The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work.

Discussion of "Don't Leave Me This Way," by Julia Fox Garrison

Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare is a discussion-based program that brings hospital staff together monthly to reflect on the larger mission of medicine through facilitated conversations about literature.

The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level.

Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit.

Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University.

Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities.

This course meets on Mondays and Thursdays.
Admission is by application only. Refer to syllabus for changes in course schedule.

The concert will feature music and poetry written by composers from such countries as Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Argentina. The concert will also provide comprehensive program notes, translations, and post-concert discussions.

It is hard to believe that Dilbert, the comic strip character who embodies white-collar office micromanagement, will soon turn 20. But the bespectacled, wry-humored little engineer captured all too well the corporate culture that has come to symbolize the U.S. workplace and all its dysfunctions. Perhaps we see Dilbert in ourselves, frustrated by and caught up in all the ridiculousness of the cubicle lifestyle that gets played out everyday in corporate settings large and small.

To commemorate Dilbert's 20th anniversary publisher Andrews McMeel will release next week a 576-page $85 hardcover titled "Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert." It encompasses the full scope of corporate zaniness that made Dilbert a comic-strip sensation. Who can't identify with Dilbert and the colleagues who have spawned an animated TV series, computer game and countless Dilbert merchandise items? There's Wally, the cynical engineer with no sense of company loyalty; Alice, the token overworked female engineer; Ratbert, the simpleminded optimist, and The Boss, the uncaring, disdainful middle manager.