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ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø and the City of Chicago lost a mighty activist and educator with the passing of Dr. Conrad Worrill. Read about his life and contributions to the University, a new accreditation for the College of Education and more.

Conrad W. Worrill, who taught at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø for more than 40 years and whose activism has been at the forefront of social and racial justice, African-centered education, African liberation and self-determination for people of African descent, died on June 3 after battling several major illnesses.

The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) has granted ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø’s Daniel L. Goodwin College of Education accreditation at the initial-licensure level and advanced-level.

Summer is also a great time to get ahead in your studies and learn a new skill. At ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø, Full and First Half of summer classes are underway, but there’s still time to register for the Second Half of summer classes or enroll in a Summer Bridge program.

COVID-19’s unprecedented global impact is historic. As such, the Ronald Williams Library wants to capture how this pandemic has affected University’s students by taking submissions for a new digital archive.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began changing everyday life at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø, Assistant Professor of English Ryan Poll looked to literature for answers and developed a series for PopMatters.

Though the world is still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø’s library is creating a digital archive that will seek to reflect how the pandemic impacted ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø students’ lives and how students have responded to this unprecedented time.

As the summer term begins, ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø has launched the NEIU English Institute and a new partnership with ASPIRA of Illinois.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø has entered into a new partnership with ASPIRA of Illinois to help ASPIRA teachers gain their Learning Behavior Specialist (LBS I) Endorsement over the summer.

In an effort to make its English courses more accessible to working professionals and community members not seeking college credit, ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø has created the NEIU English Institute.