Living Learning Communities (LLCs)

The Future Leaders of Healthcare community brings together students all majors and all areas of healthcare. Living in this community you will receive multiple development opportunities to enhance your professional skills.

• Located in the Academic and Residential Complex
• Explore ethical principles in the practice of medicine
• Explore potential research and volunteering opportunities in the field of medicine
• Build an academic and professional network
• Opportunities to teach and mentor Pre-Health undergraduates
• Engage with peer mentoring, panel discussions, speakers, and social events
• Interact with faculty representing diverse medical specialties and scientific interests

Prerequisite for the community:

• Career path in medicine
  • Pre-health
  • Pre-dentistry
  • Pre-pharmacy
  • Hospital administration

If you live here, we encourage you to:

• Join study groups with others on the floor
• Work with your RA to plan relevant programs

Formerly known as the Pre-Health LLC.

The Honors community is exclusively for academically talented students enrolled in the Honors College.  Here, you will find friendships with people of different majors who are focused on high achievement.

• Located in James Stukel Towers
• Engage in exploring various study strategies
• Receive support to fulfill Honors activities such as senior capstone projects
• Attend professional development and stress management workshops
• Participate in fun programs such as yoga, scavenger hunts, and museum trips
• Learn about research opportunities available on campus
• Build relationships with Honors College Advisors and Staff
• Peer Tutoring and study groups
• Integration with faculty from the Honors College

Prerequisite for the community:

• Application and acceptance into the UIC Honors College is required to be part of this LLC program

If you live here, we encourage you to enroll in:

• HON 101

The Innovate living learning community is located in James Stukel Towers. In addition to encouraging continuing students to enroll in Statics and other engineering courses together, incoming first year students in the areas are encouraged to enroll in block schedules of the same sections of math, chemistry, and English.

• Located in James Stukel Towers
• Tutoring in the halls
• Students in the same classes make for natural study groups
• Ease of planning programming with fellow residents

Prerequisite for the community:

• Be in the College of Engineering

If you live here, we encourage you to enroll in:

• ENGR 111 for first-year students
• ENGR 112 for first-year students

Formerly known as WISE and Computer Science LLC.

The PAP-STEM Initiative enables President’s Award Program scholars majoring in STEM disciplines at UIC to join a network with their peers and faculty in the scientific community. STEM students conduct research, make connections, and enhance their experience at UIC, while preparing for graduate school and becoming the next generation of scientists and engineers who will shape the world.

To join the PAP-STEM, students are first invited to accept an award and become scholars in the President’s Award Program (PAP). PAP Scholars who intend to major in a STEM discipline (biochemistry, biological sciences, chemistry, computer sciences, earth and environmental sciences, engineering, mathematics, neuroscience, or physics), are interested in conducting research in science and engineering, and plan to pursue graduate education in their STEM field are invited to join PAP-STEM.

Located in James Stukel Towers

Students participating in the PAP-STEM will:

• Gain hands-on scientific research experience
• Build their professional network
• Learn how to study effectively in a STEM discipline
• Benefit from study groups and social activities
• Participate in PAP-STEM seminars led by faculty

The Transforming Law and Justice community is designed for students interested in preparing themselves to take an active role in the creation of a more just society.

• Located in the Academic & Residential Complex
• Practice LSAT questions
• Learn about student organizations such as Mock Trial
• Develop relationships to gain internships
• Network with faculty
• Courses taught in the same building
• Peer tutoring and study groups

Formerly known as Pre-Law and Justice LLC.

The Ventures in Business and Industry community is designed specifically for business scholars. For continuing students, we’re encouraging all eligible students to register for Accounting 210; since it’s part of the required courses in business, you’ll have several other residents as a natural study group, and a Faculty-in-Residence is available to provide additional support. Other spots on the floors will be set aside for incoming business scholars.

• Located in James Stukel Towers
• Tutoring in the hall
• Students in the same classes make for natural study groups
• Ease of planning programming with fellow residents and faculty in residence

Prerequisite for the community:

• Be in the College of Business

If you live here, we encourage you to enroll in:

• ACTG 210
• BA 100

Formerly known as the Business LLC.

The La Casa affinity space provides opportunity in bringing together Hispanic and Latinx students to explore their culture, identity, leadership, and develop a rich community of friends.

