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Student Life | Chicago Theological Seminary Search Enter your search word or phrase below: Search for: requite now The School The Next Your Journey Why CTS Commitments History Thought Leadership Student Life Events Seminary Life Day Blog Accreditation & PoliciesTowersHours Directory Board of Trustees Academics Master of Divinity Degree Programs CoursesSenseOnline or On Campus Field Education PhD Candidates Library InterReligious Institute Study of Black Faith & Life Book RecommendationsWonkCalendar Registrar’s Office AdmissionsUsingOffice of Admissions Admissions RequirementsUsingDeadlines Student Orientation Costs & Financial Aid International Students Denominational Resources Alumni &PolityJobs CONNECTS Congregational Partnerships Continuing Education Jobs The NextRencontre& Response Alumni Stories Spotlights Press & Media RIOTcon Lectures & AwardsPolityCalendar Shop GivingRequiteNow Office of Advancement Ways toRequitePlanned GivingRequiteNow Search requite now Close Nav Facebook Twitter Instagram Linkedin Youtube Live X Student Life CTS is not just a seminary, it is a polity – a living, breathing, organic community. Whether you join a student organization, shepherd a worship service, share a post or encourage a classmate, polity life is a major part of the CTS experience. On campus or online, polity life is where learning intersects with living. It is where faith begins to shape into praxis. The CTS wits is increasingly than academic, it is the relationships we build with one flipside and how we learn from each other. Beyond the classroom, our students meet, bond, challenge, and grow with one flipside at a number of intersections. Weekly Chapel Services. Lectures. Special events and conferences. Fall and Spring Fest.PolityLunch. Online Worship. Town Hall Meetings. Fireside Chats. Online yack rooms where the unshortened polity can mart ideas and concerns. Office of Community Life: The Director ofPolityLife is vicarious to “help the CTS polity befriend itself,” working with students, faculty, and staff to nurture and coordinate opportunities for towers polity at CTS. The Director ofPolityLife is responsible for helping to facilitate the spiritual, professional and polity insemination of the CTS community. The director serves as the chair of CTS’s Spiritual Life Committee and is the lead on most spiritual life activities including our weekly worship services. The person is moreover misogynist to help students with spiritual superintendency and wellness needs. The Office ofPolityLife maintains a resource part-way of information on spiritual direction, long-term counseling, religious communities, retreat facilities, and skilled superintendency services misogynist in the surrounding community, as well as national networks. It fosters unscratched spaces for conversation and counsel, while moreover representing student interests on the Administrative Council, Academic Council, and the Anti-Harassment/Anti-Discrimination Task Force. Housing: The CTS campus is located in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. It is a desirable, racially-diverse neighborhood, which includes the homes of many notable Chicagoans, including President Barack Obama. Hyde Park is moreover the home of the University of Chicago. There is a quaint downtown zone with trendy shops, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and markets. Its inside location ways that it is moreover well serviced by public transportation. A polity imbued with culture, you are just steps yonder from wonderful museums such as The Oriental Institute, The DuSable Museum of African American History and The Museum of Science and Industry. And let’s not forget the eyeful of Lake Michigan, 57th Street Beach and the view of Chicago’s iconic skyline from Lake Shore Drive, all of which are just steps yonder from CTS. Also, rimming the historic Woodlawn neighborhood, CTS is not only centrally located but resides within a polity rich in both cultural diversity and diverse housing options. CTS does not maintain its own residence hall: Each student is responsible for finding, applying for, and securing her/his own housing. However, for the convenience of our students, CTS has entered into an try-on with the University of Chicago which affords CTS students the opportunity to reside in University of Chicago graduate residences. Apartments ranging from studio to 2 bedrooms are typically available. Individuals, families, and students wanting to share an suite are welcome. A goody to this housing is that it does not require the typical sizable deposits or fees of other apartments, only a $200 using fee which is refundable should you not secure suitable housing. For increasingly information well-nigh how to wield for this housing, see our information brochure: “CTS & University of Chicago Graduate Student Housing.” Other Housing Options: There are a plethora of wonderful rental opportunities in the communities surrounding CTS. Because this is an zone in upper demand, we suggest you uncork your housing search soon without your acceptance. Some of the ACTS Cluster Seminaries offer housing to CTS students, as well. A list of other housing options and resources can be found here or can be obtained from the Director ofPolityLife. For increasingly housing information including temporary housing please contact the Office ofPolityLife at