Public higher education cannot survive like this
By Gabriel Costello, Columnist
August 9, 2016
I worry about many things. I worry about the lack of funding for public education. I worry about oligarchy. When I step back, and remove myself from this worry, there is a word present. Not an answer, but perhaps a path forward. The word is sustainability. A word that is prevalent today, but automat...
UPDATED: UIC student arrested, charged in connection with threats to University of Chicago campus
November 30, 2015
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UPDATE (5 p.m.): Jabari R. Dean, a 21-year-old student at the University of Illinois at Chicago was charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Illinois.DNAinfo.com reported that at Dean's federal hearin...
University of Illinois ranked 18th out of top 25 universities to produce female entrepreneurs
August 25, 2015
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Melonee Wise, University Engineering alumna, was named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 in August. Wise, is currently the CEO of Fetch Robotics and cofounded a software operating company called Unbounded Robotics. University alumni like Wise have contributed to database company Cru...
