CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—October 6, 2014. Prairie State College (PSC) is hosting the Illinois College Exposition Fair (ICE) from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, October 14, in the Atrium on the PSC main campus at 202 S. Halsted St. in Chicago Heights. More than 100 representatives from in-state and out-of-state colleges and[Read More…]

CPS Students Have the Opportunity to Earn an Associate Degree with No Out of Pocket Costs CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 3, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) Chancellor Cheryl Hyman announced the Chicago Star Scholarship that will help ensure more Chicago Public High School students are able to pursue[Read More…]

Ring of Chicago Area Defendants Commit Identity Theft to Obtain Over $300,000 in Financial Aid Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—October 2, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a Chicago man was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay $319,000 in restitution for his role in a scheme to defraud the[Read More…]

Project NIA releases white paper on gains and ongoing challenges in organizing to interrupt school-to-prison pipeline (STPP) & organizes a youth-led event on October 8 about the STPP CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 2, 2014. For the third time in five years, Project NIA is participating in the Dignity in Schools Campaign’s National Week of[Read More…]

CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2014.  Candidacy petitions for two, six-year, non-compensated terms on the Prairie State College (PSC) Board of Trustees are now available. The petition packages can be picked up from the President’s Office, located in room 2270 on PSC’s main campus at 202 S. Halsted St. in Chicago Heights.[Read More…]

  CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2014.  Representatives from companies and institutions from across the metropolitan Chicago area will be recruiting for full-time, part-time and internship positions, ranging from entry level to professional and managerial levels, at the Prairie State College (PSC) annual fall job fair. This year’s job fair is being[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2014.  Ta-Nehesi Coates, senior editor and writer for The Atlantic, and author of the magazine’s recent bombshell cover story, “The Case for Reparations,” will discuss the issue, including Chicago’s central role in the article, at 5 p.m. Oct. 9 in Roosevelt University’s 10th floor library, 430 S. Michigan[Read More…]

Pictured above, the Four Freedoms Fellows are (front row, from left to right): Amelia Enberg, Danielle Cooperstock and Christopher Mich and (back row, from left to right): Roselyn Abassah-Manu, Patricia Mickey, Sean Anderson, Connor Reilly and LeeAnn Revis. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2014.  Eight Roosevelt University students have been selected for the[Read More…]

DePaul University’s College of Law and its Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic assists individuals and Chicago area community based organizations. The Legal Resources Project, which is staffed by Esmeralda Villela (left), Lorena Hernandez, and attorneys Sarah Diaz, Sioban Albiol and Angelica Lopez, provides legal aid for low-income clients and experiential[Read More…]

University Park, IL –(ENEWSPF)—October 1, 2014. If you are thinking of running for your local school board, and would like to know more about the role of the school board member in governing successful school districts, attend this this free workshop. Sponsored by the Governors State University Metropolitan Institute of[Read More…]