Becoming a member by signing up for the newsletter

Grow your village. Subscribe to the UChicago Parent newsletters and that makes you a member of this group. Whether you’re looking to connect to fellow parents, learn some new skills, or advocate for a change in the workplace, you’ll find a community of like-minded parents, lots of free events, and resources to help you raise your family. Sign up here. 

Slack with fellow parents!

Connect with other parents at the UChicago Parents Slack workspace and join one or more of the following channels:
#parentland, a place for parents to commiserate over being … parents
#motherboard, a supportive space to share with and learn from other moms
#dad-jokes, for classic one-line zingers and dad-to-dad support
#its-all-our-fault, for parents of tweens and teens
#special-needs-parents, for parents of kids with special needs
#happy-place, for reliably smile-inducing memes and re-tweets
#pregnancy-support, for expecting and current moms
#backtoschool2021, for parents that have students in school this fall

The workspace is open to all at UChicago. Join here and create an account with your CNet ID. After registering, you’ll receive a welcome message in Slack with more information about the platform and some general user guidelines.

Volunteer to help run UChicago Parents 

Are you interested in improving the quality of parent or guardian’s working experience? UChicago Parents may be for you! We are recruiting UChicago or UChicago Medical faculty, staff, or students.

Responsibilities for leadership is to attend a monthly meeting for 30 minutes and commitment to one of the following roles:

*Email campaign manager; write and deploy 1-2 emails monthly
*Event planner; plan and execute educational programming calendar
*Operations; managing relationship with Central HR, overseeing budget and
membership reports, managing UChicagoparents@uchicago.edu inbox, etc.
*Website management; update website as needed

We invite you to fill out this form to start your adventure.