Hiring Spree at the City Colleges of Chicago

Here’s some good news from Chicago. According to an article in the Chi-Town Daily News, the City Colleges of Chicago is on a hiring spree: The seven-campus district plans to hire up to 76 tenure-track faculty members and nearly 120 part-time and adjunct instructors by this fall to cope with retirements and projected enrollment increases. The openings are spread over a variety of areas, including business, foreign languages, English, nursing, mathematics, psychology, and the sciences.

As Xiomara Cortes Metcalfe, CCC’s vice chancellor of human resources, told the newspaper:

“What happens during bad economic times, people go back to school and so enrollment usually goes up during recessionary times,” she says.

To gird for that, the City Colleges has to start hiring now, even though enrollment in degree programs has only risen slightly over the last year.