught freshman English there.)
  Demand for a public university education in Chicago remained high, the University made plans to create a permanent degree-granting campus in the Chicago area. Indeed, because it was a two-year school, students at the University of Illinois at Navy Pier needed to transfer to a higher-tuition private college in Chicago or go to the main campus in Champaign-Urbana, where there were fewer job opportunities.
caption: 1963 campus model and the circle interchange
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