General Educational Development (GED) Adult Education

GED class

The Center for Literacy is deepening its commitment to adult education through a revitalized General Educational Development (GED) program. Over the past 30 years, CFL has successfully graduated more than 400 GED students, and is now bringing back this vital opportunity for adult learners on Chicago's South and West sides to gain small-group and one-on-one instruction in pursuit of their high school equivalency degrees.

The program is entirely free to participants and is taught by a team of instructors that includes UIC College of Education graduate students and former GED program participants who understand these learners' needs and experiences, because they have been there themselves. The Center for Literacy partners with local schools, community organizations, and the UIC Neighborhood Center Initiative to envision the GED program as part of an educational pathway for Chicago residents to access education, connect to employment opportunities, and achieve their goals. In this way, the Center for Literacy is one very important way the College of Education and UIC shows up in Chicago neighborhoods.

Questions about the GED program? Contact us.