Harper College will be closed on Tuesday, November 3, for Election Day.
January 05, 2015
Students Myra Chung and Meta McKinney recently placed first and second at the annual Hand and Lock Prize in London, arguably the most prestigious competition in couture embroidery. They were the only two American prizewinners. Read More
December 05, 2014
Fabricators and Manufacturers Association (FMA) agrees to partnership with Harper College with a $500,000 sponsorship gift to support Harper College's Manufacturing Program and the Harper College Promise Program. FMA is a professional organization with more than 2,300 individual and company members working together to improve the metal forming and fabricating industry. Read More
December 01, 2014
The Harper College Distinguished Alumni Awards Program recognizes former Harper students who have distinguished themselves in their careers and in their service to the community. This page is dedicated to the 2014 award recipients. Read More
October 31, 2014
Harper College biology instructor Nellie Khalil was the 2014 recipient of the Professor Powell and Larry Moats Extra Five Minutes Faculty Award. Read More
July 10, 2014
This day took most of us into the Virunga Mountains, a chain of Western Rift Valley volcanoes that straddle the borders of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for a first-hand experience with the critically endangered mountain gorillas. Considered a biodiversity hotspot, portions of the Virungas are protected by contiguous trans-frontier parks in Rwanda (Volcanoes National Park), DRC (Virunga National Park), and Uganda (Mgahinga Gorilla National Park). Read More
July 10, 2014
The early morning mist shrouded our vehicles as we rolled past the town of Kabale headed for the Rwanda border about 20 miles away. We completed the border formalities without a hitch just as the fog banks were beginning to rise around us. Read More
June 12, 2014
June 12, 2014
After spending nearly a week in and around urban areas in central Uganda, we headed to the southwestern part of the country. Several faculty visited Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), which we had learned about through the paper “Developing Astronomy in Uganda” in the proceedings of a 2011 International Astronomical Union Symposium. Read More
May 29, 2014
Cities are highly complex places, growing over time as a result of forces ranging from topography and the location of natural resources to economic activity both formal and informal. Nowhere does the challenge of understanding and coordinating these forces–and addressing their consequences–become more apparent than in city planning. Read More
May 24, 2014
Tuesday brought us to Kampala, to the Uganda Museum, and to one of our most anticipated destinations – Uganda’s center of higher education and East Africa’s oldest, Makerere University. Our plan was to form working relationships with members of Uganda’s academic community whose roles in the university, areas of expertise, and research interests could give us the chance to form partnerships with African colleagues, to the benefit of both institutions’ students and faculty. Read More