Roosevelt University wants to transform its corporate setting in Schaumburg into a more environmentally sustainable landscape.
New book features essays by some of nation's top writers and editors
Roosevelt University’s quest to produce committed, competent and compassionate pharmacists has cleared an important hurdle.
(Crain's) - Roosevelt University said Tuesday that its College of Pharmacy has passed the first accreditation step, a move that allows the school to begin selecting its inaugural freshman class.
Two days after Milton Rogovin died at his home in Buffalo on January 18, the Gage Gallery in Chicago opened an exhibition of his photographs called “The Working-Class Eye of Milton Rogovin.” Class was not merely Milton’s subject, it was the optic through which he saw the world, something that distinguished his work from what the culture had expected of social documentary photography since the 1930s.
The new pharmacy program at Roosevelt University in Schaumburg has passed a hurdle in its accreditation process and may now accept students.
Roosevelt University has begun interviewing students for admission into its new College of Pharmacy following notification from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) that it has been granted pre-candidate status. When it opens in July, the College will offer the Midwest’s first three-year, year-round PharmD program.
This week's Chronicle features an article about a new skyscraper going up at Roosevelt University. When I went to Roosevelt to see the construction site, I was struck by the building next door: the Auditorium Building, designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. It was built in 1889 with a ritzy hotel and an office building wrapping around a hall big enough for operas or political conventions, and it now serves as Roosevelt's main building.
Chuck Middleton is bearded, bald, gay — and the president of Chicago’s Roosevelt University. He’s among about 30 gay and lesbian university leaders who have formed the group LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education to advocate for the advancement of gays to leadership positions.
A one-of-a-kind, vintage photo exhibit that tells compelling stories about work and working-class people through the eyes of renowned photographer Milton Rogovin opens at Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery on Thursday, Jan. 20, just two days after the 101-year-old photographer's death.
Doug Knerr is the first-ever provost at Roosevelt University's Schaumburg campus. He has several goals, including new centers for continuing education and career development
Traditional campuses have the luxury of spreading out across the green, and a big challenge their planners may face is finding places to get people to bump into one another.
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Miles Davis, one of the most influential musicians in jazz history, will be the focus of a citywide, four-month festival organized by the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University.
Roosevelt University Economics Professor Steve Ziliak is becoming known around the globe for using haiku poetry as a learning tool.
The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet will perform the complete string quartets of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich in Chicago during 2010-2011 . . .
An imaginative initiative led by a student organization to help fellow Roosevelt students to de-stress before final exams was mentioned over the weekend in the following Los Angeles Times story.
The pharmacy school at Roosevelt University in Schaumburg, now under construction, could begin accepting students as early as next month.
Roosevelt is featured in the Small Colleges column in the Sports Section of the December 9 edition of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Only two families remain in the last standing high rise in Chicago's Cabrini-Green public housing complex and they could move out as soon as Tuesday.
The move marks the end of an era in Chicago's troubled public housing history, as the Chicago Housing Authority has been gradually moving residents out and tearing down the high rises at Cabrini and other public housing developments in the city.
A 30-year-old hairstylist whose lengthy illness and brain surgery led her to seek more from life, including a college education and opportunities for helping others, has been named Roosevelt University’s 2010 student laureate by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois.
Goldie B. Wolfe Miller didn’t set out to be one of the country’s top commercial real estate brokers, the founder of the nation’s largest female-owned commercial real estate firm or a leader for women throughout the industry.
A panel discussion that will look at failing schools and will offer varying perspectives for education reform will be held Thursday, Nov. 18 at Roosevelt University.
21-year-old sociology student discusses her amazing project with Roosevelt University community on Nov. 17
The 13 men in the concrete classroom in Division 3 of the Cook County Jail never imagined they'd end up trading their military uniforms for the beige scrubs that mark each of them as an inmate. The men -- once proud soldiers, several who served in combat units -- know that they lost their way. And in a jail classroom and basement laundry, they're trying to find a new one.
He dropped out of high school as a teenager because he was “naive,” “immature,” wanted “no responsibility” and “was going to be young forever,” remembers Guillermo Guzman of Addison. Guzman had grown into a determined man with a focused blueprint for his future by the day his life nearly ended.
