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As local manufacturers struggle to find skilled workers and jobs go unfilled, Harper College is preparing to launch an Advanced Manufacturing program designed to train workers in as few as 18 months.
Dozens of local manufacturers, educators, policy ...
Updated: Jun 27, 2012 at 10:41 PM
Harper College assistant provost and Batavia resident Diana Sharp will begin to lead the Illinois Math and Science Academy July 1 when she starts as the school’s new principal.
Sharp previously served as Harper’s interim dean for divisions including...
Updated: Jun 28, 2012 at 01:23 AM
Mary Applegate has worked in the ceramics studio at Harper College for more than 30 years, but last week she experienced something of a first: Her classmates and teachers threw her an opening reception at the start of her own one-person show.
Her fa...
Updated: Jun 27, 2012 at 06:38 AM
Car shows
June 30: The Sports Car Club of America (Chicago Region) will conduct a Performance Driving Experience/PDX track day at the Autobahn Country Club South Course in Joliet. Drivers of all skill levels are invited to drive their cars on a clos...
Updated: Jun 26, 2012 at 01:01 PM
Community colleges in the Northwest suburbs have different policies regarding how they pay administrators, from across-the-board percentage increases at College of Lake County to merit-based raises at Waubonsee Community College to a hybrid system a...
Updated: Jun 26, 2012 at 04:32 PM
The photos have started coming down in Michael Nejman's office at Harper College, and with them have come a flood of memories.
He is retiring after 31 years in Harper's Student Activities Department, including the last 10 as director.
They have been...
Updated: Jun 25, 2012 at 11:20 PM
Regular readers of our Opinion Page commentaries know that we long have been impressed by Harper College President Kenneth Ender’s energizing call for an integrated approach to confront the urgent challenges of a 21st century economy.
In the Northwe...
Updated: Jun 25, 2012 at 07:19 AM
Beating suspects held in Elgin
A judge set bail at $500,000 Sunday for two men accused of forcing their way into an Elgin home early Saturday and severely beating a man and a woman in the presence of a 5-year-old child. Elgin police arrested Mo...
Updated: Jun 25, 2012 at 03:54 PM
When Wheeling High School principal Laz Lopez took the reigns in 2007, he immediately went to work on revamping curriculum to emphasize career pathways for a 21st century economy.
Not everyone got on board, however, particularly when it came to buil...
Updated: Jun 26, 2012 at 08:01 AM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers said Saturday they asked to resign from his child sex abuse case on the eve of trial but the judge turned them down.
Karl Rominger and Joe Amendola said that as jury selection began they made a sealed motio...
Updated: Jun 24, 2012 at 07:58 AM