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Alderman the meeting is in the council chambers. So this
meeting will start once the economic development meeting
adjourned.
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Good morning. Good morning. It's almost afternoon. Good
morning, the committee on education and child development
is called to order we will now come to order today. We will
be conducting a subject matter hearing to learn about the
state of our city colleges and ways, we can support and
Advance our post-secondary education system. We will begin
with a roll call to establish corn vice-chair clay.
Alderman Yancey
Alderman Hall Alderman Bill Alderman Chico alderwoman leave
Alderman Quinn
alderwoman Gutierrez
alderwoman Coleman
Alderman O'Shea
all the person Flynn says
Alderman Taliaferro
alderwoman Rodriguez
Alderman Garner
There are eight members present. We have a quorum. We also
we also want to recognize I got you already. I got you. All
the woman non-members are Alderman Cardona.
Alderman alderman
I'll call the alderman Lenny. That's any other members that
I miss.
We also so we also have pursued it to Alderman Coleman
Alderman Rodriguez participate remotely. We also have all
the men more who was a non-member. Can I get a motion to
allow?
Can I get a second all those in favor?
The motion is carried at this. We will begin the public
comment period this. Is limited to 30 minutes out of
respect for everyone sign East speaker is limited to three
minutes.
I need that George, Blakemore.
Good morning. I think you just only one public speaker. Now
the education committee chair Bionicle in that Taylor. I
spoke to her and she first arrived and in the council about
these meetings one meeting run into the other meeting. So,
I believe she tried to make a difference. The other
political hacks didn't cooperate. This should never happen
again.
When you have a whole month to put these meetings they have
these meetings.
Education is very important ecology. What you say The
Mis-Education of black people and I'm sure they're doing
some of that in the elementary schools the high school and
in the junior college, but the alternator say this would be
an information meeting. They don't give out information
about the junior college and I need a pack and it should
have been up here, but it was so much this organization
that was going on here.
We need you could people come to these meetings?
Because any specially black people are empty.
On the Xbox a very important committee.
Education committee and you know, they give out jobs good
contracts in service. And and I'm on my black people to get
these jobs good contraction service. We must educate our
people. I miss Taylor we must inform my people. We must
teach our people the importance of being involved.
Your job each one of you black autumn. I'm giving you a
special special assignment you when you know better and let
her do better and thank you Uncle Jeanette Taylor, you
know, one thing about some of our people are in the big
house and some are in the field, but we black
That I beat up on my black Altima and one of them the gate
kit me. I told you to give them hell George give them hell
I'm in the big house and I'm doing the best I can and I
want you to do the best you can in the field. May God bless
each one of you may God bless you Jeanette Taylor and the
other black Altimas and blessed advocate for all people. We
know that you like Hispanics here and other nationality,
but you know who you are and what you have to do that. God
bless you.
Thank you. Mr. Blakemore. Janet Fernandez.
redial.
Good afternoon. My name is Janet Fernandez. I am a parent
of an 8th grader and I attended three of the budget
meetings. I was left with many concern and I am here to ask
every single one of you the 15 members of this Council to
to help CPS allocate funding appropriately there from what
I understood is that there is a about 1 billion dollars in
deficit, but
I truly believe that if
the budget is well, I'll look at the funding as will
allocated.
DPS wouldn't have this type of issues. Also, I would like
you to help CPS.
Combat, the the corporate greed because they are in my
opinion.
there are corporations that are asking for
or double and sometimes triple the amount of money for it
for goods and services. We need to tackle this in one of
these budget meetings. I also learned that there's a
transportation issue or selective-enrollment schools.
And we shouldn't have this.
There are many states many cities that are transporting.
Double the amount of students and in some cases triple the
amount.
With a lesser amount of funding. Why can't we do it? Why
why is CPS not giving students the transportation that
students need
I am requesting for the dad for the next meeting you
include transportation in Via. Jente. Thank you.
Thank you. There is one item there. No other speakers
signed up for public comment. There is one item before the
committee. We have representatives from city colleges of
Chicago to present their bios or email to the comedian
advance and are are included in the package. I'll turn it
over to Juan Salgado Chancellor of City College of Chicago
and allow him in the presenters to introduce themselves.
Good morning. Good morning. Chair Taylor. Thank you for
organizing this meeting today to members of the committee
of for your presence of the committee staff and members of
the public. Happy New Year to everyone. I am extremely
pleased to be here with several members of our city
College's team today to share an update on the progress of
city colleges of Chicago Chicago's community college
system. R4000 City College's faculty and staff provide
dedicated service to more than 60,000 students. Each year
across seven independently accredited colleges and five
satellite sites throughout the city. I'm honored to serve
as Chancellor of city colleges for the last six and a half
years during which time we have built-in implemented a
strategic plan with a vision to serve as the city's most
accessible higher education engine of socioeconomic
mobility and racial Equity. That's
Hidden in our mission statement. We have a lot of great
information to share with you today about our present-day
condition and the promise for our future it all starts and
ends with our students are students are the reason we do
our work to provide them Pathways to Upward Mobility
family-sustaining careers and the chance to build
generational wealth as you will hear from vice-chancellor
of legislative and Community Affairs, Jen Mason. Our
students are diverse at are as diverse as the city itself
coming to us at all stages of their lives with very goals
and unique backgrounds. We strive to meet them where they
are and surround them in a culture of care R7 comprehensive
Community College is collectively offer more than 200
quality affordable programs in cyber security to Advanced
manufacturing to free English as a second language in high
school diploma programs are high-quality programs prepare
students to contribute.
And benefit from Chicago's Dynamic economy, as you will
hear from Provo smart products. Do we have stepped up when
our city needed us and seize the opportunity to live our
values as a college system rooted in the community are
offering offering our colleges is covid vaccine sites and
how and as housing for our new neighbors among the Asylum
Seekers. We have collaborated with fellow we have
collaborated with fellow sister agencies in to
Apartments including CPS safety acpd that's a Chicago
Police Department ch8efs scdph in the department of
Aviation to create and fill critical roles. Our work is by
no means done. We have lots more to do in collaboration
with you as you will hear from vice-chancellor Mason. We
look forward to your support and your partnership to help
us continue to build Upon Our Success. We are pleased to
share news of our recent enrollment growth which surpassed
State and National averages despite operating in a
challenging enrollment environment driven partly by the
pandemic as well as demographic change today Executive Vice
Chancellor Veronica raros speak to on Roman strategies by
chance of enrollment management, Darrell Williams will
provide data on a fall enrollment game and Associate Vice
Chancellor decision-support, Brittany. Jackson cares will
provide insight into our
Year over year enrollment Trends what are the drivers of
our recovery has been our close relationship with the
Chicago Public Schools. We launched the Chicago road map
with the Chicago public schools in 2020, and it has since
become a national model for a partnership between a k
through 12 education system and a community college system.
You will hear more today about the Chicago Road and
vice-chancellor of high school Partnerships Peggy Corrales
and Associate Vice Chancellor of early cow.
But chabon Taylor Booker including the growth of our early
college program, which allows CPS high school students to
take college credit courses for free and new career
exposure opportunities for CPS students as early as when
the students are in middle school during the pandemic city
colleges maintain our momentum. We quickly responded to our
students needs providing laptops and internet source
students to learn remotely. We strategically use federal
relief funds to support our students launching a new
pre-college program called you two ready for Chicago and
interested in short-term programs in high-demand fields. We
created a debt forgiveness program that allows City
College's students that OS money to return and learn off
their dad and as a result of careful financial management,
I am proud to say that we have sustained these supports
even after the infusion of federal funds has ended
at a subsequent meeting. I will also update you on how we
have dramatically improved our financial position
overcoming a structural deficit that predated my tenure
achieving the strongest cash reserves since 2015 allowing
us to make tea Investments fueling our growth. We have been
able to continue to make progress despite challenging
conditions because we are simply focused on our students.
I'm in focused on our vision as you will see were Guided by
five strategic strategic strategic framework with Equity
attic Center. We strive to create an exceptional student
experience to be an equitable institution ready to support
our students to be responsive to the economic needs of our
city and to serve as a healthy institution grounded in a
culture of Excellence that is collaborative and connected
to our communities next. I will ask vice-chancellor Mason
to share more about the students who are at the heart of
our work if there are no further questions for me, but
before I do that, I do want to give you once again all
thank you to you share Taylor to all of the members of the
committee for this opportunity to update you. I want you to
understand truly that city colleges is eager will always be
eager to come before this body.