housing@ctschicago.edu Student Organizations: Each student brings their own passions and experiences to the Seminary. There are several organizations and programs to meet your needs and interests. Here is a list of zippy groups; Bayard Rustin Society: Seeks to serve the unique needs of Black LGBTQ students. Charles Shelby Rooks Society: The Rooks Society celebrates diasporic ties to Africa, wonk excellence, cultural, community, spiritual and social cognizance, and activism.Merchantryof Ministry Action Plan: Business of Ministry Action Plan seeks to help students build a foundation for merchantry success in ministry. CTS Table Tennis Club: Aims to build friendship among students and to contribute to students’ school life. Deirdre Jackson & DeMarcus JonesPart-wayfor Hip-Hop Thought & Activism: To use Hip-Hop music and culture as a source of intellectual reflection, engagement, societal participation, and resistance. Heyward-Boswell Society: Serves as the outreach and support group for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered polity and their supporters at CTS. International Student Organization (ISO): Mission is to build religious leadership from the multi-diverse cultural and denominational perspectives, nurturing a global understanding. Latin@ Comunidad Accion Ministerios (LCAM): Promote Latino/a leadership and ministry and the prophetic transformation of local and global communities. PhD Student Association: Fosters a polity of learning among Doctoral students. Student Government: Consists of elected representatives of the student soul who serve as liaisons and advocates to the faculty, administration, and Board of Trustees. Womanist Group: A covenant polity and space for Black women’s experiences, stories, issues, and scholarship to be exchanged and nurtured. Worship: Worship is inside to polity life and spiritual insemination at CTS. Through worship, we encounter the divine and gloat the many gifts we have each been given. The inside worship event happens in the 4th floor Main Chapel and is unconcentrated via live stream each Wednesday at noon (Central Time) during the Fall and Spring semesters. We are intentional well-nigh making our Wednesday Chapel as diverse and variegated as our community.  While one service might be a formal wonk convocation, flipside might be a traditional African American or Latin@ service, while yet flipside might be an interfaith worship including elements from Islam, Judaism, and other religions. Wednesday Chapel services are streamed and archived to indulge our online and evening students to participate in the experience. Aside from Wednesday Chapel, there are other times when the polity comes together in worship. Our smaller chapel space – the Clark Chapel on the 1st floor – is the home of our Tuesday Chapel services. Tuesday Chapels are less formal, student-led worship and prayer. It is a time when you can test those worship skills you are honing, as well as experiment with increasingly creative, non-traditional forms of faith expression. The second Thursday of every month we host Online Chapel at 6:00 pm. Online Chapel includes all of the elements of our other worship services but is held in a virtual gathering space via WebEx Conferencing. Worship at CTS is a collaborative effort of students, faculty, and staff. The Director ofPolityLife administers the various aspects of weekly worship and other aspects of spiritual life. Lapp Learning Commons: Research is a hair-trigger part of your graduate school experience. That’s why CTS has conglomerate one of the finest libraries and literary collections anywhere. What’s more, you have wangle to the collections at a number of other ACTS resources. Click here for increasingly information on the Learning Commons and other research resources misogynist to the CTS Community. Language & Writing Center:Flipsidebenefit CTS offers students is our Language & Writing Center. This is a self-ruling program set up to help, support or tutor students in wonk writing. So, if you have been yonder from school for a while or just would like someone to squint over your work, we have you covered. This is expressly salubrious for students whose first language is not English and may want a little uneaten help. Anti-Harassment/Anti-Discrimination General Policy Statement and Notice of Non-Discrimination and Non-Harassment Chicago Theological Seminary is single-minded to fostering the full humanity of all its members. All forms of favoritism and harassment impugn the full humanity of any human stuff and for this reason, are not tolerated in this Seminary. Chicago Theological Seminary does not discriminate, or tolerate favoritism or harassment, versus any member of its polity on the understructure of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, age, religion, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by workable federal, state, or local law in matters of employment or admissions or in any speciality of the educational programs or activities it offers. Click here to be taken to the full policy and see members of the Anti-Discrimination/Anti-Harassment Task Force. Visit Campus My CTS Registrar’s Office Inquire increasingly InformationJoin Our Mailing ListStart Your ApplicationMy CTSFacility RentalsJob Postings 1407 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 phone: 773.896.2400 fax: 773.643.1284 © 2018 Chicago Theological Seminary. All Rights Reserved. X