Campus News

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff, Thank you for your help in navigating COVID-19 through the fall semester.  We are pleased with the teamwork of everyone that kept campus open the entire semester as planned.  If you do contract COVID-19 over break, notify Lang Wellness Center at healthcenter@rockford.edu  if you are a student.  Faculty and Staff…

Rockford, IL (Nov. 19, 2020) – Rockford University, the region’s leading private four-year institution, today announced that senior Tanner Elliott was named as a Lincoln Academy Student Laureate, a prestigious honor awarded to only 55 students in the state. The honor is bestowed by The Lincoln Academy of Illinois to the most noteworthy senior from…

Rockford, IL (November 12., 2020) – Rockford University, the region’s leading private four-year institution, today announced that Antonio Evans has been named as the first recipient of the Charles E. Box Scholarship, a program which enables Black students to pursue a business degree, without cost, at the Puri School of Business. In his application, Evans,…

Glen Moss didn’t study education at Rockford University, but he made the lessons he learned here come to life for students over a 32-year teaching career.

Thanks to the Accelerated Adult program at Rockford University’s PURI School of Business, Patrick Murphy broke through the ceiling to advance his career.

I have this reoccurring dream where I am driving on a highway and enter a turn too fast.  I start to lose control of the car and go off the road.  It is often open grass, a field, or a large open ditch.  I wake up before I hit anything.  I am having it more often as of late. 

Increases in Undergraduate, Freshman Class, and  Advanced Education Degrees ROCKFORD, Ill. (October 6, 2020) – Rockford University, the region’s leading private four-year institution, today shared the results of its 2020-21 enrollment, noting significant year-over-year growth and some of the largest enrollment numbers in more than three decades. The highest-growth enrollment areas for Rockford University this…

ROCKFORD, Ill. (September 22, 2020) – Rockford University, the region’s leading private four-year institution, today announced it has hired Bridget Jennison as Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications. Jennison is responsible for leading Rockford University’s external communications, including media relations, reputation management, marketing, social media, and crisis communications. “We are thrilled to have Bridget…

Rockford University, the region’s leading private four-year institution, today announced it will offer sessions from its course, “Current Issues in American Foreign Policy,” free and virtually to the public.