Rockford University

Future Regent Visit Day
2018-10-06 10:00 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Explore our campus, meet our personally with faculty, chat with current students, and be our guest for a tailgate lunch at the football game. Homecoming activities are taking place as well so you’ll have the opportunity to visit with alumni celebrating the place they once called home.
A peek at the schedule:
• Admission Info
• Academic & Resource Fair (meet our faculty!)
• Campus Tour with a Twist
• Free Lunch (we’re tailgating!)
• Football Game
Come see the Regent Experience for yourself at Future Regent Visit Day. Reserve your spot today here or by visiting rockford.edu/admission/visit and tour campus

Chik-fil-A Tailgate - Homecoming 2018
2018-10-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Free Chik-fil-A? Fun inflatables? An awesome atmosphere to hang out in before the Homecoming football game versus Benedictine? We’re in. Go Regents!
See you from 11:00-1:00 pm in Parking Lot A on Saturday, October 6th!

Admit-athon
2018-10-08 09:00 - 16:00 | Nelson Hall (Admissions and SAS), 5050 E State St, Rockford, IL, 61108-2311, United States
No time? No problem! Kick off your Rock Solid future in one day. Walk into the Admission Office, bring official transcripts (first-year and transfer students), and ACT/SAT scores (first-year students), and you’ll receive an admission decision on the spot. Full-time students may receive a scholarship! Call the Office of Admission at 815.226.4050 with questions.

Mid-term exams
2018-10-10 08:00 - 2018-10-16 17:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
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Craft Club: FALL-Tastic Painting Night
2018-10-10 19:00 - 20:30 | The Den – Burpee Student Center, IL
Craft Club is planning to meet again this Wednesday (10/10) at 7 pm in Fishbowl (Glass Room in Student Center).
This week, we are painting totes and mason jars!
Please RSVP by sending an E-mail to rucraftclub@rockford.edu.

FORUM: The Power of Food for Health-Neal Barnard, M.D., F.A.C.C.
2018-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Regents Hall – Burpee Student Center, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Please join Dr. Neal Barnard, president of The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, as he discusses the science behind what you eat. Learn how food can help you tackle cholesterol, weight problems, diabetes, and heart disease and even improve brain function. Dr. Barnard will discuss the benefits of a plant-based diet along with offering practical guidance on how to turn your health around, starting one bite at a time.
Regents Hall, Burpee Center

FORUM: Factfulness-Anna Rosling Rönnlund
2018-10-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Maddox Theatre – Clark Arts Center, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Factfulness is the stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. In this interactive conversation presented with Rockford’s Connect2Peace organization, you’ll hear 10 instincts that distort our understanding of the world and how the thinking habit of factfulness can help. You’ll also learn about Dollar Street, an innovative data visualization program that uses data to depict how people really live.
Maddox Theatre, Clark Arts Center

Fall break-no classes, offices open
2018-10-17 08:00 - 2018-10-18 17:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States

Mid-term grades due in Registrar's Office
2018-10-18 00:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Mid-term grades are due by 11:59 pm
View the full Academic Calendar 2018-19

Fall break-no classes, offices closed
2018-10-19 08:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States

Academic advising
2018-10-22 08:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Academic advising for spring semester and summer term for
all continuing graduate, undergraduate, and BSMS students
View the full Academic Calendar 2018-19

United Nations Day
2018-10-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Regents Hall – Burpee Student Center, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
UN Day marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. With the ratification of this founding document by the majority of its signatories, including the five permanent members of the Security Council, the United Nations officially came into being.
October 24 has been celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948. In 1971, the United Nations General Assembly recommended that the day be observed by Member States as a public holiday.
Please be our guest as we celebrate the UN Day 2018.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Regents Hall, Rockford University
10am – 12pm

Put the Nail in Domestic Violence!
2018-10-24 11:00 - 14:00 | The Den – Burpee Student Center, IL
October is Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention month. Stop by the Den between 11am and 2pm on October 24, 25, or 26. You can show your support by getting one of your fingernails painted purple! Also available will be resources and information about domestic violence prevention and how to get help in our community and on campus. Help us put the nail in domestic violence!

