Opposites: Dartmouth v.s UChicago?

idad
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:27:13 +0000

This may be changing, but historically for faculty members to teach a recurring undergraduate course at Chicago they must have an appointment in the College. The Dean of the College confers such appointments. One can have an appointment to the College without one to a Division (how the grad schools are organized) and only teach undergrads, though that is rare; and, one can have an appointment to a division, but not to the College, and only teach grad students, which is also rare.

My advisor at Chicago had the title Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine, and in the College. He taught graduate, undergraduate, and combined courses (he would usually cross list his course between the grad department, the College, and psychiatry). So, there would be undergrad students, grad students, medical students, and at times a medical resident or two all in the same course. He ran a large lab with many grads and undergrads doing research, and was preeminent in his field. S1 has had classes with many top researchers while at Chicago in many areas. His Core topics biology course was taught by a very respected research/clinician MD.