To share information with you and our strategies. We look
forward to your questions. We hope honestly that this will
be one of several touch points we have with the committee
in the months and years ahead. Thank you so much.
Tear should we continue or?
I got to take care of order business.
So I didn't move that we passed a meeting the the minutes
from the last meeting. So I want to make that motion.
That's what happen when you don't have me or you now used
to be in the chair.
Obviously, I'm not make a motion that we accept the meeting
minutes for the last summer all those in favor.
Allo Suppose, there are none.
Is Mason thank you. Thank you Tara Taylor and the
committee. My name is Jen Mason. I served as the vice
Chancellor for legislative and Community engagement for
city colleges of Chicago. I've been at city colleges for
the past 6 years and I would like to turn your attention to
the slides city colleges is the largest community college
system in the state of Illinois. We have seven colleges in
our system are colleges and satellite campuses are
distributed across the city are credit students are
generally looking to transfer in the bulk of our 62000
students are credit students for earning college credit for
their coursework and they may be pursuing a certificate or
an associate degree. Another quarter of our students are
adult education.
Students adult and is comprised of those who are learning
English as a second language and those who are working
toward earning their high school diploma many of our
continuing education students are taking courses that are
non credit-bearing but provide a way for them to build
professional skills or nurture their personal interest and
I'm continuing education programs range from like Microsoft
Excel data analytics bike repair and even Zumba next side
nearly a quarter 3/4 of our students are black or Latin X
60% are female and the median age of credit students is 21
removing Early College. The median age go with the 22 Adult
Ed and continuing at 10 to be a bit older around 33.
This line also outlines the various challenges that our
students are faced with our students are managing very
complex lives many of them are parents or caring for their
own parents many are working full and part-time jobs in
addition to going to school and close to half of our credit
students are the first in their family to attend college of
our credit students who submitted financial aid and fiscal
year 23 nearly three-quarters were eligible for the
Federal.
Call Grant most students who receive the Pell Grant come
from families with income under $50,000 of students who
took the real college survey prior to the pandemic over 50%
of them identified as housing insecure and more than 40%
identified as food insecure. You'll hear more later about
what we're doing to support these students and the
resources that are being provided.
Looks like I'm as you can see our student. Our credit
student population is nearly 80% black and let next and our
adult education students are more than 60% Latin X again
adult education students are those learning English and
students that are earning their high school diploma, you'll
see the bulk of our credit students are continuing meaning
they're with us previously adult education is split more
evenly between new and continuing student Provost Potter
will go more into depth on adult education students and our
upcoming slides now. I will hand it off to Provo smart
Potter to go more in-depth about our students and
educational programs and Jerry Taylor and committee. Good
afternoon. My name is Mark Potter and I have been Provost
and chief academic officer at city colleges of Chicago for
six and a half years.
Our programs are anchored in quality and relevance
throughout all of our instructional areas where there were
talking about credit adult education and continuing
education.
Each of our 7 colleges is a comprehensive Community College
offering a range of programs that prepare students for
transfer and careers are broad range of offerings at each
of our colleges attract students with different goals and
objectives, most of our students as vice-chancellor Mase
Mason presented already are earning college credit and
among those students. There are populations seeking the
traditional college experience of an undergraduate students
are planning to transfer to a four-year University and
earned a bachelor's degree. These may be full-time looking
to fully immerse themselves into a college experience or
part-time looking for a flexible and affordable ran to
four-year University.
Others come seeking job-related skills or a shirt short-term
credentials as a boost into the labor market they may be
working at at the time of their studies full-time or
part-time while going to school.
Through our free adult education program we offer
coursework and prepare students to earn their high school
diploma and we offer English as a second language programs
students in both programs have access to Career Bridge
opportunities that blend adult education classes with
credit course work to learn job-related skills while
improving their English or working toward their high school
diploma. We serve a diverse population of Chicago Inns in
adult education including recent arrivals from abroad are
top 10 countries of origin are listed on the right. It's
worth noting that Mexico is the country of origin for the
greatest number of students.
We saw a significant increase of students in fiscal year
2003 from Venezuela and Ukraine in our diversity doesn't
end with this list that you see on the on the slide lower
on the list and so not included in this slide haitian-born
students number 217 in fiscal year 2003. For example, there
were 485 students enrolled from the french-speaking
diaspora.
In Africa and the Caribbean and 873 students from the
continent of Africa in total.
Each of our college has features a center or centers of
excellence align to Chicago's most important economic
sectors, including Healthcare Advanced manufacturing
construction and culinary arts to name a few examples
information technology is Led centrally because of his
relevance across numerous other sectors or centers of
excellence are organized to ensure that city colleges as a
district meets its goal of economic responsiveness. They
take the lead role not only on behalf of the college in
which they're situated but throughout the district.
Taking responsibility for quality and relevance of programs
again, not only at their home college, but wherever those
programs are offered in the district.
In doing so they provide a single point of contact for
employers and Workforce organizations relevant to their
sector and they convene advisory councils to ensure that
employer input is being gathered and then applied for
program quality and relevance.
They coordinate plans with their sister colleges for
expansion as we seek to ensure that our programs of
economic value are growing and are accessible to all
Chicagoans.
To take health care. For example, we're providing programs
at Daley College Humboldt Park Vocational Center, South
Chicago Learning Center and soon at kennedy-king college.
Facilities are an important ingredient for ensuring quality
and relevance and city colleges has prioritized significant
facility improvements in this last year to name some
examples, we renovated and updated the career center as a
Dawson Technical Institute. We completed projects at Wright
College to create an engineering lab space and at
olive-harvey College to expand the tdlr site to increase
our capacity to serve more commercial driver's license
students.
There are expansion and renovation plans underway at
kennedy-king College both for nursing and for the sekiya
restaurant in advance of its reopening this year, and if
the Westside Learning Center to add a community center for
teaching and learning and also in the works are a
renovation of science lab space at Truman College and the
construction of I'm sorry. I've already mentioned the
community center at the Westside Learning Center.
Our students benefit and our programs and institutions are
stronger. Thanks to Partnerships with employers.
This success has drawn national attention to City College
is with for example first lady Jill Biden visiting and
celebrating our apprentices in Fall of 2022.
Last year 3452 work-based learning experiences including
apprenticeships were made possible by our employer
Partnerships and city colleges is increasingly perceived as
a partner of choice not just with individual employers, but
in Regional multi-agency initiatives, like the Department
of Commerce funded good jobs challenge.
City colleges also collaborates with city and state agencies
is a chancellor mentioned mentioned to create opportunities
for Chicago ends example Truman College administers the
gfss Chicago Early Learning Workforce scholarship and
partners with Chicago public schools to solve for
challenges in the teacher preparation pipeline.
Olive Harvey college has stepped forward with initiatives
to enhance Public Safety in Chicago who a partnership with
acta2 Bridge access to employment for formerly incarcerated
individuals and with his Pathway to policing program to
prepare students to enter the police academy.
Our Partnerships with 4-year universities open
opportunities for students to transfer to pursue their
bachelor's degree.
These agreements include guaranteed admissions that put
students on a transfer pathway early with supports along
the way both from city colleges and the transfer
Institution.
Program articulations that map course equivalencies and
ensure transfer with no loss of credit and star agreements
to extend financial support to our Stars Scholars Beyond
city colleges of Chicago.
We are especially pleased that 73% of our transfer students
stay in, Illinois largely in Chicago.
And in addition to the numbers of students transferring to
the the top 10 receiving institutions that you see on the
right of this slide 52 students from that same cohort of of
data on the slide a transferred to 30 different hbcus.
And with that I will turn the mic back to vice-chancellor
Mason. Thank you.
CCC works very closely on many important issues with the
city top of line is youth employment certificate Lee. We
have a very robust One Summer Chicago program along with
career launch Chicago for youth apprenticeships. We have
recently hosted hiring fairs at all. Our campuses in
partnership with chairwoman Taylor's office. We also have
programs to help those who have backgrounds as formula.
Incarcerated individuals to help them access academic
resources. We've also been very intricately involved with
asylum-seekers and we have house migrants on our campuses
and we are also working on helping them to complete their
work permit form. As you heard earlier. We are offering
adult education courses to sific lie around a English as a
second language.
We also have an office of Civic engagement and we put a lot
of emphasis on making sure that our students are
specifically involved and that they are aware of how
important their vote is. We serve a diverse population of
Chicagoans including recent arrivals from around the globe.