Sushi - Global Taste
2018-10-24 11:30 - 13:00 | Cafeteria
Sodexo and the Office of Global Affairs have teamed up for a very special Global Taste on October 24 in the cafeteria from 11:30-1.
Sodexo is bringing a sushi expert to campus who will make 1000 pieces of sushi which will be served in the cafeteria during the lunch hour.
Our two students from Japan will be on hand to demonstrate sushi making and will teach students, faculty and staff how to make their own sushi.

2018 Candidate Forum: 16th Congressional District
2018-10-24 17:30 - 19:00 | Regents Hall – Burpee Student Center, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
The Jane Addams Center for Civic Engagement and AAUW Rockford Area Branch will be hosting the 2018 Candidate Forum for the 16th Congressional District on Wednesday, October 24 at 5:30pm.
Candidates:
Sara Dady (confirmed)
Congressman Adam Kinzinger (not confirmed)
Moderator:
Susan Stephens, WNIJ/NPR

Movie Night - A Quiet Place
2018-10-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Severson Auditorium – Scarborough Hall, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Join us in Scarborough Hall (in the Severson Auditorium) on Wednesday, October 24th for a FREE showing of A Quiet Place. The movie begins at 8:00 pm!

Starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, A Quiet Place follows two parents who do what it takes to keep their children safe in a world full of creatures hunting every sound they can hear. Not a sound can be heard from the family hiding in silence, but all it takes is one noise and everything can go wrong. You won’t want to miss this!

Regent Madness
2018-10-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Seaver Physical Education Center, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
-Men’s/Women’s 3pt Contest
-On-Court Fan Contests
-Dunk Contest
-Men’s Scrimmage
Friday, October 26 at 7 pm
Located in Seaver
#Don’tBreak #RestoreTheRoar

Spooked: Words and Music for the Dead of Night
2018-10-26 19:30 - 20:30 | Maddox Theatre – Clark Arts Center, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Free will donations at the door. Costume contest with prizes.

Spooked: Words & Music for the Dead of Night
2018-10-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Join us—if you dare—for one ghoulish night of ghostly sounds, sinister songs, and haunted tales in a Halloween program that will send chills down your spine!
Rockford University Performing Arts Department partners with the RU English Department, Rockford Public Library, and Rock Valley College Concert Choir for a night you will not soon forget. In addition to music by classical composers J.S. Bach, György Orbán, and Benjamin Britten, the choirs will also present macabre musical tales from Sweeney Todd, Nightmare Before Christmas, Phantom of the Opera, and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The two winners of the Rockford Public Library/English Department’s “It’s Alive!:” Ghost Story Writing Contest will read their award-winning short stories, and short selections from two of Shakespeare’s darkest scenes will round out the haunted evening.
A Costume Contest with prizes of up to $100 gift card will commence at 7:15, and the performance will begin at 7:45.
DON’T MISS THIS SPOOKTACULAR EVENING!
Suggested donations—$5 for students, $10 for adults—will go to benefit the Rockford University Friends of Performing Arts.
More information on the event can be located here.

Early Spring Registration Begins
2018-10-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States

Early Registration Begins
2018-10-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States

Registration for spring semester and summer term
2018-10-29 08:00 - 2018-11-16 17:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Registration for spring semester and summer term for all
continuing graduate, undergraduate, and BSMS students
View the full Academic Calendar 2018-19

FORUM: Rockford’s Daughter: Reintegrating the life of Ellen Gates Starr as a social reformer, artist, activist, and religious seeker-Annie Storr, Ph.D.
2018-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Fisher Memorial Chapel – Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Rockford alumna Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940) may be one of America’s most important under-studied figures of the early 20th Century. Side by side with her lifelong friend, alumna and Nobel Laureate, Jane Addams (1860-1935), she co-founded Chicago’s famous Hull-House. Part of this story is her role as an articulate conveyor of ideas, both directions, between the Progressive Midwest and the Britain of the Suffrage Movement, the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Social Gospel and Modern literary circles. Dr. Annie Storr is a Resident Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Research Study Center and teaches Gallery-Based Teaching and Learning in the Museum Studies Program at Harvard.

