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Chicago State University strike suspended after 10 days
Faculty and staff will return to classrooms at the Far South Side campus on Monday after reaching a tentative deal with CSU administrators.
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Most older college students don’t graduate. Here’s how one Chicago woman is making it.
Stephanie Quintana transferred to Northeastern Illinois University because it is structured to support nontraditional students. Now, graduation is in sight.
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With enrollment in freefall, faculty at Northeastern Illinois are fighting to preserve their Chicago university
Enrollment is down by half over the last decade. Faculty say the school has failed to recruit and support the nontraditional students it has long served.
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What’s driving all the faculty strikes at Illinois public universities?
State spending on higher education was cut nearly in half over 20 years after adjusting for inflation, setting the stage for today’s labor strife.
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Chicago State University faculty walk off the job over pay and workload
Professors are among the lowest paid in Illinois. The university cites progress in talks, “yet the financial realities at the University remain.“
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Chicago State University faculty to go on strike Monday
Professors, lecturers and other personnel at Illinois’ only mostly Black public university will strike over compensation and workload.
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Chicago State University faculty inch closer to a strike
Professors at the state’s only majority-Black public university are some of Illinois’ lowest paid.
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Affirmative action in college admissions may end. Here’s how the U.S. got here.
A Northwestern professor is writing a book about the history of the policy in higher education and spoke with WBEZ about his findings.
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Okra, celery and ham: Students cook up an historic African American legacy
The great-great granddaughter of a man who bought 15 family members out of slavery donated nearly 2,000 cookbooks to Kennedy-King College.