Paul Casbarian
Litigation class, PLS 103
WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE
1200 West Algonquin Road
Palatine, Illinois 60067-7398
847-925-6000
"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
William Rainey Harper College is a fully accredited, two year community college located on a 200 acre campus in Palatine, Illinois, a suburb located northwest of Chicago. Harper College started with an initial enrollment of 1,700 students in 1967. The student body is now approximately 24,000.
Harper College is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the Commission on Dental Education of the American Dental Association, Community Junior College Member of the National Association of Schools of music, Certificate of Real Estate School, Commission of Allied Health education Programs, Community/Junior College Member of the National Association of Schools of Music, Council on Education, National League for Nursing, American Dietetic Association, National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs and the American Bar Association.
As stated in the introduction to the Harper College Catalog, "a primary objective has long centered on providing the first two years of baccalaureate education in liberal arts, sciences and preprofessional curricula so that students can prepare themselves for transfer to four-year colleges and universities to complete their degrees and satisfy their individual educational goals. In addition, the focus at Harper has broadened to include more opportunities for career education, training and retraining, professional development and personal enrichment. For example, increasing emphasis has been placed on providing technical and semi-technical education so that non-transfer students may prepare themselves for entry into specific careers, such as computer technology, criminal justice, nursing, early childhood education, park maintenance and hospitality management, directly from their community college experience."
Harper College’s paralegal studies program is fully accredited by the American Bar Association. Paralegals over the years have become an integral part of the legal society, and Harper College meets the needs of the legal profession for highly trained and qualified individuals capable of performing as paraprofessionals in any venue. Harper College paralegal graduates are found in private practice law firms, both large and small, and national, state, and local governmental agencies, as well as numerous other fields of business and law. Many of the students in the paralegal program at Harper have Bachelor and higher Degrees, and often students express their desire to continue their legal education by attending law school and becoming respected members of the bar.
