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Causes: Adult Education, Education, Higher Education, Universities
Mission: Roosevelt university is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. The university's student-centered faculty and staff inspire academically qualified students from diverse backgrounds and all ages to benefit from rigorous higher education and professional development opportunities.
Programs: Roosevelt university offers programs and services that reinforce its student-centered mission. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs and is committed to the highest academic standards for all programs. Class schedules are flexible. Courses are offered from early morning until late at night, as well as on weekends. Additionally, the university offers more than 100 online class sections each semester with course enrollments exceeding 2,000 students. Fully online degree programs are available. Class sizes are small. At the undergraduate level, the average class size is 20 and for the graduate level, the average class size is 18. Roosevelt serves 2,759 undergraduate and 1,942 graduate students. The following is a listing of the approximate number of students by college: arts & sciences - 2,000 students; education - 400 students; performing arts - 500 students; professional studies - 600 students; business - 1,000 students and pharmacy - 200 students.
roosevelt university provides support services that foster learning and student success on campus. These services include: faculty- led experiential learning opportunities, the academic success center, career services, counseling center, disability services, learning communities, health & wellness programs, international programs and tutoring.
roosevelt university's commitment to social justice is deeply rooted in its history and is reflected in its mission, strategic plan, research and learning opportunities both in and outside of the classroom. The mansfield institute for social justice and transformation, created in 1999 through a gift from the mansfield foundation, provides roosevelt university with opportunities to integrate social justice throughout the curriculum and research. The goal of the institute is to foster social consciousness among the university community through social justice programming in the areas of human rights, social and political action and the arts. The center for new deal studies features resources and activities that deepen the understanding of the lives of franklin and eleanor roosevelt, and of the social, economic, political and cultural history of the new deal era in american history. The center sponsors a variety of educational programs, including lecture series, course offerings and publications. In addition, the center contains a remarkable collection of materials on franklin and eleanor roosevelt and the new deal. These include books, digital and photographic media, oral histories, manuscript collections and thousands of pieces of ephemera of interest to roosevelt scholars and researchers of the new deal.