{"id":87,"date":"2021-06-05T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneccri.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2021-06-05T16:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T16:27:35","slug":"a-grim-look-into-ccris-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneccri.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"A Grim Look into CCRI&#8217;s Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CCRI&#8217;s graduation numbers have been good under the Hughes administration.  Perhaps a little too good.  Some people have even suggested that the numbers are too good to be possible.  I&#8217;m not aware of any audit that has been conducted but I am aware of a few supporting facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CCRI&#8217;s previous director of Institutional Research was forced into retirement and the entire staff was &#8220;encouraged&#8221; to pursue other opportunities shortly after the Hughes administration began.<\/li><li>The department of Institutional Research was moved within the organization to report to Academic Affairs.<\/li><li>CCRI hired a new director of Institutional Research who subsequently left apparently due to a discomfort with the college&#8217;s new reporting methodologies.<\/li><li>The department of Institutional Research was moved within the organization once again to report to Student Affairs, staffed by junior researchers and led by a spin doctor whose major directive is to make the numbers look good.<\/li><li>Even the state legislature&#8217;s subcommittee on finance for education doesn&#8217;t believe the numbers coming from the school.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, an investigation into a Chicago community college system was begun. \u201cCity 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 \u2014 sometimes in multiples to the same person \u2014 to current and former students who in many cases neither requested nor wanted them.\u201d  See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/chicago-community-college-accused-of-inflating-graduation-rates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/chicago-community-college-accused-of-inflating-graduation-rates<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/article\/20151017\/ISSUE01\/310179995\/how-city-colleges-of-chicago-inflates-graduation-rates\">https:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/article\/20151017\/ISSUE01\/310179995\/how-city-colleges-of-chicago-inflates-graduation-rates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is an investigation in CCRI&#8217;s future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCRI&#8217;s graduation numbers have been good under the Hughes administration. 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CCRI&#8217;s previous director of Institutional Research was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Grim Look into CCRI&#039;s Future? - OneCCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oneccri.com\/?p=87\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Grim Look into CCRI&#039;s Future? - OneCCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CCRI&#8217;s graduation numbers have been good under the Hughes administration. 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