"East St. Louis Center" News
22 May 2024, 4:00 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Veterans Upward Bound (VUB), in partnership with the City of Florissant, The Kaufman Fund and Florissant area veterans service organizations, will host a Resource and Job Fair from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14 at the John F. Kennedy Community Center, 315 Howdershell Road, St. Louis, Mo.
More than 40 vendors will be available to offer employment, community resources, and educational materials and opportunities. Private interview rooms will als...
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22 May 2024, 10:00 AM
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One lucrative workforce trend in the U.S. today is the demand for laboratory technicians, and several Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Upward Bound (UB) students have positioned themselves to take advantage of it.
Five seniors from the SIUE East St. Louis Center’s TRIO UB EC/MLC (East St. Louis, Charter/Madison, Lovejoy, Cahokia) program graduated on Saturday, May 11 with certificates as laboratory technicians. The 16-week, non-credit Alternative Digital Credentials cours...
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21 May 2024, 1:42 PM
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Bestselling author and commencement speaker, Nic Stone, gave the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Charter High School (CHS) 2024 graduating class five words that could be fashioned into survival weapons: gratitude, resilience, empathy, audacity and tenacity.
Stone addressed 22 seniors, their families and friends on Friday, May 17 in the middle of campus at the Wyvetter H. Younge Higher Education Center.
Robin Hughes, PhD, dean of the SIUE School of Education Hea...
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20 May 2024, 3:00 PM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center for the Performing Arts (ESLCPA) hosted its Spring Concert on Thursday, May 16 in the Multipurpose Room of Building D of the Wyvetter H. Younge Higher Education Center.
ESLCPA students, ages 7-17, performed a series of dance and musical numbers.
Themed “A Spring Fling,” student dance performances included a delightful mixture of modern, Jazz and hip-hop genres to “W.A.Y.S” by Jhene Aiko, cho...
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15 May 2024, 10:45 AM
Parents were recognized in various categories ranging from volunteering in the Head Start centers to participating in program governance during the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Head Start/Early Head Start (HS/EHS) 41st Annual Parent Recognition Luncheon. Parents were presented with certificates of achievement, as well as a plethora of community resources.
More than 200 parent recognitions and honors were given during the celebratory event on Friday, May 10 in the Multipurpose...
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2 May 2024, 9:35 AM
Joan Eikerenkoetter, of St. Louis, was bedridden with chronic pain, was taking more than 20 prescription pills daily, was struggling with her mental health, and once weighed more than 300 pounds. That was four years ago before she met Redina Medley, of East St. Louis.
Medley, human movement instructor, life coach, self-ascribed “life practitioner” and longtime educator, facilitated the last four of her eight-part series, 2024 Invest in Women, on Friday, April 26 at the S...
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1 May 2024, 9:20 AM
For the parents, family, and especially the students, the thrill, the clapping and the adulation did not wane or grow weary until the last accolade was announced. The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Upward Bound Scholars Academy (UBSA) at Collinsville High School (CHS) held its annual Awards Ceremony Thursday, April 25 at the CHS Auditorium.
Awards were given out for Most Improved, Honor Roll, Rising Stars, Scholar of the Month, A-T.E.A.M. and Outstanding Scholars.
During...
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30 April 2024, 9:30 AM
The Delta Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority recently contributed diapers, training pants and diaper wipes to the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Head Start/Early Head Start (HS/EHS) program.
The chapter members are alumnae of East St. Louis. The sorority sisters gave 13 cases of diapers, eight cases of training pants and two cases of diaper wipes.
“The HS/EHS program utilizes grant funds to purchase diapers, training pants and diaper wipes to care fo...
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18 April 2024, 1:55 PM
The open, inviting wooden floor, the beckoning hand rails and the watchful, supportive eyes of instruction. Jay’Kayla Winford knows them especially well. As a six-year-old, she started dancing in the studios of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center for the Performing Arts (ESLCPA).
Nineteen years later, Winford is teaching ESLCPA classes – all of them – Afro dance, jazz, ballet, contemporary and hip-hop. “I’ve been dancing so lon...
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10 April 2024, 10:05 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Learning Resource Center (LRC) was cited in the Belleville News-Democrat as helping to coordinate a 2024 solar eclipse viewing.
A link to the Belleville-News newspaper mention may be found here.
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L-R: Three CHS students take in a pre-show of the solar eclipse: Anaya Jackson, T’Niyah Black and Chross Mister.
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9 April 2024, 11:40 AM
With the unofficial theme song of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” blaring from speakers and enjoying cooler temperatures under a darkened sky, more than 100 people raised their shaded faces to the sky to view the area’s 2024 total solar eclipse.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center and Southwestern Illinois College students, staff, teachers and administrators, and community members assembled Monday, April 8 for the 2024 solar ...
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4 April 2024, 9:55 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Learning Resource Center (LRC) is hosting a moon watch in observance of the Solar Eclipse 2024 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Monday, April 8 on the green space between Buildings B and D at the Wyvetter H. Younge Higher Education Campus in East St. Louis.
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s poem, “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” will be read during the moon watch, according to Sarah Kirkpatrick, director of the Lear...
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2 April 2024, 9:35 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Simone Williams, diversity and engagement librarian at Lovejoy Library and assistant professor, was part of a front-page article in the March 28-April 3 edition of the St. Louis American that featured the University event that brought Viola “Mother” Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, to campus on March 19.
