Steven Young, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, enlisted the day after 9/11, serving three tours during the Iraq war. After his service, Young confronted mental health challenges stemming from the traumatic...

After a COD student spoke of boycotting and potentially dropping their classes for the requirement of purchasing expensive online textbooks, Student Leadership Council member Moises Plata wanted to see...

Jim Mulyk was hired as full-time faculty by COD in 2011 where he went on to teach a variety of courses inside the Culinary and Hospitality Center (CHC) as a program chair. Before this, he taught hospitality...

Dina Khoury, who is Palestinian and an Arabic language instructor at COD, has family in Bethlehem, a town of more than 28,000 people located south of Jerusalem in the West Bank. Although Bethlehem is stationed...

Displays of Thin Blue Line flags from certain faculty at the Homeland Security Education Center (HEC) have created tension inside and outside COD regarding how these displays fuel both deep pride and contrasting...

Four negotiation sessions between College of DuPage’s Faculty Association (CODFA) and the college’s administration have transpired this month as full-time faculty have continued to work at COD without...

COD students have four new representatives on the Student Leadership Council (SLC) following a candidate forum that detailed how candidates would bring changes or improvements to campus. Out of 20 applicants,...

Starting this December, faculty, students and staff will move out of their traditional spaces to allow construction for a new Student Services Center (SSC) that College of DuPage administrators say will...

109,179 people in the United States died from an opioid overdose in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Illinois, from 2019 to 2021, the Illinois Department of Public...

Discussions about marijuana being illegal at the federal level, and on what kind of education taxpayers were funding at COD, unfolded at the Aug. 24 board of trustees meeting. Board members questioned...

Jeff Kenny took ownership of North American Firearms in December 2019, a family-owned gun store based out of Lombard, Ill. Kenny oversees the shop’s operation, including sales and answering any questions...

The College of DuPage faculty union, or CODFA, voted last Thursday to authorize a potential faculty strike, but faculty leaders said there is no immediate need for students to worry about their classes...

COD administrators’ plans to remove all-part time counseling staff have created an air of uncertainty during mental health month, bringing questions from faculty and counselors about whether the college...

Exposed to beheadings, rape and protests gone violent, Andrii Dovhaichuk transitioned from being a DJ to becoming a soldier for the Ukrainian Special Forces in the fight against Russia.  When Former...

James Lamoureux called it quits on his home in Ohio when his family’s addiction and mental health issues became too much. His aunt picked him up and drove him back to Illinois to move in with her, but...

Seven people are running for officer positions within Student Leadership Council with four of them also running for the position of Student Trustee. Voting opens from March 15-16, where all currently enrolled...

Zoia Shumak was born and raised in Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, and had called it home for the majority of her life before coming to College of DuPage. When war broke out, it left her unable to return...

Editor's Note: this story uses an anonymous source in order to separate the source from traumatic events, in order to avoid being approached with questions that cause her to relive those memories over...

Out of eight candidates, Zohaib Syed Quadri, Ty Giordano and Juliana Wozniak were selected by the Student Leadership Council to serve as the next student representatives charged with managing the well-being...

College of DuPage has new talent in the ranks of its athletic department hoping to further revolutionize the future of sports at COD.  “I am essentially the student-athlete liaison between the athletic...

The Chaparral men’s basketball team gained another victory as they went up against Joliet Junior College in a 96-84 win on January 26. As they finished off in the first half down a point 41-42, the Chaps...

COD offers a number of classes across all of its campuses. With such a large course load, a large staff is needed. Adjunct professors teach a majority of the classes at COD, but are they properly compensated...

College of DuPage’s football team won the the NJCAA DIII National Championship title for the second year in a row on Saturday, defeating top seed North Dakota State College of Science at Bjarne Ullsvik...

College of DuPage’s football team defeats top seed North Dakota State College of Science on Dec. 3 in a home game matchup ending 14-12. The team now holds onto the NJCAA DIII National Championship title...

The NJCAA DIII Championship this year played out in Rochester, Minn, where the COD’s women’s volleyball team tallied almost all three games as flawless victories on the road to winning the title.  COD...

The 2022-23 men’s basketball season began for the College of DuPage on Nov. 3 as the Chaps faced off against Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Ill. with the men’s suffering a 62-63 defeat.  Player...

It’s been 19 seasons since COD’s women’s volleyball team won a Region IV volleyball title, but this year’s Chaparrals put an end to that streak.  This season’s Chaps started off with a 12-game...

On Sophomore night for the women’s soccer team, the Chaparrals led the game 1-0 through the first half. They took the field with a newfound fire after halftime and clinched the game 5-0 against the Moraine...

Since second grade, Nick Keeling has always been a runner. As he went on to formally compete all throughout his years in middle school and high school, to doing the turkey trot with his dad every season,...

The men’s soccer team has six wins and seven losses this season as they fight their way to the playoffs with hopes of winning the NJCAA Region IV Tourney.  Competitor Jason Fuentes is No. 6 on the...

With a team forged by players like Chloey Myers, victory has come to the Chaparrals in great strides as they’ve gone 19-2 against teams stretching all the way to Texas.  From waking up at 4 a.m....

Growing up in Evanston Ill. Rodney Pryor had a single-minded focus, to constantly go at the one dream to become an NBA star.  Pryor worked through many divisions, from the junior college level, going...

Emigrating from Malaysia in 1981, Sheikh “Sam” Shamsuddin came to the United States for education, where he later obtained a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering technology, and a master’s...

Skylar Jollette is the face of a new athletic program at College of DuPage, making history as the first player to join up with the women’s golf team. While attending one of the open houses advertising...

As last year’s defending NJCAA champions, the Chaps football team defeated Ellsworth College 48-25 in their home opener at Bjarne Ullsvik Stadium.  Dedicated athletic performances throughout the...

            The College of DuPage’s upcoming sports season has recently just gotten some major scheduling updates, shedding light onto what kinds of competitions are coming up first for 2022-23...

Jane Vatchev was selected for COD’s College-Wide Outstanding Full-Time Faculty Member award for the 2021-2022 academic year. These are College of DuPage educators “who stand at the pinnacle of...

College of DuPage’s Men’s Golf Team placed third in the NJCAA 2022 Men’s Golf Championship last week, with three of the athletes being named All-American.       "I'm really proud of our guys...

One of the longest-serving and most accomplished coaches in College of DuPage’s history had a poetic induction into the school's athletic hall of fame last week, as COD hosted its third annual Athletic...