Attorney General Madigan Intervenes in ACICS Case Over its Accreditation of For-profit Schools Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today moved to intervene in a lawsuit to assure that federal recognition of a national accreditor of many of the worst schools in the for-profit industry remains revoked. The[Read More…]
Schools
H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S Musical Comedy Spelling Bee Coming to Governors State University
University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. Six tween spellers learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. That’s the lesson in this quirky Tony award-winning musical with a charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand[Read More…]
Breakfast with South Suburban College BCI Workshop Presents – HR Essentials for Small Businesses on Feb. 16
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL – (ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. The South Suburban College Business & Career Institute (BCI) presents a Breakfast with BCI Workshop titled ‘HR Essentials for Small Businesses,’ on Thursday, February 16, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., with check-in and continental breakfast to begin at 8:45 a.m. This[Read More…]
South Suburban College Seeks Star Awards Nominations
2016 Star Award recipient Joan Dorman (left) with SSC’s Nancy Burrows. SOUTH HOLLAND, IL –(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017. SSC will be holding its 9th Annual Chicago Women’s Conference on Friday, March 17. This will be our second year of presenting the STAR AWARDS and we are seeking nominations. The Star Awards[Read More…]
20K Hours of Code Racked Up by Youth from 53 Local Zip Codes in Response to Chicago’s Unprecedented ‘Code60+’ Challenge
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017. For the past six weeks in Pullman, Bridgeview, Archer Heights, Rogers Park, and everywhere in between – at home, online, in classrooms and communities – young Chicagoans of all ages were learning to code. Their simultaneous plunge into computer science came in response to the first-ever (and[Read More…]
CPS-WIDE INAUGURATION WALKOUT: Students at Various Chicago Public Schools Will Walk Out and Head to the Resist Trump Rally in Daley Plaza at 3 p.m.
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2017. The Chicago Students Union has coordinated a walkout across Chicago Public Schools today after 7th period to demonstrate to the Trump administration that the students of Chicago are prepared to defend their schools and communities.The nomination of vastly unqualified cabinet members like Betsy DeVos and the[Read More…]
Glenbard East High School Students Plan Walk-Out, Rally to Protest Trump Inauguration
LOMBARD –(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2017. On January 20th, 2017 students at Glenbard East High School in suburban Lombard, IL are planning to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump. A group of students unaffiliated with the Glenbard Underground have called for a student strike and walkout at 12:45 PM. The Glenbard[Read More…]
Prairie State College Hosting 29th Annual Jazz Fest on February 17
Photo Source: Prairie State College CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. Prairie State College’s (PSC) 29th Annual Jazz Fest, featuring some of the nation’s top jazz musicians, will be held at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 17, in the Barnes & Noble College Auditorium in the Conference Center of the PSC main[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Sues Nation’s Largest Student Loan Company Navient for Failing Borrowers at Every Stage of Repayment
Navient, Formerly Part of Sallie Mae, Illegally Cheated Borrowers Out of Repayment Rights Through Shortcuts and Deception WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 18, 2017. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing the nation’s largest servicer of both federal and private student loans for systematically and illegally failing borrowers at every[Read More…]
Bullies Target Physical Appearance, Ethnicity, Gender or Sexual Orientation – UN Reports
Children at a displaced camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. UN Photo/Sophia Paris NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 January 2017 – Nearly a quarter of a million children and young people world-wide are bullied each year, according to a report released today by the United Nations educational and cultural agency, which found that bullies like[Read More…]
