Articles filed under Oakton Community College
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Why Oakton College is seeking beekeepers for new projectJan 27, 2023 12:00 am - Oakton College students and suburban beekeepers are invited to host beehives at a new apiary on the college's Skokie campus. The program is designed to support the decli...
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Oakton Community College makes its official name changeJan 04, 2023 10:00 pm - Starting Jan. 17, Oakton Community College begins a new chapter in its proud history as it officially becomes Oakton College. Along with the name change, the college wi...
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Oakton Community College's name change becomes official this monthJan 03, 2023 12:00 am - Oakton Community College's long-awaited name change finally is happening this month. The publicly funded school, which has a main campus in Des Plaines and a satellite l...
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Oakton hosts 800-plus girls for Futures Unlimited programDec 28, 2022 10:00 pm - More than 800 eighth grade students from 22 middle schools participated in Oakton's Futures Unlimited on Dec. 15, a daylong program that introduces young female and gend...
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Oakton Community College's Empty Bowls event raises $29,000 for food pantriesDec 19, 2022 10:00 pm - Several hundred community members enjoyed a delicious meal on Saturday, Dec. 3, and took home beautifully handcrafted bowls while supporting local food pantries at Oakto...
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Good News Sunday: College of DuPage culinary students cook Thanksgiving dinner for Navy recruitsNov 27, 2022 6:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: About 50 recruits from the Great Lakes N...
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Oakton Community College's Empty Bowls event Dec. 3 to support local food pantriesNov 20, 2022 10:00 pm - Community members are invited to enjoy a delicious meal and take home beautifully handcrafted bowls while supporting local food pantries at Oakton Community College's up...
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Start of a rebound? How suburban community colleges' enrollments fared this fallNov 04, 2022 1:00 am - The start of fall classes at community colleges across the state brought a modest overall increase in student enrollment for the first time in more than a decade. Elgin ...
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Neighbors in the news: Automotive teacher at Hersey wins cash prize for excellenceOct 20, 2022 6:00 am - • Jim VanBladel, an automotive teacher from Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, was named a winner of the 2022 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching E...
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District 21 seeks to expand language services for newcomersOct 10, 2022 5:30 am - Ania Figueroa knows firsthand the struggles of being a student whose first home language isn't English. Figueroa's family moved from Chile to the United States just shy ...