UNIVERSITY PARK—(ENEWSPF)—April 7, 2015. Governors State University will hold its 5th Annual Gender Matters Conference Friday and Saturday, April 17-18, in Engbretson Hall. The public is invited and admission is free. Conference hours are 11 a.m.-9 p.m. on Friday, and 9 a.m.-8 :15 p.m. on Saturday. The conference will include[Read More…]

  CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–April 7, 2015.  Prairie State College (PSC) recently announced the winners of the 2015 Annual Area High School Exhibition during a special reception held in the Christopher Art Gallery, located on the PSC main campus at 202 S. Halsted St. in Chicago Heights. The juried competition is for[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—April 7, 2015. In advance of Pope Francis’ encyclical on environment, expected to be released this summer, this year’s World Catholicism Week conference at DePaul University will focus on the environment.  “Fragile World: Ecology and the Church” is the theme of World Catholicism Week, April 8-12. Hosted by the[Read More…]

South Holland, IL–(ENEWSPF)—April 6, 2015. The SSC Playhouse of South Suburban College closes the 2014-2015 season in April with a week-long run of John Guare’s Tony-Award and Pulitzer-Prize winning 1990 classic American play, ‘Six Degrees Of Separation.’  Performance dates include Tuesday through Saturday evenings from April 21–25 at 8:00 p.m.,[Read More…]

Safe Have Program Provides Students with a Positive and Safe Environment During Spring Break CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2015. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett today announced an expansion of Safe Haven locations during spring break, April 6-10. This year’s Safe Haven program will provide students with[Read More…]

University Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 2, 2015. A young woman trapped in the body of a 72-year old. And she’s the normal one in the family. While contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, and a criminal aunt, could there be love on the horizon? Patrons will want to find[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2015.  Richard Wallace, a Chicago native and leading activist in the fight to stop mass incarceration of people of color, has received Roosevelt University’s prestigious Matthew Freeman Social Justice Award. A sociology major and leading local social-justice rapper who goes by the name of Epic, Wallace, 33, of[Read More…]

South Holland, IL–(ENEWSPF)—April 2, 2015. South Suburban College will be hosting several upcoming program-specific Open Houses to inform prospective and current students about programs, curriculum and careers. The current Open House schedule at both the Main Campus in South Holland and the Oak Forest Center is as follows: Echocardiography Program[Read More…]

SOUTH HOLLAND, IL–(ENEWSPF)—April 1, 2015. South Suburban College’s Division of Adult Education is offering a wide range of opportunities for adults to build the basic skills required for success. Adult Basic Education (ABE) helps men and women whose skill levels are below the ninth grade.  ABE students improve their skills[Read More…]

DePaul University’s Craig Klugman Designs Curriculum Craig Klugman, a bioethicist and medical anthropologist at DePaul University, co-authored a study that finds students in the medical professions can effectively be taught visual observation skills through the use of art. The findings will be published in the April 2015 issue of the[Read More…]