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Collection of the Month The Institute for Metropolitan Affairs, 1989-2002 The Institute for Metropolitan Affairs was created in 1989 to address public policy issues through policy analysis and...

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Student Publications, 1937-2007 The Student Publications Collection contains not only back issues of The Torch, but the Central YMCA College student newspaper, the Oyez Review, Roosevelt University’s...

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Collection of the Month - Walter A. Weisskopf Collection, 1948-1975

 In 1945, Weisskopf joined Edward Sparling and left Central YMCA College to become one of the founding faculty members of the newly formed Roosevelt College. He began as an associate professor, was...

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Labor Oral History Project, date unknown and 1970-1990In 1970, faculty member Elizabeth Balanoff received a bicentennial grant of $16,825 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct and...

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Before we were Roosevelt – Central YMCA College

The Chicago YMCA began offering college classes to men in 1919.  It expanded into a four-year college located at 19 S. LaSalle and began admitting women in 1933.  Three years later, Edward J. Sparling...

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Before we were Roosevelt

Have you ever heard of Thomas Jefferson College?  For about a week we were Thomas Jefferson College.  Edward Sparling and the founding faculty and staff decided to name their new college after Thomas...

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Happy Founders' Day

On April 17th, 1945 the charter for Thomas Jefferson College was granted by the State of Illinois.  The school was renamed Roosevelt College after the death of Franklin Roosevelt and on April 24th,...

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Collection of the month – Bernard Brindel Collection This collection contains 8.2 cubic feet of annotations, class notes, compositions, publications, and other documents dating from 1924-2009 relating...

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Collection of the Month City Club of Chicago date unknown and 1988-2011 Founded in 1903, the City Club of Chicago is the longest-running civic forum in Chicago. Its mission is to provide a forum for...

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Collection of the Month Labor Oral History Project, date unknown and 1970-1990 In 1970, Professor Elizabeth Balanoff received a bicentennial grant of $16,825 from the National Endowment for the...

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