The People’s Junior College, organized by the Jewish People’s Institute, will begin its second full year of work, October 3, it was announced yesterday. Registration for the various courses is already in progress.
The college was organized last fall to accommodate hundreds of students who were affected by the order of the Chicago Board of Education closing Crane Junior College.
The new school is already accredited by the University of Illinois accrediting committee and its students are accepted without examination by leading mid-Western universities.
Courses will be offered in a wide variety of subjects, designed to meet the requirements in all standard professional schools of liberal arts, law, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, commerce, accounting and engineering. The school is non-sectarian and co-educational.
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