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Reinventing Chicago’s City Colleges

By bleepbleep219

Are you against change?



Comments welcome.

COMMENTS:
1. From City Colleges of Chicago Director of External Communications Katheryn Hayes:
I don’t understand the video you posted on your site about City Colleges’ Reinvention. Reinvention is a collaborative effort to review and revise our practices to increase student success in this challenging global economy – so that more students are prepared to transfer to four year institutions and secure good paying careers. I encourage you to learn more at www.reinventingccc.org.
REPLY: Apparently somebody believes it’s a bunch of bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo that will ultimately benefit administrators more than anyone else.
2. From [name withheld]:
Liked this a lot (My wife is faculty.)
3. From Theresa B. Luster:
I just watched this video and I’m a bit confused by it. Can you please explain the meaning behind it?
REPLY: Apparently some people think City Colleges Reinvention is bureaucratic bullshit that will only end up benefitting administrators.
4. From Patricia Navadomskis:
Back in the 70’s when I attended the City Colleges – Southwest/Daley – our Profs taught at other large institutions like The Art Institute, Roosevelt, University of Chicago . . .
We read the same books as the more expensive schools, worked our way through, and brought value to the city. Over the years, big companies tossed out the good with the bad and a lot of older people with tons of talent, brains and ability were treated poorly. Younger people who went to better schools talked down to us and we got stuck – and stay stuck – in chronic underemployment.
A whole generation of people who grew up in the city outsourced like seven times and blamed for crap we did not do. If you are not a top student from a top school should you work at McDonalds?
My high school and even my grammar school education was far superior to most public schools at the time the city was experiencing white flight and disinvestment. Too many social problems and too many students far behind Catholic and suburban schools.
For a reasonable price, you were introduced to many subjects to make you THINK for yourselves. Education should be about developing critical thinking skills*.
We where in portable temporary units to fill the increase of post-Vietnam vets who needed education.
Like most public anything for the last 30 years, it has been dumbed down – the same college was outdated before you got there.
I took some of the best classes I ever had at city schools, like a geology class in which we went to Starved Rock and the natural history museum. Make use of what a large city can offer.
Even in high school, teachers used what was around you to show you REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE – taking us to Cook County Jail for an actual trial to introduce you to Criminal Justice.
Growing up in the city, my grammar school music teacher was a professor at DePaul, Mr. Fabish, and he taught the group Chicago.
You sit around an office long enough and something sinks in: So WHERE are the jobs?
Fix the hiring systems – you want life-long learners, you need far better city colleges. Training available on the latest software reading, STOP the hostile workplace. Diversity Training. A Raise. Jobs Jobs Jobs – Help the students find their niche.
THINK FOR YOURSELVES. Stop wasting so much money. Fix and reuse City Colleges, city schools, the CTA, the infrastructure.
We have enough books – learn to read.
* Use of the museums and all that Chicago has to offer and sharing among other schools means you should be able to obtain a world-class education. The focus is too much on computers and top students from top schools so students and teachers become frustrated. NO RESPECT for addable local talent.

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Posted on December 8, 2010