Elgin Community College School Board
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Flexible programs, technical training help suburban colleges recover from pandemic slump
Sep 20, 2021 1:56 PM - Suburban community colleges are trying a variety of approaches to recover from an 18-month COVID-19 slump. Student enrollment is up among select demographic groups and programs, though overall most of the colleges are not back to pre-pandemic levels. -
Latinx Heritage Month kicks off Friday at ECC
Sep 13, 2021 1:53 PM - Elgin Community College's Latinx Heritage Month will include in-person, outdoor celebrations this year, with events built around the 2021 theme "Somos La Fuerza y Esperanza: Together We Rise." -
Suburban Mosaic: MLK dinner will be musical affair in Schaumburg
Sep 12, 2021 8:33 PM - After a yearlong hiatus due to the pandemic, the Illinois Commission on Diversity and Human Relations' 52nd Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Remembrance Dinner and Concert will be held 7 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Renaissance Hotel in Schaumburg.
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What suburban colleges are doing to motivate students to get vaccines
Aug 16, 2021 6:21 AM - Most community colleges in the Chicago area are encouraging -- not requiring -- vaccinations, despite guidelines from the Illinois Board of Higher Education urging schools to make COVID-19 shots mandatory. Students at College of DuPage, however, must be vaccinated before in-person or hybrid classes begin next spring. -
ECC students help food-insecure classmates with garden plot
Jul 19, 2021 5:43 PM - Elgin Community College students got a visit from state Sen. Christina Castro and Advocate Sherman Hospital president Sheri De Shazo as they harvested vegetables they've grown at the Advocate Sherman Natural Prairie and Community Garden. The Phi Theta Kappa honor society tends the garden and gives away the food they grow at the Spartan Pantry, which they operate at the school. -
'He needed to be remembered': Elgin woman establishing ECC scholarship to honor husband
Jul 18, 2021 6:39 PM - Tom Lutz, a 21-year city of Elgin employee in the sewer department, died last year of leukemia at the age of 58. His wife, Alicia Delgado-Lutz, is setting up an endowment in his name for an annual automotive scholarship at Elgin Community College. -
Suburban Mosaic: ECC hires new equity, diversity and inclusion director
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What suburban colleges plan to do with latest COVID-19 relief funds
Jun 2, 2021 1:05 PM - Suburban community colleges are set to receive millions of dollars more in federal COVID-19 relief funding intended to help students and the institutions mitigate the pandemic's impact. -
How George Floyd's death has changed the suburbs
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ECC, NIU partner for education transfer pathway
May 24, 2021 11:38 AM - Elgin Community College and Northern Illinois University hosted a recognition event on May 7 on ECC's campus to celebrate the first cohort of 15 students who completed the ECC-to-NIU College of Education transfer pathway degree. -
Suburban Mosaic: DuPage County women join forces to help asylum-seekers
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Most colleges, universities will encourage -- not require -- COVID-19 vaccines for fall semester
Apr 23, 2021 12:39 PM - Most Illinois colleges and universities are encouraging students to get vaccinated before returning to campuses this fall, but officials say they won't make it mandatory.
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