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RU Prime and the Black Student Union hosted a lecture discussion titled "Women in Politics: An Evening with Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun" on Thursday, April 17 in the Congress Lounge. Ambassador Braun spoke on women in politics, the Democratic presidential candidates, her role as United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, the importance of Biodynamic agriculture and the use of organic foods.
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At Roosevelt University’s 16th Annual Employee Recognition Ceremony on April 17, faculty and staff were honored for years of service and outstanding contributions to the University. Recognized for their service to the University were (standing from left) Ruby Jackson, staff outstanding service; Tiny McKnight, employee of the year; Clara Gong, staff outstanding service; Laura Janota, staff outstanding service; Jocelyn Yarbrough, staff outstanding service; Colleen Kennedy, excellence in teaching; and Michael Bryson, outstanding service to the Library; (seated from left) Anna Marie Schuh, faculty outstanding service; Mary Ellen Schiller, excellence in teaching; and Kristen Leckrone, excellence in teaching.
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Jane Glover, Music Director of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, was the guest conductor at Vivid ’08, the Chicago College of Performing Arts' largest concert of the season, held Monday, April 14 in the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University. The annual concert featured the CCPA Symphony Orchestra and Choirs and Jorge Federico Osorio on piano.
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Roosevelt University observed Earth Day on Tuesday with ceremonies in the Congress Lounge and the showing of the movie "The 11th Hour," a documentary that examines the state of the global environment. Closer to home, President Middleton presented awards to departments which had all of its employees sign the RU Green Pledge. The first department to sign the pledge was RU Online. Pictured above (from left) are RU Online employees Lynette Washington, Leticia Martinez, Doug Knerr and Kristin Broadwell and President Middleton.
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WGN Radio's Spike O-Dell Morning Show traveled to the Prairie Arts Center in Schaumburg to broadcast a "Hometown Voices Show." Paul Green was on hand to talk about Roosevelt University’s Schaumburg Campus.
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Roosevelt alum and Congresswoman Melissa Bean (D-8th) spoke to the New Deal Service Day participants at the Schaumburg Campus about the value of community volunteerism. Bean and her executive assistant, Donna Riley, volunteered at Friendship Village, assisting residents in creating memory books.
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Roosevelt University was recognized on Monday, April 14 for its work on behalf of immigrant communities by the American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF), a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of immigration law and policy. President Chuck Middleton (center) accepted the AILF's Distinguished Public Service Award from Benjamin Johnson (left), executive director of the AILF, and Paul Zulkie, president of the AILF. The foundation recognized Roosevelt for its strong support of immigrants, including making undocumented students eligible for full-tuition assistance and voicing public support of progressive federal immigration legislation.
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More than 300 Roosevelt students, faculty, staff and friends participated in New Deal Service Day activities on Friday and Saturday in Chicago and the Northwest suburbs. Among those who did volunteer work were Heeyean Chung, a sophomore finance major, and Han Wu, a graduate student in accounting. They are shown cleaning a kitchen at an apartment owned by Alexian Center for Mental Health in Arlington Heights. Bob Fitzpatrick and Joe Davis were co-chairs of the event which annually demonstrates Roosevelt's commitment to social justice.
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At a retirement reception for College of Arts and Sciences faculty members on April 9, Dean Lynn Weiner thanked retiring faculty members for their 200 years of combined dedicated service to the students, the college, and to the Roosevelt University community. Pictured (left to right) are retiring faculty members with the year they joined the University: John Currano, professor of mathematics (1970); Jimmie Johnson, associate professor of mathematics (1980); Dean Weiner; Dan Headrick, professor of history and social science (1975); David Hamilton, professor of public administration (1977); and Ray Shepherd, professor of mathematics (1976). Not pictured is Susan Weininger, professor of art history (1970).
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Roosevelt University hosted the opening reception for the inaugural &wuot;Race Sex Power: New Movements in Black and Latina/o Sexualities," a two day conference. Here, Juan Battle, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center C.U.N.Y. and co-chair of the conference, introduces President Chuck Middleton at the April 10 event.
