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Roosevelt University, originally Thomas Jefferson College, was founded in Chicago in 1945 as an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational institution whose intent was to make higher education available to all who could qualify academically, regardless of social or economic class, racial or ethnic origin, sex, or age. The school was soon renamed in recognition of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. With its main campus in downtown Chicago and its suburban campus in Schaumburg, Roosevelt now has an enrollment of about 7,400, about one-third of whom are graduate students. A large percentage have full-time or part-time jobs. Class schedules are flexible, and courses are offered from early morning unt...
Roosevelt University, originally Thomas Jefferson College, was founded in Chicago in 1945 as an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational institution whose intent was to make higher education available to all who could qualify academically, regardless of social or economic class, racial or ethnic origin, sex, or age. The school was soon renamed in recognition of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. With its main campus in downtown Chicago and its suburban campus in Schaumburg, Roosevelt now has an enrollment of about 7,400, about one-third of whom are graduate students. A large percentage have full-time or part-time jobs. Class schedules are flexible, and courses are offered from early morning until late night, as well as on weekends. Roosevelt has 126 degree programs organized in five colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Performing Arts, and the Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies.
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Ecstasy, abandon accent Christopher Taylor's 'Jesus'
Chicago Tribune criticFriday night in Ganz Hall of Roosevelt University, Christopher Taylor performed Olivier Messiaen's two-hour-long piano cycle, "20 Contemplations of the Infant Jesus," with staggering virtuosity and sweep. More than any of the other pianists who played...Tags: Olivier Messiaen, Society, University of Chicago, Ceremonies
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SCREEN SCENE: Louis Sullivan gets his due
Chicago Tribune reporterFor the film, Mark Richard Smith made pilgrimages to St. Louis and New York, even to small towns such as Grinnell, Iowa, and Owatonna, Minn. But Louis Sullivan's architecture always brought the documentarian back to Chicago. "Although Chicago was...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Downers Grove, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Star Trek, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Hall High Class Holds Last Reunion; Bloomfield Honors Teacher
The Hall High School Class of '46 holds its last reunion. A Hartford woman who stabbed her three young sons repeatedly is sentenced to 15 years in prison. Construction nears completion on a Windsor Walgreens facility committed to hiring the disabled....Tags: Natural Disasters, Cartoons, Disasters, Punishment, Law Enforcement
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Mariinsky's 'Giselle' boasts artistry, technical brilliance
Special to the Chicago TribuneIn the three decades I've been following dance in this town, I've seen more productions of "Giselle" than any other work, but probably none as precise, finely executed or technically expressive as the one in residence this weekend at the Auditorium...Tags: Dancing, Dance
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Five Messiaen events to see
The most extensive festival of Messiaen's music to be given anywhere in the U.S. this year, the centenary celebration sponsored by the University of Chicago's Presents will bring together leading musicians, scholars and ensembles for concerts (11 in all),...Tags: Music Industry, Classical Music, University of Chicago
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St. Joseph College Inaugurates New President In West Hartford
Courant Staff WriterIt was fitting that rain soaked the hundreds of people waiting to attend the inauguration of St. Joseph College's eighth president Friday morning: Water is a symbol of rebirth. And after a couple of rocky years at St. Joseph, Pamela Trotman Reid, 61, was...Tags: Colleges and Universities, West Hartford, Government, National Government
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DePaul to train hotel leaders
Chicago Tribune reporterChicago's role as a training ground for tourism-industry managers will expand dramatically next fall when DePaul University launches a School of Hospitality Leadership in its business school with help from a $7.5 million gift from the Conrad N. Hilton...Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Academic Progress, Hotels and Accommodations, Hilton Hotels Corp.
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Classical Corner
JOHN VON RHEIN'S PICKS Anaphora: New music concert. 2 p.m. Sun.; $5. Green Mill, 4802 N. Broadway;773-878-5552. Chicago Folks Operetta: Now here's a real rarity. Leo Fall's charming, tuneful if obscure Viennese operetta, "The Girl in the Train" (1908),...Tags: Music Industry, Colleges and Universities, Millennium Park, First United Corporation, Classical Music
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Several Chicago-area landmarks on Illinois endangered buildings list
Chicago Tribune reporterThe last intact Route 66 filling station in Chicago, an Evanston mansion where the nation's 30th vice president once lived and a one-room school house in southwest suburban Orland Township are on this year's list of endangered buildings in the Chicago...Tags: Orange County Regional History Center, Punishment, Colleges and Universities, Northwestern University, Church and State Relations
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Two parties see two Americas
Chicago TribuneJohn McCain and Barack Obama both accepted their parties' presidential nominations — McCain in St. Paul on Thursday, Obama in Denver the week before — with pledges to unite the country. But which country, exactly, would that be? The back-to-...Tags: Democratic National Conventions, Tribune Co., Paul Green, Elections, John McCain
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30-year teacher in city school
Chicago Tribune reporterBarbara E. Brown employed an emphatic but caring teaching style as she stressed the basics of arithmetic and reading to students over three decades at Ruggles Elementary School in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood. Mrs. Brown, 79, died of heart failure on...Tags: Death and Dying, Chatham, Roman Catholic, Christianity, Teaching and Learning
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Don't mess with 'Mamma Mia'
Chicago Tribune cultural criticWe are reliably told, by prune-faced political pundits and crinkle-browed scholars, that the current presidential election has unleashed a vicious cultural war upon the land. A cultural war there may indeed be, but it has nothing to do with John or Barack...Tags: Polls, Elections, Culture, Mamma Mia!, ABBA
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