Colleagues passed around Catherine Odom’s recent article, “ ‘The 4 years fallacy,’ ” with extreme interest. At Chicago Scholars, our students are Chicago’s hope for the future. The majority are people of color, will be the first in their families to go to college and come from low-income households. They also have impressive transcripts and resumes, and they all have big plans for themselves and their communities.
Yet many of our scholars take up to six years to finish their degree.
