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State Rep. Deanne Mazzochi, R-Elmhust, Tuesday said the top 10%
of the state’s high school students should have guaranteed
access to the U of I, but don’t. She passed House Bill 796 she
said is a first step to that goal.
“Right now the University of Illinois doesn’t have to do
anything for our top 10% of students, and they don’t have to do
anything for our top community college students,” Mazzochi said.
“This is asking them to at least start by creating some defined
criteria where you as a student know that if you start to
satisfy this criteria, you’re going to be eligible for
guaranteed admission pathway for the University of Illinois.”
Some of that criteria would include at least 36 credit hours at
a community college and a grade point average of 3.0.
“To me anything that is going to allow our students, partially
students who are not necessarily from the well-off districts but
from the districts the University of Illinois historically has
not been recruiting from my goal is to try to make sure that
students from every district of this state have an opportunity
to go to the University of Illinois if they show they are good
students,” Mazzochi said.
Mazzochi said she hopes this is the first step in guaranteeing
all high-performing high school students in the state have
guaranteed admittance to the U of I.
The measure passed nearly unanimously with one person voting
present. It can now be taken up by the Illinois Senate.
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