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Friday, July 4, 2025

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Claiming Space: “Who fights for our schools? Organizing for Racial Equity on the West Side”

Jane Addams Hull House Museum 800 South Halstead, Chicago, IL, United States

DETAILS: 4:30 – 6 p.m. Exhibition opening and reception. “Claiming Space: Creative Grounds and Freedom Summer School” 6 – 8 p.m. Panel discussion and reception. “Who fights for our schools? Organizing for Racial Equity on the West Side”   Details: The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago will be hosting...

Money Smarts-Financial Literacy Workshops

Lech Walesa Hall (LWH) 3700 W Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL, United States

Description: Project Success is sponsoring a "Money Smarts" Financial Literacy Workshop Series beginning February 27, 2018 at 3:00 pm. See attachments for more details. Register and attend one or all of these workshops. Completed forms can be dropped off at the Project Success Office in LWH 4029, or they can be scanned and emailed to Dr. Pinkey...

Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing Within and the Beyond the Academy

Golden Eagles Room

Description: A discussion with Professors Sharon Bethea, Olivia Perlow, BarBara Scott, and Durene Wheeler. Please join NEIU Professors Bethea, Perlow, Scott, and Wheeler for a discussion of their recently published book. This interdisciplinary anthology sheds light on the frameworks and lived experiences of Black women educators. Contributors for this anthology submitted works from an array of academic disciplines...

Ability Awareness Day

NEIU Recital Hall 3701 West Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL, United States

Description: Ability Awareness Day promotes support and inclusion of students of all abilities. Guest speakers will use humor and educational insight to learn more about (dis)abilities as well the experiences from fellow NEIU students

Relocating the Difference: Fake News and Fact in the Age of Trump

TBD

Description: Speaker: Dr. Tim Scherman, Professor, English “Fake news”—or more specifically, the newly pervasive difficulty in establishing the difference between what we used to call “fact” and political opinion—has dominated the media since the candidacy of the current president became, for lack of a better word, “serious,” in the summer of 2015. For many, the effects of...

Reproductive Justice Speaker: Chitra Panjabi

Angelina Pedroso Center 5500 North Saint Louis, Chicago, IL, United States

Join us for a conversation on Reproductive Justice & Human Rights. Monday, April 8, 2019 12:55-2:10 Pedroso Center What does Advocacy for Reproductive Justice Look Like Today? Speaker: Chitra Panjabi Former President/CEO of SIECUS – Sexuality Information and Education Council of the US (Washington DC) Chicago Abortion Fund Board Member (now based in Chicago) Please...

Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh Servant Leadership Lecture

Angelina Pedroso Center 5500 North Saint Louis, Chicago, IL, United States

The University community is invited to the Annual Mossadegh Servant Leadership Lecture featuring Ardeshir Babaknia, M.D., on Thursday, April 11. Babaknia will speak twice: at 3 p.m. in the Pedroso Center (B 159) followed by a reception, and at 6 p.m. in Mossadegh Hall in the College of Business and Management followed by a reception and book-signing....

Town Hall on DACAmented individuals

NEIU El Centro 3390 North Avondale Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States

The University community and the public are invited to attend a Town Hall on DACAmented individuals from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at El Centro. Panelists from community organizations, businesses and schools will speak about challenges and resources for DREAMers, DACA recipients and undocumented students. The Town Hall is part of “DACAmentation: Humanizing Our Stories,” a...

Earth Matters: Ethics Action

Main Campus (Auditorium) E-Building 3701 West Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL, United States

Join World-renowned journalist and broadcasting icon Bill Kurtkis, along with NEIU alumnus, best selling author and award winning talk radio host John St. Augustine, as they tag-team the many challenges faced by humanity when it comes to environmental ethics and responsibility in this 90 minute multi-media event. Admission is free to the public; donation to...

Welcome to the Independent Campus Calendar. Find out which events are happening, where and when. This calendar is for events happening on any of NEIU’s four campuses as well as off campus events hosted by NEIU clubs, organizations, alumni, departments and staff.

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