Member Spotlight: Meet Eunice Heredia, City Colleges of Chicago
1. What is your current role/title? I have been working with City Colleges of Chicago for six years. My current role is Assistant Director of Financial Aid. Before...
read moreSharing PCC’s analyses of local, state, and federal policies impacting college access and success, insights from higher education leaders on equity-centered plans and practices, and student perspectives about the urgent need for greater college access and affordability to support them realizing their career aspirations.
• Featured, ILEA • Author(s): Partnership for College Completion • Tags: Community College, Equity, higher education, ILEA
1. What is your current role/title? I have been working with City Colleges of Chicago for six years. My current role is Assistant Director of Financial Aid. Before...
read more• Featured, PCC Blog • Author(s): Partnership for College Completion • Tags: colleges and universities, higher education
Graduating DePaul University Senior Jane Andrews shares her experience navigating college during COVID-19 and shares why greater investment in MAP grants will benefit many more student journeys—especially after...
read more• College and University Partnerships, Featured, ILEA, PCC Blog • Author(s): Partnership for College Completion
For the first time in two years, higher education institutions across Illinois and the U.S. are returning to celebrating their graduating seniors at in-person ceremonies. As students and...
read more• Featured, PCC Blog • Author(s): Lisa Castillo Richmond | Executive Director • Tags: colleges and universities, higher education, Illinois
Josh Wyner, Executive Director of the College Excellence Program at The Aspen Institute, and Lisa Castillo Richmond, PCC’s Managing Director, discuss their collaboration through the Aspen/PCC Equity Academy...
read more• Featured, PCC Blog, Public Policy, Research and Data • Author(s): Partnership for College Completion • Tags: affordability, colleges and universities, higher education, Illinois
In his 2021 budget address, Governor Pritzker continued to break from his predecessors in ensuring that our state’s higher education system does not sink further into a quagmire...
read more• Featured, PCC Blog, Public Policy, Research and Data • Author(s): Mike Abrahamson • Tags: colleges and univerties, Equity, higher education, illinois legislature, public policy
We estimate that public colleges and universities could have enrolled 30,000 additional students throughout the past two recessions alone had it just maintained funding for colleges and student...
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