Kennedy–King College

The school was renamed to honor Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in July 1969, a year after they were both assassinated.

The initiative draws industry partners to work with faculty and staff in redesigning occupational program curricula and facilities to better match the needs of employers.

It included two gyms, a daycare center, a theater, a swimming pool, a television studio, and a radio station.

Woodrow Wilson Junior College was located at 6800 South Stewart Avenue, Chicago, as of November 1942.

This included constructing new buildings and a prominent clock tower on a 40-acre (16.2 ha) new campus on Chicago's South Side.

In 1973, the new skill center building was named in memorial for William L. Dawson (1886–1970), a local politician and lawyer who served 27 years in the United States House of Representatives and was the first African American to chair a Congressional committee.

[19] Paul Henning Willis was born in Texas, circa 1878, and died in Chicago on 5 September 1939.

He was a social sciences instructor at Woodrow Wilson Junior College at the time of his death.

[20][21] A letter to the editor from the dean's office that appeared in the Suburbanite Economist dated 26 January 1941 pointed out that more than ten percent (6 of 59) of the Phi Beta Kappa graduates of the University of Chicago's Class of 1938 were among the first graduates (Class of 1936) from Woodrow Wilson Junior College.

High honors also went to a remarkable number of Wilson's Class of 1938 when they graduated with four-year degrees in 1940.