Articles filed under Harper College

• BMO’s Ablin to highlight Economic Forecast Breakfast Feb 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  Harper College this month will offer a free public economics lesson aimed at deciphering the economy and the financial market for 2013.
  

   

• Harper’s partnership with high schools netting positive results Feb 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  In fall 2010, Harper College and its feeder high school districts formed an unprecedented partnership to shrink student success gaps and better prepare students for career and college readiness. More than halfway through the four-year pilot program, leaders believe they're onto something. "We think we have a model worth emulating," Harper President Ken Ender said of the Northwest Educational Council for Student Success.
  

   

• Harper Foundation to host economic update breakfast Feb 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Harper Professional Advisors Committee of the Harper College Educational Foundation will put on an economic update and outlook breakfast from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 at the Wojcik Conference Center at Harper College, 1200 W. Algonquin Road, Palatine.
  

   

• Longtime Harper professor releases eighth book Feb 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  Greg Herriges first began writing his latest novel, about a family coping with their 9-year old daughter’s battle with leukemia, more than a decade ago. Six months into his research, the Harper College English professor’s own family began living the plot. Herriges’ nephew was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic childhood leukemia - the same potentially devastating disease affecting the book’s main character - and Herriges put his writing on hold, using his research to simply better understand the illness and answer his family’s questions.
  

   
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  Popular Harper College teacher shared his passion for art Feb 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  A popular art teacher at Harper College, who helped build up its printmaking studio and left a lasting impression on his students, has died. William Wimmer spent nearly 40 years sharing his passion for art, and more specifically for printmaking, with students of all ages.
  

   

• Harper men handle Rock Valley Feb 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  Playing its third game in a seven-day span, the Harper College men's basktball team held on for a 83-64 win over conference foe Rock Valley College on Wednesday night at the Sports and Wellness Center in Palatine.
  

   

• Cupcakes, Cookies & Coffee for College Feb 5, 2013 12:00 AM
  Letter to the editor: Mike Baker of the Schaumburg Autism Society invites residents to Cupcakes, Cookies and Coffee for College — a March 30 event to raise money for Harper College Education Foundation scholarships, benefiting adult students with autism and other developmental disabilities, and other organizations.
  

   
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  Harper, Governors State sign Dual Degree agreement Feb 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  Harper College officially inked an agreement with Governors State University to create a Dual Degree Program that guarantees admission to Harper students who enroll in the program and complete their associate degree.
  

   

• Harper welcomes back Stiernberg Trio Feb 2, 2013 12:00 AM
  9.10- Renowned Chicago mandolinist Don Stiernberg is bringing his trio to Harper College for an encore appearance filled with a blend of classics and improvisations on jazz, pop, Latin and bluegrass tunes. The concert is the latest in the College’s “Encores” series, intended to resurrect some of the most popular shows staged through Harper’s Community Music Center.
  

   
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  Prospect grad creates 'Zero Dark Thirty' sound effects Jan 29, 2013 12:00 AM
  Prospect High graduate Alex Ullrich works as a Foley artist in Hollywood. He's the guy who supplies the sounds you hear in movies, cartoons and TV shows. Every sound he adds is in postproduction. "You start with a scene that's completely blank, sound-wise. By the time we're done with it, it's completely alive!" he said.
  

   

• Harper claims second-place invitational finish Jan 26, 2013 12:00 AM
  Eight of the nation's best non-scholarship community college wrestling programs, including No. 8-ranked Ridgewater College and No. 9 Nassau Community College, converged on the Sports and Wellness Center at Harper College on Saturday for the NJCAA non-scholarship Invite. The occasion marked the first time Harper has hosted the event. The Hawks entered Saturday hoping to prove this year's team could compete with the nation's elite. "Our goals were to come in here and win this thing," said Harper coach Dan Loprieno. And the Hawks came close, but ultimately left the day with as many questions as answers. Rochester Community College took the top spot (128 points). The Hawks were second, 6 points behind.
  

   

• Milwaukee edges Harper men, women Jan 23, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Harper College men's and women's basketball teams both dropped close games to Milwaukee on Wednesday in North Central Community College Conference play Wednesday in Palatine.
  

   
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  Rolling Meadows appoints new fire chief Jan 22, 2013 12:00 AM
  After eight months as acting Rolling Meadows fire chief, Scott Franzgrote has been named to the position permanently. Franzgrote, who has been with the department since 1990, has served as acting chief since the retirement of former chief Ronald Stewart.
  

   
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  Images: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan 21, 2013 12:00 AM
  Martin Luther King Jr. Day was celebrated across the nation and in the suburbs on Monday, Jan. 21. Marches, speeches, children's programs and community service projects were part of the celebration.
  

   

• Harper, Governors State ink dual degree deal Jan 18, 2013 12:00 AM
  Harper College in Palatine signed an agreement Friday with Governors State University for a four-year dual degree program that guarantees admission to the university for Harper students who enroll in the program and complete their associate degree.
  

   
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  Two-sport standout Hinderer grabs the spotlight at Harper Jan 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  While most of her high school peers were playing basketball under the bright lights in conferences like the Mid-Suburban League, DuPage Valley and Upstate Eight, current Harper College freshman center Monica Hinderer was playing at lower-profile Willows Academy in Des Plaines. That made it difficult for four-year schools to get a glimpse of the 6-foot-1 center. According to her father Doug, Monica never had interest from four-year schools in high school. That’s starting to change now, as a result of Hinderer’s recent basketball performances at Harper. She tied her career-high with 33 points in a victory over Wright College on Tuesday and leads the Hawks in scoring, rebounds, field goal percentage, steals and blocks. Earlier this school year, Hinderer helped the womens' soccer to a Region IV title.
  

   

• Harper works OT for win against Wright Jan 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  What many hoped would be an easy Harper College men’s basketball victory turned out to be anything but. Still, the Hawks collected their first North Central Community College Conference victory of the season at the Sports and Wellness Center in Palatine — the hard way, defeating Wright College 75-72 in overtime Wednesday.
  

   

• Harper teacher’s butterfly trick goes global Jan 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Artistic Inventions class at Harper College will begin a new session this spring, floating on the wings of its most recent success -- the Butterfly in a Box magic trick that is the brainchild of teacher and magician Mark Presely Hawkins. "Butterflies are very mysterious insects, and I think the appeal is in seeing something so intrinsic to nature, and uncommon in magic, controlled by a performer," says Presley Hawkins.
  

   

• Lorenz’s shooting touch helps Harper past Daley College Jan 3, 2013 12:00 AM
  The first men's basketball game of the second semester at the junior college level can be full of surprises, as roster stability frequently becomes a challenge. That was the case Thursday night at the Sports and Wellness Center in Palatine as freshman guard Tyler Gaedale (Rolling Meadows) and Kyoshiro Azumaya (Hoffman Estates) weren't in the lineup for different reasons. Harper coach Anthony Amarino inserted one of his veterans into the starting five in John Lorenz (Elk Grove). Always a threat from behind the 3-point line, Lorenz made three of them and finished with 15 points to help Harper earn a 60-53 victory over Richard J. Daley College in nonconference play.
  

   

• Harper’s new manufacturing program wins award Dec 21, 2012 12:00 AM
  Harper College's new Advanced Manufacturing program has been named Exemplary Initiatives winner for Community and Workforce Needs by the University of Nebraska-based National Council of Instructional Administrators.