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Carolyn Wiley (standing), professor of management, was one of the presenters at Roosevelt's fifth annual Mini-Conference on Teaching held Friday, April 11 in the Auditorium Building. She was part of a panel that discussed Integrating Service-Learning into the Curriculum of the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration. A variety of other roundtable presentations and workshops were held to share ideas on teaching methods. The conference was sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President.
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High school science teachers attended a workshop on Friday at Roosevelt in preparation for the 2008 Summer Biotechnology Institute. The program was organized by Cornelius Watson, associate professor of biology, and the Xomix Limited organization. The annual summer institute is an opportunity for high school students to explore the field of biotechnology.
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Mike Bryson, associate professor of humanities, is featured on the cover of the Murray Green Library's new Read poster. Joining him at an unveiling reception on April 10 are (from left) Jennifer Lau-Bond, reference librarian, and Barb Schoenfield, head of public services and director of the Schaumburg Campus Library.
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Roosevelt's annual International Day was held Thursday, April 10, in the Congress and Fainman Lounges at the Auditorium Building. Students from many diverse backgrounds gathered to share information about their cultures from around the world. The event drew a large crowd that enjoyed international foods, dancing and music, providing insights to many very interesting places. The event was sponsored by the Office of International Programs.
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Denise Bransford, chief of staff, was interviewed by Channel 2 on April 3 at the opening reception of "Harold!," the new photography exhibition in the Gage Gallery. Fifty pictures of the late Mayor Harold Washington (BA, '49) will be on display in the gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., from April 3 through June 27. The photos were taken by Antonio Dickey and Marc PoKempner. Dickey was Washington’s official Chicago City Hall photographer and PoKempner covered Washington for top national publications.
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Real estate development and management are the focus of a new international collaboration agreement between Roosevelt’s Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration and the School of Economics and Management at Tongji University in China. The schools are expected to work together in a number of areas, including teaching, real estate research projects, exchange of faculty and students, collaboration with industry professionals and staff development. As officials from both universities watched, the agreement was signed on Friday by Joseph Chan, interim dean of the Heller College and Fang He, deputy director of the Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University.
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A group of volunteers from the Roosevelt community traveled to South Dakota for the second time in two years over the recent spring break to provide assistance to residents living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The group, which included Roosevelt students, completed a number of tasks including building bunk beds and renovating homes. The trip was organized by Katie Mason, a graduate student in the College of Education's community counseling program, and was led by Cindy Anderson, the College's assistant professor in special education.
More photos of the project and the group's travels can be viewed here.
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At a reception Tuesday night, guests examine one of 19 colorful desks on display at the Schaumburg Campus. The high school desks were transformed into public art by community artists in an exhibition titled Desks on Parade, sponsored by the District 300 Foundation for Educational Excellence. Mary Fioretti, administrative secretary to the vice president and dean of the Schaumburg Campus, is the chair of the District 300 Foundation.
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Approximately 60 human resources managers and professionals attended the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration's first Global Management Forum on Monday with keynote speaker Ian Williamson (third from right). Williamson, an international scholar and an associate professor of management at the Melbourne Business School in Australia, addressed the importance for businesses today to recruit and retain talented employees. Forum participants included (from left): Scott Bradshaw, president of Homemakers A Plus Care, Charlene Guss of the Burrell Communications Group, Jessie Leisten of Hewitt and Associates, Carolyn Wiley, professor of management and associate provost for program review, Williamson, Jamel Ivory Penn, a human resources business partner with SPSS, and John Jameson, talent sourcer with General Growth Properties, Inc.
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Interim Provost and Executive Vice President James Gandre led a discussion at the Schaumburg Campus on Tuesday about the Meaning of Social Justice at Roosevelt University. Faculty, staff and students, including students from at least two classes, participated in the wide-ranging conversation.
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More than 1,000 students and alumni from Roosevelt and other universities filled the second floor last week for a Government Job and Internship Fair. Among the agencies attending were the Federal Air Marshall Service and the U. S. Department of State.
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Roosevelt and the Donors Forum hosted a presentation in the Congress Lounge on Friday morning titled, "Roles and Responsibilities in Corporate Sponsorship." A capacity crowd listened to speakers (from left) Suzanne Griffith of Exelon Corp., Christy Uchida of Community Investor, Melissa Borino of Washington Mutual and moderator Timothy Russell of PepsiCo.
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