Because of previous administration and state funding issues, Chicago State has
been portrayed negatively in the media for the past few years. Though it has
finally gotten new administration and leadership,
many around Chicago still hold the idea that Chicago State is closed or at risk of
closure. As individuals who have witnessed the struggles firsthand, it's
up to us the students and faculty to start changing that message and create a
new conversation. Well, the issue for us, the reason that we were in the news more so than
anybody else even with the financial exigency when we weren't even the worst
is because we're black and predominately black and brown and anytime you have a
any institution in this country that's predominantly black and brown people
think is inferior to other institutions and that's something that really needs
to be is an ongoing problem in America that really needs to be dealt with
people always talk about having a national conversation about race we
really have never had one you've never gotten serious about it but the reason
that we've been in front front and center on the news is because we're on
forests outside and work predominantly black and brown if we were not we
wouldn't have been in and on the front page of the news as much as we were that
does not negate the fact that we were best said by poor leadership so when
that administration left they didn't leave anything other than us struggling
financially over the years CSU is always advocated for education
for all people and so even though the population shifts you know with shifted
over the years from white immigrants to black Americans to Latino to
working-class white people our our idea that education for all is
Democratic it is empowering it means that education is an important its
capital for for people so you can move up economically in the world be able to
provide for your family and make a change in the world so I think all if
all of the faculty here believe in that we wouldn't be here otherwise and I say
the students are sprint because students come from a variety of backgrounds and
our students many of them are students are non-traditional many of our students
work many of them come from backgrounds that have been very challenging which
really is an asset I think for people coming to college and going into the
workforce because they've been through things they lived through things so I
think those experiences that our students have had make them have that
they already come in with a certain type of education and I think that we can
just add a little to that so our students are straight I think our
student population I think the diversity here gives students a unique opportunity
especially if they're not from places around here to experience something
that's new or not necessarily new but something that's a little bit different
her it's a different oriented but and then I don't think that I would have
gotten if I would have stayed like where I came from like in North Dakota or
anything like that so if our students initially came from a school system that
could where their education was poor right they didn't have a good foundation
they're able to recoup what they lost in those diggers
and move ahead prepared them so that's what we do well here and I think that's
what we're successful that we can take students for whatever reason sometimes
it's not economic sometimes they don't feel comfortable at the school where
there they're not doing well because of the
culture that school and when they come here they're able to be very successful
because they have the mentors because they have that closeness of a community
so I think we do well we take students who may think of themselves as
unsuccessful or may not have been successful in other places in other
areas and we can make those students are successful to go out to the world they
change the world I also think that how small we are is that it's a benefit and
we were able to have smaller classes to actually get to know our students really
well we don't teach in a big lecture hall with you know 150 students I know
my 12 students in african-american literature I've gotten to know them as
people I know what their strong points are I can even imagine what they're
doing in the future and so they not become a mentor and vested in their
lives that is probably one of the biggest the biggest strengths that we
have here classroom sizes can be really challenging at larger universities like
if you're in accomplice and there's 200 people in a lecture hall you know things
like that whereas here class sizes are a lot
smaller so you get to know your teachers you get to know your professors they
know you want a first-name basis as opposed to a name on a paper and
students get to know each other as well because as you as you progress up
farther into your degree path you know you get really close with other students
that you're in most of your classes with you learn to build relationships that
way and you keep having the same professors over and over again so you
know what they expect and you know how to progress as opposed to having to
learn something totally new over again every single semester because your
teacher wants something different contrary to some opinions we have high
standards for our students it's important to me that a student walks out
in my class and members what they learn and also have
the skills so when I'm teaching writing I want them to have those skills and
when you are able to be almost one-on-one with students they have a
tendency to to remember better to want to do better and so all of those all of
those work hand-in-hand to as you say create this this community of activists
because the root of activist is too happy to do and so what we do is teach
what our students do is learn and teach and so it's each one teach one it goes
on and on but at our core we believe
takes some time to really get students to really be engaged and involved like
that I think it happens at times but not consistently enough but I think we're
students such as yourself and other students that that in time will get
going in the right direction where it's more consistent and more vibrant service
and activism from the student body what the one good thing about the financial
crisis that we had was that that really got students fired up and we had
students get involved and shut down highly go to Springfield you know and
Chicago State students really were the leading students in this in Illinois to
push the legislature to get the budget passed so you know we're all very proud
of students what they deal with that the more people we spread the word to that
CSU is a campus that is all about inclusivity and basically preparing us
for a future where things might not always be easy things might not always
be equal the university struggles have shown us that
the real world really has some strong implications depending on where you're
at and what's going on and I think that's helps the student population
understand the value of their degree from such a university that has
continued to thrive despite the administrative setbacks I think our new
president understands that about she understands the history of the school I
think she understands our population and she this is what I'm feeling now he's
not trying to make us be something that we're not she's trying to take the
stories that we have that are successful and share them with the rest of the
world so if we have people who went to school here who are successful writers
and professors and attorneys and teachers and accountants she wants to
spread the word that these are the folks that attended the issue these are the
folks who graduated the CEO Chicago Public Schools graduated from Chicago
State so not only our students the stories of our students who are doing
well locally but nationally and internationally
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