Articles filed under Community Colleges
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Editorial: 'Fear leads to hatred, hatred to anger'Nov 20, 2015 12:00 am - In Paris, a Muslim man wearing a blindfold, asks for hugs from those around him near a memorial site to last week's victims. “I'm a Muslim, but I'm told that I'm a terro...
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Business inventory app idea wins Judson 'Shark Tank' competitionNov 20, 2015 12:00 am - A software application to help small businesses assess their inventory in about a minute or less became the winning pitch at Judson University's second "CREATE Shark Tan...
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Judson fair-trade store 'wildly successful'Nov 20, 2015 12:00 am - More than 50 people perused handcrafted items from all over the world at Judson University's new fair-trade store, which opened Friday on its Elgin campus. The Just Worl...
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Latino Summit at Harper aims to inspire high school studentsNov 20, 2015 12:00 am - Nearly 500 students - most of them high school freshmen from 13 schools in the Northwest suburbs - at the Latino Summit at Harper College, listening to the story of a ma...
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Waubonsee moving May graduation back to main campusNov 20, 2015 12:00 am - Due to increased participation, Waubonsee Community College plans to have two graduation ceremonies next May. And it will bring the ceremony back to its new field house ...
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ECC renamed Leader College, continues to improve student success ratesNov 19, 2015 10:00 pm - Elgin Community College has been renamed a Leader College by Achieving the Dream, Inc., a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping more community college stu...
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Men's basketball: Burnett, Gatlin pace a Harper victoryNov 19, 2015 12:00 am - Fresh off a third straight road loss on Tuesday, the Harper College men's basketball team was looking to do something it still hadn't done this season: Defeat another ju...
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New dean of science and health careers at OaktonNov 19, 2015 12:00 am - Ruth Williams was appointed this week as Oakton Community College's dean of the science and health careers division, a position that includes oversight of 15 departments...
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Budget impasse has Waubonsee looking for ways to save programsNov 19, 2015 12:00 am - Waubonsee Community College is planning to shift about $1 million in its education fund to keep several programs afloat this year while the state holds up the money ...
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Waubonsee board honors James Pilmer for his service and dedicationNov 18, 2015 10:00 pm - Sugar Grove - The Waubonsee Community College Board of Trustees honored long-serving board member James Pilmer during their board meeting on Nov. 18 where they also appr...