To meet the educational needs of working professionals in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, DePaul University will expand its network of suburban campuses by opening a Rolling Meadows Campus in September.

       The campus, located on the second floor of the East Tower of the Meadows Corporate Center, 2550 Golf Road, will offer weekend and evening graduate school courses for students of DePaul's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI) and the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. The university signed a multi-year agreement with the Rolling Meadows Delaware, Inc., to lease the 15,000-square-foot facility. The newly remodeled campus will include five classrooms, a library, general and specialized computer labs, faculty and administrative offices and conference rooms. It can accommodate up to 600 students.

            DePaul will host an open house for prospective students August 12 in the West Tower of the Meadows Corporate Center, 2850 W. Golf Road. Admission staff, career counselors, faculty members and financial aid representatives will be available to answer questions about business school programs at 9 a.m. and computer school programs at 10:30 a.m.

            "Our demographic studies indicate that a great number of our students live in the northwest suburbs,' says David Justice, DePaul's vice president for lifelong learning. 'The new campus extends DePaul's mission to provide accessible higher education to working adults.'

            William Calzaretta, executive director of suburban campuses, noted that DePaul's first suburban facility, the O'Hare Campus, was opened nearly 25 years ago in Des Plaines. "The Rolling Meadows Campus further expands DePaul's educational commitment to northwest suburban adult students, who now can take courses on two campuses in their area," he said.

            Helmut Epp, dean of CTI, said the new campus is particularly convenient for information technology professionals who work at Motorola and other companies headquartered nearby. "Many of CTI's students work in the area, so the location is ideal for them," he said.

            All five classrooms will be wired with Course Online II technologies, a system of video cameras, ceiling microphones and computers. The system records video and audio of classroom activities that can be accessed externally by students using the Internet in real time or after the class.

            The new facility is DePaul's fifth suburban campus. The other four are the O'Hare Campus in Des Plaines, Naperville Campus, Lake Forest Campus and Oak Forest Campus. In Chicago, DePaul has a Lincoln Park and a Loop Campus.

            DePaul is the largest Catholic university in the United States with an enrollment of approximately 20,000 students. The part-time MBA program at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business is the largest part-time MBA program in the nation and is ranked fifth in the latest U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings. CTI has the largest graduate enrollment in the country among schools of its kind and offers a diverse, applied program of study involving cutting-edge technologies. The school produces 42 percent of Illinois' information technology master's degree graduates.

            Students seeking more information about the new campus or the open house should call the Office of Adult Admission at 312/362-6709.