Oakton College officially dropped “community” from its name Tuesday. The community college has campuses in Des Plaines and Skokie. It serves students in Oakton College District 535 ...

Starting Jan. 17, Oakton Community College begins a new chapter in its proud history as it officially becomes Oakton College. Along with the name change, the college will unveil a new visual ...

Oakton Community College will change its name to become Oakton College starting Jan. 17, the institution announced Tuesday. College President Joianne Smith said the name change “is a way of ...

Oakton Community College is losing the "Community" part of its long-standing identity. The Des Plaines-based college's board of trustees this week voted to change the school's public name to ...

Now, the expanding industry of pot has schools preparing college graduates for a future in the marijuana industry. As CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports, Oakton Community College has helped Jason ...

DES PLAINES (WLS) -- Oakton Community College in west suburban Des Plaines is the first college in Illinois to offer a cannabis-specific academic program. The Cannabis Dispensary and Patient Care ...

Oakton Community College marked a half-century of operations with a Founder’s Day ceremony on June 25. The event marked 50 years to the day the first meeting of the Board of Trustees of Oakton ...

Oakton Community College announced Wednesday that the school’s board of trustees authorized a new, trailblazing program to train students to work in the burgeoning medical pot industry.

That’s how many students on average were leaving Oakton Community College in Chicago’s suburbs in 2015, said Joianne Smith, Oakton’s president. The college, which enrolls roughly 9,000 students, was ...