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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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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...
Tags: Schools, Baltimore County, Colleges and Universities, High Schools, University of Notre Dame
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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: Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Students, Teaching and Learning, Layoffs and Downsizing
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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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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, Students, Teaching and Learning, Firearms, Theft
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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...
Tags: Interior Policy, Career and Workplace, Government, Moody's Corporation, Lisa Madigan
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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...
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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: Students, Entertainment, Teaching and Learning, Education, Music
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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...
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After vote, school closings plan must race clock
Chicago Public Schools has just three months to oversee Mayor Rahm Emanuel's massive school closing plan, a process laden with logistical challenges that could prove every bit as difficult for the system as the months leading up to last week's vote. Here...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Chicago Teachers Union, Teachers, Separation of Church and State, Chicago Public Schools
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Gerard Pawlicki, 1921-2013
Gerard Pawlicki was just out of DePaul University when he joined Enrico Fermi, Walter Zinn, George Weil and other seasoned scientists as they lifted their paper cups filled with Chianti wine, celebrating the first controlled nuclear chain reaction under...Tags: Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Museum of Science and Industry, Merchandise Mart
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Voice of the People, May. 22
Labeling schools In the controversy over school closings, we often hear the term "failing" as a reason for closing a school. The use of this term is both degrading and insulting to the students, teachers and parents of those schools. A school is a...Tags: Chicago Teachers Union, Teaching and Learning, Natural Disasters, Teachers, Chicago Public Schools
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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: Colleges and Universities, Lake Forest College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Students, Elmhurst College
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