Each of our I'm sorry, lastly our campuses have partnered
with the city to serve as covid vaccination sites, and we
work closely with cdph on supporting various covert covid
Workforce needs.
We work very closely with our state legislators the
governor's office and iccb to secure annual funding here.
You will see our capital investment opportunities for our
state request city colleges has a match of local dollars.
We are currently seeking a hundred million in capital
dollars from the state that will require a 32 million local
match. These dollars will support our needs you see here
listed on the left including deferred maintenance labs and
students enters the chancellor and our team will be
advocating in Springfield this legislative session for
these dollars and we appreciate your woman Taylor's
advocacy and willingness to help secure these Capital funds
we could have this really use your help advocating on our
behalf with state legislators.
On the right you see how we access funding at various
levels of government local state and federal and these are
ways that you too can be supportive.
next flight
This is a look at our recently completed capital projects as
well as on the right or projects that are underway.
I will now and we will provide a full list of priority
projects for which we are seeking funding to the chair
after this meeting so that she can share out with everyone
and we really appreciate your support on this now will pass
it to my colleague Executive Vice Chancellor Veronica
Herrero to talk about enrollment strategies that have led
to our recent game.
Thank you by chance are Mason. Hello, everybody. I am
Veronica Herrera Executive Vice Chancellor and chief of
staff. I have had the honor and privilege of serving city
college students as a member of cancer survivors leadership
team for four and a half years. It is also my great
pleasure to be walking you through some of the key
strategic Investments and initiatives that have led to the
growth in our enrollment.
Star games in enrollment some over the last year-and-a-half
are results of bold and re-envisioned enrollment strategy
Central to our strategy our efforts and Investments that
strengthen our value proposition and make our institution
even more accessible to all Chicagoans such as we have
maintained affordability. We have not increased tuition
since 2016, which was especially
Important for students during the pandemic and we've
offered a suite of free college programs.
We have continued to grow our high demand programs that are
responsive to our City's labor market needs. We have
launched the Chicago road map as you heard about earlier,
which is our unprecedented partnership for Chicago public
schools that supports our students on his sleeve seamless
path to and through college into their chosen career path
and within this partnership, we've built bridges for our
students. I'm wish hicago Public Schools so that our
students including those who have historically been left
out of the college process can now also access College. We
have expanded student supports all of our colleges meeting
student basic needs and providing them with wraparound
supports to make sure that once they enroll that they stay
enrolled. We've also increased marketing investment three
folds fy20 making sure that communities across the city are
aware of our many programs that lead to good jobs.
And finally, each college has a strategic enrollment
management plan, which reflects the uniqueness of each
College the programs each offers and outlines their path to
continued growth.
Making her institution even more affordable and accessible
to all Chicagoans has been a key lover of our enrollment
strategy and we have accomplished this in a number of ways.
We are the only Community College in the Chicagoland area
with a without a tuition increase since fy16. That's eight
years of holding the credit hour that the rate per credit
hour steady this year. We are exploring a modest $7 per
credit hour increase taking her per credit hour rate of
$146 per hour to $153 per hour. So for a student who is
full-time taking 12 credits this $7 per credit hour
increase amounts to $84 per semester or $168 per year. This
modest increase would allow us to continue making critical
investments in our students while still remaining
affordable since fy18. We've invested 86 million dollars.
In free college in a flight 23 alone. We invested $21 in
free college programs such programs include the star
scholarship which promises three years of tuition and books
at city college has two young people graduating from our
Chicago high schools since the scholarships Inception. We
have served over 17,000 high school students from Chicago
and last fall we achieved our largest freshman class and
welcomed nearly 1,700 star Scholars during the pandemic
using covid relief dollars. We launched Future Ready.
This is to provide eligible Chicagoans with the opportunity
to choose from a wide range of short-term programs such as
cybersecurity farmtek and construction and Moore that leads
a high demand jobs at no cost last year at Chicago and
we're looking for opportunities to get their feet back on
the ground either through re-skilling career-changing or
having a fresh start city colleges enrolled more than 1,500
students from across the city in these programs city
colleges has continued to offer these free programs for all
Chicago even without Federal funding every year. We are
growing the number of high school students taking early
college or dual enrollment classes at no cost to students
out of more than 4,000 early college students 40.
5% are Latin X and 36% are black which is consistent with a
population population served by Chicago Public Schools
demonstrating equity and program uptake city colleges is
also one of very few institutions in the state that does
not charge their students their families or the K through
12 district for early college courses city colleges offer
those courses to Chicago public school students for free.
We received very limited reimbursement and cover the
entirety of the difference so that we can make sure college
credit can be accessible to all eligible high school
students despite economic background Fresh Start provide
students who have been away from city colleges and Odette
to city colleges from prior class the opportunity to have
their debt waived once a student in rolls and completes
their first their first term with us, they get partial debt
relief and once they complete their car,
They will have 100% debt relief at city college has since
the program's Inception in 2020 city colleges has served
over 2,500 students approximately 2,500 students and we
have waved nearly 2.5 million dollars in debt just through
this program and finally the workforce Equity initiative or
Wei for short Wei is a state grant program led by the
Illinois Community College Board iccb.
And supported by the Illinois legislative Black Caucus this
initiative first launched in 2020 and was designed to
remove barriers to Student Success by offering tuition-free
programs in high-demand fields that are a lying to Regional
Workforce gaps the goal for participants at which of which
at least 60% must identify as African-American is
employment in a full-time job paying at least 30% above the
regional living wage or has a pathway to a family
sustaining wage city colleges has served 1843 students
between fy20 and 22 through the Wei Grant programs. 63% of
our participants are black and 26% are Latin X.
We recognize that our students come to us with Incredible
Talent resilience and persistence but we also know that
they also come to us with many significant barriers that
make it hard for them to realize their potential and the
make the most of their educational Journey with us and
ultimately to stay enrolled and complete in addition to
providing a myriad of free college programs. We are also
providing basic needs supports and critical personal and
academic support to support the student to and through
we've tripled our spend on mental health support since
fy18.
Now offer after hours and weekend Telehealth support to all
students across all seven colleges are advisers have the
tools and the expertise to deliver on a coaching model of
advising that is intended to support the whole student and
provide a differentiated approach to advising and guidance
depending on the needs of the student in person and virtual
tutoring services are also offered throughout the day
evenings and on weekends. So that students can access these
supports at any of our colleges at any time in the way that
best suits them and their schedules we recognize that
students juggle multiple responsibilities and challenges
and that are supports need to go beyond the academic which
is why we offer subsidized CTU CTA, u-pass has free laptops
and free Wi-Fi to eligible students across all colleges. We
also have onside on-site food pantries.
At all are 77 of our colleges through a partnership with
the greater Chicago Food depository. And we also provide
student housing for the unhoused through our partnership
with the Paul USA.
We still anthropic support. We launched a 20 million dollar
expansion of The Proven Student Success program 1 million
degrees offering students volunteer coaches coordinator
stipends and professional development to eligible students.
We've made sure that all of our students especially those
who need extra support have access to a caring person that
they can count on whether that student is housing and
secure a veteran undocumented or need a public assistance.
We have a liaison at each College to support that student.
We also recognize that every Milestone on a student's
Journey at city colleges is critical and needs to be
supported including the first year of students journey and
as they are making decisions about where they want to
transfer or work. We have staff to support them through our
FYE first year experience team and our transfer and Career
Centers.
We've been expanding programs that we know our students
want and where we know there is a need for a diverse
pipeline of talent here in Chicago. Here are just a few
example of such programs. We've remained focused on the
pipeline of early childhood and K through 12 Educators in
Chicago, and we've increased the number of students
enrolled in our child development program by 35% since
2018, and we will continue to grow that we have grown our
end.
Sharing program participation from just 25 students to over
500 students over just a few years. We're not only
increasing a pipeline of students to engineering for also
increasing the diversity of that pipeline as two-thirds of
our students identify as Latino or black we continue to
grow our nursing pathway programs Malcolm X sees the most
students passing the NCLEX test than any other public
Community College in the state with an average pass rate of
90% over the last seven years. And finally we continue to
grow our information technology programs across the
district and have so far grown our credit tech programs by
181 per cent and are continuing education programs by 641%
since 2019.
