Roosevelt University

Roosevelt university provides support services that foster learning and student success on campus. These services include: faculty- led experiential learning opportunities, the academic success center, career services, counseling center, disability services, learning communities, health & wellness programs, international programs and tutoring.

Roosevelt university's commitment to social justice is deeply rooted in its history and is reflected in its mission, strategic plan, research and learning opportunities both in and outside of the classroom. The mansfield institute for social justice and transformation, created in 1999 through a gift from the mansfield foundation, provides roosevelt university with opportunities to integrate social justice throughout the curriculum and research. The goal of the institute is to foster social consciousness among the university community through social justice programming in the areas of human rights, social and political action and the arts. The center for new deal studies features resources and activities that deepen the understanding of the lives of franklin and eleanor roosevelt, and of the social, economic, political and cultural history of the new deal era in american history. The center sponsors a variety of educational programs, including lecture series, course offerings and publications. In addition, the center contains a remarkable collection of materials on franklin and eleanor roosevelt and the new deal. These include books, digital and photographic media, oral histories, manuscript collections and thousands of pieces of ephemera of interest to roosevelt scholars and researchers of the new deal.