The first week of the fall semester is almost over at 天天吃瓜, and it was a busy one! Here is your cheat sheet on the latest news, updates and activities.
Around the Commons
Meet the new faculty
Students aren鈥檛 the only new faces on campus. Say hello to of the Northeastern family.
Education Building update
The new $73 million Education Building . The project is currently in preliminary design stages.
Another transit option
Chicago鈥檚 Divvy bike-sharing service will adjacent to the main campus in the spring of 2015. Another station will be installed near the new El Centro location.
Speaking of El Centro ...
Due to unavoidable construction delays鈥攁ttributed to an especially harsh winter鈥 to students Saturday, Sept. 20, instead of on the official first day of the fall semester.
In the media
Anticipating El Centro
Northeastern President Sharon Hahs and El Centro Director Maria Luna-Duarte appeared on WGN for a five-minute segment on the opening of the Avondale location. and (page 10) also took a closer look at the facility and what it means for the community.
鈥楾alk about college鈥
In a report about preparing students for college from a young age, . 鈥淲e talk with middle schoolers about the transition to high school, and once they鈥檙e freshmen in high school, talk about college,鈥 Margaret Boyter-Escalona, the center鈥檚 assistant director, told the Sun-Times.
The case for reparations
Conrad Worrill, director of the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, . 鈥淥ne can say without a doubt that what happened to African people has never been repaired,鈥 he told the Reader.
Also in the media ...
- Hesham Ezeldin, a 2013 MBA graduate from Northeastern, was quoted in a .
- Robert T. Starks, a professor emeritus at the Jacob Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, wrote for governor of Illinois.
- 鈥檚 Sept. 13 performance at the College of Lake County.
To do
鈥楳aterial Matters鈥 at the Fine Arts Gallery
The Fine Arts Gallery on the main campus is currently an exhibition that expands upon the language of abstraction through an exploration of the materiality of paint.
Mark your calendar!
- (free), Thursday, Sept., 4, Cafe Descartes in Ronald Williams Library. Bradley Greenburg will read from his new novel, 鈥淲hen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.鈥
- (free), Thursday, Sept. 4, Recital Hall. Travis Heath, Kay Kim, Jared Bulmer and Anna Mayne will perform.
- (free), Thursday, Sept. 11, Recital Hall. Robert Heitzinger will perform with Kay Kim on piano.
- (free), Saturday, Sept. 13, main campus auditorium. Telvin Trio and Bahto Delo Delo will perform.
Do you have a story tip? Let the public relations department know!
Dana Navarro, director of public relations, d-navarro@neiu.edu, 773-442-4227
Mike Hines, assistant director of public relations, m-hines@neiu.edu, 773-442-4240
