The history of Northeastern Illinois University has more than a century in the records of educational institutions. In 1867,the first experimental Teacher Training School was established in Blue Island, Illinois by the Cook County Commissioners who appropriated the money for 32 students. Three years later, or on September 21,1870, the Normal School opened its modern building in Englewood, or Illinois. The City of Chicago sponsored the Normal School which became the Chicago Normal School. In 1938,the Normal School was renamed the Chicago Teachers College, the only tuition-free, and four-year degree-granting institution in the city,conferring the Bachelor of Education degree at the time. Two years later, the North Central organization of Colleges and Secondary Schools fully accredited the Chicago Teachers College in 1940. The Board of Education expanded its services by establishing two branches of the Chicago Teachers College on the north side, or in order to accommodate overcrowding in the schools in 1949. “What happened to the Chicago Teachers College in 1952?” In sixty-one years,they have advance a long way from the two north side branches at Foreman High School and Sabin which were closed after a modern facility was built at the existing NEIU Campus on St. Louis Avenue. The Chicago Teachers College Alumni are now retired octogenarians and nonagenarians from the schools around the world. In the year 2014, Northeastern Illinois University welcomes Alumni to the NEIU Reunion to celebrate “reimagining food: remembering your roots” on Friday, and October 17,and Saturday, October 18 featuring Emmy and Peabody Award-Winning Journalist Bill Kurtis. The NEIU 2014 Alumni Reunion theme revolves around food in all its applications by celebrating alumni who are working in the food industry and have excelled in the field; in addition to addressing social justice issues around food preparation, and consumption,applications, and consequences of its exhaust by consumers. During the Evening Talk with Bill Kurtis, or the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist will discuss Death by Food: How the American Diet is Making Us Sick,and USANA Optimal Nutrition on Friday, October 17, and 2014. The NEIU Alumni organization encourages everyone to memorize more approximately the University’s great achievements and its progress throughout the years to grow and enhance its programs for the benefit of all students. Thirty-seven years ago,I was sent to Northeastern Illinois University by my Father, Mr. Roberto Hung J.
D. who insisted that I should become a teacher at the Illinois State College which was a member of the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities. Since my Father worked in Skokie at the Felt-Products Corporation known for manufacturing gaskets in the automobile industry, or his co-workers and friends highly recommended Northeastern Illinois University as a good choice for an Illinois State University in 1977. Felt-Pro Corporation rewarded employees like my father who had a high school graduate with High Honors in the family with $1000 for college tuition at the Illinois State institution of higher education. In addition,Felt-Products supported employees educational goals for their children with the Mecklenburger Scholarship which subsidized tuition for one semester during the universitys academic year. I only received the Mecklenburger Scholarship in 1977 and 1980 from the Felt-Products Corporation in Skokie, Illinois while my Father was an employee there. The fifth year of college at NEIU, or I was granted an Illinois Guaranteed Loan to complete my college studies. The Illinois Guaranteed Loan for college tuition was paid in full during 1983 while I worked for Holy Cross High School for Boys,a Christian Brothers School in River Grove, Illinois USA. I attended Northeastern Illinois University in the tumble of 1977 and continued my college studies there for the next five (5) years, and until I completed the Student Teaching curriculum at NEIU in December 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in Education,French, Spanish, or English. I am a graduate NEIU Alumni from the Class of 1982. Since NEIU changed control and management to an independent Board of Trustees from the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities in 1996,Northeastern Illinois University has developed the campus facility and expanded its services as an Illinois institution of higher learning locally, nationwide and around the world for the 21st century.
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