Haunted Campus Tours
2018-10-30 20:00 - 22:00 | Fisher Memorial Chapel, Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Let’s have a little pre-Halloween fun, shall we? Join us on the evening of Tuesday, October 30th for an adventurous, fright-inducing campus tour unlike any other . . .
Once your tour departs at either 8 pm, 9 pm, and 10 pm from Fisher Chapel, you will be led to several locations on campus that are packed with ghostly tales and paranormal frights. You will even have the chance to use legitimate ghost-hunting gear to induce your very own paranormal encounter. We dare to see you there!

Cruelty-Free Halloween
2018-10-31 11:00 - 13:00 | The Den – Burpee Student Center, IL
November is World Vegan Month! Celebrate with free vegan candy in the Den on Wednesday, October 31 from 11am to 1pm.

Day of the Dead Celebration
2018-11-01 17:00 - 20:00 | Regents Hall – Burpee Student Center, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Please join Rockford University Spanish and Multicultural for a Day of the Dead Celebration.
This event is FREE to all Rockford University students, faculty and staff.
There will be authentic Mexican food and a presentation on the history of the Day of the Dead Celebration.

Admitted Student/Competitive Scholarship Day
2018-11-03 10:00 - 14:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Your achievements have earned you an invitation to an invite-only, special admitted student day on campus.

What will it be like to be a Rockford University Regent? We can’t express it in words; you need to experience it, to feel it. Meet our faculty and take in why they are passionate about what they do. Hear from alumni and see where an RU education can take you. Meet current students, enjoy lunch, and simply see how you connect with our community.

Reserve your spot at rockford.edu/admission/visit or call 815.226.4050.

Athletic Hall of Fame Celebration Dinner & Induction
2018-11-03 17:30 - 21:30 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
New honorees will be inducted in recognition of their former athletic accomplishments. Past inductees will also be honored.
New Inductees are:
Heidi Harris Burkhart `09 Basketball 1999-2002
Troy DeCook `06 Basketball 1999-2003
Marcus Howard `05 Football 2000-2003
Jimmy Dercks `12 Baseball 2009-2012
Cost of the event is $10.00 per person.
Social Hour at 5:30 pm (Cash bar)
Dinner at 6:15 pm
Regents Hall (Second floor of Burpee, RU campus)
RSVP by October 20, 2018 to Lauren at (815)394-5190 or LPrchal@rockford.edu

Canned Food Drive
2018-11-07 08:00 - 17:00 | Student Life Office – Burpee Student Center, 5050 E State, Rockford, 61108
The Jane Addams Center for Civic Engagement (JACCE) will be collecting donations for Rock River Valley Pantry as we observe Hunger & Homelessness Awareness week from November 7 thru November 16.
Please drop off your donations in the Student Life Office near the Den in the Burpee Center from 8am to 5pm, Monday thru Friday.
Current needs for Rock River Valley Pantry include but all canned/sealed donations are welcomed.
– Canned Fruit
– Applesauce
– 100% Juice
– Canned Vegetables
– Pasta and Rice
– Cereal
– Tuna
– Soup

Nursing Student Organization "Stuff the Turkey Drive for Carpenter's Place"
2018-11-07 08:00 - 17:00 | Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, 61108, United States
Carpenter’s Place in Rockford is in desperate need for toilet paper and socks this holiday season.
Donations can be put in the donation bin located in the Starr Science Building across from office 208 or brought to the NSO meeting on Wednesday, November 28 at 12 PM.
