Facing a budget crunch, the Board of Trustees will debate a significant tuition hike on Thursday, Feb. 7. The 3:00 p.m. meeting will be held in Golden Eagles room and will be open to the public. If approved, the change would mean students who enrolled in 2004 and before will […]

Bill Campbell grew up on the south side of Chicago through one of the most tumultuous times in 20th Century America: the era of the Civil Rights Movement. For 30 years he has been working with ABC-7 Television Chicago. He came to speak on Jan. 30 to the NEIU campus […]

Nestled between two huge Puerto Rican flags in Humboldt Park, the space known as Paseo Boricua, lies Café Teatro/Batey Urbano, a Puerto Rican/Latino youth-based club and internet coffee-house which strives to showcase the creative talents of neighborhood youth, and to link Puerto Rican/Latino students with the community. The Batey Urbano […]

Chicago holds world renown for its delicious deep dish and stuffed pizzas and Giordano’s is one of a number of local restaurant chains that can claim to have helped make it so. Born near Torino, in Italy, brothers and chefs Efren and Joseph Boglio grew up with their mother’s wonderful […]

Some people fear contracting arthritis or catching cancer, others fear having a heart attack or experiencing erectile dysfunction-yet diabetes, which can be a silent and sometimes deadly disease, never seems to be on people’s radar! It is something that “old people” catch or something you’re “born with,” and there’s nothing […]

When God closes a door, he should open a laptop. The Goodman Theatre production of Conor McPherson’s Shining City suffers from a few minor flaws in the acting but ultimately fails to satisfy due to deficiencies in the script. There are five scenes in this one-act play. In terms of […]

The Fine Arts building was constructed during George Ryan’s tenure as Governor of Illinois, using the architectural firm VOA Associates who have been designing buildings since the late sixties. The early concept of a Fine Arts Building came about many decades ago but has gained renewed interest under Gordon Lamb, […]

As the world watches the American election process this year, one wonders how the soldiers are feeling. How DO we feel about the changing tides, about losing our current Commander In Chief? What, do we feel, must be done in 2009? As military personnel, our opinions matter little. In fact, […]

As most of you who know me, know I am an unapologetic Republican. I will be the first Republican to admit that our party is not always perfect and we have had our political disagreements internally, but the mission, philosophy and values of the party are the core of what […]

NEIU is currently negotiating a contract with Verizon Wireless regarding the construction of a cell antenna on top of the library building. This was confirmed by Assistant Director of IT Strategic Planning, Sergey Chernov, who has declared that NEIU is negotiating the terms of the contract. There are plans of […]