{"id":69247,"date":"2021-03-04T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=69247"},"modified":"2021-03-03T18:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:46:21","slug":"associated-colleges-of-illinois-to-host-march-9-virtual-event-focused-on-solutions-to-illinois-economic-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/associated-colleges-of-illinois-to-host-march-9-virtual-event-focused-on-solutions-to-illinois-economic-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Colleges of Illinois to Host March 9 Virtual Event Focused on Solutions to Illinois&#8217; Economic Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, Ill., March 4, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; College presidents, corporate leaders and students will lead an Associated Colleges of Illinois&#8217; (<a href=\"https:\/\/acifund.org\">https:\/\/acifund.org<\/a>) virtual event March 9, at 11 a.m., focused on how educators and the business community are working together to offer solutions to economic challenges faced by Illinois&#8217; companies, schools and students.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/21-0304-aci-vdata-event-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"Associated Colleges of Illinois\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/21-0304-aci-vdata-event-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/21-0304-aci-vdata-event-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Registration (<a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/NzAm50DNZCo\">ow.ly\/NzAm50DNZCo<\/a>) for the virtual event is open through March 9.\u00a0The video program can be viewed on ACI&#8217;s website (<a href=\"https:\/\/acifund.org\/march-9-virtual-event\/\">https:\/\/acifund.org\/march-9-virtual-event\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf2q_DTK-PnKPDVx42kIlZUvzEnnlUeOxNXRw9kprHVG76-xw\/viewform\" class=\"autohyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf2q_DTK-PnKPDVx42kIlZUvzEnnlUeOxNXRw9kprHVG76-xw\/viewform<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event, &#8220;A Smarter Solution: How the Liberal Arts and Business Community Together are Solving Illinois Challenges,&#8221; includes discussion of ACI&#8217;s extensive alumni employment data (<a href=\"https:\/\/acifund.org\/member-employment-data\/\">https:\/\/acifund.org\/member-employment-data\/<\/a>). Presidents of four ACI-affiliated colleges and universities, a Fortune 500 company CEO and two corporate members of ACI&#8217;s Board of Trustees, including a student, will be presenters.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual event is planned for 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. CST. President Jamel Santa Cruze Wright,\u00a0Eureka College, will introduce the program and offer concluding remarks. Wright is also ACI president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other topics and speakers are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the challenges? \u2013 President Philip G. Ryken,\u00a0Wheaton College<\/li>\n<li>How can we meet these challenges? \u2013 Kunal Kapoor, CEO,\u00a0Morningstar, Inc., and graduate of ACI-member\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouthcollege.edu\/\">Monmouth College<\/a><\/li>\n<li>What do ACI-member schools offer as one solution? \u2013 President Teresa L. Amott,\u00a0Knox College<\/li>\n<li>What have been the results shown by the employment data? \u2013 President Troy D. Hammond,\u00a0North Central College<\/li>\n<li>How can you get involved? \u2013 Chloe Overstreet, ACI board member and student at ACI-member Eureka College, and Mark A. Vargas, ACI board member and president,\u00a0Licentiam. Vargas is also a graduate ACI-member\u00a0Judson University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the virtual event, a recording will be available on ACI&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About ACI:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Associated Colleges of Illinois (ACI) is a collaboration of 26 private, independent colleges and universities, representing more than 70,000 students. Established in 1952, ACI supports member colleges and universities by advancing independent liberal arts and sciences education and helping underserved students succeed in college, career and life. The organization raises funds for scholarships, peer mentoring and emergency financial aid, and it provides member services such as professional development conferences and college-to-career seminars and events. Visit ACI\u2019s website <a href=\"https:\/\/acifund.org\">https:\/\/acifund.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn R. Brooks, APR<br \/>\nDirector of Communication<br \/>\n312-263-2391, ext. 3<br \/>\njbrooks@acifund.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, Ill., March 4, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; College presidents, corporate leaders and students will lead an Associated Colleges of Illinois&#8217; virtual event March 9, at 11 a.m., focused on how educators and the business community are working together to offer solutions to economic challenges faced by Illinois&#8217; companies, schools and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7605,"featured_media":69248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,12804,64,53,13890],"tags":[11858,7928],"class_list":["post-69247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-news","category-ap","category-chicago-news","category-illinois-news","category-virtual-events","tag-illinois-education","tag-liberal-arts","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4518,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}