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The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) [12] is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side , near the shore of Lake Michigan about 7 miles (11 km) from the Loop .
This list of University of Chicago faculty contains administrators, long-term faculty members, and temporary academic staffs of the University of Chicago.The long-term faculty members consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of temporary academic staffs consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors or scholars ...
This measure became known as Jensen's alpha, and became widely used to measure the performance of mutual funds and other investments by both academics and practitioners. Jensen's best-known work is the 1976 Journal of Financial Economics article he co-authored with William H. Meckling , "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and ...
The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSPI), a product of Academic Analytics, is a metric designed to create benchmark standards for the measurement of academic and scholarly quality within and among United States research universities. The index is based on a set of statistical algorithms developed by Lawrence B. Martin and Anthony ...
The Big Ten Academic Alliance is an academic consortium of the 18 institutions that are members of the Big Ten Conference. [3] [4] [5] The University of Chicago, a former Big Ten Conference member, was a member of the CIC from 1958 to June 29, 2016.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business traces its roots to 1898 when university faculty member James Laurence Laughlin chartered the College of Commerce and Politics, [6] which was intended to be an extension of the school's founding principles of "scientific guidance and investigation of great economic and social matters of everyday importance."
Robert Jeffrey Zimmer (November 5, 1947 – May 23, 2023) was an American mathematician and academic administrator. From 2006 until 2021, he served as the 13th president of the University of Chicago and as the Chair of the Board for Argonne National Lab, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, [1] and the Marine Biological Laboratory. [2]
The University Ranking by Academic Performance [1] (URAP) is a university ranking developed by the Informatics Institute [2] of Middle East Technical University. Since 2010, it has been publishing annual national [ 3 ] and global [ 4 ] college and university rankings for top 2000 institutions.