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CE Career Training
Virtual Information Session
January 19, 5-6 pm

Community Education Career Training offers short-term skills and professional training, allowing transition to vocational and other academic programs.

Courses help those who are unemployed and working adult professionals to upskill or change their career focus quickly. Attend the Career Training Information Session to learn more!
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Free Online Music Tutorial Videos from Edgar Gabriel

 

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Highlights

Bookmarks: A Festival for Readers and Writers 8/29

You're invited to Bookmarks: A Festival for Readers and Writers, a celebration of stories, ideas, and the written word. Free and open to the public. RSVP

Business Growth Badge Helped Local Entrepreneur Reimagine her Future

From practitioner to CEO! Local entrepreneur Melissa Armstrong transformed her perspective from solo practitioner to strategic business leader after completing Harper College’s Business Growth Badge through Community Education. The program helped her rethink operations, uncover long-overlooked goals and begin building a path toward sustainable growth and expansion for her skincare and wellness clinic.

Debut Novel Published by CE Writing Studio Student

Longing to rekindle his passion for writing, Brian took a course from Harper’s Writing Studio, which offers noncredit classes and workshops ranging from poetry to technical writing. Now, he is a published author who recently debuted his children’s novel at Printer’s Row Lit Fest in Chicago.

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I started a new job as a graphic and web designer and the digital badge I got was part of the reason they chose to hire me. I couldn't have done it without you!

Laura U.
Web Maintenance and Design Digital Badge
Jennie Johns, Instructor

David is a truly amazing teacher who makes learning the harmonica lots of fun. His enthusiasm is contagious and he has a heart of gold.

Richard E.
Blues Harmonica
David Kachalon, Instructor

The Writing Salon was so much more than a writing class. The experience was energetic, enthusiastic and supportive. I highly recommend this class for anyone who wants to develop their skills as a writer!

Kristine T.
Writing Salon
Laura Ehrke, Instrutor

As always, your Spanish classes are packed with new information about the language. You make it easy to learn Spanish and keep it very interesting. Thank you!

Surrinder P.
Conversational Spanish III
Rene Castellanos, Instructor

I have participated in many LLI classes over the past two years. Gary is a terrific discussion facilitator and brings excellent background knowledge to our classes. I'm learning so much about Foreign Policy.

Barbara C.
Foreign Policy Roundtable
Gary Midkiff, Instructor

Just want to let you know how much I enjoyed your class. Hope you will have more classes since I am a novice in the wine area and am anxious to learn.

Taimi W.
Wine and Cheese Pairings
Marcel Flori, Instructor

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