Glenn Heck, teacher and administration who helped expand National College of Education, dies

Glenn Heck was a teacher and administrator at National Louis University and its predecessor, the National College of Education who focused on curriculum that helped the school expand to multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Born Glenn Earl Heck in the tiny community of Bardolph in west central Illinois, Heck served in the Army during World War II as a medical supply sergeant, stationed in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. Attending classes part time, Heck picked up a master’s degree in education from Northwestern University in 1955 and later began working on a doctorate in education from Michigan State University, which he received in 1973.

“We used to be a single-purpose institution, but in the 1970s we had to decide what to do,” Heck told the Tribune in 1984. “When we looked internally, we found that we had done a lot of work with the 23-to-55 age group through special education. So we developed programs geared toward working adults with limited time, energy and money.”

During his tenure, the school had facilities in Chicago, Lombard and Evanston, as well as in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Virginia, Atlanta, Tampa, Germany and Poland. In 1992, the university moved from two cramped former elementary schools in Lombard into the newly purchased former DuPage County courthouse in Wheaton, and in 1994, the university opened a new campus in Wheeling.

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