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The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk architecture. He identified and analyzed the type in his 1936 study of Louisiana house types. [1] [2] [3]
In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, The New York Times reported that I-House ordered its South Building residents to vacate within one week after a staff member tested positive for the virus and one resident died from complications of the virus, leaving 300-500 students and young professionals, many of whom had recently arrived in the United States, without housing. [6]
Columbia College Chicago is a private art college in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1890, it has 6,493 [ 3 ] students (as of fall 2021) pursuing degrees in more than 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. [ 5 ]
International House of Chicago, at the University of Chicago, in Illinois; International House of New York, an independent residential facility and programs center near Columbia University, in New York; International Student House of Washington, D.C., an independent residential facility in the District of Columbia
The University of Chicago has never had a substantial number of active secret societies; indeed, shortly after the university's founding, the faculty of the university released a resolution suggesting that the exclusionary structure of many such societies made them antithetical to the democratic spirit of the university. [75]
University of Chicago: Chicago: 1890 18,339 Research University Columbia College Chicago: Chicago: 1890 6,646 Master's Concordia University Chicago: River Forest: 1864 5,354 Doctoral/Professional DePaul University: Chicago: 1898 20,917 Research University Dominican University: River Forest: 1901 3,196 Master's East–West University: Chicago ...
Columbia is the fourth university targeted by the House investigation on campus antisemitism, joining Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Max Abramovitz (1931) – 1961 Rome Prize; designed Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the United Nations complex, and the Assembly Hall; Aravind Adiga (B.A. 1997) – author of The White Tiger and winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize