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When the school year ends, Oakton Community College plans to dismiss dozens of adjunct instructors who are retired and collecting a state pension. The school recently was fined $150,000 for violating a new law limiting how much those retirees' can e...
Updated: Dec 03, 2014 at 05:05 AM
Four weeks into the season, the Harper College wrestling team has already had plenty of success.
On Nov. 15 at the Dan Gable open hosted by Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Zachery McCullough and Kerin Ramirez took home the top prize in their weight classes. McCu...
Updated: Dec 03, 2014 at 03:43 PM
A delegation of suburban college presidents will meet with President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden Thursday to talk about increasing the numbers of students completing college.
Northern Illinois University Pr...
Updated: Dec 04, 2014 at 02:08 PM
College of DuPage President Dr. Robert L. Breuder will receive the 2014 CASE Region V Chief Executive Leadership Award on Dec. 16 at the annual CASE V conference in Chicago.
The award, established in 1999 by the Council for Advancement and Support ...
Updated: Dec 02, 2014 at 06:03 PM
Harper College has partnered with the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie for an annual lecture by Dr. Peter Hayes, an internationally respected expert in Holocaust history.
The topic of the fifth annual Pfeffer Family Forum is ...
Updated: Dec 03, 2014 at 07:40 AM
The educators running suburban community colleges are creating new leadership positions and special task forces to try to solve a problem: How to get students in the door.
Head counts statewide dropped for the fourth straight year - with some 14,000...
Updated: Dec 01, 2014 at 09:19 PM
The Daily Herald is among the nominees for the Hoffman Estates Chamber of Commerce & Industry's Business of the Year award.
The chamber will give the awards at its annual Celebration of Excellence awards dinner from 5 to 8 p.m. Jan. 29, at the Chica...
Updated: Nov 27, 2014 at 04:39 PM
Harper College campuses will go smoke-free on Jan. 1, 2015, six months before a law goes into effect banning tobacco on all Illinois' public college campuses. Smoking will be banned everywhere on the campus; only smoking in personal vehicles will be...
Updated: Nov 25, 2014 at 01:19 PM
Watching young people light up a cigarette and take a long drag makes us wonder how they can ignore the dangers of smoking.
The message is certainly clear, from the warnings on cigarette packages to the steady drumbeat from health care professionals...
Updated: Nov 25, 2014 at 10:16 AM
In 2004, Frank Warren handed out 3,000 self-addressed postcards around Washington, D.C., asking people to anonymously share highly personal and artful secrets they had never before told.
He created a website to display the secrets we never voice, ea...
Updated: Nov 25, 2014 at 09:57 AM