The Equality Experiment

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.

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Seth Boustead Wants Us All to Hear the New Classics

Whether he’s talking about composers on his internationally syndicated radio show or meeting with them in China, Chicago and points in between, Seth Boustead’s message is this: Classical music is not dead.

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A Giant Step Forward

Last year was a World Cup year, but the Roosevelt University community didn’t need to see games played 5,000 miles away to get excited about soccer. That’s because 2014 was also the year that the Roosevelt men’s soccer team established itself as a program to be reckoned with.

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