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NORC has been affiliated with the University of Chicago for over half a century. This mutually beneficial relationship provides NORC with privileged access to the faculty and library resources of one of the world’s premier research institutions. In turn, NORC provides University of Chicago faculty with stimulating intellectual challenges in important policy areas. The key to this collaboration lies in the interplay between NORC staff and University of Chicago faculty.
Joint appointments provide benefits to both university and NORC departments that are more than the sum of their separate parts. So does faculty affiliation with NORC’s research centers which, as already discussed, provide a collegial and supportive working environment for faculty and on-the-job training opportunities for graduate students. The University of Chicago’s Division of the Social Sciences is particularly prominent in this connection. Additional enormous benefit derives from teaming agreements and more informal collaboration between NORC and other institutions affiliated with the University. The most important of these other units for NORC’s work are:
- Chapin Hall Center for Children
- Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
- Joint Center for Poverty Research
- School of Social Service Administration
- School of Medicine
- University of Chicago Hospitals
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