Sullivan High School
Wednesdays, 3-5:30pm
[meet in Norris Lobby]

Rogers Park, an amazing, vibrant, diverse community approximately 20 minutes south of Evanston, is home to Sullivan High School. The school is a second home to about 1200 students, approximately 60% who are African American, 30% who are Latino, and 94% who are considered low income. The school is on probation and is labeled as a failing Chicago public school. The dropout rate is approximately 46% and of those who do graduate, only about 50% go on to college. Sullivan High School runs an after school program Monday through Thursday that caters to refugees who need help with English as well as to underachieving students. There are about 25 or 30 students involved in the program, which includes homework help, as well as hanging out with the kids and mentoring activities. Northwestern students are needed to tutor and mentor the bright youth in the afterschool program. The first part of the program works with students who are not achieving their potential in one or more of their classes. It devotes an hour or so to homework help, and then the latter part is spent doing various other activities ranging from job training to playing cards. We will be going every Tuesday, leaving campus at around 2:15 and getting back by 5:30.

Site Leaders
Juyeon Lee ( juyeon@northwestern.edu )
Emily Petrie ( emily@u.northwestern.edu )