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CIC Traveling Scholar Program

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is a consortium of 12 research universities, including the 11 members of the Big Ten Conference (which also includes the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois at Springfield, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and the University of Chicago.  The CIC Traveling Scholar Program enables doctoral-level students at any CIC university to take advantage of educational opportunities--specialized courses, unique library collections, unusual laboratories--at any other CIC university.  Approved applicants pay for the CIC Traveling Scholar classes at their home university rates.  [Note: Students who would like to take courses at institutions that are not part of CIC cannot use the CIC Traveling Scholar Program to do so.]

A doctoral student who is approved to participate in the CIC Traveling Scholar program will register for a CIC rubric course or courses (in the equivalent hours of the actual course(s)) at their home institution and the actual course or courses at the host institution.  The student will pay the usual tuition and fees to their home institution, with the tuition and most fees waived at the host institution. 

UIC students who are attending other campuses through the CIC Traveling Scholar Program will register for the appropriate section(s) of CIC 500 at UIC and the actual course(s) at the host institution.  Registration hours for the UIC CIC 500 course should be the equivalent of the hours taken at the host institution, using the same number of sections of CIC 500 as courses registered for at the host institution.  Students from other institutions who are coming to UIC as a Traveling Scholar will register for the actual course(s) at UIC and the CIC course(s) at their home institution.  Since many of the participating schools have different time-lines for their courses (some use quarters and some use semesters, for example), it is important to stay in contact with both campus liaisons in order to avoid any registration problems.

Carefully read the information, procedures and application instructions provided in the links listed below.  Note that late requests may not be approved.