Welcome

The Adult Education Department is proud of its community presence in the service area of Kennedy-King College. Community education classes are held in partnership with the Chicago Public Library, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District facilities, area churches, and community based organizations. Class schedules are flexible, some meeting during mornings, afternoons and evening hours.

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Our Mission

The Mission of the Adult Education Department is to empower adult students to positively contribute to the global community. Adult Basic Education (ABE) students enroll to improve their basic reading, writing and computational skills; General Educational Development (GED) students enroll to pass the GED Examination to transition to postsecondary educational experiences. English as a Second Language (ESL) students enroll to become effective speakers of English. Regardless of the student’s instructional program, each student sets and achieves short-term goals.

Our Vision

The Adult Education Department will know that the mission has been achieved when students are effective communicators; show respect for themselves and their communities; and apply problem-solving processes in a variety of life skills contexts.

Our Core Values

The Kennedy-King College’s Adult Education Program is an absolute resource for excellence that binds student body and faculty via the following core values.

Accountability: Faculty and students, alike must be accountable for all actions on and off campus. Both must honor an obligation and willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable for one’s actions.

Integrity: Faculty and students must act with a sense of integrity and a firm adherence to a code of especially moral and artistic values that are incorruptible and unimpaired. Such values are to have the quality of being complete and undivided and to show honesty in all dealings.

Teamwork: Faculty and students are to be bound together by a bond that transcends mediocrity. Each must act in a cooperative manner as a group of a team-to act in a manner that would be seen by all and sundry as the legendary broom that can easily be broken as a single entity but cannot be broken when bound together.

Diversity: There must be a unity in the celebration of our diversity. We must maintain an idea of aim of having our diversity work for us in bringing our different skills and experiences together to form a complete and capable group.