ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the first 5 years of Loyola’s comprehensive partnership with Nicholas Senn High School from 2012 to 2017. Senn is a historic Chicago public high school, opened in 1913 and located a mile south of Loyola’s main campus in the northeast corner of the city. For at least 150 years, universities and schools have partnered. They have partnered for various reasons and in various ways, but the specific relationships formed between universities and urban public schools have always been shaped by the political and social contexts in which they operate, both locally and nationally. As so many things do in Chicago, the Senn-Loyola partnership began with the mayor. In the fall of 2011 and into the following winter, Mayor Rahm Emmanuel engaged colleges and universities across Chicago to broker partnerships to support Chicago Public Schools in various ways. By the spring of 2012, the School of Education had begun to redesign its teacher preparation program.