Another key driver of our enrollment growth has been
marketing since fy20. We've increased our marketing
investment nearly threefold. We've done this by
significantly grow on your digital media spend along with
our traditional with traditional media spend and
maintaining a strong modestly sized marketing and
Communications team that delivers marketing and
communication solutions for all 7 colleges. I will now hand
it off to my colleague Darrel Williams Vice Chancellor of
student enrollment management will go deeper into our fall
enrollment outcomes. Thank you.
Thank you, cuz I could buy Cesaro got to know my name is
dr. Gerald Williams on the vice-chancellor only imagine
here at the city colleges of Chicago and I've been in this
position for the last three years. I want to start the city
of Chicago. My job was to quickly assess the and address
their Roman. It's just that we were having that are several
kti's. Portman when it comes to her own and management.
However for organization this size what I chose and what we
chose to focus on this damn it. It's in a row to go, right
and basically what that is that's increasing the amount of
enrolled students admitted students to enroll. So on a
chart up there you'll see we stopped answering system
denoted by green yellow and red.
Now the tactics of the results are as follows me first
implemented it back in the fall 21, we had three schools
that were able to achieve the minimum of 30% That's just
the bench mark almost hitting it as a district at 29%
followed by Spring 22 another three schools. But you notice
all a year later. There was some up tickfaw. We have Four
Scoops hitting the number of 30% and then as well as spring
23:6 schools and then fall 23, we had six Cruisers 6
schools as well. But you also knows that a few of them.
We're in the forties and as well as the district the last
three classes we averaged that percentage as well. So we
were able to achieve these results by just focus on
My students, you know, I was taking the Student Center
sensor approach for problem solving to improve this new
experience as well as the tremendous stopping of staff that
we have that commit themselves to changing better. The
students lives next flight.
So what you'll see right here. This is the credit headcount
at senses. And since this is a day that we give a snapshot
to the state. So we take a time to take a picture and then
we talked about the admission to the States and its
headcount includes new and continue and credit students as
well as adult education also want to point out that all
seven schools show Positive Growth not some not a few not a
handful for all seven schools at the bottom to create at
the bottom to top is fall 22 in the bottom is fall 23, and
that's also going to show a 12.7% year-over-year increase
Alright next life. So this is this is the ICC be kind of
dread that shows how weak a half months up here is the
tuition is there for the ecologist and makeup is iccb
system The City college is roughly makes up 14.5% of the
ICC be with seven schools. The state average for a Roman
increase was 5.7% and you'll notice that we were as a
district. We see that the state averaged 12.7 but also in
the top 10 spots for colleges and i c c b c d, just takes
up five of the top 10 state wise.
Once again, just tremendous performance by the college's in
a property of staff.
next light
what you see this right here shows our credit headcount I
credit here comes I largest student segment. And once
again, you'll see the growth of 8.48% over the prior year.
And we go to the next slide.
Now this light right here shows how weird compared against
a piercing solution is Nationwide cross the country
different to your segments of population is so we pretty
much all performed all of it to your public universities of
some cases almost doubling them at 8.3% and averages were
liking her from 4.2 to 4.4% So once again just positive
Trends both locally and nationally next five, please so on
this lie, we going to tease out the different student
groups. We have new continuing and returning some new
systems are pretty much through so I knew to see the
colleges and you'll see we had a 12.5% He also see the
distribution underneath that grid Bob scuba school and
year-over-year improvements continue students also is our
largest group of population knows our students who attended
the previous semester and Rena Road, and I dearly want to
have both new and continue students died at the same time
because then that eventually just creates a larger.
Total student population of headcount MUSC Casino students
at 15.5% now returning students stepped out a little bit
have to come back but also do a new application to City
College has returned the students are pretty much a
difficult population to capture. However, we are in
attention and efforts to to get those things to come back
to school because sometimes the things that made them want
to go to school all the things are stopping from standing
school. So programs that exactly by chance of aren't the
healthiest Corral just mention Fresh Start in future ready.
I think that we could use it to help me move those barriers
next life.
So two populations that shows a notice from Grove are black
and white next communities and students. Pretty much City
College has surpassed State and National trends for male
and female population has sold. This light is for the
blackmail Latin X male population. So naturally black males
and Rome increase that to your school's 26% off all 21 Fall
22 compared to 5% during that time at city colleges and
also 16% and fall 23 line X-Men Mills increase naturally 6%
from Fall 21 to fall 22 compared to 10% at city college
during the same time and then later 9% and fall ball 23
now the next flight
is going to be our black and Latin X females.
black female enrollment decrease nationally at Publix to
your school's by 1.9% fall 21 to fall 22 compared to a 7%
increase at the city colleges of Chicago during that same
time and 9% of fall 23, and it's not your fault 23 Latin X
female student enrollment naturally increased by 1.7% from
Fall 21 to fall 22 compared to 1% at city colleges of
Chicago during that time and 6% doing fall a 23
next line
this like talks about the Delaware population in a Delta
air consists of ESL English as a second language English
language Learners and high school equivalency or GED to see
just outstanding performances right here this year you ever
hear 27% followed by last year. Did you ever hear 70% girl,
so just 2 minutes work by the 18th and just positive
provement 10% increase year-over-year. So strong
performance there and last flag that I have is the college
road map. So the college vote map is one of our strategies
the same that working with high school kids receiving
college credit while they're still in school in the form of
dual enrollment with your credit.
So here you'll see you every year 34% increased that's
basically additional 1284 students, but I just want to plan
out last year. It was a 30% increase 990 students once
again positive growth over 20% growth year-over-year. So
with that being said, I like the pass it over to Executive
Vice Chancellor Brittany Jackson Karis who's going to give
a fiscal year on the Roman update?
Thank you. Give me a second before you start them. I want
to acknowledge vice mayor Burnett, and I had a couple of
questions anybody from the committee has questions so far.
Can you talk about you all showed some good data? I think
we're doing great on enrollment. I didn't see the date
around Tzus that actually come from Chicago. I was
interested in that day too. And I don't know if it's to
come. We also haven't talked about students with
disabilities.
The majority of our students are from the city of Chicago,
but will have to get back to you with the actual number.
Thank you.
German German real quick. This is all the image of God, and
I just wanted to get added to the core impossible.
Absolutely. Thank you all to me. Thank you.
Vice mayor Burnett, thank you madam chairman so great
presentation appreciate everything that you all are doing
for the city, you know, the community colleges are there is
the the best Hidden Gem that we got in the city of Chicago
in the average college has cost you like $70,000 per
semester to go to in a year, which is crazy compared to
what it cost to go to city colleges. I just wanted to ask I
know that the state has been working. They reinstated
allowing for folks that are incarcerated to go to school
and some of the state institutions and from what I
understand have they done that. Are you all do all doing
that with City College is also a spider can speak a little
bit more to that to this we have had a
Effort many of those Partnerships are with a young State
institutions outside of the city of Chicago. And so I'll
Harvey's done some work in that space. We have begun to
focus a little bit more on Cook County and what we could be
doing with Cook County though, even though you know, those
are people that are retaining Cook County are people that
are retained in Cook County. We think that's an opportunity
point for us to pursue pursue as an institution. So so
So they allow for they need they get Pell Grants if they go
there County Mark address, the specifics of the
incarcerated individuals in in state facilities or in Cook
County are eligible for for Pell grant funding one of the
challenges with the Cook County facility. Is it that
population is a little more transitory then it is in the in
the state institutions. We have explored our Partnerships
in order to enter inside the facility at at Cook County.
We're not there yet. But we're also working with in the
ecosystem of other colleges and universities in Chicago to
to provide those opportunities to the Cook County by
population. For example, there is a a non-credit entity
that is delivering programs. And we're in the midst now of
developing a partnership with them to provide credit for
Higher Learning so that the learning of the inmates in the
facility can translate into college credit in applied
toward a degree when they are outside of the facility. I
would venture to say folks that do get education as of have
a less recidivism rate. I'm going back to jail. So if you
can catch it on why they in there in the same thing with
the church as we do that the mini.
We going in the bathroom light in it nine times out of ten.
They come to church same thing with school if you capture
why the in there when they get out, they probably still go
to school. Right? So so I think of it and that helps a
whole society to save money. So it's a great investment. So
so whatever I appreciate you are making an effort in doing
things. I think we should do more of though. I think we
should capture them more water in there and then a man is
straight and they want to do something that dance
themselves. So I come in with you are doing but I think we
should do more. Thank you. I appreciate that in the end. We
will we will continue to you know to get in there. I do
want to mention just very quickly though on this subject
that we are also engaged in a number of initiatives.
