The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Each year, prior to engaging in volunteer activities at Lab that involve interacting with students or take place on campus during school hours, parents, guardians, caregivers, alumni, and other volunteers must be screened against the national sex offender registries using Raptor. Lab also requires volunteers in Lab’s programs or activities to complete annual training regarding mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect and on Lab’s Policy on the Safety of Students in Laboratory Schools Programs. Volunteers are required to complete annual training because Illinois law requires certain individuals, called mandated reporters, to immediately report suspected child abuse or neglect to the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services (IDCFS) Child Abuse Hotline at 1.800.25.ABUSE. Under the law, all "personnel of institutions of higher education" are mandated reporters and must immediately report any instance where there is reasonable cause to believe that a child known to them in their official capacity may be abused or neglected. This means that all University faculty, other academic appointees, postdoctoral researchers, staff, student employees, and volunteers, regardless of rank or compensation status, are mandated reporters. To complete the annual training, click here. 

Share your career experience, advice and industry insights with other Labbies and current students. Interested in becoming a virtual Maroon Mentor? Let us know. 

The Executive Board works with the Lab Office of Alumni Relations and Development to engage, connect and strengthen Lab’s 10,000 member alumni community with a robust engagement programs, including class reunions, volunteer initiatives, local and regional networking events and alumni awards to create affinity, loyalty and support for Lab. The Board meets twice a year and includes several committees. For more information about joining the board, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations.

Launched in San Francisco in 2019,  Lab Career Treks give U-High students a unique opportunity for career exploration and to visit industry-specific employers focusing on technology and STEM entrepreneurship, life sciences, publishing, finance, entertainment and politics in New York City, Boston, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles.  Interested in being a career trek sponsor and alumni host to U-High students at your company? Let us know.

Return to campus for Lab’s annual reunion festivities in May. Reconnect with classmates and the Lab Schools community, celebrate milestone class reunion dinners and enjoy special programs and events.  More information about Lab Alumni Weekend can be found here.

All alumni can nominate someone for Lab’s Distinguished Alumni, Rising Star Professional Achievement, or Alumni Service awards, or propose a classmate to be profiled in LabLife magazine. Nominations for 2020 will open in fall, 2019. Awards are presented during Alumni Weekend in June. 

We created Lab’s Alumni Authors Collection to celebrate the work of our alumni—fiction, non-fiction, and scholarly writings. More than 100 of you sent in books for the collection and we now have a wonderful display in the U-High Lobby. 

If you are an author, please send us your book (or books!). 
Alumni Authors Collection
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
1362 E 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Travel back to campus, show your Maroon pride, and celebrate fellow Labbies at the annual Lab Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony.