The union representing College of DuPage's 306 full-time faculty members announced Thursday a first-time “no confidence” vote in the leadership of President Robert Breuder, blaming him for helping create “an environment of turmoil, distrust, fear an...

The Community Workforce Employment Training program was created through a unique partnership between 360 Youth Services and Loaves & Fishes. This program assists young people, ages 18-24, who are clients of the 360 Youth Services transitional housi...

"Ending the Silence," aimed at middle and high school students, is the county's only school-based early intervention program for adolescents with or at-risk for mental illness. The program concentrates on youth because research shows that 50% ...

Brad Setter knows what it's like to be judged. In some ways, it's shaped his life. Setter served in the Marine Corps from 2007 to 2011, the end of his service essentially coinciding with the close of the military's don't ask, don't tell era. Before ...

Sinking deeper into depression from being bullied, Marissa Lesperance dropped out of Palatine High School her junior year. She didn't give up on her education or her life, though, and searched for ways to keep pace with the classmates she left behi...

Alex Fulton will start classes at DePaul University this fall with more than 2,400 other incoming freshmen. Unlike most of them, a year ago Fulton thought college was beyond his reach. As one of thousands of homeless students in the Chicago suburbs,...

For the better part of a month, we have watched with growing concern for the welfare of College of DuPage as a political firestorm has swelled almost out of control over the contents of a memo the college president emailed to the board of trustees l...

Some opinions require lots of words and elaboration. This is my Sunday Soapbox, not-so-briefly-stated commentary from one Daily Herald editor, shamelessly stolen from the Saturday feature with almost the same name. Cool, calm and collected: That...

A College of DuPage board meeting - already tense with residents', teachers' and students' comments on a controversy over $20 million in state funding - morphed into a battle between two board members. The college recently came under fire after a wa...