Concordia University Chicago (a private four-year liberal arts-based Christian institution) and Resurrection University (a top university for nursing education) have entered into a partnership to offer a joint degree nursing program. Nursing Schools in ChicagoĬhicago nursing schools are aligned with developing new and novel ways of delivering education that allows nurses to progress as seamlessly as possible into a Baccalaureate education, reflecting national priorities. In addition to basic nursing programs, Chicago residents have some exciting specialty and bridge programs available, including programs in forensic nursing and gerontology, doctoral degree programs and several RN to BSN program options. Many of the promises implicit in the name of our community college have been fulfilled at Daley, and, if the past is precedent, many more will be.Chicago has over a dozen accredited nursing schools for bachelor and master degrees, along with several degree and certificate programs offered by Chicago’s nursing schools. Daley's graduates transfer to colleges and universities all over Illinois where they are welcomed as most desirable juniors, or join the work force of Chicago where they are among its most productive and enlightened citizens. Pre-credit programs to bring skill levels up to college standards are afforded along with Continuing Education, Adult Basic Education, the GED program, and English as a Second Language courses to serve the needs of people who have deficiencies in background which hamper the pursuit of their academic and career goals.Ī wide array of special events at the college and the offerings of the Cultural Arts Committee provide enrichment activities and to a large degree provide affordable cultural experiences for the community.ĭaley's students study, work, and play in a facility equipped with a 60,000 volume library laboratories for accounting, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, languages, microcomputer programming, electronics and word processing ample classroom space a gymnasium, pool, cafeteria and student activities center and complete student services from advising to financial aid. In addition to transfer and pre-professional programs the college offers vocational, technical, and occupational programs for entry level or career advancement. Typical of institutions of higher learning, Daley College has a broad offering of courses in liberal arts and science.
Daley College also provides an important community service by offering free literacy and bilingual English classes to more than 5,000 students in its Adult Education Program. Moreover, it continues to respond to the changing needs of Chicago and its people by augmenting traditional studies with the technical, career and occupational curricula for our times, and everything from accounting to telecommunication technology. With a full-time faculty of 81 members and a student body of 4,500, Daley College continues the unbroken tradition which began at Lane and Crane in 1911, of offering university-bound students a solid liberal arts education in their own neighborhoods at a cost working people can afford. Mayor Daley did not live to dedicate the new building when its doors opened in 1981, but his ideals and aspirations for the people of Chicago are embedded in its walls. It was his commitment to the residents of the Southwest community that made the college a reality, and so it was fitting that a week after his death, the school was renamed Richard J.