UNIVERSITY PARK, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 13, 2015. Governors State University (GSU) has been selected to receive a Title III grant of $1.99 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Education’s Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP). The GSU grant will be used to fund a program called “Integrating Pathways: Student Success and Retention[Read More…]

For-profit college is under investigation by at least three State Attorneys General, the SEC, the FTC & the Education Department’s Inspector General WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2015. Following the decision by the Department of Defense (DOD) to place the University of Phoenix on probation and prohibit the company from enrolling new[Read More…]

UNIVERSITY PARK–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. UPDATE: October 9, 2015 – 6:20 p.m. CST.  After a thorough assessment of the parking lots, including the use of bomb-sniffing dogs, university police issued an all-clear for those areas. As an added precaution, police conducted a thorough search of all campus buildings. Police found no[Read More…]

Henrik Ibsen’s “The Lady from the Sea” will be presented by The Theatre School at DePaul University as the first production of the season in the Sondra & Denis Healy Theatre. The work premieres Oct. 23 and runs through Nov. 1. (Artwork courtesy of Grip Design) CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2015.[Read More…]

DePaul University and Rush University study how location impacts health Dr. David Ansell of Rush University Medical Center makes a presentation about health equity during a conference hosted by DePaul University. Rush and DePaul have formed a new Center for Community Health Equity, which seeks to improve health outcomes and[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015. With an eye toward building a child-care workforce in Illinois that is better educated, more professional and which can offer those in the field more long-term career stability, Roosevelt University is creating a new path for child-care workers to obtain bachelor’s degrees. Beginning in 2016, Roosevelt will[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015. One of the nation’s federal chief judges visited Roosevelt University to talk about the Magna Carta as an inspiration for an ongoing commitment to due process in the United States justice system. Diane Wood, chief judge of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was hosted by the[Read More…]

The cost of new textbooks has increased 82 percent, four times faster than inflation, over the last decade WASHINGTON, DC –-(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015.  U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Al Franken (D-MN) and Angus King (I-ME) today introduced legislation designed to help students manage costs by making high quality textbooks easily[Read More…]

CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—October 8, 2015. James Hrabak, senior managing director and chief investment officer for MB Financial Bank’s Investment Group, will be the guest speaker at the Prairie State College (PSC) Foundation Economic Forecast Breakfast, being held at 7:30 a.m., Friday, October 23, at the Olympia Fields Country Club, located at[Read More…]

Soprano Janai Brugger is returning to Chicago for a one-of-a-kind musical event on Oct. 19 when she joins baritone Jeff Mattsey for “A Grand Night for Singing” as a part of the Mesirow Financial Presents! concert series. Both singers are alumni from the DePaul University School of Music. (Photo by[Read More…]