Related to Public Safety outside of the institutions. Also
in order to prevent people from falling prey as victims of
violence or perhaps as perpetrators of violence are Weekend
Warriors program at Daley College, for example work
specifically with those populations. I in partnership with
with Amanda inner-city Muslim Action Network to identify
young men who are most likely to benefit from a a program
leading to a good job while they're there any safe facility
on nights.
Weekends at times when when violence is most is most likely
to to occur. So we're working in and out of facilities
precisely to that Tina to to speak to the go since you're
talking about early college courses to young people that
are inside of Baca County and the juvenile system. So at
York High School and Nancy B, Jefferson High School, we do
provide Early College courses for those students to use the
speaker Ellis.
You good job.
You want me to proceed?
Okay in response to your earlier question in Fall 2023. 96%
of our credit students are Chicago residents.
And my name is pretty Kyra's on the associate Vice
Chancellor of decision support. I've been at city colleges
for 8 years and building on the success of fall 2023 is a
broader story of post-pandemic enrollment recovery, so you
can see on the far left in the dark blue. We had
approximately 46000 students enrolled in the 2019 2020
school year this dropped to a low of 38000 in.
2022 school year and we anticipate that we're going to end
this Academic Year slightly above forty four thousand
students enrolled just shy of where we were pre-pandemic
for adult education, which again is our tuition-free. Yes,
a land high school diploma preparation courses, we had
approximately 18,000 students pre-pandemic this year. We
anticipate that we will surpass pre-pandemic enrollment and
have almost 19,000 students and then for continuing
education which B C Mason mentioned in the beginning
includes everything from you know, Excel to Zumba very
pretty dramatically each year. So you can see that in a
fight 20 we had seven thousand students this actually
increased dramatically during the pandemic in because we
offered a course in Stress Management in policing and then
continues to bury each year based on the specific
Partnerships that we offer.
Diving in more to credit enrollments. We measure credit
enrollment in two ways the first you've heard a lot about
the unduplicated headcount. This is how many students we
serve on and you can see here that unduplicated a headcount
increased at 5 of our college has additionally we track
credit our production which is an indicator both of student
intensity, but also of our anticipated Revenue, so we are
funded.
Based on credit hour for student tuition and then also for
credit hour reimbursement by the state and you can see here
there correlated when one goes up generally the other one
goes up with it's not exactly perfect. So you can see for
example Harold Washington is not the largest college in the
number of students, but they do have the highest number of
credit hours because their students are more likely to be
full-time in a longer-term transfer programs as opposed to
some shorter-term programs.
And with that I will pass it to my colleague
vice-chancellor of high school strategy Peggy Carlos.
Hello, everybody by Peggy crowl is vice Chancellor high
school strategy and I have been with city colleges for
almost eleven years and I have the privilege of overseeing
the implementation of the Chicago road map for the Chicago
road map is a comprehensive partnership agreement between
the city colleges of Chicago the Chicago public school and
the mayor's office and we launched in June of 2020. We are
in our fourth year of a five-year implementation plan. The
work of the Chicago roadmap is focused on developing and
expanding opportunities and resources for Chicago public
school students to help close Equity gaps are three
overarching goals are to increase college enrollment
increase college graduation and ultimately to increase
economic Mobility.
When we launched the roadmap, we developed a detailed
structure to keep ourselves accountable and on track
assembly row section. We have an executive team that is
comprised of Chancellor Juan Salgado CPS CEO Pedro Martinez
and deputy mayor of Education Jenn Johnson, the executive
team is quarterly to hear the latest updates to help
problem solve and share strategic priorities. The roadmap
leadership team is comprised of leaders from both
institutions as well as mackling king the senior director
of Education policy from the mayor's office and we meet
every other month to discuss progress and advise on
challenges. And finally, we have 15 working groups, which
are the heart of the roadmap and where the real work gets
done these 15 working groups meet every two weeks and he's
working group is comprised of members from both CVS and
city colleges working collaboratively for the first time.
Our two institutions are talking to each other and
problem-solving at ever.
And that includes our leadership but also our faculty and
our teachers are counselors and our advisors and staff from
both of our institutions.
The work of the Chicago road map is bucketed into 5 domains
what you'll see on the right then clued academic advising
academic Readiness and success access to high-quality
programs advising and supports career exploration
experience and preparedness and transparency alignment in
collaboration, which is the glue that holds us together and
the systemic change that we are creating. We will review
some of our priority initiatives and progress in each of
these domains on the upcoming slides.
Domain Wine is focus on academic Readiness and success and
one of our biggest initiatives has been to ensure that more
CPS graduates are college-ready in both math and English
when they finish high school students are not at college
level in math or English. They would need to take
developmental coursework which is considered pre-college
and for which they would not earn college credit unions who
begin their experience their college experience in this
free college or developmental coursework or Dev Ed as we
call it complete college at about half of the rate of
students who start at the college level.
Reasons for this include time and money students spend in
developmental coursework, but also the feeling of not
really belonging in college and it really isn't some place
that is for them the historically about 70% of CPS students
who came to city colleges would require development of
coursework in English or math or both.
To address this our strategic priority for domain one is
Transitional coursework transitional courses are senior
year math and English courses that are co-developed by City
College's faculty and CPS instructors. Our instructors work
together to determine appropriate curriculum exams and
Grading procedures student's senior high school students
are taking pass these courses with a C or better can go
directly into college-level coursework at the city colleges
of Chicago without needing to take the placement test
because the faculty have agreed passing the course with a C
or better constitutes college readiness and that subject
and this is not only for the city colleges of Chicago. It's
for any two-year University. I mean 2-year College in
Illinois as well as many of our partnering 4-year
universities.
But this means that she is can go directly into
college-level courses bypassing pre-college or
developmental coursework. We piloted transitional map and
fy18 with five high schools. And we now offer it in 75 high
schools and CPS. We pile it a transitional English and fy21
with 13 high schools. And we now are offering it in 55 high
school. But this is really significant growth. What does
rapid expansion we've also seen a 13% increase in the
percentage of students who are eligible to be in college
begin College in college level math and an 8% increase as
soon as able to start college-level English.
We've also seen strong gains for our black students Lisa a
19 percentage Point increase in students eligible for
college math, eligibility and a 7% increase for English and
we've seen something else students who successfully
complete the transitional course and start college at the
college level are showing much stronger fall to fall
retention as compared to students who started out in
developmental courses for transitional English students,
their fall to fall retention is 13 percentage points higher
than students who are starting a developmental English and
4 are transitional math students their fault if our
attention is 25% higher than students were starting in
developmental math. So not only are more students coming to
us college-ready and
But they're staying in college longer as well.
I'm not going to pass to my colleague Shavon Taylor at
Chevonne Taylor Booker associate Vice Chancellor of Early
College before you go before you go Miss Taylor Altima
more.
Thank you. You are allowing. I guess I'm questions at the
end. Of course. I just wanted to ask a couple questions
about was going to get a copy of this deck, right?
Yes. Yes. Okay question is leaning back on what I want to
order mcburnett was talking about and I want to thank just
want to make sure that those type of specifics is what I
think Andre Burnett was looking for you all talk about
exploring Partnerships development partnership all that
sounds good, but we got to get to those specific. So
whatever those and I appreciate you being specific to that
Miss Corral Corrales. So those are the type of things that
we're looking for when you talk to that with that question,
so
Since you're talking about developing and Partnerships, make
sure we get a a list of those Partnerships you're trying to
develop so we can follow up on those because I'm here
trying to wake everybody try everyday but I like the I like
what is take it to Raleigh said it was something we were
doing and that's what we want to get too. So the things
that you're trying to do make sure that we get a copy of
that so we can follow up on those things so we can turn
that into actually actual action items. The other thing
chairman said they talked about the one summer Chicago
program, please elaborate on that for me in terms of
numbers is that in partnership with the city or separate
from the 24,000 students at the city and Floyd?
How old are men more I guess that is in partnership with
the city. This is we have approximately somewhere between
250 to 300 students. I think that's the highest number I
can give you the exact numbers are numbers were a lot lower
sure that that's clear because as that the administration
touted 224 that's that's from the city. And so I don't I
don't want somebody to hear that and thinking that there's
an additional number beyond that.
24-hour thousand, so I just wanted to be clear on that and
then I guess my final question is we talked about the
different people and especially the Venezuelans and people
talked about the education for the Asylum Seeker. So I
shouldn't say they've been as well as I shouldn't point out
like that. I apologize but the Asylum Seekers how how is
the education being paid for?