Veterans Upward Bound at Roosevelt University will mark its 15th year of providing education and training to area veterans with a daylong Veterans Resource Fair being held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19, at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.
With the mid-term elections completed, Roosevelt University's Institute for Politics turns its focus to critical issues at hand involving the Illinois and Cook County budgets.
Albert B. Ratner, co-chairman of the board of one of the nation’s largest family-owned real estate development companies, Forest City Enterprises, Inc., will give a keynote address about the impact of changing demographics on residential and commercial real estate markets during Roosevelt University’s 9th annual real estate gala being held Nov.18.
Raymond Smullyan, a well-known American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist philosopher, magician and amateur astronomer, will speak and perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21 at Roosevelt University.
Two Roosevelt alumni who studied musical theatre at Chicago College of Performing Arts have hit the big time, landing leading roles on NBC-TV and New York’s Broadway.
More than 500 college-bound high school students from Chicago and beyond are expected to attend the National Association for College Admission Counseling's Chicago Performing and Visual Arts College Fair, where more than 120 colleges and performing arts programs will be represented.
With the addition of 26 new faculty members this fall, nearly one third of Roosevelt’s full-time faculty now is made up of professors hired by the University over the last three years.
At a time when youth violence, gang activity and juvenile detention are growing, a coalition of Chicago community activists, educators and youth leaders will come together for solutions on Oct. 15-16 during the Cradle-to-College Pipeline Summit at Roosevelt University.
Women real estate leaders from all over the Chicago metropolitan area will gather for a luncheon and panel discussion on How to Lead in the New Real Estate Economy at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5 at the Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren, Chicago.
U.S. Congressman Raul M. Grijalva of the Seventh District of Arizona will discuss environmental issues and Arizona’s new immigration law at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 20 on the second floor of Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave. His address is free and open to the public.
A new photo exhibit that puts a human face on the global economic crisis opens Thursday, Sept. 23 at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. An opening-night reception for "Crisis and Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession" will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23.
Leslie Bloom, associate professor of educational leadership in the College of Education, will be a Fulbright Specialist sharing her expertise this fall on how to do meaningful qualitative social justice research with top scholars in the nation of Colombia.
Those looking for more information about the Lakers can now visit the official website of the Roosevelt Athletic Department, www.RooseveltLakers.com. The new site, developed in conjunction with SIDHelp, will provide all the latest news on the Lakers, along with up-to-date schedules, rosters, player and coach biographies and more.
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin will discuss “Health Reform, Public Health and the Surgeon General’s Priorities” at 11 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 13 during Roosevelt University’s 17th annual Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture.
An essay by Roosevelt University President Charles R. Middleton: Student and faculty trustees, with their unique stake in board discussions and deliberations, add credibility and effectiveness to the board, providing a broader perspective.
Roosevelt University will conduct its first Summer Academy for High School Teachers, July 12-16. The Summer Academy, a collaborative effort by Roosevelt University’s Montesquieu Forum for the Study of Civic Life and the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, is designed to foster a discussion among high school teachers about the history and principles of the American Founding.
Chicago has the highest number of heroin-related emergency-room visits in major metropolitan areas, followed by New York City, Boston, and Detroit,...
Roosevelt University is working to expand program offerings on its Schaumburg campus, planning to open its new and innovative College of Pharmacy next summer.
You could say the excitement is building. Or perhaps, more accurately, the excitement is the building.
The Chicago metropolitan region ranks among the worst in the nation for heroin use and problems associated with heroin use, a new study by Roosevelt University’s Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy shows.
WBEZ's 848 program features Gage Gallery: New Photography Exhibit Profiles Gay San Francisco in the 1970s.
A bold advertising campaign announcing the coming of Roosevelt University’s new 32-story South Loop skyscraper throughout Chicago and its suburbs has been launched by the University. The campaign, which will run for ten weeks, uses stunning graphics and a variety of multi-media to showcase the University’s new vertical campus being built at 425 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago.
Roosevelt University announced Monday that its leadership team for the new College of Pharmacy is now in place and working toward the summer 2011 opening of the new college on the University’s Schaumburg Campus.
