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  • Early childhood resource center opening at Oakton Apr 15, 2013 12:00 AM
    Oakton Community College will open an Early Childhood Resource Center Library at its Des Plaines campus, 1600 E. Golf Road, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 17.

     

  • New local Holocaust film premiers at Oakton Apr 12, 2013 12:00 AM
    "Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home," a one-hour documentary by Ethan Bensiger, premiers 11 a.m. Tuesday at Oakton Community College's Skokie campus.

     

  • Film premiere features Chicago area Holocaust survivors Apr 11, 2013 12:00 AM
    In the late 1930s, a group of young German Jews avoided Nazi persecution by immigrating to Chicago, where they created a supportive community. Eventually, they established a Jewish retirement home on the city’s north side, where many of the area’s last Holocaust survivors live today. Delve into their stories during a free screening and panel discussion open to the public, starting at 11 a.m., Tuesday, April 16, at Oakton Community College, Skokie.

     

  • Two incumbents in lead for Oakton board Apr 10, 2013 12:00 AM
    With 333 of 341 precincts counted, unofficial vote totals showed incumbents Ann Tennes and Joan DiLeonardi won re-election to the Oakton Community College board Tuesday, receiving 22,475 and 20,889 votes, respectively.

     
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    Oakton College hopefuls talk health care, retraining Mar 28, 2013 12:00 AM
    Cutting teaching hours for part-time faculty, absorbing the cost of employee pensions, retraining today's workforce for an evolving job market, and improving graduation rates are among the top concerns for five candidates running for three, six-year term seats on the Oakton Community College board. The candidates are incumbents Joan DiLeonardi, Ann Tennes, and Eric Staley, and newcomers Kyle Frank and Neil Meccia.

     
  • Northbrook native Kevin Coval reads from his new book, “Shtick,” 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, as part of the Chicago Writers Series at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines. Readings are free and open to the public.

    Coval returns to Oakton for hip-hop reading Mar 25, 2013 12:00 AM
    6.78- with one photo Northbrook native Kevin Coval will read selections from his latest book of poems at 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, as part of the Chicago Writers Series at Oakton Community College, 1600 E.Golf Road, Des Plaines. Readings are free and open to the public.

     
  • Poet Kevin Coval is appearing at Oakton Community College.

    Northbrook native returns to Oakton for hip-hop reading Mar 24, 2013 12:00 AM
    Northbrook native Kevin Coval, co-founder of Louder Than a Bomb, will read selections from his latest book of poems at 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, as part of the Chicago Writers Series at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines. Readings are free and open to the public.

     
  • Northbrook native Kevin Coval reads from his new book, “Shtick,” 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, as part of the Chicago Writers Series at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines. Readings are free and open to the public.

    Coval returns to Oakton for hip-hop reading Mar 22, 2013 12:00 AM
    6.78- with one photo-page 3 Northbrook native Kevin Coval will read selections from his latest book of poems at 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, as part of the Chicago Writers Series at Oakton Community College, 1600 E.Golf Road, Des Plaines. Readings are free and open to the public.

     

  • Endorsements: DiLeonardi, Tennes, Meccia for OCC board Mar 13, 2013 12:00 AM
    The Daily Herald endoses Joan DiLeonardi, Ann Tennes and Neil Meccia for Oakton Community College Board of Education.

     
  • Protesters upset with cuts to part-time faculty teaching hours gather outside the Illinois Council of Community College Presidents meeting on Friday at the Westin Hotel in Lombard.

    Adjunct faculty protest community college cutbacks Mar 8, 2013 12:00 AM
    Concerned that community colleges are cutting the teaching hours of part-time faculty to avoid providing them health care under the Affordable Care Act, educators are imploring presidents to reconsider. "If you don't have contingent labor, you don't have community colleges," Roosevelt University faculty member Beverly Stewart said afterward.

     
  • Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, keynote speaker for Oakton’s “Futuristic Feminism: Visionary Perspectives Across the Disciplines” conference being held March 22, in Des Plaines.

    Explore the Future of Feminism at Oakton Conference Mar 7, 2013 12:00 AM
    Examine feminism through diverse lenses from women involved in academics, science, literature, activism, and art at the one-day conference Futuristic Feminism: Visionary Perspectives Across the Disciplines, 8:30 a.m.5 p.m., Friday, March 22, at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines.

     
  • Award-winning spoken word poet and activist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai

    Oakton conference explores the future of feminism Mar 6, 2013 12:00 AM
    Examine feminism through diverse lenses from women involved in academics, science, literature, activism, and art at the one-day conference Futuristic Feminism: Visionary Perspectives Across the Disciplines, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday, March 22, at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines.

     
  • Roycealee Wood, Lake County regional superintendent of schools, voices her concern about the new GED: “I would say I’m very concerned. Going to all computers — boom — like that would be even a bigger problem than the cost. The computer part really bothers me.”

    Some fear new, high-tech GED a problem for low-income test takers Mar 4, 2013 12:00 AM
    Suburban education officials are worried looming federal changes to GED testing will leave those less fortunate with one less path to joining the workforce. The test will become computerized in 2014, and the price to take the exam will more than double. Plus, you need a credit card and an email address. "It’s going to be people with the least resources who are going to be left out," Josh Boies of Kane County says.

     

  • Harper approves $2 per credit hour tuition increaseFeb 28, 2013 12:00 AM
    Consistent with a regional trend among community colleges, Harper College will ask its students to dig a little deeper into their pockets for the cost of a high education. The board of trustees last week unanimously approved increasing tuition by $2 per credit hour beginning in the summer 2013 term. For a full-time student taking 30 credit hours annually, that’s an additional $60 for a total of $3,735.

     
  • The Nature Project emphasizes “going green” and will feature many different art forms, including ceramics. The exhibit opens Friday, March 8, at the Brickton Art Center, 306 Busse Highway, Park Ridge.

    Oakton’s Nature Project shines at Brickton Art Center Feb 28, 2013 12:00 AM
    Art students and faculty from Oakton Community College will showcase their ecologically themed works at The Nature Project, which opens Friday, March 8, at the Brickton Art Center, 306 Busse Highway, Park Ridge. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

     

  • Oakton lecture spotlights African Jews during Black History Month Feb 26, 2013 12:00 AM
    What it means to be an African Jew is the topic of a free event 11 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 28, at Oakton Community College’s Skokie campus, 7701 N. Lincoln Ave. (Room P103). Though fewer than 2 percent of the world’s nearly 14 million Jews live in Africa, some Jewish communities there are among the oldest in the world, originating more than 2,700 years ago.

     

  • Eric Staley: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
    Candidate information for Eric Staley, running for Oakton Community College School Board (6-year Term)

     
  • Ann Tennes, running for Oakton Community College School Board (6-year Term)

    Ann Tennes: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
    Candidate information for Ann Tennes, running for Oakton Community College School Board (6-year Term)

     
  • Joan DiLeonardi, running for Oakton Community College School Board (6-year Term)

    Joan DiLeonardi: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
    Candidate information for Joan DiLeonardi, running for Oakton Community College School Board (6-year Term)

     
  • Theresa Bashiri-Remetio, running for Oakton Community College School Board (2-year Term)

    Theresa Bashiri-Remetio: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
    Candidate information for Theresa Bashiri-Remetio, running for Oakton Community College School Board (2-year Term)

     
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