Articles filed under Community Colleges
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CLC to bar students without vaccine or negative COVID-19 test from classroomsOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story was changed to correct the location of CLC's free testing. It is only available at the Grayslake campus. Students at the College of Lake C...
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Muslim police officer is breaking barriers in BartlettOct 18, 2021 5:30 am - Maha Ayesh is the first in her extended Palestinian American family to become a police officer, joining the Bartlett Police Department last October. The Lombard resident...
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Suburbanites remember Colin Powell as a 'class act,' 'gentleman'Oct 18, 2021 1:00 am - Charles Gregory still remembers the feeling of “awe” from his first encounter with retired Gen. Colin Powell. Gregory got two chances to meet the late former U.S. secre...
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Waubonsee helps students 'thrive locally, transfer easily'Oct 17, 2021 11:00 pm - Nationally, community colleges have a uniquely different mission than other types of institutions of higher learning. By providing an affordable and quality education t...
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'Training ground for future shepherds': Mundelein seminary celebrates 100th anniversaryOct 17, 2021 1:00 am - One hundred years after the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary was founded, Cardinal George Mundelein's original vision remains strong. The Mundelei...
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Elmhurst University to host Ebrahim Moosa for al-Ghazali LectureOct 16, 2021 1:00 am - Elmhurst University hosts Ebrahim Moosa for this year's al-Ghazali Lecture, which is part of the school's Religious Literacy Project. Moosa's lecture is title "Madrasa: ...
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How a Latina student found support at Waubonsee to break the cycle and work toward her goalsOct 15, 2021 6:00 am - According to a 2019 report by Excelencia in Education's Latinos in Higher Education: Compilation of Fast Facts, half of all Latinos in the U.S. (44%) were the first in t...
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Tony Fitzpatrick returns to College of DuPage for one last museum show, but 'it's not the end of anything'Oct 15, 2021 1:00 am - He's a man of many trades, varied interests, disparate influences. He grew up in an Irish-Catholic household in Lombard, an “accomplished delinquent” in his youth. He's ...
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College of DuPage's human services program adopts open educational resources to lower textbook costs for studentsOct 14, 2021 11:00 pm - Eager to expand access to educational opportunities, the Human Services program at College of DuPage is taking advantage of the college's Open Educational Resources (OER...
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COD's short-term training programs can lead to long-term careersOct 14, 2021 11:00 pm - After a successful career in various sales and marketing roles, Nikole Clay felt unfulfilled in the corporate sector. She decided to make a change and enrolled in the ma...