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Exploring the job market
The job market is beginning to improve for MBA graduates as global companies start to focus on growth following a few years of hiring caution. To be sure, this isn't the job market of the early 2000s, when the jobless rate held between 4 and 6 percent,...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Marketing, Teaching and Learning, Business, Sales
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Getting an MBA: Your business. Your decision.
Chicago TribuneAdmissions consultant Andrea Sparrey uses two numbers to startle prospective business school applicants. She tells them the average price of a home in the United States in 2010 was $273,000. And then she tells them the average price of an MBA from a...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Roosevelt University, Economy, Business and Finance, Real Estate, Consumer Confidence
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Reports blister Chicago psychiatric hospital for youths
When Garfield Park Hospital opened in February, the child psychiatric center promised to treat Chicago's toughest kids, including young gang members and sexually aggressive adolescents. But Illinois officials stopped sending juvenile state wards to...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Garfield Park, Nursing, Psychiatry
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UIC launches $10M seed fund to advance startups
Tribune reporterThe University of Illinois at Chicago is launching a $10 million fund to help inventions advance from the research stage toward potential commercial opportunities, becoming the latest academic institution in the area to channel increased resources...Tags: Darunavir (drug), Business, National Institutes of Health, Johnson & Johnson Inc., Education
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Enrollment numbers force schools to adjust
MBA enrollment numbers generally have remained flat over the last few years, but Chicago business schools insist their programs aren't suffering. Instead, they're diversifying — offering prospective students more options. Take the University of...
Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Illinois Institute of Technology, Students
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Strike planned at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tribune reporterA union that represents 775 staff members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign plans to start a three-day strike on Monday. Members of the Service Employees International Union Local 73, whose duties include food service and custodial work,...Tags: Education, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Strikes, Union (McHenry, Illinois), Colleges and Universities
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Looming budget cuts at Field concern curators
Pushing back against a cost-cutting plan to overhaul scientific research at the Field Museum, curators are meeting this afternoon with museum president Richard Lariviere. Several said they hope to share concerns about his planned restructuring of the...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting, Arts and Culture, Anthropology, Science and Technology
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Lake County taps new health department chief
The Lake County Health Department recently named a new chief, hiring the Chicago Department of Public Health's first deputy commissioner to be its executive director, a spokesperson said. Antonio "Tony" Beltran will take over the position May 6 after...Tags: Health Organizations, Lake Forest, Cook County Government, Health
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Teen dating violence leaves scars, experts say
Sheela Raja remembers treating a victim of teen dating violence who at first felt too ashamed to talk about the experience. Instead, the victim buried the trauma in alcohol until she finally opened up during therapy. Raja, a licensed clinical...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Suicidal Behavior, Suicide, AIDS, Sex Crimes
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Pigeon River camp area lost
But more resources found for GPS, birding and biking A state-run primitive campground in Mongo, Ind., closed on Friday -- a bit of news that appeared on the Travel page last Sunday and that sparked reaction on my Facebook page. "It is really the only...
Tags: Wildlife, Science and Technology, Cycling, Sports, Social Media
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Doubts surface about safety of common food additive, carrageenan
Sara Baker says the light went on in her head after a cup of hot cocoa set off a storm in her stomach. "I went back and looked at the package, and there it was: carrageenan," said Baker, a career services coordinator from Bloomington, in central...
Tags: Consumers, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Food and Drug Administration, Food Industry, Mayo Clinic
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Focus on the Arts
If it wasn't for Focus on the Arts, Natalie Sereda may not have fallen in love. On a whim, and out of the dozens of demonstrations, forums and performances that are offered as part of Highland Park High School's signature semi-annual artistic festival,...
Tags: Entertainment, Education, Teaching and Learning, High Schools, Genres
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