Cutting higher ed costs for Chicago’s disadvantaged students
Clip: 10/1/2014 | 8m 11s
Cutting higher ed costs for Chicago’s disadvantaged students
In Chicago, two initiatives were launched to improve access to higher education for lower-income students. To explore the strategies that community colleges and the University of Chicago are planning to use to attract these students, Jeffrey Brown speaks with Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, and Cheryl Hyman, chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago.
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Cutting higher ed costs for Chicago’s disadvantaged students
Clip: 10/1/2014 | 8m 11s
In Chicago, two initiatives were launched to improve access to higher education for lower-income students. To explore the strategies that community colleges and the University of Chicago are planning to use to attract these students, Jeffrey Brown speaks with Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, and Cheryl Hyman, chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago.
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