Showing posts with label Universities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Universities. Show all posts

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Who can afford college in Chicago?

Yes, that's the question that must be asked by those going to college in Chicago. It's an urgent question. It costs approximately ten times more to get a B.A. or B.S. (4 year degree) today than it did thirty years ago. How much more can tuition rise? Is higher education now only reserved for a class of the wealthy elite? School loans of yester-year were tough enough to repay (President Obama mentioned early in his campaign that his were paid off with a significant delay), but what repayment terms will students of the future get?

Links:
Justin Pope, "College tuition cost rising again this fall," Chicago Defender (October 20, 2009).
Steve Saltarelli, "Take a tuition hike," Chicago Maroon (May 5, 2009).
Kim Clark, "The Surprising Causes of Those College Tuition Hikes," U.S. News & World Report (January 15, 2009).

Monday, May 18, 2009

President Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame

Mid afternoon on Sunday, May 17, 2009, President Obama spoke in a packed stadium to the class of 2009.  He detailed his community work in Chicago, saying "it was through the service that I was brought to Christ." He also paid special tribute to Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago during that period, whom he heard at one of the first organizing meetings he attended on the South Side:  "He was a kind and good and wise man, a saintly man."

Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4




And additionally:



Links:
Full text of speech from NPR.org (May 18, 2009).

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Salve Regina!

Happy Graduation Day to Students of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, a short stone's throw from the Windy City.  Theirs is a day that will undoubtedly be remembered for some time to come by the rest of the nation, given the current controvery over whether or not President Obama should have been invited to give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree.  What all the angry noise over this invitation reveals is both right-wing political stategy and the underlying fundamentalist tendencies in Roman Catholicism today.

Take for example one of the ideologue-leaders in the protest movement, Patrick J. Reilly, the president of the Cardinal Newman Society.  He works in consort with Fox News, and condemns main-line Catholic publications such as National Catholic Reporter and America Magazine (Reilly, "Notre Dame's Betrayal," May 2009).  It is unlikely that Newman himself would have desired to be a member of the society that uses his name.

For many Catholics it is shocking to see the litmus test of acceptable morality reduced to the question of abortion, when there are so many other civic and moral issues to address in the United States today:  capital punishment, social justice, peace, human rights (torturing prisoners)... to name only a few.  It is even more shocking that a certain number of Catholic bishops have fallen in with the fundamentalist faction.

As a way of honoring the students at Notre Dame, who may not have enthusiastically embraced so much media attention focusing on their ceremony, which indeed, should be about their entry into the world with their diplomas-in-hand, I would like to offer two clips that seems to reconcile diverse branches of the church in music of celebration:





Links:
James Carroll, "Notre Dame's stand against Catholic Fundamentalism," Salon.com (May 17, 2009).
Daniela Ramirez, "Notre Dame Should Applaud Obama's Choice," Huffington Post (May 17, 2009).

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Obama's Education Policy inspired by Chicago Public Schools


In a speech on education made in Dayton, Ohio on September 9, 2008, Barack Obama said, "When we challenge our kids to succeed, they will succeed!"  He then quoted Arne Duncan, Chicago Public School System Director, on better results obtained in Chicago:  "Our kids aren't smarter than they were three years ago, it's just our expectations for them are higher."

(you can hear that about 20 minutes into Obama's 36 minute long speech on YouTube).

Learn more about Chicago Public Schools.

Obama's speech came only one day after two dozen college presidents defended raising college tuition yet again.  Tamar Lewin described the situation in the New York Times (September 8, 2008), quoting Peter Welch, "Tuition has risen at twice the rate of per capita income and this year it will cost just under $50,000 to attend the average private college.  If the cost of milk had risen as fast as the cost of college since 1980, a gallon would be $15."

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Finding a psychologist

To find a therapist in Chicago, the following link from Psychology Today may prove helpful:
http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/cities/chicagotherapists.html

To find a university to study psychology in Chicago or Illinois:
http://www.allpsychologyschools.com/find/IL

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Michelle Obama and South Side Leadership

Last night's speech at the Democratic National Convention emphasized the kind of commitment Michelle intends to continue making to community service. 