• Explore a sense of identity with a cultural lens.
• Expand cultural competency by learning about students of diverse identities and backgrounds.
• Engage in directed programming and professional connections.
• Develop a sense of community and belonging through shared experiences and culture.

Goals and engagement opportunities for LLC participants include:

• Tenets: Community, Latinidad/Hispanidad, Culture, and Leadership
• Collaboration with LALS department, Latino Cultural Center, LARES, and AHLMA (affinity space)

Location of the LLC:

• Located in James Stukel Towers

Prerequisites for students wanting to be a part of La Casa:

• Identify as a student of Latinx/Hispanic descent

Shared or common courses:

• LALS 101 Introduction to Latin American Studies
• LALS 102 Introduction to Latino Studies

LEAD-ASIA stands for Leadership Education and Development for Asian Students in America. It is a rich, transformative community where eastern values meet western principles and interact to synthesize contemporary and holistic student leaders. We hope to reimagine on-campus living by providing a safe, inclusive space to all who identify as part of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American community, which includes but is not limited to East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander identities, as well as multiracial and multiethnic identities.

Specific features and/or benefits of LEAD-ASIA:

We hope to serve students of Asian descent in their academic, professional, social, and cultural endeavors with the hope that they will embrace the different parts of their identities, feel confident and proud of themselves rather than silently suppress aspects of that identity because it is different from the majority culture.

Goals and engagement opportunities:

Resources to cultivate career readiness, share and/or reconnect with Asian culture and heritage, nurturing community to promote self-awareness and a sense of belonging, leadership opportunities, professional workshops, space, and inclusive spaces to socialize or study with each other, and build fulfilling and lasting college experience.

Prerequisites –  East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander identities, as well as multiracial and multiethnic identities

Location of LEAD-ASIA Dwelling:

• Located in James Stukel Towers

Pathways to Black Male Achievement (PBMA) represent important affinity groups in our campus community, exemplify the critical importance and value of holding space for students to address diversity, and equity through intentional leadership, bonding, outreach and programming.

PBMA is an engagement and retention affinity group that provides intentional programming and seeks to helps students explore what it means to be a Black male on a college campus.  PBMA puts an emphasis on culture, heritage, development and counteracting the negative images of Black males portrayed in the media. Everyone can participate in PBMA events regardless of ethnicity or gender.

Location of PBMA Dwelling: James Stukel Towers.

SISTERS represents an important affinity group in our campus community, exemplify the critical importance and value of holding space for students to address diversity, and equity through intentional leadership, bonding, outreach and programming.

SISTERS is a retention and engagement affinity group dedicated to uniting and developing residents that identify as Black women and non-binary folk in Campus Housing. Through strong sisterhood, participants of SISTERS explore Black identity, hegemonic norms, beauty standards, and empowerment. Everyone can participate in SISTERS events regardless of ethnicity or gender, and programs are open to everyone.

This is a gender-inclusive community that allows roommates of any identified gender to live together without having formed a roommate group.

Located in James Stukel Towers.

This community brings together students from across the different spectrums of gender and sexuality. Here, you will find opportunities to explore and learn about these social identities together.

Location of the Spectrum Dwelling is in our Courtyard residence hall.

This is a gender-inclusive community that allows roommates of any identified gender to live together without having formed a roommate group.

Specific features and benefits of Spectrum:

• Develop dialogue facilitation skills during community discussions
• Expand cultural competency by learning with students of diverse identities
• Explore media and materials detailing the array of genders and sexualities in society
• Engage with programs that foster connections between students
• Organize for furthering inclusivity in the residence halls and on campus

Goals and engagement opportunities for Spectrum participants include:

• EcoEducators
• Learn about research and scholarship opportunities available
• Network with professional LGBTQIA+ people
• Socialize with faculty-affiliates of the Gender and Womens Studies department
• Interact with faculty in the residence halls
• Peer tutoring and study groups

Prerequisite for the community:

• None

Recommended courses (though not required):

• BLST/GWS 262, EPSY 242 encouraged

Staff or faculty leads for Spectrum:

• Dr. Mario LaMothe lamothem@uic.edu
• Dr. Nic Weststrate nicwest@uic.edu