Thursday, September 02, 2010
  Search
Join DiscoverPlaces.com Now! It's 100% Free

Discover all the ways to Learn in Champaign-Urbana, IL!

 

From the youngest children to adult students, diverse and comprehensive educational opportunities are available to meet the needs of Champaign Urbana, IL.

Featuring some of the country’s finest primary, secondary and higher education, Champaign-Urbana ranked in the top 3 percent nationwide for education in the First Annual Mayor’s Challenge as reported in Expansion Management Magazine.

Parkland College offers over 100 excellent academic, technical and vocational programs.

The University of Illinois is a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement, distinguished by the breadth of its programs, broad academic excellence, and internationally renowned faculty.

Parkland College was established in 1966 to fill the need for affordable, vocational-technical and education in East Central Illinois. With excellent career training in over 100 programs of study, Parkland equips students to accept the challenge of an exciting new career or complete advanced degrees at four-year colleges and universities. Come learn something new with Parkland’s short-term community classes and workshops! Non-credit learning is available for your own growth and development, or just for fun. Try learning Italian, designing your own web page, or learn to “Salsa” dance!
Champaign Community Unit School District # 4 partners with the community to guide students in gaining knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to excel in life. Urbana School District # 116, through active community engagement, strives to provide quality education by fostering high expectations in a nurturing environment.
SPLASH is the Urbana Middle School program that stands for “Students Playing Learning After School Hours”. Activities are led by UMS staff, Urbana Park District staff and community partners. University of Illinois tutors volunteer the Homework Lab, with funds provided by Urbana’s School District’s 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant. Programs include activities, clubs, classes, Homework Lab and Morning Jump Start. Last year, 325 students participated in Splash!
Welcome to Urbana’s friendly, old-fashioned, high-tech library! As one of the oldest public libraries in the state, the Urbana Free Library is free to all City residents, and honors cards from all Illinois public libraries. The Urbana Free Library has consistently been ranked in the top 1 or 2 percent of public libraries nationally, and in the top 1 percent of public libraries in Illinois!
The Champaign Public Library has built a new facility that is three times the size of the current one, bring plenty of comfortable chairs, a quiet reading room, a coffee shop, meeting rooms, more computers, and much more! To learn more by visiting this 2007 National award-winning Champaign Public Library website, see below.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was ranked as one of the top 10 public universities in the United States for the year 2007 by U.S. News and World Report.
Copyright © 2008-2010 Discover Places, LLC.  All Rights Reserved.