Some links:
A portrait, "Michelle Obama" (released August 25, 2008) with lots of photos of the South Side.
Excerpt from the speech (August 25, 2008).
Photos of the convention on This Week with Barack Obama blog (August 25, 2008)

Michelle Obama on The View (June 2008), with Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joh Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Sherri Shepherd.  There she talks about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, and her parents' commitment and hard work.
Michelle introduces herself and talks about Barack's community service in Chicago (with photos of the South Side, 2007)

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Universities in Chicago & vicinity

Adler School of Professional Psychology.
The oldest independent school of Psychology in North America.
65 East Wacker Place.
http://www.adler.edu

Catholic Theological Union.
5401 South Cornell.
http://www.ctu.edu

Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
325 North Wells Street.
http://www.thechicagoschool.edu

Chicago State University.
9501 South King Drive.
http://www.csu.edu

Chicago Theological Seminary.
The oldest institution of higher education in the city of Chicago, run by the United Church of Christ.
5757 S. University.
http://www.ctschicago.edu

City Colleges of Chicago
http://www.ccc.edu

Columbia College.
600 S. Michigan Avenue.
http://www.colum.edu

De Paul University.
1 East Jackson.
http://www.depaul.edu

Illinois Institute of Technology.
3300 South Federal Street.
http://www.iit.edu

Loyola University.
6525 N. Sheridan Rd.
http://www.luc.edu

McCormick Theological Seminary.
http://www.mccormick.edu

Moody Bible Institute.
820 N. La Salle Street.
http://www.moody.edu

Northwestern University.
Founded in 1851, Northwestern sports a very attractive campus.
633 Clark Street, Evanston.
http://www.northwestern.edu

Saint Xavier University.
Chicago’s oldest Roman Catholic University, founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1846.
3700 West 103rd Street.
http://www.sxu.edu

Spertus College of Judaica.
608 South Michigan Avenue.
http://www.spertus.edu

University of Chicago.
5801 South Ellis.
http://www.uchicago.edu

University of Illinois-Chicago.
1200 West Harrison.
http://www.uic.edu/index.html

Wheaton College.
501 College Avenue, Wheaton.
http://www.wheaton.edu


PRACTICAL INFORMATION CONCERNING UNIVERSITY STUDY

RANKINGS
America's Best Colleges from US News & World Report
Peterson's guide to U.S. Colleges and Universities
University of Illinois links to different college rankings, including Shanghai
Academic Ranking of World Universities, 2005 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Fulbright program USA and France
USA Study Guide for International Students
U.S. Education Guides for International Students

FINANCIAL AID
Financial Aid information from the U.S. Department of Education
Paying for College by US News & World Report




Poetry from Chicago

A little corner to encourage you to read and listen to poetry from Chicago.

Hear Gwendolyn Brooks read "the mother" from A Street in Bronzeville (1945) and other poetry (Poetry Foundation's Essential American Poets selected by Donald Hall, in a recording made at the Library of Congress, January 19, 1961).


Chicago Architecture



2003. Skybridge, 1 N. Halstead Street, 39 stories.

1980. Xerox Center, 55 W. Monroe Street, 41 stories.

1975. Metropolitan Correctional Center, 71 W. Van Buren Street, 27 stories.

1973. Sears Tower, 223 S. Wacker Drive, 110 stories with a skydeck.

1972. Aon Center (Standard Oil Building), 200 E. Randolph Street.
CNA Plaza, 44 stories, 325 S. Wabash Avenue.

1970. John Hancock Center, 875 N. Michigan Avenue, 100 stories.

1969. Chase Tower (First National Bank Building, then Bank One Plaza), 10 S. Dearborn Street, 60 stories.

1968. Lake Point Tower, 505 N. Lake Shore Drive, 70 stories.

1964. Marina City, 300 N. State Street, 61 stories.

1925. Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Avenue, 36 stories.

