The Prospectus works to proliferate information relevant to Parkland-goers and provide its student workers with a space conducive to the learning environment.

The Prospectus is Parkland College's campus-wide student newspaper and has been in constant production since December 1968. Our reporters and editors are exclusively students of Parkland College with a variety of majors and career interests, not just communications and journalism. We set out to provide an outlet for students to further develop their writing, photography, communication, time management, and critical thinking skills while producing a quality, trusted source of news for Parkland-goers.

The Prospectus was published weekly during Parkland's spring and fall semesters and three times during the summer until the COVID-19 pandemic caused a nationwide shutdown in March 2020. Since then, articles for The Prospectus are published online at https://www.prospectusnews.com/

For inquiries, corrections, and assistance with accessibility issues, contact prospectus@parkland.edu.

This collection was able to be digitized and made available here through grant funding provided by the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board's Historical Records Grant in 2022. The application and final report are available here. More information about the grant can be found on the ISHRAB website.

A poster was presented for this project at the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) 2023 Annual Meeting. The poster submission can be found in the MAC website.