So here we are, inside the workplace, and what do we see? The first thing we see is a dog that belonged to the owner of the company.

On September 28th 2019, the student organisation, Association of Computing Machinery For Women (ACM-W), hosted the JAVA workshop from 11:00 am – 1:30 pm. This workshop was designed to help students in understanding the different concepts of the programming language JAVA which is the base language that most CS majors have to start their coding careers with here at Illinois Tech.

The past weekend, October 3rd to October 5th, me and a bunch of 11 other girls, all fellow members of the Association of Computing Machinery for Women (ACM-W), were honoured to attend the Women of Color Conference, in Detroit, Michigan at the Cobo Centre.

"We have forgotten to evolve for the betterment of this nature and ourselves."

The Kaplan Institute hired Lance Pressl to be the Managing Director three months ago. He doesn’t remember student dissatisfaction with Kaplan last year because he wasn’t here. Pressl spoke to the Student Government Association (SGA) Senate on Wednesday, October 9. He shared a series of key priorities of the Kaplan Institute in order to maintain communication and receive feedback from the senators.

​​​​​​​Members of Illinois Tech’s Association for Computing Machinery-Women (ACM-W) and 25,000 other ladies attended the Grace Hopper Celebration from October 1 to 4 in Orlando Florida. The Grace Hopper Celebration, organized by AnitaB.org, is just that – a celebration of women empowerment, technology, and the numerous ways the two intertwine. Among industry professionals, leaders, and other students, those attending had the incredible opportunity to network, peruse the vast career fair, and attend sessions hosted by their high-accomplishing peers. Topics of these sessions ranged from software engineering to cybersecurity to machine learning to leadership to the newly created hardware track and more.

An overview of KFC's latest game, I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator. Yes, this is real.

The Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship, which most people simply call Kaplan, has radically altered campus. It’s changed classes, invented departments, and altered the physical layout of our disc golf course.

At the Oct. 3 President’s Update to faculty and staff I asked President Alan Cramb a question about diversity and inclusion in the leadership positions at Illinois Tech. I was not satisfied with his answer and feel it necessary to share the conversation with the wider Illinois Tech community who could not attend the update and encourage continued dialogue on this topic with Cramb and others in senior leadership. 

Fire Mauricio Pochettino. Please.