Beyond the Classroom

Harris School students put their critical thinking skills to work in the real world through a variety of programs and opportunities the School offers. Learn more.

"It is one thing to see poverty in lines and numbers, and quite another to see how people live, in small houses with no floors. I attended the Harris School to suck up every piece of information that I could, so I could bring it back home and change the way people live in my country."
-- Julio Franco, MPP'01, Deputy Minister for Social Development, Puebla, Mexico

"While I was at the Harris School, I worked as an intern with the city. Sometimes I would sit in the classroom and ask myself 'why am I learning these statistical models?' But I soon found out that understanding the mechanics made me better equipped to ask questions about the statistics that are now around me all the time."
-- Marie Trzupek Lynch, MPP'96, Executive Vice President of Children's Services, Strategic Planning and New Ventures, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago