BIG Problems at City Colleges of Chicago

Gabe F. · Nov 4, 2017

Someone's got some 'splaining to do...

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/report-city-colleges-of-chicago-watered-down-standards-issued-thousands-more-degrees/

A joint investigation by the Better Government Association, or BGA, and Crain’s Chicago Business has revealed the City Colleges of Chicago issued thousands of degrees after lowering credit hours requirements and watering down education standards in an apparent effort to manipulate data and help boost the City Colleges’ reputation.
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http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20171101/NEWS02/171109998/a-degree-easy-getting-an-education-thats-another-story

Since 2010, City Colleges has watered down its curriculum, violated its own rules on what constitutes a degree, changed the way it counts statistics and bestowed thousands of degrees—sometimes in multiples to the same person—to current and former students who in many cases neither requested nor wanted them, the investigation found.

Reinforcing the effort was a telemarketing-style "call center" from which scripted operators sold students past and present on unsought degrees, according to the monthslong BGA probe that included dozens of interviews and an examination of correspondence and data obtained from internal City Colleges sources
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Bruce · Nov 4, 2017

Chicanery involving a Chicago government entity??

Shocking!!!

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