August 11, 2011 – 5:27 pm
CHICAGO – Aug. 11, 2011 – Regina Wells-Anderson, 51, a medical assistant student at Everest College – Bedford Park, has received a $3,000 academic award from the AARP Foundation Women’s Scholarship Program. The program provides monetary assistance to women over age 40 with a demonstrated financial need who seek new job skills, training and educational [...]
December 6, 2010 – 4:56 pm
CHICAGO (Dec. 6, 2010) – Everest College is expanding in the Chicago area with the addition of a campus in southwest suburban Bedford Park. The new school, designed to help meet the growing demand for hands-on, career-focused education, is the seventh Everest campus in the Chicago metropolitan area. “Based on the growing enrollment at our [...]
October 27, 2010 – 5:16 pm
Merrionette Park, Ill. – Oct. 27, 2010 – Katie Killian of Chicago has been appointed president of Everest College – Merrionette Park. In her new position, Killian will oversee all administrative departments, including admissions, student affairs, educational programs, and community and business relations. Killian joined Everest College – Merrionette Park in August as bench president [...]
September 23, 2010 – 5:18 pm
Merrionette Park, Ill. – Sept. 23, 2010 – Most college graduates leave their campuses well armed to enter and succeed in their new professions, but may lack one critical “real-life” skill – managing their money. That’s why Everest College, with six campuses in the greater Chicagoland area, offers at no charge to all students an [...]
September 20, 2010 – 11:33 pm
Merrionette Park, Ill. – Sept. 20, 2010 – Everest College-Merrionette Park has promoted three executives who support the career college’s variety of programs for full and part-time students. Trina Ellis of Chicago has been promoted to director of education, overseeing the six programs that serve the campus’ 800-student population. She formerly served as the school’s [...]
September 20, 2010 – 5:15 pm
CHICAGO – Sept. 20, 2010 – Floyd Mack of Chicago has been promoted to director of education for Everest College-Chicago. In his position, Mack will recruit, supervise and evaluate faculty and develop departmental goals and measurements for seven departments. Mack formerly served in a role similar to director of education at the Everest College-Merrionette Park [...]
August 25, 2010 – 7:04 pm
CHICAGO (Aug. 25, 2010) — Labor Day, commonly regarded as the last official day of summer and a day off of work, is better known for backyard barbeques and retail sales than anything having to do with its labor movement roots. This year though, the career experts at Everest College are urging Chicagoans to spend [...]
January 20, 2010 – 10:30 pm
CHICAGO – Jan. 20, 2010 – In a survey conducted by Everest College of more than 500 Chicagoland employees ages 18 to 35, 61 percent confess they daydream about starting a new career. And, although currently employed, 58 percent of respondents admitted they would actually change jobs if nothing stood in their way. “We [...]
November 13, 2009 – 10:56 pm
CHICAGO, November 13, 2009— Loretta J. Scott, a graduate of Everest College – Skokie, has been selected the winner of the college’s 2009 Dream Award. The award recognizes a graduate who has completed a post-secondary education while overcoming extraordinary challenges. Scott simultaneously raised three daughters while working full time at a job in security and [...]
November 10, 2009 – 6:11 pm
Corinthian Dream Award winner Pamela Jackson overcame
struggle with gangs and neglect to complete education and become a nurse
