The Partnership For College Completion
Engaging the news media to help our communities make sense of the latest developments in higher education policy and practice and what they mean for students, families, and institutions.
https://news.wttw.com/2018/10/02/chicago-area-universities-commit-closing-college-graduation-gaps By Brandis Friedman Black college students in Illinois are only half as likely as their white counterparts to earn a four-year college degree within a six-year time frame....
read more
https://abc7chicago.com/education/illinois-colleges-university-work-to-help-first-generation-students-graduate/4394903/ By Sarah Schulte Twenty-five Illinois colleges and universities are making an effort to improve the graduation rates for African American and Latino students. Partnership for College Completion,...
read more
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/graduation-gap-college-completion-crisis-university-racial-income-illinois-equity-attainment-initiative-depaul-national-louis-roosevelt/ ByCarlos Ballesteros Patrick Birden-Didona graduated from DePaul University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education. The Belmont Cragin native was supposed to graduate in 2014...
read more
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/college-enrollment-college-graduation-chicago-public-schools/ By Sun-Times Editorial Board More students than ever are going on to college from Chicago Public Schools, but we haven’t reached the end game yet. More than two-thirds...
read more
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/backstory/ct-biz-backstory-kyle-westbrook-20180807-story.html Kyle Westbrook grew up in Springfield expecting to be an astronaut, not an education activist. But his experiences led Westbrook, 44, to a career in education —...
read more
Illinois’ higher education could certainly use a “reinventing,” as the Chicago Tribune’s recent editorial calls for, but it also needs some reinvesting. Since 2000, our high school graduates...
read more