Students walk near Old Main on the Penn State University campus.  SOURCE: AP/Gene J. Puskar Washington D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2015.  As part of a strategy to ensure that the United States can achieve inclusive prosperity and broad-based economic growth, the country must take bold steps to eliminate barriers to higher education[Read More…]

University Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 19, 2015. The internationally acclaimed Jazz Ambassadors of Washington, D.C., will continue its long tradition of presenting free public performances when it appears at The Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University (GSU), 1 University Parkway, University Park on Tuesday, March 17 at 7 p.m. There[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)–February 18, 2015.  Rebecca Curtis, author of Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money, will read and discuss her work at 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 23 in Room 700 of Roosevelt University’s Gage Building, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. The reading is free and open to the[Read More…]

Marten L. denBoer, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, was elected provost of DePaul University in Chicago. A physicist by training, denBoer will become DePaul’s chief academic officer July 1. (California State Polytechnic University/Tom Zasadzinski) CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—February 18, 2015. Marten L. denBoer, who[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2015.  Roosevelt University will host a major two-day conference on civil rights being held from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21 at 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Civil rights movement veterans from around the country will be on hand to share recollections of the[Read More…]

JOHNSON, Vt.–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2015  – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), speaking today at Johnson State College, called for a “revolution” in the way higher education is funded in the United States.  He proposed tuition-free courses for freshmen and sophomores at all public colleges and universities. He also called for reforms[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2015.  Aiming to improve academic achievement among growing numbers of Latino students in Chicago and beyond, a new book by two Roosevelt University professors offers advice to teachers for reaching and succeeding with students who typically perform below whites, blacks and Asians in reading, math and the sciences.[Read More…]

University Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 16, 2015. Governors State University (GSU), 1 University Parkway, University Park will celebrate “Black Women Rock” (BWR) with two events Friday, February 20 and Saturday, February 21. A Resource and Vendor Fair Friday, February 20, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. will be held in the university’s[Read More…]