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New virtual career readiness program offered for free to 2020 bachelor’s recipients

Northeastern Illinois University’s Offices of Alumni Relations and Career Development have partnered together to offer the Braven Career Booster program to bachelor’s degree recipients from the Class of 2020. 

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Noteworthy at Northeastern: Reading and recording history

COVID-19’s unprecedented global impact is historic. As such, the Ronald Williams Library wants to capture how this pandemic has affected University’s students by taking submissions for a new digital archive.

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Northeastern to host second annual Disability Awareness Days event.

American artist and activist Riva Lehrer, whose work focuses on issues of physical identity, especially in explorations of cultural depictions of disability, will present “Disability & Queer Identity” on Oct. 29 as part of Northeastern Illinois University’s second annual Disability Awareness Days. 

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Fighting For Veterans’ Rights: The Remarkable Journey of Rodrigo Garcia

In 2006, Rodrigo Garcia was lifting weights with a friend at the Northeastern gym. Garcia had just come off five years of service in the Marine Corps, during which he had three separate deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Having spent the majority of his last five years on military bases and in combat zones, Garcia was having a tough time adjusting to life at Northeastern.