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DePaul University is a Roman Catholic school founded by the Vincentian religious order in 1898. It has a total enrollment of about 23,000, including about 15,000 undergraduates, 7,300 graduate students and 1,000 law students. Students come from all 50 states and nearly 100 countries. It is the nation's largest Catholic institution of higher education, and emphasizes teaching over research. DePaul's main campus is in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Other sites are in Chicago's Loop, Naperville, Oak Forest, O'Hare International Airport and Rolling Meadows. It has nine schools and colleges, including the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences; College of Commerce; College of Communication; Col...
DePaul University is a Roman Catholic school founded by the Vincentian religious order in 1898. It has a total enrollment of about 23,000, including about 15,000 undergraduates, 7,300 graduate students and 1,000 law students. Students come from all 50 states and nearly 100 countries. It is the nation's largest Catholic institution of higher education, and emphasizes teaching over research. DePaul's main campus is in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Other sites are in Chicago's Loop, Naperville, Oak Forest, O'Hare International Airport and Rolling Meadows. It has nine schools and colleges, including the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences; College of Commerce; College of Communication; College of Law; College of Computing and Digital Media; School for New Learning; School of Education; School of Music and the Theatre School. Its basketball and other athletic teams are known as the Blue Demons.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — On May 21, Thomas Stanley Alexander of Hagerstown received his Ph.D. in criminology/criminal justice from the University of Maryland in College Park in ceremonies at the Comcast Center. Alexander was formally hooded by Charles...Tags: Medical Specialization, Colleges and Universities, Mount Airy, Psychology, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Business Briefs - Sept. 18
National Private Duty Association The nonprofit National Private Duty Association, along with the Maryland Chapter, will host a consumer- education Web conference titled “Addressing Legal Issues that Impact Seniors” Thursday, Sept. 22, at 8...Tags: Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, House and Home, Interior Design
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Sister Marie Vincent Brothers, artist and teacher
Sister Marie Vincent Brothers, a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame who spent nearly three decades as a teacher and graphics designer at Notre Dame of Maryland University and was once described as one of the "swingingest" nuns, died June 8 at...
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Chicagoan's long road from housing project to DePaul graduation
In 2004, Credell "Cre" Walls was working at the Garfield Park Conservatory when he took a group of teens from Chicago's West Side to Peru to study tropical plants. The students had never left the country before, and neither had he. But Walls, who was 29...
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National Louis' move to part-time profs provokes possible censure
Paul Gross shared his love of biology with students at National Louis University for 18 years and, like most academics with tenure, figured he was guaranteed a job for life. But on April 16, 2012, he was disabused of that notion by an administrator who...
Tags: Teachers, Biology, Layoffs and Downsizing, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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Officials warn of armed robbery near DePaul campus
Tribune reporterA DePaul University student reported being robbed by three men Sunday night near the college's Lincoln Park campus on the city's North Side, officials said. About 10:15 p.m. Sunday, the student was walking westbound on Webster Avenue and was...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Chicago Police Department, Teaching and Learning, Firearms, Students
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Illinois lawmakers strike out on pensions
Springfield -- Illinois Democrats who control the Capitol once again perfected the end-of-session meltdown, failing to approve major changes to a government worker retirement system that's gobbling up more and more of the budget and approaching $100...
Tags: Barack Obama, Justice System, Rahm Emanuel, Lisa Madigan, Mike Jacobs
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The Rev. Stanley Rudcki, 1927-2013
The Rev. Stanley Rudcki, who taught English literature and music to seminarians for the Archdiocese of Chicago for 40 years, saw God in his mission to make classical music accessible and understandable. "All great music … is building a bridge...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Fiction, Religion and Belief, IBM
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Indian Trail teacher wins Golden Apple
Like Bill Clinton, Caitlin Lucci won't be remembered for her saxophone playing. Lucci played the sax in school, as did the former president, but will most likely be remembered for her ability to inspire people. In her seventh year of teaching music at...
Tags: Teachers, Education, Teaching and Learning, Entertainment, Students
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Rosenthal: A call for NFL to draft Chicago as draft site
The National Football League made official on Tuesday what Commissioner Roger Goodell said last week. Because of a scheduling conflict with Easter spectaculars at New York's Radio City Music Hall, the league's own NFL draft extravaganza will shift...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), McCormick Place, National Football League, Radio, NFL Pro Bowl
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Program helps students raise ACT scores, stay in college
Thirty graduating seniors from low income families in the north suburbs will enter college this fall, thanks to College Bound Opportunities, which guides the students toward higher ACT scores. It also works with them during college to keep them from...
Tags: Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Elmhurst College, Northwestern University, Colleges and Universities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Summer vacation time not equal across Chicagoland
While many of her friends are stuck in school into June, Wauconda eighth-grader Alexandra Hayden plans to take advantage of her district's early summer break to beat the crowds at Six Flags Great America. "I'm going to party," said Alexandra, who is...
Tags: Teachers, Career and Workplace, Chicago Public Schools, Strikes, Memorial Day
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