Orientations
The Chicago Forum orients incoming students, faculty, and staff to the University of Chicago's distinctive commitments to free inquiry and expression, including the Chicago Principles, the Kalven Report, and the foundations of academic freedom. These sessions establish free expression and open inquiry as a shared expectation across the community. The Chicago Forum brings orientation programming to other colleges, universities, and organizations seeking to ground their communities in the principles and practice of free inquiry and expression.
Workshops
The Chicago Forum offers workshops for students, faculty, and staff to develop the conditions and capacities to productively seek and engage differences and disagreements to deepen thinking and strengthen arguments.
Student workshops build skills in productive disagreement, engaged listening, moderating and facilitating difficult conversations, program design, collaborative leadership, public speaking, and civic inquiry and action.
Faculty and staff workshops focus on designing classroom and institutional conditions for genuine inquiry, facilitating discussion across difference, and building cultures of free expression.
The Chicago Forum brings this work to the University community and to other institutions, secondary schools, and organizations across the country.
Precollegiate Programs
The Chicago Forum works with high school students and educators to build the conditions and capacities for free inquiry and open discourse. Programs introduce students to the principles and practice of free expression and equip educators to create classroom environments where genuine inquiry can take hold.