Nearly a decade after the nation’s Sept. 11 terror attack, political scientists from all over the world will gather on Saturday, June 19 and Sunday, June 20 at Roosevelt University in Chicago to assess and discuss how human rights are faring across the globe today.
Roosevelt University announced June 1 that it is starting a doctoral program at its Schaumburg Campus in industrial-organizational psychology (I/O Psychology) and has hired Adrian Thomas of Auburn University as the founding director, effective Aug. 15. This will be the University’s first Ph.D. program.
Wesley Brewer, assistant professor of instrumental music education at Roosevelt University, has received the national 2009 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Council for Research in Music Education (CRME).
Lori Rader Day wasn’t writing much, but wanted to change her way when she applied in 2006 as a candidate to Roosevelt University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing Program. Since then, Rader Day, who received her MFA from the University in 2009, has published 11 of her short stories in literary journals and magazines. She also has won several major fiction-writing contests, including the $3,000 grand prize in May from Good Housekeeping magazine.
Illinois tax increment financing is the topic of a day-long workshop being held at Roosevelt University on Thursday, May 27.
By all accounts, Syed "Zain" Naqi is a normal college student. The American-born son of Indian immigrants, he was preparing to finish his political science degree next semester at Roosevelt University in Chicago. But on May 1, Naqi went out with friends to the Rebel Bar and Grill on North Clark Street in Chicago - and no one has seen him since. Friends and family held a vigil at Roosevelt University Thursday for Zain Naqi.
Roosevelt University Head Men’s Basketball Coach Griffin will have opponents seeing double next season as he announced on Friday the signing of twin brothers Mark and Paul Tometich. Both 6-foot-2 guards, Mark and Paul were standouts last season at nationally-ranked Kishwaukee College and join former Kougars teammate Tyler Smith on the Lakers’ 2010-11 roster.
Sixty-five years after its founding, Roosevelt University celebrated a milestone, breaking ground on Saturday, April 17, on a 32-story skyscraper at Wabash Avenue and Congress Parkway in Chicago’s South Loop.
Roosevelt University's College of Education has received a $295,251 grant from the Illinois Board of Higher Education to help teachers and administrators in two Chicago elementary schools teach students more effectively. The program is expected to result in increased retention of teachers in high-need schools and better academic performance of their students.
As my father told the story (and he would have known), the big problem in bituminous mining was that no matter how careful you might be, the worst was always just in front of you, waiting to burn you, to cripple you, to suffocate you, to add you to the long, sad list of men who went digging coal and ended up digging their own graves instead.
Senator Dick Durbing and students at Roosevelt University welcomed the overhaul of federal financial aid program, approved last week as part of the health care reform bill. They say the $61 billion in savings from the changes will help more students like themselves achieve the American dream of a college education.
Often, the fine print in a big document spells trouble. But the education lending reform buried in the mammoth health-care legislation President Obama signed Tuesday is good news for students.
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin came to Roosevelt University on March 29 to explain changes to the national Pell Grants program and how they will affect Illinois students.
The piano program at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA), which began under legendary pianist Rudolph Ganz as Chicago Musical College, will remember the legend and showcase the work of some of today’s prominent pianists during an inaugural piano festival being held April 7 through 11 in Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago.
Roosevelt University's Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration will hold its first annual Project Green Teen$ Entrepreneurship Academy this summer. Chicago area high school administrators, faculty and staff are encouraged to nominate current sophomore and junior students through April 15.
On the 65th anniversary of the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt University will host author Jeff Shesol, who will talk about his new book, Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court. He also will contrast the beginning of FDR’s first term with President Barack Obama’s first term.
Roosevelt University’s popular Vivid concert, presented annually by the Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA), will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 23 in the Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago.
Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery Reading Series will bring award-winning writers from across the country to campus this spring.
On February 20, in honor of Black History Month, Roosevelt University’s Department of Economics and the Center for New Deal Studies will co-sponsor a panel discussion on the first year of the Obama presidency. The discussion will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in room 232 of Roosevelt’s Auditorium Building. The event is free and open to the public.
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