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The Extended Classroom
Imagine the sight when nearly 350 first-year Lake Forest College students armed with sack lunches and CTA passes poured from a Metra train into the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago’s Loop.... MORE Chicago: How the Second City Became Lake Forest College’s Second Classroom The link between Lake Forest College and Chicago was not first forged in September of 2002, when the College received a $250,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.... MORE Reflections on The Benefits of a Geographically Extended Classroom The geographically extended classroom has the potential to build civic capacity, and to move young people from students to informed citizens with a sense of their accountability in a world system.... MORE
By Cara Jepsen ’86
By Michael H. Ebner