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Jim McCorkell

Jim McCorkell is CEO and founder of College Possible, leading strategic organizational development, engaging and building relationships with national partners and championing the organization’s commitment to creating more college graduates.

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OPINION: The dangerous message in telling low-income students to skip college

Avatar photo by Jim McCorkell June 4, 2019March 30, 2020

When I was a teenager, I made a deal with my dad: I could join his paint crew, painting houses part-time, but only if I promised to go to college. My father was proud of his work, but he did not want house painting to be my only option. Like my mother, he hadn’t graduated […]

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