I'll just I'll just quickly addressed most of the education
right now is provided to adult education which is free and
as always been free, you know at city colleges of Chicago
that is funded by the state of Illinois. Some of those
resources do come from the federal government some come
through the state government and some come from local at 2
a.m. Finish off what resources are needed for the health
education, but adult education again, it's mostly English
as a second language at this point for a silenced. It goes
through our free adult education program adult education
programs that are you telling me that are free to the
residents of the city of Chicago. Yes. It is recited a
English as a second language on an high school equivalency,
which has traditionally thought about his GED.
I'm as well as career Bridge programs. Those are are part of
our suite of adult education programs that are free in
English as a second language. And then the other two the
other two are the GED, which is High School in the third
one and the third one are our career Bridges and Pathways.
These are basically adult education programs that are tied
to Career programs that are in high demand. And so if
you're not at the level that you need to be at to get into
manufacturing or construction or some of these fields we
help you through it. Education in order to get at that
level to take advantage of those programs. That's a free
program as well. Thank you so much. Thank you gentleman.
Thank you chairman and committee. My name is Siobhan Taylor
Booker associate Vice Chancellor of Early College. I've
been with city colleges of Chicago for 13 years early
college is considered one of our most signature programs.
It allows high school students to earn college credit for
free at all seven city colleges.
These are credit classes such as English 101 for example
students are able to take their classes at city colleges or
at their high school last year. We offered Early College to
more than 90 high schools. And this was done in a strategic
effort to bring college courses to high schools that did
not have the opportunity Pryor especially small schools on
the south and west side last year. We offered early college
credit to nearly 6,000 students and between fiscal year
twenty-two and twenty-three. We seen a 6% growth in the
number of students taking free Early College courses and a
13% increase in credit courses learned which saved our
students nearly six million dollars and through this rapid
expansion our core success rates meaning students who earn
C or better has stayed above the 80% threshold.
One of the strategies we are using to grow early college is
through the implementation of our model Pathways initiative
model. Pathways are comprised of strategic Early College
courses in Highway high-growth Industries designed to
accelerate industry-recognized credentials and degree
attainment all students in Armada. Pathways have access to
15 credit hours and their program of study. They have
access to exclusive work Baseline.
Experiences and youth apprenticeship options and they have
the opportunity to already recognized. I'm sorry earned a
recognized industry Curt henschel, for example students who
complete our Health Sciences pathway take biology 116. They
take biology 120 medical terminology as elective courses
and they complete our a credit our basic nursing assistant
program and sit for their state board examination and
participate in the youth apprenticeship experience. Our
current landscape includes 12 high schools that offer
Healthcare 10 high schools that offer information
technology and three schools that offer Advanced
manufacturing and why are we are early in this particular
initiative? We have made the necessary Investments to grow
our model pathways.
Our next steps include expanding the model Pathway to more
high schools with your lying to our construction technology
pathway, including high schools at CPS that offer Career
and Technical education such as Prosser CDC a Simeon and
south side, which is a specialty school of that help
students earn college credit who has individualized
education plans. Now it turn it over to Peggy to talk about
our third domain.
Hi everybody.
Okay, so a domain 3 focuses on student advising and
supports work.
And so we're really working to streamline the overwhelming
experience for students and provide customized wraparound
supports for our priority at populations and other women
Taylor this includes of the diverse Learners. I'm going to
get bad a little bit too.
A signature feature of our abdomen 3rr post-secondary
Navigators Navigators are city colleges of Chicago
employees who work directly inside of CPS high schools
supporting students with career exploration ensuring
students know about the variety of Pathways at city
colleges and also providing. I'm customized enrollment
support off for all of the steps in enrollment at city
colleges of Chicago.
Give me the Chicago roadmap. We've increased our Navigators
from 7 to 18 and from supporting 16 high schools to now 91
high schools, including many high schools on the Southside
in my size as well as our Charter and our options high
schools and our options high schools are alternative high
schools, which are considered Second Chance program between
the classes of 2021 and 2022. We increased I'm direct CPS
to CCC enrollment by 30% and we increased black student
enrollment by 39%
We've also added targeted supports for diverse Learners or
students have documented disabilities. We've added supports
to assist students and registering with our access centers
so that they have their accommodations ready before classes
begin and even before placement testing as well as holding
special or orientations for this population and providing
success coaching during their first year at CCC as a
result. We've seen our enrollment of diverse Learners
increase by 48%
Lastly we really honed in on supports for our options are
alternative school students historically alternative school
graduates have much lower college going rates than
traditional school graduates.
Do to incentivize is population to come to City College has
to earn a certificate or degree. We developed the options
for the future scholarship. This is a full scholarship for
tuition and books Raptor 3 years for any and all Chicago
public alternative school graduates after financial aid in
our first year of implementing the scholarship with a class
of 2022. We saw a 94% increase in options students enrolled
from the airport year prior and this is something we're
very proud of but I pass it back to Siobhan. Thank you both
Chancellor carellas domain for focuses on giving students
as early as Middle School the opportunity to learn about
careers in high-demand fields and
Feed and to touch the college experience we have what's
called Spotlight days Spotlight days off for middle and
high school students early exposure and Hands-On engagement
of the centers of excellence Pathways at city colleges last
year. We hosted 14 Spotlight days two at each City College
one for middle school students and one for high school
students and we are on track this year to do the same
students come to our colleges to get a deep dive in our
academic Pathways that includes a hands-on experience
seeing students in action talking with faculty and employer
Partners in learning about the variety of career
opportunities a line to careers such as construction
Healthcare information technology and cybersecurity in fact
students who participated in our cybersecurity Spotlight
date learned how to program a traffic light and
Was extremely fun for them.
Last year, we hosted 1600 middle school students and 1400
high school students for a total of 3000 students in our
Spotlight days as we stated before when we start at this
portion of the presentation, the Chicago road map was
designed to close Equity gaps and to ensure all students
have access to high-quality programs and opportunities
regardless of zip code because of the work we've been able
to accomplish this 2022 Chicago road map is being
recognized as a national model for our partnership work in
December 2022. We presented on a national webinar hosted by
the Department of Education and as a follow-up to that four
members of the US Department of Education including
assistant Secretary of Education amyloid came for a full
roadmap study visit. We also hosted a visit of 35
Congressional
A and jobs for the future delegation and April some
additional notable progress that we've made includes nearly
doubling the amount of Chicago Public School seniors
learning 15 credit hours or more. That's a semester's worth
of college credit prior to their High School graduation.
That number in 2019 was 330 and for the class of 2023 at
TT.
620 and of course as we've mentioned we've also seen a
significant increase in transitional math and English
courses significant enrollment increases of our priority
populations, including diverse Learners alternative school
students and black students. We are excited to continue the
work and Achieve even greater outcomes for all of our
amazing students in the city.
This concludes the roadmap presentation.
And now I will turn it over to Provost Mark Potter so I can
keep pressing pressing through we can take about five more
minutes before my all my co-workers leave me. Okay, I can
do a summary perhaps. So in this last section of the of the
presentation today, this is where we're talking about a
student outcomes. These are the fruits of all of the
efforts that have been presented to you prior to now and
this presentation and we we do utilize a set of key
performance indicators in order to track our progress and
measure our outcomes. I'm not going to go side by side in
the interest of time. I do want to jump to the last side,
but before I do so, I'll just mention that with our
retention and
And completion metrics. We have seen a increase in our
attention whether that is measured fall to Spring retention
of students enrolled in the fall semester begin rolling in
the spring or fall to fall students enrolled in one fall
and then re-enrolling the following fall a year later. He
had been increasing and are both surpassing a few pandemic
levels at this at this point in time and likewise our total
degrees and certificates awarded are increasing again and
will continue to increase because that number is a function
of both enrollment numbers and retention rates which both
are increasing and so we will expect to see more
completions of degrees and certificates in the future.
This does very College by college in part as a function of
the differing portfolios of offerings at each of our
colleges. And so for example, we have colleges like daily
with a significantly greater number of short-term programs
that have a shorter Runway to completion. And so we see
larger numbers of
Degrees and certificates when added together there than we
do at Harold Washington and Wright College. For example,
where most of our students nearly all of our students are
enrolled in a longer degree programs before transfer. Our
outcomes in adult education are strong also with 351
students earning their Illinois high school diploma in
fiscal year 2003 and 600 students in that same year taking
advantage of the career Bridge programs that we talked
about in transitioning otherwise into our college credit
programs.
