IB as a College Access Strategy in Chicago Public Schools

Brian Spittle directs the Center for Access and Attainment in the Division of Enrollment Management and Marketing at DePaul University. Brian is actively involved with several access initiatives both in the United States and the United Kingdom. He received a B.A. in Politics from Nottingham University in England, completed graduate studies in Political Science at McMaster University in Canada, and received a Ph.D. in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education from the University of Buffalo.

Sara has been the IB Diploma Programme Administrator for Chicago Public Schools since November 2007. Prior to that, she was the CAS Coordinator at Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago.

Melissa Roderick is the Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and a Co-Director at the Consortium on Chicago School Research. Her work has focused attention on the transition to high school as a critical point in students' school careers and her current research examines the transition to college among Chicago Public School students. Professor Roderick has a Ph.D. from the Committee on Public Policy at Harvard University, a graduate degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and an B.A. from Bowdoin College.