{"id":376787,"date":"2025-11-13T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376787\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:17:12","slug":"city-colleges-of-chicago-celebrates-five-years-of-impact-and-the-culmination-of-our-plan-forward-strategic-plan-2021-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376787\/","title":{"rendered":"City Colleges of Chicago Celebrates Five Years of Impact and the Culmination of Our Plan Forward: Strategic Plan 2021-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>City Colleges leadership, faculty, staff, and students gathered with partners, supporters, and funders to celebrate all that has been achieved together over the past five years with City Colleges\u2019 strategic plan. The City Colleges of Chicago Foundation was also on hand to share the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccc.edu\/impact\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Impact Report<\/a>, which details how philanthropy has helped to support and scale many of these successes.<\/p>\n<p>City Colleges Chancellor Juan Salgado and Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff Veronica Herrero were joined by Chicago Public Schools Chief of College and Career Success Megan Hougard, Chicago State University President Z Scott, Amazon Web Services Head of AI\/ML Generative AI Milan McGraw. Two City Colleges students also shared how City Colleges supported them both in and out of the classroom as they worked toward their goals.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration highlighted how City Colleges of Chicago has become Chicago\u2019s most accessible higher education engine of racial and socioeconomic mobility, achieving:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0A post-pandemic\u00a0<b>enrollment recovery<\/b>\u00a0that surpasses state and national averages<\/li>\n<li>An increase in <b>four-year student outcomes<\/b>, especially for Black and Latine students, on track to 55%<\/li>\n<li><b>The Chicago Roadmap<\/b>, an unprecedented systems-level, nationally-recognized partnership with the Chicago Public Schools that is moving the needle on college readiness<\/li>\n<li>Nearly <b>$100 million invested in free college<\/b>, including expanding the Star Scholarship and Early College programs, and launching Future Ready and Fresh Start<\/li>\n<li>Partnered with <b>One Million Degrees<\/b>\u00a0to scale their evidence-based student support\u00a0model\u00a0at Olive-Harvey, Malcolm X, Harold Washington, and this coming fall to Kennedy-King College.<\/li>\n<li>A key partner in the growth of the <b>Chicagoland Apprenticeship Network<\/b>\u00a0(3,000+ work-based learning experiences a year)<\/li>\n<li>Selected as a <b>key workforce partner<\/b>\u00a0in Illinois\u2019 development of the quantum and advanced manufacturing industries<\/li>\n<li>The <b>return of nursing programs to the South Side<\/b>\u00a0with a new nursing pathway launching at Kennedy-King College and a new\u00a0<b>Malcolm X College South Campus\u00a0<\/b>to be located in Washington Park<\/li>\n<li><b>Launched the City Colleges School of Engineering, <\/b>expanding our<b>\u00a0nationally-recognized engineering program<\/b>\u00a0and deepening partnerships with university partnerships, including a guaranteed admissions program with the UIUC Grainger College of Engineering<\/li>\n<li><b>Elimination of a legacy structural deficit<\/b>\u00a0and restoration of operating surpluses leading to credit rating increases<\/li>\n<li><b>Historic<\/b>\u00a0<b>investments in student supports,\u00a0<\/b>including<b>\u00a0<\/b>mental health, housing, food, technology, among other efforts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>City Colleges of Chicago\u2019s next strategic plan will launch in the spring of 2026, building on the progress of the last five years and setting even more ambitious goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Colleges leadership, faculty, staff, and students gathered with partners, supporters, and funders to celebrate all that has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":376788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-376787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115544473446742364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}