And then finally in these in this in this slide, we are
looking at our 4-year student outcomes metric which
captures both our degree completion and our students who
are transferring to a 4-year universities and those two
different again from college to college based upon our our
different portfolios of offerings at each of the colleges
and I will just call out that at olive-harvey College a
program moved from credit to continuing education and US
those completion stop.
Counting toward the college's outcomes measure which is why
you see a dip at that college and then I I would like to
conclude if we could just spend a minute on this next slide
here. This is the last flight of the presentation and this
captures a recent report in a New York Times is really
exciting news hear this this is research Power by Raj
Chinese work on economic Mobility the shows that city
colleges leads its peers as an institution of economic
Mobility as an engine of economic Mobility. So this study
that has gained significant national attention uses tax
records Across the Nation to create a Mobility index in the
first thing that you see here on the far left is data from
city colleges and or a schools across the country and with
this shows and captures the percentage of students that are
served from the bottom 60%
of the income distribution and city colleges, which is that
line with in the yellow shading has consistently served
more low-income students majority low-income students and
consistently at the very, you know, it's at a very very
high rates compared to a spear schools. This means that
we're providing opportunity for a critical population in
the city of Chicago and Mobility outcomes and
Disturbing that population are Mobility outcomes are
impressive as shown on the right 27% is a share of City
College's students who moved up two or more quintiles in
this economic Mobility index were among the highest in the
categories of Illinois institutions of higher education and
community colleges Nationwide as an engine of economic
mobility and 2.7% of our students moved from the very
bottom income quintile to the very top income quintile and
by that measure as well. We rank among the highest of our
peer institutions, and finally, we probably ranked 53rd out
of 692 year colleges in this Mobility index.
That concludes this section of the presentation. I believe
the presentation as hopeful as we go to vice mayor Burnett.
I just want to say that is very impressive excited about
what we do in the city. We always where I think we we don't
give our own sales Grace. And so this this gives me the
ways to give you all more grace. My question was how we I
want I I want us to do better marketing or more marketing
and let me tell you why.
Like that, we do middle school. But literally we should be
talking in third grade about college. Remember third grade
is when they they test you on people who decides how many
jails they going to be? Why can't it be versus how many
colleges we actually build a how much more money we invest
and I know we didn't talk about money today their schedule
for another meeting this month so that we talked about
money cuz you know, they need money in order for this to
work. I do appreciate how you wall and every member of city
council should have got this presentation in their email.
If you hadn't, please let us know we want to make sure you
get it. I want you all to commit to working with all fifty
of us to say we have weed. We have a city college today. I
don't think we we give City College has enough credit and I
don't think you all are seen as you should be because I
never hear young people say they don't want to go to
college or hear them say they can't afford it.
And that's probably the biggest bear with young people
going to college and this is almost free. It might as well
be free, especially if you come from CPS where you live in
the city and soul. That's a marketing thing. Let's let's
have a conversation about marketing. Can you go back to
slide 15?
This is incredible. I don't think people know that we have
pipelines to all these careers. And so I want this to be on
the front page of marketing we all do it because if you
took this to a high school and middle school for young
people who don't want to go to college or who want to go to
a program to make sure they are prepared for those jobs.
They want to be employed in this is the enrollment right
here. I want to say thank you all I'm going to go to buy
smell Burnett and then I'll go to Alderman Quinn watch me.
I like to concur with you. I like to this is a great great
presentation. Definitely. We need to let more people know
about city colleges. I know some of us I try to have you
guys at my stay in school picnics every year to let the
kids know about it and put my cable show and everything.
Yeah. We definitely need to let more people know. I just
wanted to know and I know
About talking about Finance later on. I just wanted to
know, you know, like my Norwood Public Schools.
They did they have a certain amount of students. They get a
certain amount of money from the federal government. Do we
get any money at city colleges from the federal government
minimally, so and it's it's not it's from the state and the
state does reimbursed based on as was said earlier total
number of credit hours, but we don't have a to be real
clear. Our budget system is not a student based budgeting
system. You know, we have a base operation at each College
that's really important to have you no uniform set of
services that every student will have no matter which
college that you're throwing at and then we proportionally
add staff in order to meet the overall student population.
So some colleges will have more advisors than the other
college primarily because they're larger colleges and we're
trying to keep the ratios uniform.
Cross on the district. So we'll get into that a little more
like chair when we do the finance presentation on but we
feel very confident in the way. We've you don't work the
system to make sure that we're serving our students
universally across the system and then specifically at each
got an okay again. I like to concur with the chairman a
great presentation.
Very eye-opening, you know, this is the worst best kept
secret. I mean where this is a big secret in our society in
all of the universities accept your credits, you can get
two years of college for what a quarter of the cost of the
university and then transfer to a college and finish up
those two years and get your 4-year degree. So again, I
just want to commend you all and keep doing the good work.
Thank you very much. Thank you for bringing this to our
attention and I don't care how to make wind shear woman
play. Thank you for being here. Very good report chair. I
think it's fitting that you pulled up the slide cuz this is
what I wanted to reference. One of the one of the
suggestions I would make is to see if we could build a
partnership with the city of Chicago.
Department of Water Management and I say that because we're
going to be we're going to be replacing 50 years worth of
lead lines and it would be
malfeasance on our part not to have our students Chicagoans
be a part of that making that Union rate that that's at
some point last career. And so I mentioned that in remarks
when we had our budget hearing and I think it makes a lot
of sense. Also just another question. I had one of the
things we talked a lot about this body is the need for
social workers. Whether it's with Chicago Police Department
or Chicago Public Schools. What's the program that you have
dedicated to developing social workers in Provo spider can
address it? It's the leadership is being had by Kennedy
King College on social work program at kennedy-king college
and also at Wright College but kennedy-king is really our
our lead.
Collagen that's in that space is you think about ways to to
create careers? This is a great pipeline to do it. And I'm
delighted to hear that we have that Synergy between the
college is in and the city and I think we could continue to
work through that. So that's my two cents. Thank you very
much. I appreciate it. Thank you all for being here. I just
wanted to again express our gratitude for all of the hard
work that you all continue to do. I think when people think
of community colleges, they just think of education but you
are literally have wrapped your arms around people in a
human aspect that I don't want to go unnoticed. So thank
you so much for that. I also have Truman College at my word
which I adore so shout out to the Truman College to
questions would wear one was really Alderman Queen kind of
took my
Question, but I wanted to see if there were any thoughts
about linking environmental issues in our community
colleges as well. We have a new Department of an
environment and I think that that is also an opportunity
that Our Generations are moving into so just wanted to put
that on your radar to think about what courses are
opportunities. Can we potentially link the department of
environment to or environmental issues secondly is what do
you need for?
So can I just say so I do want to make you aware that we
have been working with Deputy Mayor Jenn Johnson on a whole
list of opportunities where we can build off of this right
here. Okay, and we're going to add to that list the
Department of Water Management. We're going to have a
department of environment and we'll add the social worker
to that list and any other opportunities that you all see
that we may not have seen yet. Okay, and we will presume
and we will follow up on them because we know that they'll
add value to our city and create opportunity for young
people in local communities on in terms of what I do have
to say that this attention matters to us can't understand
the level of satisfaction we have with being here today,
you know, people don't you know some freaking out like we
we we need to be able to be known we agree with
answer number one is we need your time. You don't we need
your time. You don't come to our campuses invite us to your
events. You know, let's make sure that we're sharing that
time on Uno with all due respect to CPS requires. A lot of
attention and oftentimes does get a lot of attention, but
we should too and we want it right. So that's number one we
want.
Thank you Chad Taylor and yourself by cheer for you know
having this today. We want to have more you think it helps
us a lot number two on the resources, you know, we'll have
that conversation at the next no meeting but we've been
pouring and everything we have and we can prove to you that
with a little more we can make a lot from it. You know,
that's what city colleges that does. We take small levels
of tuition. We make Big Dreams happen because of it. So the
resource and I think is is number two and then marketing
marketing is some of what we can do with your vestments
that we're making and marketing with our question but a lot
of marketing is people
You know, it's human beings talking to human beings, right?
So the more you can talk up city colleges to Neighbors at
your dinner table, you know in Social settings, right and
encourage others to do that that begins to stir Sheila. I
want to come in and I remember the narrative, you know,
when people looked at me and said, you know thinking I
wasn't good enough because I wanted to know because we have
to set about what Community College is best institution in
society to meet the needs of entire communities not just
some but all right.
