Title: Peer Mentoring |
Headings: PEER MENTORING
PEER MENTORING
ACI’s Peer Mentoring operates as follows:
The 11 ACI Peer Mentoring campuses in 2020-21 are:
You can provide critical support to ACI’s Peer Mentoring with a targeted gift to Associated Colleges of Illinois:
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Content: Although nearly 70 percent of U.S. high school seniors enroll in college within two years of high school graduation, only about 57 percent complete degrees within six years. Outcomes for minority students are even less encouraging: Only 36 percent of black young adults and 43 percent of Latinos who enroll in college complete degree programs in a timely fashion. Poverty affects educational outcomes even more than race. Students from the highest income families are almost eight times as likely as those from the lowest income families to earn a bachelor’s degree by age 24. Illinois’ educational attainment gap is one of the nation’s worst. Of 100 Illinois students who enter 9th grade, only 76 graduate from high school, 42 enter college, and only 28 remain in college beyond freshman year. Illinois’ white students are 28 percent more likely to go to college than blacks or Latinos. College participation for Illinois’ low-income students has dropped 5 percent in the past 10 years. Only 52 percent of Chicago Public Schools alumni go on to college, most who do choose colleges mismatched to their academic profiles and with poor retention rates.