Called “Lake Forest College in the Loop,” the new program will provide up to 35 students per semester a rich educational experience in a major American city that has truly global reach. 

“The College has long recognized – and increasingly taken advantage of – Chicago’s extensive educational and cultural resources, which can complement our on-campus offerings in many ways,” explained Rand Smith, director of the Center for Chicago Programs. 

Students in the program – through courses, internships, and co-curricular activities – will learn about various distinctive aspects of Chicago, including the city’s history, economy, politics, architecture, art, and relationship to the natural environment.  Like students on study-abroad programs, they will acquire a broader perspective and learn to relate their Chicago-based semester to their overall Lake Forest education.  And through their internships, especially, they will begin to gain valuable professional skills.

“By establishing a Lake Forest College presence in downtown Chicago and giving students a semester-long experience of working, studying and living there, this new program is a natural, strategic expansion of the class trips, activities and contacts developed by our Center for Chicago Programs over the past five years,” said Smith.

Lake Forest students can begin applying for the fall Loop program during spring semester 2011.

 

News Contact

Jennie Larsen, Program Coordinator
Center for Chicago Programs
larsen@lakeforest.edu
847-735-6172

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