About the Event
Join us for an engaging info session to explore the inaugural Graham Summer School program. During this session, you’ll learn how you can take a deep dive into the theme of Civic Virtue this summer through a week that blends seminars and special programming on UChicago’s Hyde Park campus with carefully curated excursions across Chicago. This program offers a unique opportunity to build intellectual community with your Graham School peers.
What to Expect:
- Hear directly from the program’s intellectual lead, Dr. Fred Beuttler, as he shares the vision behind this inaugural theme and the week of inquiry it will inspire.
- Explore how Graham Summer School will be structured: from small, discussion-based morning seminars to curated afternoon and evening programming that brings ideas into conversation with Chicago’s cultural landscape.
- Receive answers to your questions about lodging, eligibility, program fees, and the on-campus experience so you can plan your week with confidence.
- Learn how to begin your application and take the first step toward joining a select cohort of Graham learners committed to shared inquiry, meaningful dialogue, and community.
Who's Speaking
Seth Green
Seth Green is the dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Chicago. Before joining Graham, Green served as Founding Director of the Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility at Loyola University Chicago. During his tenure, the Center launched a top-ranked specialty...
Seth Green is the dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Chicago.
Before joining Graham, Green served as Founding Director of the Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility at Loyola University Chicago. During his tenure, the Center launched a top-ranked specialty MBA program, a globally significant award for social innovation in business, and an array of educational programs that annually engage more than 4,000 learners. Green also served as an Executive Lecturer in Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business, teaching classes on social entrepreneurship and receiving recognition as the Mission-Driven Faculty Member of the Year in 2021.
Prior to Loyola, Green led Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), a nonprofit organization that prepares low-income youth for post-secondary and life success. At Y.O.U., Green oversaw the fourfold expansion of programs and a $16.4 million fundraising campaign to build a state-of-the-art youth center. He also spearheaded two strategic planning processes, resulting in an enhanced program model and deepened impact. Alongside Y.O.U., Green taught courses on nonprofit management as an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University.
Earlier in his career, Green worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, guiding private sector clients through strategy development and change management. A recipient of McKinsey’s Community Fellowship, he spent one year of his time at the firm supporting nonprofit clients, including the Gates Foundation and United Way.
Green speaks and writes on social innovation. His commentaries and research have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Fortune Magazine, the Journal of Business Research, and the Social Innovations Journal, and he previously served on the Editorial Review Board of the Business and Society Review. Green has been a featured guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, MSNBC, and CNN, and his efforts have been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2008, Utne Reader named him one of 50 “Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”
Green is civically engaged in Chicago, having served on the Campaign Cabinet of the United Way of Metro Chicago, the Impact Investing Advisory Council of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, the Advisory Board of Concordia Place, the Membership and Engagement Committees of the Economic Club of Chicago, and the Advisory Board of the Executives’ Club of Chicago.
A Marshall Scholar, Green holds a J.D. from Yale University, master’s degrees from Oxford University and the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.
Fred Beuttler
Fred W. Beuttler received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and then went on to become the Deputy Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives and, later, an Associate Dean at the University of Chicago.
Fred W. Beuttler received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and then went on to become the Deputy Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives and, later, an Associate Dean at the University of Chicago.