Corinne Busby initially came to Roosevelt to play varsity basketball. She also liked the fact that Roosevelt has an excellent academic reputation and is in Chicago, yet close to her Arlington Heights home. She also discovered that her late grandfather, Arthur Busby, was a 1952 Roosevelt graduate who majored in Labor Relations….Continue Reading Spotlight On: Corinne Busby
Alumna Darlene Clark Hine is a pioneering scholar in the field of African-American women’s history and a recipient of the prestigious National Humanities Medal….Continue Reading Rewriting History
For many people the notion that a college or university could restrict admission because of one’s race, religion or gender is unthinkable. But that was the case just 70 years ago when Roosevelt University was founded. At that time, the majority of people attending colleges in the United States were white Christian men….Continue Reading The Equality Experiment