50-50 Highlights: Colleges in Chicago

By: Michelle Kretzschmar
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Downtown Chicago skyline representing colleges in ChicagoStudents looking for the big city attractions shouldn’t overlook colleges in Chicago. It’s the 3rd largest city in the United States and has all the expected amenities to go with it. There are 40 colleges with at least 500 full-time undergraduates in the Chicago Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA). While twelve of them are 50-50 colleges, unfortunately only one is a public institution. + Read More

How Come No One is Talking About Pathetic College Graduation Rates?

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College graduates representing college graduation ratesIf college graduation rates were high school graduation rates, every politician, pundit, and policy wonk would be in the mainstream media talking about the crisis of college dropouts and devising ways to tie faculty evaluation to student graduation. Not that such an approach is necessarily the answer. After all, given the situation with high school graduation rates, I’m not sure that we would actually come up with any solutions but, boy, we sure would be talking about it. + Read More