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• Chicago-area professionals look to Harper's Professional Advancement and Learning Center for career counseling and courses that boost their earning power. |
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Entrepreneur's Quest will help small businesses thrive
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| With an eye on helping small business owners compete and excel in a continued rough-and-tumble climate, Harper College is hosting Entrepreneur’s Quest 2010, a daylong seminar filled with expert tips on marketing, sales, branding, business strategies and the latest technology. Social media trends – including details on promoting businesses, boosting sales and improving customer service via networks like Facebook and Twitter – will be among the topics. More than 70 percent of jobs are created by small business clients like the ones Harper is targeting at the Quest event. Entrepreneur’s Quest 2010 runs from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24 at the Wojcik Conference Center on Harper’s main campus, 1200 W. Algonquin Road, Palatine. The cost is $60 for those who register by April 1, and $75 afterward. That includes lunch and seminar materials. Register for Etrepreneur’s Quest 2010, |
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“Staying in business can be difficult struggle for any small business owner, anytime – but especially in a time when America is still battling the effects of a devastating recession,” Small Business Development Manager Bonnie Richter says. "This workshop will offer strategies for surviving and thriving despite economic challenges, and competing in the nation’s new business landscape."
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Athletics
Harper wins 2010 NJCAA Wrestling Championship
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Harper College captured the 2010 NJCAA Wrestling Championship Saturday, February 27 in Des Moines, Iowa. The Hawks accomplished the feat as a non-scholarship awarding program and also ended Iowa Central Community College's four year championship run in the sport.
Harper's 137 team points was well in front of Iowa Central's 116 in the final standings. Labette Community College (Kan.) came in third with 105.5 points, North Idaho College was fourth with 99 points and St. Louis CC - Meramec (Mo.) rounded out the top five with 96.5 points.
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Josh Kratovil captured a national title. Four other Harper wrestlers earned All-American status: Luke Roth, Jordan Bakely, Eduardo Dominiguez and Mike Dace.
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Events
Hope Cladwell (Sarah Breidenbach) and Bobby Strong (Tom Vendafreddo) lead the cast of Harper Ensemble Theatre Company's production of Urinetown. | Harper Ensemble Theatre Company presents
Urinetown, the musicalMarch 12-14 and 19-21
Performing Arts Center
Tickets $12-15 Yes, that really IS the title!...but don’t let that stop you from seeing this Tony Award-winning, hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution.
In a Gotham-like city, a 20-year drought leads to a government ban on private toilets, forcing citizens to pay to use “public amenities” regulated by the evil mega-corporation UGC (Urine Good Company). Amid the people, a hero plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom.
Urinetown is an irreverently humorous satire of everything from capitalism and corporate mismanagement to the Broadway musical form itself. Learn more.
Buy tickets now. This event is co-sponsored by Student Activities.
| Live@Harper this Spring:
Small Works Art Exhbition
March 29-April 22
Harper SpeechTeam presents
Night Before Nationals
March 30
CMC presents:
Chicago Jazz Party
April 10 Harper Symphony Orchestra presents
Isn't it Romantic?
April 11 Chef Geof Manthorne
from The Food Network's
Ace of Cakes
April 13 Shakespeare's comedy,
Much Ado About Nothing
by the National Players
April 18 Learn more about all the Arts and Events you can explore Live@Harper or Buy tickets now. |
In Focus
Michael Harkins is an associate professor of history, where he draws heavily from his work in the field.
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| One of his favorite units was on the Battle of Midway, where he showed students a series of photos from the three-day siege, including original shots captured by film director, John Ford, who was a Naval commander at the time.
Harkins obtained the photos from the National Archives. He has them on a disc and shows his students the last images of the young American pilots killed during the battle, in a haunting power point presentation.
“They caught the Japanese by surprise on their carriers, and were smart enough to have two waves of attack,” Harkins says. “Churchill calls it the greatest naval battle in history, and a turning point in the war.”
Harkins even points to the little known role of the Code Talkers, the Native American boys who were able to decode the Japanese signals, which advanced the American strategy. |
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“I use all primary sources,” Harkins says. He describes the Roman British hill forts they unearthed, dating back to the time of Claudius and the end of the Roman expansion into Britain. His findings ranged from Roman swords and animal bones to walls and mosaics from their living quarters.
“Early history is based on these kinds of archaeological records. It makes history come alive, if you can place where they lived.”
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