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Benedictine's board to close SCI's academic programs and complete SCI's business affairs as a junior college. The SCI board's action recognized that the interests of SCI's “students, faculty and staff” would “best be accommodated” by these steps and that “winding down of the
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built in 1869 and the oldest building on campus, houses adult admission offices, other supporting faculty offices and a conference room on the main floor. The first floor of the
Brinkerhoff Home is reserved for social receptions and meetings. Administrative offices and library space occupy the main
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Springfield branch campus would focus on the area's adult undergraduate and graduate student population, the university has restructured and repurposed office space and built facilities to better serve current students. Angela Hall now serves as the site of the Springfield
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Benedictine University Springfield branch campus. Adult degree-completion and graduate students will attend classes at employer-based and community locations. The Springfield-area locations provide students with
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The university sold one of its non-contiguous properties, the Eighth Street gym, located at 1401 North Eighth St., in
October 2015. Built in 1935, the gym was used for volleyball games and as a practice facility for other sports. It was sold to a local gym owner who renovated it and opened it as a
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College in Illinois had many challenges over the years including increasing competition for a finite market of students, a history of low enrollments and a crumbling physical infrastructure. When Benedictine entered the market, junior, senior and graduate programs were added and
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