And and we need your help with that too. So they'll be three
things. Thank you so much for that. And just a cabbie. I
don't want to say I am at DePaul grad, but my professors
would leave from teaching me and then go and teach at our
community colleges. So I just want to say that on the
record that you are getting the exact same quality of
Education. Just had a fraction of the price. So, thank you
again.
Altima Hall followed by an older woman Leak with thank you
so much. I met him chair as a proud alumni of Harold
Washington College to Echo with my sister just said that
haven't went to hear Washington on the DePaul group brick.
I graduated on time as a cheaper price because of the
Excellence of your president at olive-harvey Tim
Hollingsworth walk me through each class and Equipment. She
died. So the city colleges is a amazing system. So continue
to do the work and continue to do the great work you in
your single leadership all the way to the janitors in the
college's one of the questions I do have is what are some
of the challenges that you all have seen consistently at
the different campuses as a result of the influx of
population shift. I eat those who are coming from across
the border seeking Asylum or secondly how has the the
language barriers if any have there been any challenges. I
know that you know, we are working.
I'm some additional resources, especially for the Haitian
in Caribbean's will coming across the border looking for
resources. So have you seen any challenges with language
barriers at any of the colleges? And if so, what have you
all done too? Kind of you know fill those gaps in the last
but not least. I just want to go back in the Echo. There
are a lot of students in particular at Englewood stimmt who
have graduated with a lot of college credits for use in you
know city colleges on there for you programs because of
your partnership with themselves those two questions. But
again, thank you all so much. Thank you love me just as I
do want to call attention to the work we've done with
Englewood stem and it's part part of the overall roadmap
effort has been the focusing on Equity you often times.
When you have these do credit to enrollment programs, you
know, if you don't focus on smaller schools if you don't
focus on schools in lower income communities on
You don't end up getting access. There are greater barriers
to making Noah's program successful. And that's why the
collaboration with CPS stole essential, you know District
to District if you will with regards to language, this is
one of the beauties of having a 7 college system that often
times, you know, the migration patterns are quite similar,
right? So, you know, you can actually build some capacity
as a result of that. So I'll give you two examples right
right now.
You know, right College probably has the largest number of
Ukrainian folks you don't coming in right to and so they're
actually working on building a hub for you know, week
training and individuals and then with regards to the
Haitian population on you know, I have Harvey, you know,
what has traditionally had a larger number of no Nation
students they are and so they begin to build the capacity
at the local level in order to meet their communities and
the community needs, you know include my girl needs. I
would just say with my grits in general, you know on this
is what the city of Chicago has done, you know for a wide
range and type of migrants over, you know, you don't censor
he's right and so silly colleges has been a critical part,
you know that capacity that we have as a city and I would
say we've leaned into that compare.
And so I think we're able to do this now, you know and I
think we're able to do this. Well, that doesn't mean we
can't do this better. Okay, and I want you all to know that
our mindset is about continuous Improvement. I mindset is
about how do we get better? You know, and we know there are
places for us to get better and I want you to know he is
the leader we're going to lean into the house. Okay, we're
going to lean into those heavily.
I'm so if you if you see opportunities let us know. Okay,
I'm willing it is just one of them barriers that has been
mentioned in the other facets of serving this young man
attarian border crisis is that's the language barriers and
I know that you all have offered support especially through
your language are courses as well as some of your personnel
but that's just what we're beginning to see especially on
the south side where there is more Community especially
around the Haitian communities, but yet there's the Gap not
in the city level City College is 11 weather widget even
pamphlet that show where to get the city resources to just
curious if you all have no face that but it seems as if you
are on because of the array of resources, it hasn't been
mentioned as a. But if you all are doing some things well,
then maybe we can replicate it on our side of the work so
that any other opportunities to see us as a resource so we
could put up a continuing education program.
In you know language to help people build the basic skills
in order to communicate at least at some level, you know
with the french-speaking community. Right and we've often
find me know that the piece is better when people raise
their hands to do that cuz they do it lovingly and Karen
Lee and so, you know, we could put up stuff like that to
pick up as a resource in that regard as well. Thank you so
much.
old woman
And get your woman and thank you so much for the really
informative presentation today. Wow. I didn't know all of
what you all did earlier with several the programs. And I
know in my own Community were taking advantage of I'd love
to see more more numbers of Asian students. Do you know
participating taking advantage of all the city colleges has
to offer him a couple questions. Some of this goes back to
the beginning of the presentation. So, I'm sorry. I didn't
ask them earlier through the chair is fine cuz I imagine
you don't have this information off the top of your head,
but I am curious as to what the numbers look like for the
work that you've been doing with new arrivals whether that
is helping people with their work permits of which I think
was one of the things listed as well as ESL classes. I
think those are two of the most valuable things that we can
do for new arrivals is to help Empower them to gain work in
to learn the language so very interested in and how that's
performing and what we can do to expand that and and how is
that market in?
Is that through the shelter system is at through other
providers. I'd love to be able to just be a resource to
refer people as well.
We already talked about marketing what?
Just to pick up my son in the drones that earlier what what
are the biggest challenges that increasing Outreach to
elementary and middle age is middle age.
Kids, you got good, you're already doing good work with
middle-aged people with continuing education. But to get
the kids younger. I mean, I know that when I was when I was
in elementary school you I see ran a program called
Saturday college, right? So I mean it in that same van felt
like such a big deal that I was in elementary school going
to some college-level anyting but I think that there's ways
to really encourage kids to do that, but I'm wondering what
the barriers are is that like bus transportation to get
people to get young people to you know, your your Spotlight
events, or is it just, you know introductions to schools
and in the likes of you talked about that a little bit we
can certainly send you an inventory of the work. We are
doing today with Elementary School students. There are in
Pockets, you know things that are you know occurring it's
often quite frankly grant-funded so we were able to go out
and get grants.
Speaking of good cheer Taylor you visited one of the
programs at. Where we were able to get a grant and we're
bringing, you know kids in elementary school kids then to
really learn about, you know, technology and careers and
Construction in the trades, right but in a fun and
innovative ways, so I think the they're the primary
challenge would be a resource one that right when you're
talking about doing a elementary school programming.
There's a lot involved you want to have the right Personnel
the right programming Transportation issues in in order to
meet Equity goals. You can assume that the parents are
going to be able to bring the kids, you know, they may have
other kids to take care of those a lot that you need to
take in account here. So I think that's a place where
You know, we could collaborate with quite frankly was doing
inventory of what we have and we'll do some you know,
dreaming and designing for what we could have in the future
and believe us, you know, we want to be even a greater
resource to any population. I agree with you agree with the
chair. There's more to do in the elementary states in the
Middle School's. I'm thinking of family Working Families in
my community, you know, if there's a
Would have gotten the 11th ward are especially with Asian
immigrants that are newly arriving or whatever they used to
do in China theme me not be able to do here in the United
States because of language barriers or licensing or a
reason but I feel like you've got opportunities for the
children and the parents down that the services that you
offer. I would love to explore doing something like city
colleges day in the ward where you know, we can invite you
know, multi-generations of the community to come in and see
what programs there are really two Spotlight and some of
these more affordable and free programs at $152 an hour
that that's incredible and if you provide incredible value
and I think like everybody else has already said we need to
encourage more people to take advantage of it earlier and
yours
For every one of the other men that have a City College day
for their award. You know, that's something we can execute
with you all and if you can encourage your colleagues to do
this with us, that would be a delight. Thank you.
Okay, I'm on the record. Absolutely. So we did do some
incredible work around employment fares. We have them at
every city college and we asked Alexa is to to kind of go
to their local College didn't really work out well, but the
it got city colleges some exposure and it got to see I was
at Dawson Tech and young people or Saturday will be
building drawings. I was like, oh, wow. It's exciting to
see kids come out on a Saturday. Let me know we can get
them off their computers and out of there Saturday routine,
but to see them they're building drawers was excited and it
was out Dalton s so think about in your Wards hosting it
yourself like I'm an organizer so we organize and so we all
have city colleges. We all should be supporting but we also
got to have a real conversation around just their financing
about around them needing and so get ready to get on the
coach bus like we could do for CPS any more questions.
committee
Thank you all so much and if they stay in the black church
is all hearts and minds are clear. You all have a good day
mean adjourn motion to download. I told you I was I was I
would figure it out all the poles ain't nothing.