Dear Friend:

Great teaching helps to address important social issues. It's where theory comes face to face with practice. National-Louis University set out on that road 120 years ago. Our founder, Elizabeth Harrison, took the idea of early childhood education and built around it one of the first four-year colleges for teachers. Today, in all of our colleges, in the process of educating our students, we continue to act on some of the most urgent problems of our time and our society.

In 2006, National-Louis University marks its 120th Anniversary. And there is much to celebrate.

In the National College of Education, faculty are taking a leading role in the way reading problems are addressed in our public schools. In the College of Arts and Sciences, the Gidwitz Center for Urban Policy and Community Development is bringing together policy makers and community groups to collaborate on vexing issues of urban redevelopment. Faculty in our College of Management and Business provide access to the opportunities of the information age.

National-Louis University has become a renowned leader in senior-level undergraduate and graduate education--a place where our nation's adult and community college students are supported and challenged on their way to degrees that will unlock their dreams.

As we head into our 120th year, National-Louis University continues to move forward. We began as a teacher of teachers; teaching remains not just our strength, but our calling. Our faculty continue to innovate, animated by an intense dedication to their students and a commitment to building more effective and more caring schools, communities, and societies. Today we bring that expertise and compassion to more than 60 academic programs, to campuses around the world, to communities around the corner.

Richard J. Pappas
President
National-Louis University