1910. Robie House, 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue.

1892. Masonic Temple, demolished in 1939.

1889. Monadnock Building, 53 W. Jackson Boulevard, 17 stories.

1888. The Rookery, 209 S. LaSalle Street.

1885. Home Insurance Building, 10 stories.

You can get more detailed information about these buildings and others through several websites devoted to Chicago's architecture:

—Chicago architectural Landmarks, by name of architect, on the City of Chicago web pages.
—a Global Architecture Encyclopedia,  http://www.glasssteelandstone.com.

Chicago goes to the Movies



2008. Chicago 10 by Brett Morgen. See trailer.

2007. And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy by Gia Marie Amelia. See clips from the website.

2006. Running Scared by Wayne Kramer. See trailer.
2003. Chicago, City of the Century by Austin Hoyt for PBS.

2002. Chicago by Rob Marshall. See trailer.

Road to Perdition by Sam Mendes. See trailer.

2000. High Fidelity by Stephen Frears. See trailer of this film based in Wicker Park.

What Women Want by Nancy Meyers. See trailer.

1998. Blues Brothers 2000 by John Landis. See trailer.

1997. My Best Friend's Wedding by P.J. Hogan. See trailer. See 2 minutes from film.

1996. Chain Reaction by Andrew Davis. See trailer.

1995. While You Were Sleeping by Jon Turteltaub. See trailer.

1993. The Fugitive by (?). See 2 minutes from film.

1989. When Harry Met Sally by Rob Reiner. See excerpt.

1987. The Untouchables by Brian De Palma. See trailer.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles by John Hughes. See excerpt.

1986. Ferris Bueller's Day Off by John Hughes. See trailer.

About Last Night by Edward Zwick. See excerpt.

The Color of Money by Martin Scorsese. See excerpts. See New York Times review (October 17, 1986).

Running Scared by Peter Hyams. See opening scene, with views of downtown Chicago.

1984. Sixteen Candles by John Hughes. See trailer.

The Natural by Barry Levinson used Wrigley Field as a backdrop. See trailer. See Robert Redford's batting practice scene.

1980. The Blues Brothers by John Landis. See trailer.


1964. Robin and the 7 Hoods by Gordon Douglas. See trailer.

1963. The Fugitive by (?). See trailer.

1959. The Untouchables by Alex March. See opening.

North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring the Ambassador East hotel. See trailer.

1938. In Old Chicago by Darryl F. Zanuck. See trailer. Reviewed in the New York Times (January 16, 1938).

1936. Chicago May Day by Maurice Bailen.

Peace Parade and Workers' Picnic by Maurice Bailen.

1934. Halsted Street by Conrad (Nelson) Friberg.

The Great Depression by Maurice Bailen.



Chicago in all things Literary: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Essays and Criticism



AL ASWANY, Alaa, Chicago, tr. Abdel Wahab,  New York: Harper, 2008.
ALGREN, Nelson, Chicago: City on the Make [1951], Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
BELLOW, Saul, The Adventures of Augie March, 1953.
—, Herzog, 1964.
—, Ravelstein, 2000.
BROOKS, Gwendolyn, Selected Poems [1963], New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
CISNEROS, Sandra, The House on Mango Street [1984], New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1991.
DREISER, Theodore, Sister Carrie [1900] , .
DYBEK, Stuart, The Coast of Chicago [1990], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Picador, 2003.
—, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, Stories, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
—, Streets in Their Own Ink (Poems), New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
FULLER, Henry B., The Cliff Dwellers: A Novel, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893.
GUZMAN, Richard R. (ed.), Black Writing From Chicago: In the World, Not of It?, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006.
HUGHES, Langston, "Chicago," in Arnold Rampersad (ed.), The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, New York: Vintage, 1994, p.616-617.
KIPLING, Rudyard, "Chicago," chapter 5, American Notes (1891).
LIEBLING, A.J., Chicago, The Second City [1906], Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
MAMET, David, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, 1974.
—, "the Museum of Science and Industry Story," 5 Television Plays, 1975.
McQUADE, Molly (ed.), An Unsentimental Education: Writers and Chicago, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
NESS, Eliot, The Untouchables, 1947.
PARETSKY, Sara, Fire Sale, 2005.
—, Writing in an Age of Silence, London: Verso, 2007.
PYNCHON, Thomas, Against the Day (2006).
SANDBURG, Carl, Chicago Poems, 1916.
—, The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919, 1919.
SHERWIN, Byron L., The Cubs and the Kabbalist, Denton, Texas: West Oak Press, 2006.
SINCLAIR, Upton, The Jungle [1906], New York: American Library/Signet Classic, 2001; New York: Random House/Modern Libary, 2002.
WRIGHT, Richard, Native Son [1940], New York: Vintage, 2000.


