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Danha Ocampo, who works full-time at a high school, was constantly telling students that they should go on to college.
“I was telling them ‘you can do it!,’ and at one point I stopped and thought that I should be listening to my own advice. How can I tell students to continue their education by going to college if I wasn’t doing it myself?”
Determined to get her degree in social work because she loves helping people, Danha chose to attend Olive-Harvey College because the class schedules were flexible and it was close to home. Juggling full-time work and part-time classes wasn’t easy, but Danha says that there was no part of her Olive-Harvey College experience that she didn’t enjoy.
Tomika Bernstein and James Robinson are starting new careers in the transportation, logistics, and distribution field thanks, in large part, to the Project Evolve scholarship program exclusive to Olive-Harvey College students.
Sports may be in the off season at City Colleges of Chicago right now, but Rob Fletcher, the Director of Intercollegiate and Intramural Athletics at Olive-Harvey College, is busy making plans for the upcoming fall season.
We asked Vincent Harris, Executive Director of Student Financial Aid Services at Olive-Harvey College, a little about his job and how he helps students access higher education every day.
