Alumni Association Benefits

The Alumni Association is proud to welcome you to a free lifetime membership with many wonderful benefits. We hope you will take advantage of the listed benefits and stay connected to your alma mater!

Alumni Association Membership Benefits

(a valid alumni association membership card is required to access on-campus facilities)

Membership to Roosevelt’s Schaumburg fitness center
Several Health, Life and Travel Insurance plans
10% discount at the RU Bookstore (textbooks not included).
Career Development such as counseling, assessments, resume critiquing, internet-based resume referral and job bank database. Register by calling 847.619.7921 at Schaumburg or 312.341.3560 in Chicago.
Discounted RU classes. Many undergraduate classes are available to alumni (on an audited basis) at a greatly reduced cost. Simply complete the application form.
Library privileges at both campuses.
Invitations to social, educational and networking events and programs for RU alumni.
Two editions of Roosevelt Review , the alumni magazine, each year.

Please update your preferred mailing information or to share your news for the "Where RU?" section of the magazine.

For information about alumni programs and benefits, local alumni activities, or to assist in developing alumni activities or an alumni chapter or club in your local community, contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 1-888-RUALUMS or email alum@roosevelt.edu.

Alumni News

May 22, 2012

Faculty Essay: On [Not] Getting to the Moon... and Other Adventures in Science Fiction
Whether we choose to think about it or not, we’re making the future right now. That’s a good part of what I’ve learned from science fiction, and of what I try to teach.
May 22, 2012

Rubenstein Fellowship awarded to expert on biodiversity
Thanks to a Rubenstein Fellowship awarded to Norbert Cordeiro, assistant professor of biology at Roosevelt University, four or five students can take an active role in his research of Forests in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania.
May 17, 2012

Roosevelt University's first scientific research grant from the NSF

The research grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Assistant Professor Sergiy Rosokha is the first time Roosevelt University has received a scientific grant from the NSF.
May 16, 2012

Change Agents

Roosevelt courses take students outside the classroom for hands-on experiences that teach powerful lessons while enacting social change.
May 16, 2012

Social Justice in Action