News

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  April 1, 2013

  Two undergraduate students win Roosevelt University’s prestigious 2013 Matthew Freeman Social Justice Award

  Roosevelt University undergraduates Nathan Lustig and Bailey Swinney are the winners of the 2013 Matthew Freeman Social Justice Award.

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  March 20, 2013

  Acclaimed scholar on race, gender and law to give Mansfield lecture

  Author and University of Pennsylvania Professor Dorothy Roberts to lecture on "The Biopolitics of Race, Crime and Justice."
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  March 1, 2013

  Red Eye report: Roosevelt students lead campaign against armed police in Chicago schools

  Goal of student campaign is to collect 1,000 signed letters for delivery in mid-March to U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk.
• February 21, 2013

  Roosevelt students organize letter campaign advocating for counselors instead of police inside Chicago schools

  In wake of Newtown, Conn., shootings, Roosevelt students to deliver hundreds of signed letters to U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk.
• December 10, 2012

  Roosevelt Review: Roosevelt receives Civic Engagement Award

  Roosevelt University’s commitment to service learning and civic engagement was recognized by the Washington Center when it selected the University as a recipient of the 2012 Higher Education Civic Engagement Award.
• October 18, 2012

  Discussion on alternatives to juvenile detention at Gage Gallery on Oct. 23

  Policy makers, juvenile justice experts and members of the faith-based community are expected to attend.
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  September 28, 2012

  Developments in reversing wrongful convictions to be discussed by Burge torture survivor and attorney at Gage

  Event is part of Joseph Loundy Center's Wrongful Conviction Lecture Series being held this fall in the Gage Gallery.
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  September 25, 2012

  New juvenile diversion program for youth with disabilities launched at Cook County Juvenile Center

  Heather Dalmage, professor of sociology and director of the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, created the new program as means to ensure kids with disabilities get the services they need and deserve.
• August 23, 2012

  Juvenile-in-Justice exhibit by photographer Richard Ross

  A new, award-winning exhibit by photographer Richard Ross, which documents youth in the juvenile system throughout the United States, comes to Chicago for the first time, opening Thursday, Sept. 13 at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.
• June 27, 2012

  Changes in CPS disciplinary code including restorative justice welcomed by Mansfield Institute

  The Mansfield Institute has been working closely with a whole community of restorative justice leaders, practitioners and trainers for reform of the CPS disciplinary code. Its successes include a restorative justice model now in place at the Morrill Elementary School in Chicago.