CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–October 3, 2013.  Prairie State College (PSC) recently announced a change in the spring 2014 registration dates. Priority registration now begins Monday, Oct. 21 and open registration begins Wednesday, Oct. 30.  The spring 2014 schedule is currently available by visiting prairiestate.edu, and hardcopy schedules will arrive on campus Oct.[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 3, 2013.  Lindsay Hunter, author of the acclaimed new short story collection Don’t Kiss Me, will read from her work as part of this fall’s Roosevelt University Reading Series at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct.  7 in Roosevelt’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Hunter, a long-time Chicago resident[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 3, 2013.  The Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) at Roosevelt University will launch a unique new Emerging Artist Quartet Residency Program that is designed to attract some of the most promising and talented emerging chamber music ensembles from around the world. The CCPA Emerging Artist Quartet Residency Program[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2013.  During the 2013-14 academic year, Roosevelt University’s College of Education will revise its curriculum to help elementary education students become better classroom teachers and meet new and more rigorous national and state standards in content areas like mathematics, literacy, science and social studies. Faculty members from Roosevelt’s[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2013.  Adolfo Laurenti, deputy chief economist and managing director at Mesirow Financial, will address area business and real estate leaders on emerging conditions and trends in Europe that may impact the U.S. economy on Oct. 15 at  Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. A leading expert on[Read More…]

University Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2013 – The Visual Arts Gallery at Governors State University is presenting “Ways of Making: Installation Art,” featuring the work of artists Barbara Hashimoto and Dana Major and the students from the Theater and Performance Studies program under the direction of Dr. Patrick Santoro, from October[Read More…]

EUGENE, Ore.–(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2013 – Approximately 2,800 new students from the state of Oregon, as well as students from every state in the U.S. and from nearly 100 countries around the world, begin fall term classes today at the University of Oregon. Total enrollment is estimated at 24,000, consistent with[Read More…]

Task Force Charged with Identifying Ways to Ensure All Chicago Students are in School CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2013.  Governor Pat Quinn today made key appointments to the Truancy in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Task Force which has been charged with identifying different strategies and approaches to help educators and CPS administration[Read More…]

‘Our Town’ to feature alumni guest performers in Fullerton Stage theatre The custom-designed five-story building for The Theatre School at DePaul includes two theatre spaces — the 250-seat thrust Fullerton Stage (pictured) and the 100-seat black box Sondra & Denis Healy Theatre — in addition to classrooms, acting labs, scene[Read More…]

Town Requested Funds to Deploy Uniformed Police Officers at Local Schools Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 27, 2013.  Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) will provide $150,000 in Fiscal Year 2013 funding to Newtown, Conn., to fund two positions to ensure school safety, such[Read More…]