Chicago's Reality (outside of Literature)


ADDAMS, Jane, My Friend, Julia Lathrop, New York: Macmillan Co., 1935.
ADLER, Jeffrey S., "'Halting the Slaughter of the Innocents,': the Civilizing Process and the Surge in violence in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago," in Social Science History 25.1 (2001) p.29-52.
BACHIN, Robin F., Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
BULMER, Martin, The Chicago School of Sociology: Institutionalization, Diversity, and the Rise of Social Research, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
CARSON, Mina, Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
CONDIT, Carl W., The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1985-1925 [19 ??], Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1973.
CRONON, William, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, 1991.
DEEGAN, Mary Jo, "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Women of Hull-House, 1895-1899," American Sociologist 19.4 (Winter 1988), p.301-310.
DIAMOND, Andrew, "From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement in chicago's West Side Ghetto, 1957-1968" Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines 116 (Spring 2008) p.51-65.
DRAKE, St. Clair and CAYTON, Horace R., Black Metropolis, A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, [1945], Revised and Enlarged, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
DURKIN KEATING, Ann, Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
DZUBACK, Mary Ann, Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
EBNER, Michael H., Creating Chicago's North Shore: a Suburban History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
GENET, Jean, "The Members of the Assembly," Esquire (November 1968) p.
GREEN, James, Death in the Haymarket.  A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America, New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. Read first chapter here.
HARRIS, Neil, The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
HOLLAND, Robert A.  Chicago In Maps: 1612-2002, Rizzoli, 2005.
HYRA, Derek S., The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
KUSCH, Frank, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
MARCEL, Jean-Christophe, "Maurice Halbwachs à Chicago ou les ambiguités d'un rationalisme Durkheimien," Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines, 1:1 (1999) p.47-68.
MATHE, Sylvie (ed.), Regards Croisés sur Chicago, Aix en Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2004.
MEIS KNUPFUR, Anne, The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
MULLEN, Bill V., review of A.M. Knupfer's The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism in Women And Social Movements in the United States 10.4 (December 2006).
OBAMA, Barack, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, [1995], Revised Edition, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004.
PACYGA, Dominic A.  Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, 2003.
ROYKO, Mike, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, 1971.
ROWE, Mike, Chicago Blues: The City and the Music [1973], London: Perseus, 1975.
SAWISLAK, Karen, Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874, Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1995.
SCHULTZ, Rima Lunin and HAST, Adele (eds), Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
SKLAR, Kathryn Kish, "Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers," Signs 10 (Summer 1985) p.658-77.
SMITH, Carl, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman, Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1994.
—, The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City, Chicago: U Chicago Press, 2006.
SOLZMAN, David M., The Chicago River: An Illustrated History and Guide to the River and Its Waterways [19 ??], Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 2006.
TERKEL, Studs, Division Street: America, 1967.
—, Chicago, 1987.
YELLEN, Samuel, American Labor Struggles [Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936], 1969, 1974.

Chicago: Reference Works

GROSSMAN, James R., DURKIN KEATING, Ann, and REIFF, Janice L. (eds), The Encyclopedia of Chicago, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.




Chicago: Tourism


CANNING BLACKWELL, Elizabeth, Frommer's Chicago 2007, New York: Wiley Publishing, 2007.
HOLDEN, Greg, Literary Chicago: A Book Lover's Tour of the Windy City, Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2001.



Sweet Home Chicago


Recently popularized in the movie The Blues Brothers, the song was first performed by Robert Johnson in the 1930s. It has been sung by many artists, including Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy.

Blogging Chicago

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