New Campus Enhancements Ready UIC for Start of Fall Semester
As a part of the UIC Master Plan, students, faculty, and staff will notice new features on campus designed to engage and connect. The items in the Master Plan were approved by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees in November of 2018. A few of the new additions which are clear and visible on campus are highlighted below. More developments are expected over the next 10 years.
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Dozens of Adirondack chairs have been placed in the green spaces on both the east and west sides of campus. These bright and welcoming chairs are hard to miss as they have been painted in a vibrant red, in line with UIC’s branding colors for the east side of campus, as well as light blue to reflect the branding of UI Health on the west side of campus. These chairs invite the campus community onto the grassy spaces and promote engagement in the outdoor areas of campus.
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“The button logo is the core of the UIC brand,” said Jonathan Fair, assistant director of campus architecture. “It’s the first of hopefully many that we will be putting on campus. It’s a nice way for UIC to establish its perimeter and be a point of pride to have that Instagram moment or that graduation moment.”
The UIC logo has been a great representation of the campus’s story. The strategic branding and marking of gateways into an urban campus is very influential to how the physical campus connects and interacts with its community.
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On July 22, UIC opened is new Engineering Innovation Building. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, among other elected officials and campus leadership, attended the ribbon cutting ceremony, encouraging the success of the students and scholars of UIC. The opening of this building will support research in chemical engineering with state of the art research, classroom and office space, as well as support the dramatic growth in engineering student enrollment (which has almost doubled in the last 10 years to more than 5,000 students).