Articles filed under Community Colleges
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Grand jury subpoenas COD records on Waterleaf spendingSep 29, 2015 1:00 am - A DuPage County grand jury has subpoenaed spending records by College of DuPage officials at a now-defunct upscale campus restaurant as part of an ongoing criminal inves...
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COD board agrees to cut tuition, taxesSep 29, 2015 1:00 am - College of DuPage trustees have approved a budget that will reduce tuition by $5 per credit hour and cut the school's property tax levy by roughly 5 percent. The board v...
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Coroner: Des Plaines student's death in fall at NIU under investigationSep 29, 2015 1:00 am - An autopsy Tuesday was inconclusive on the manner of death of a 19-year-old Northern Illinois University student from Des Plaines who authorities say fell from an 11th-f...
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Lester: COD hearing officer quits days after hiringSep 28, 2015 5:15 am - The College of DuPage's hearing officer has resigned less than a week after he was appointed to deal with the legal aftermath of the firing of two top financial officers...
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NIU student from Des Plaines dies after fall from dorm's 11th floorSep 28, 2015 1:00 am - A 19-year-old Northern Illinois University student from Des Plaines fell to his death Saturday night from the 11th floor of a campus dormitory, officials said Monday. De...
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Harper wins $2.5 million grant for apprenticeship programsSep 27, 2015 1:00 am - The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded Harper College $2.5 million to support Apprenticeships on Demand, a new initiative that aims to integrate technical instruction ...
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Two candidates plan to run for DuPage County Board seatSep 25, 2015 1:00 am - Two Republican candidates already have emerged in the race to fill one spot on the DuPage County Board even though the primary isn't until March. Timothy Elliott, a Glen...
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Harper observatory to open Sunday for rare lunar eclipseSep 25, 2015 1:00 am - Harper College will open its observatory Sunday, Sept. 27, for a total lunar eclipse that will coincide with a so-called "supermoon," a pairing that hasn't happened in m...
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Young robot builders get insipired at kickoff event in ElginSep 24, 2015 11:00 pm - Now that the rules of the game, and the nature of the game itself, have been revealed, the tinkering begins in earnest. Teams of teenage and preteen robot-builders world...
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Lester: Breuder's longtime secretary pink-slipped by CODSep 24, 2015 5:30 am - Editor's note: While the column accurately quotes former College of DuPage Board member Kim Savage defending President Robert Breuder's onetime secretary Monica Mille...