Reinvention is a uniquely collaborative process led by task forces of faculty, staff and students who each spend a semester looking closely at areas needing improvement. Five external advisory councils have also been formed consisting of employers, civic leaders and foundations, academics, capital planning experts and community representatives. Their job is to provide guidance throughout the Reinvention process.
The City Colleges of Chicago has four goals for Reinvention:
- Increase number of students earning college credentials of economic value
- Increase rate of transfer to bachelor’s degree programs following CCC graduation
- Drastically improve outcomes for students requiring remediation
- Increase number and share of ABE/GED/ESL students who advance to and succeed in college-level courses
For more information on Reinvention visit the Reinvention Website.
I am very unhappy with Richard J. Daley College because on their website they say they are “pleased to support student success through tutoring” but in reality they are not. I went to building 200 to for help in physics this semester and only to find out that Felipe the tutor is only there twice a week on Wednesday (during my physics class) and on Saturday from 12-3:30 and I’m working at that time. I asked if there was anyway that we could have more tutoring time for physics and they told me that” tutoring is not a necessity it is a privilege”. For a student who struggles with a class after studying for hour it is a necessity. I was told to go to any other city college for tutoring service. This is the 3rd semester I am told this about the tutoring service. I would like to know who I can talk to so there can be something done here because I have a good standing GPA and i do not want to ruin it because Richard J. Daley does not care about me.
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I have just returned to the City Colleges after a five year absence, during which I taught at another community college. I am interested in being part of the reinvention process but did not want to completely remove myself from my job. I wonder how people can get involved in other ways.