Simone shared that Mother Fletcher, co-author with her grandson Ike Howard of “Don...
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27 March 2024, 10:05 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Head Start/Early Head Start’s most recent facility, the New Life Center, was featured on St. Louis Public Radio.
Kathleen Appleby, Center coordinator, discussed both the Center’s and Head Start’s program offerings, requirements, benefits and challenges.
“We’re helping out families. We’re empowering them,” said Appleby in the interview. “They’ll have a better life if both parents can go t...
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21 March 2024, 12:14 PM
First Alert 4 broadcast the March 20 grand opening of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s New Life Head Start/Early Head Start Center in Lebanon. The Center is the latest in a number of Head Start facilities, led by Carolyn Jason, SIUE Head Start/Early Head Start program director, who spoke on camera to First Alert 4’s Deion Broxton. Jason shared the need to serve a growing population in the area and a call for staff.
Broxton also interviewed parents ready to enr...
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21 March 2024, 10:20 AM
On the first full day of spring, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville officials, community partners, parents, staff and other well-wishers let the wind carry their cheers as the ceremonial ribbon was cut on Wednesday, March 20 at the front doors of the SIUE New Life Head Start/Early Head Start (HS/EHS) Center in Lebanon.
“As SIUE Chancellor (James T.) Minor always says, SIUE is a place where you can go from infant to graduate school, from infant to dental medicine and from infa...
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19 March 2024, 10:30 AM
Showroom ready, designed with wellness in mind and manufactured to take health on the road, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing’s (SON) WE CARE Clinic in East St. Louis displayed its new mobile health unit during a recent health fair.
The Clinic teamed with Kappa Alpha Psi, East St. Louis Alumni to present their first joint health fair on Saturday, March 9 on the Wyvetter H. Younge Higher Education Campus in East St. Louis. More than 30 vendors from the...
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15 March 2024, 1:15 PM
Wearing embossed, white-collar sashes and holding white candles, the inductees of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Charter High School (CHS) Chapter of the National Honor Society looked out on a roomful of family, friends and staff. Thunderous applause and shouts were offered in celebration of the inaugural class.
“You are making history today as being the SIUE East St. Louis Charter High School’s very first National Honor Society (NHS) members,” ...
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12 March 2024, 10:25 AM
For 21 high school students, their hard work and perseverance paid off in a big way when they learned they received Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s 2024 Meridian Scholarships.
The Meridian Scholarship is the University’s most prestigious academic award. Designed for exemplary students, it covers four years of tuition, fees, housing, and meal plan. Scholarship awardees also participate in SIUE’s John Martinson Honors Program.
SIUE Chancellor James T. Mi...
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11 March 2024, 1:05 PM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Head Start/Early Head Start (HS/EHS) program will celebrate the launch of its newest facility, the SIUE New Life Head Start/Early Head Start Center. The grand opening will take place from 1-3 p.m. Wednesday, March 20. The location of the new site is 689 Scott Troy Road in Lebanon.
Featured speakers for the event will include SIUE East St. Louis Center Executive Director Timothy Staples, EdD, and Head Start/Early Head Start Program Director Car...
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1 March 2024, 8:40 AM
Support staff, grow programs and expand impact and exposure are top priorities for the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center (ESLC) Deputy Director Mark Dochterman, PhD.
“I am really excited to jump into this role and help the ESLC thrive,” explained Dochterman. “My past experience has provided me with an ability to manage people and to lead projects aimed at securing the financial resources to support programs, students, and the community. Thes...
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22 February 2024, 10:30 AM
After decades of ensuring program compliance, working with children, families, staff and more, longtime Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Head Start/Early Head Start (HS/EHS) staff member and interim program director Carolyn Jason was named HS/EHS Program Director.
“I am pleased and excited to continue to help the program that I love and that has advanced so many lives over the years,” said Jason. “SIUE Head Start/Early Head Start has a commitment to provid...
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20 February 2024, 1:55 PM
Rebirth is the theme of Nichlas Hart’s pencil drawing, which was one of 100 pieces of art selected to be showcased during Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Annual Regional High School Juried Art Exhibition, Feb. 8-16. A total of 200 pieces were considered for the show.
Hart, a junior at the SIUE East St. Louis Charter High School (CHS), said his piece, “Transfigure of the Shell,” was created out of a sense of him releasing negative emotions.
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15 February 2024, 3:45 PM
“Stretch your arms out wide. Now, take them and wrap them around yourself,” said Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Venessa A. Brown, PhD.
Brown, associate athletics director for diversity, equity and inclusion, athletics chief diversity officer and professor of social work, spoke to a red, pink and white decorated roomful of SIUE East St. Louis Charter High School (CHS) female students on Wednesday, Feb. 14 in the Multipurpose Room on the Wyvetter H. Younge Hig...
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8 February 2024, 12:55 PM
The list of accomplishments and contributions of the Hudlin Family from East St. Louis is remarkable. From purchasing their freedom from slavery, to serving as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, to being a tennis coach to the late great Arthur Ashe, to working as Hollywood film producers, the Hudlin family’s legacy is rich and substantial.
Norman Ross, retired executive director of the Greater East St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, will reveal interesting, impressive history abou...
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