Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Every year, prior to the University of Chicago’s Spring Convocation, the Crown Family School bestows a hood to each graduating student. The hoods represent a recognition of the completion of graduate education at Crown. The school honors graduates as champions of social justice in their commitment to advance a more just and humane society.

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