October 2010
IEF’s Executive Director Awarded Foundation Fellowship
October 30th, 2010Congratulations are in order for the IEF’s Executive Director, Robin Redmond, who has been selected as a fellow for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluation Fellows Program. This year-long fellowship is designed to help emerging organizations develop and implement rigorous evaluation standards. Robin will travel to Philadelphia in November where she will participate in an [...]
A Message from the Executive Director
October 30th, 2010Dear Friends, Midterms are right around the corner, and we have already accomplished so much since the beginning of the school year. On September 28th, the IEF held its semi-annual advisory board meeting at the Standard Club in Chicago. Advisory Board members from all over the state, including educators, legislators, and policy makers joined the [...]
White House Summit on Community College
October 18th, 2010http://www.whitehouse.gov/communitycollege
Karina Aranda
October 18th, 2010Karina Aranda is only eighteen but she has already acquired a wealth of life experience. Karina had a truly bicultural childhood, spending extended periods in Chicago and Mexico until finally settling in Chicago at fourteen. Shortly after her permanent move, Karina’s transition back to life in the US was complicated when her father fell ill [...]