About the University Center

WHO WE ARE

The University Center, a consortium-based center, provides high quality educational opportunities for the residents, workers, and employers of the Lake County region.

The University Center enables students to remain living and working in Lake County while they complete their higher education. The academic programs come to the students--via classroom courses or online courses or a blend of the two--instead of requiring the students to go to the main campuses.

The University Center strives to provide students in higher education programs with: • Opportunities for effective and efficient transfer from prior institutions to a University Center member institution; • An educational philosophy of continuous and life long learning in constantly changing environments; • Faculty committed to high academic quality; • Services and staff responsive to the array of place-bound learners and their needs for access, flexibility, and convenience; • Innovative uses of technology to enhance the learning experience and to enable remote participation and collaboration; • Facilitated inter-institutional cooperation for program planning and delivery; • A diverse range of academic programs; and • Access to both public and private higher education.

The “Academic Programs” section of this guide provides more detail about these programs and services, as does the University Center’s website www.ucenter.org.

For members of the Lake County community who are not seeking degree programs, the University Center provides: • State of the art facilities for business meetings, workshops, training and conferences • Meeting support services to remove logistical barriers to successful knowledge-sharing activities • Learning programs to support the continuing education needs of Lake County workers across a variety of industries

Open Houses enable prospective students to investigate their academic options.

• Programs and services to enhance networking and business partnership development among Lake

County employers and workers • Certificate programs with tight focus on a specific set of skills

The Educators’ Center page describes how the Center works to meet the professional development needs of pre-K-12 school districts.

WHERE WE ARE

Grayslake: The University Center of Lake County campus at 1200 University Center Drive in Grayslake includes classrooms, computer labs, science lab, nursing lab, administrative and faculty offices, and a conference center.

North Chicago: Through its Alliance for Health Services, DePaul University offers the Master’s Entry to Nursing Practice Program at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago.

Great Lakes: Through an arrangement with the Navy College Office, Southern Illinois University Carbondale also offers classes at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.