Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined with 13 states, the District of Columbia and the Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection to urge the U.S. Department of Education to broaden its efforts to provide loan forgiveness to students who attended fraudulent schools. Madigan and her counterparts[Read More…]
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Donation Funds First Endowed Professorship in DePaul University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Tera Agyepong named inaugural LeRoy D. Sanders and Mary Clare McHugh Sanders Endowed Professor Tera Agyepong, the inaugural LeRoy D. Sanders and Mary Clare McHugh Sanders Endowed Professor. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief) CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2016. In honor of his late wife’s love for historical studies, DePaul University alumnus LeRoy[Read More…]
Chicago Youth Leadership Academy Provides Alternatives for South Side Teens
Program helps teens take advantage of educational opportunities Members of the 2016 Chicago Youth Leadership Academy have some fun as they see themselves in a video during their graduation celebration. Photo by: Robert Kozloff CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2016 By: Calmetta Coleman On August 4, more than two dozen African American teenage[Read More…]
African American Early Childhood Teachers Make 84 Cents for Every $1 Earned by Their White Peers, New Center for American Progress Analysis Finds
An assistant teacher reads to students at a pre-K school in Seattle, February 12, 2016. Source: AP/Elaine Thompson Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2016. A new report from the Center for American Progress takes a deep dive into the early childhood workforce’s dismally low wages and reveals that African American[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Statement on Department of Education Actions Against ITT Tech
SPRINGFIELD –(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2016. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education announced it would place additional restrictions on ITT Educational Services, Inc. (ITT Tech) to protect students and taxpayers. As part of today’s announcement, ITT Tech will be banned from enrolling[Read More…]
National Labor Relations Board: Student Assistants Covered by the NLRA
3-1 Columbia Decision Overrules Brown University Washington, D.C. — The National Labor Relations Board issued a 3-1 decision in Columbia University that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act. The Graduate Workers of Columbia-GWC, UAW filed an election petition[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Announces American Dream Reconsidered Conference
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 23, 2016. What does the American Dream mean today? That’s the topic of a major conference Roosevelt University will be hosting Sept. 12-15 in Chicago. At more than a dozen lectures and discussions, leading American scholars, activists and entrepreneurs will analyze the American Dream and how it affects millennials,[Read More…]
University of Chicago Chemistry Faculty Members Earn Professional Distinctions
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 23, 2016. Members of the University of Chicago chemistry faculty have collected a variety of local, national and international distinctions in recent weeks. Prof. Yamuna Krishnan Yamuna Krishnan, professor in chemistry, has received the 2016 Innovator of the Year Award from the Association of Women in Science, Chicago. The[Read More…]
‘Windy City in Motion’ Exhibit Connects Movies, Travel
Features work from faculty at DePaul University and Lake Forest College Visitors and commuters at Chicago’s Union Station peruse the “Windy City in Motion: Movies + Travel in Chicago” exhibit, a collaboration between DePaul University and Lake Forest College. Faculty contributed research on religion, film, theater and Chicago history to[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Takes Action Against Wells Fargo for Illegal Student Loan Servicing Practices
Wells Fargo to Pay $3.6 Million Penalty to the Bureau Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–August 22, 2016. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today took action against Wells Fargo Bank for illegal private student loan servicing practices that increased costs and unfairly penalized certain student loan borrowers. The Bureau identified breakdowns throughout[Read More…]
