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  COD, faculty reach tentative contract deal May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Negotiating teams for the College of DuPage and the school's faculty association have reached a tentative contract agreement — just days before a contract imposed by COD's board of trustees was set to take effect. The deal was struck just after midnight Saturday — the result of bargaining sessions on Thursday and Friday that lasted a combined 25 hours, said Faculty Association President Glenn Hansen.
  

   

• DuPage County Board members freezetheir pay May 22, 2012 12:00 AM
  DuPage County Board members and four countywide elected officials won't get a pay raise for at least another four years. Board members agreed Tuesday night to keep their salaries unchanged through the end of November 2016. Nearly all of them make $50,079 annually. If he wins re-election, board member Grant Eckhoff will continuing earning $48,620 a year for the job.
  

   

• College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn back in court May 21, 2012 12:00 AM
  A DuPage County judge is expected to weigh in next week on the latest legal flap between Glen Ellyn and the College of DuPage. Judge Hollis Webster on Monday said she will explore on Wednesday, May 30, the college's claim that the village violated a long-sought agreement with its "overzealous" opposition to COD expansion plans.
  

   
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  College of DuPage's revised expansion plan meets oppositionMay 21, 2012 12:00 AM
  College of DuPage's decision to scale back a planned expansion of its Glen Ellyn campus hasn't silenced all of the proposal's critics. A large group of neighbors are continuing to raise concerns about increased traffic, possible flooding, and falling property values in connection with the plan for future structures and improvements at COD's 273-acre campus.
  

   

• The Soapbox May 19, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Daily Herald editorial board reflects on speeders who ignore construction zones, courts that enable serial speeders, the resumption of legal hostilities between College of DuPage and Glen Ellyn and more.
  

   
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  Community colleges offer array of classes for young students May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  Local community colleges offer an array of camps and classes to elementary aged students over the summer. Children can learn to cook, figure out how to work with Legos or explore NASA space science.
  

   
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  COD, Glen Ellyn dispute heading back to court May 17, 2012 12:00 AM
  Just when you thought it was all over, the soap opera between the College of DuPage and village of Glen Ellyn continues. The college is going back to court Monday to argue that the village isn't abiding by the spirit — if not the letter — of a mediation agreement that transferred jurisdictional control of the 273-acre campus from the village to DuPage County. In the court motion, COD's attorneys called village officials "overzealous advocates" of the college's campus expansion plans, pointing to their testimony at recent county zoning meetings and an objection letter they sent to the county's economic development and planning department.
  

   
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  College of DuPage scales back expansion plan May 15, 2012 12:00 AM
  College of DuPage officials have agreed to remove several controversial components of a planned development proposal for its Glen Ellyn campus, county officials announced Tuesday. The move comes after the village of Glen Ellyn and surrounding homeowners associations voiced a range of concerns about the plan for future structures and improvements at the 273-acre campus.
  

   
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  Medical corpsman still trying to heal Vietnam warriors' scars May 15, 2012 12:00 AM
  Virtually blind in one eye and barely topping 100 pounds, suburban teenager Bob Adams never thought he'd be shipped off to combat in Vietnam with the unenviable task of trying to save the lives of wounded warriors. Forty-five years later, the 64-year-old Adams, a playwright and a counselor, is still doing the same job, only this time from his cramped office in the Midwest Shelter For Homeless Veterans that he founded in Wheaton.
  

   
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  Glen Ellyn park grows with trees honoring leaders May 12, 2012 12:00 AM
  Six former Glen Ellyn village president joined the towns current leader Saturday for a tree dedication ceremony that comes around only once a decade. At the villages Arbor Day celebration, current Village President Mark Pfefferman dedicated a newly planted red oak to the service of village presidents before him. The village of Glen Ellyn takes pride in its urban forest, Public Works Director Julius Hansen said.
  

   
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  COD faculty expected to reject contract May 11, 2012 12:00 AM
  College of DuPages faculty members voted Friday on a contract that the schools board of trustees imposed on them the night before. While the results wont be known for at least 10 days because of absentee voting, the union representing the 295 full-time employees is predicting the pact will be rejected by its membership.
  

   
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  Neighbors question COD’s plans for campusMay 11, 2012 12:00 AM
  College of DuPage is seeking the countys approval of a planned development application for its 273-acre campus in Glen Ellyn. But neighbors and village officials are raising concerns about several aspects of the proposal.
  

   
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  COD board votes to impose contract on facultyMay 10, 2012 12:00 AM
  The college's board of trustees voted 4-3 to impose a contract on the schools 295 full-time faculty members even though the union membership didn't approve the deal. The three-year agreement would cut summer pay and require professors who teach lab classes to spend more time in the classroom
  

   

• COD contract talks may be coming to headMay 9, 2012 12:00 AM
  After 14 months of negotiations, College of DuPage trustees may vote Thursday to impose a contract on the colleges 295 full-time faculty members even if the instructors don't want it. Indications are administrators may be planning to impose the contract effective May 28, although neither side officially has declared an impasse in the negotiations.
  

   

• Bloomingdale homes school boundary swap denied May 1, 2012 12:00 AM
  Two subdivisions of 25 homes in Bloomingdale will remain within the school district boundaries of Glenbard High School District 87 and Marquardt Elementary District 15, even though residents there sought to detach their properties and annex into two other nearby school districts.
  

   

• Attended rally to support COD faculty Apr 27, 2012 12:00 AM
  The article in the April 20 Daily Herald made reference to comments made by me at a rally of the faculty on Thursday. The reporter claimed that my comments identified Kim Savage, Nancy Svoboda and Dianne McGuire. That was his interpretation and not what was said.
  

   
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  COD dinner widens rift between faculty, administrators Apr 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  College of DuPage Faculty Association officials say a dinner they sponsored this week was meant as a relationship-building event between the faculty and administration a time for both sides to break bread despite being locked in contentious negotiations over a new contract. Instead, they say, the event at CODs Wheat Cafe widened the rift when not a single administrator attended and only three of seven elected trustees the ones previously endorsed by the faculty union showed up.
  

   

• Carlin remarks cast a chill on COD Apr 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  College of DuPage Board Chairman David Carlin changed the tone of negotiations and cast a chill on the working relationships at the college. In open session, he accused the faculty of coercing students to support the faculty during negotiations. He accused us of threatening their grades if the students did not turn out to support us or write letters of support to the trustees.
  

   
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  Schaumburg Boomers to debut in charity game Apr 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Though Opening Night isn't until May 25, new fans can get their first sample of Schaumburg Boomers baseball in a charity game to support the Les Turner ALS Foundation at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 4 at Boomers Stadium. The newly arrived Boomers players will take on the ALS Chicago North Men's Senior Baseball League Strikers in a game whose $10 tickets will go entirely to the ALS Foundation.
  

   

• Faculty knows better at COD Apr 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  What COD sells is a quality education, one that some students use to stand out in their chosen field, or that prepares them for the next half of a four-year degree. It is not the president that they sell, with his $400,000-plus salary, large dollar arboretums he created, underused high-end restaurant or buildings that pop up like zits on a teenager. COD sells a quality education from quality faculty.