College

Browse 21473 search results

Chicago Students Defy the Odds

Chicago Students Defy the Odds

Four years ago, Tim King, CEO and founder of Urban Prep Academy, led a group of like-minded education, business, and civic leaders to found Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African American high school. Their mission was clear: to get all their graduates into a four-year college or university.

South Central Scholars Support STEM Success

Of students that started out majoring in STEM in 2004 who then went on to graduate with a STEM degree, only 18% are black. That compares with 22% of Latino students; 33%, whites; and 42%, Asian Americans, according to UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute.

×