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01/24/2020

http://admitted.nacacnet.org/wordpress/index.php/2019/08/14/member-view-easing-the-college-transition-for-first-gen-students/

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Admitted in August 2018. It’s being republished as part of NACAC’s Best of the Blog series. Heading off to college can be an anxiety-ridden pro…

12/13/2019

https://hechingerreport.org/the-paradox-of-working-while-in-college/

A new study from a Rutgers research center also finds that students who work while in college earn higher salaries afterwards.

11/12/2019

"The four sentences contained terms such as “litigation,” “adjudicative,” “jurisdiction” and “identifiers,” and the last sentence, 23 words long, included two semicolons.

It wasn’t an assignment from an advanced course in legal studies. The passage was from the free application for federal student aid, otherwise known as FAFSA, an integral — and often hated — part of the lives of high school seniors who aspire to college."

Cluttered with confusing terminology, it and other densely worded documents are a significant barrier to college student success

11/01/2019

The application for the Point Foundation Scholarship for LGBTQ students opens today!

Click here to learn more about the application process!

https://pointfoundation.org/point-apply/application-faqs/

10/24/2019

"The Fab Lab is one way the Charleston County School District is trying to build career planning into curricula for children at earlier and earlier ages, a trend unfolding in school districts around the country. Having long focused on readying students for college, school systems are beefing up their career-and-technical programs amid a growing push to more closely align the skills students accumulate in school with workforce needs. Now, some school districts are pushing this job exploration into middle and even elementary school, convinced that helping students connect what they are learning to careers will not only deepen their engagement but also help them make more informed decisions about their educational paths."

The Charleston County School District is among school districts trying to build middle school career readiness curricula before students enter high school

10/17/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/your-money/college-application-essays-money.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FCollege%20and%20University%20Admissions&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=collection

Each year, we ask high school seniors to submit college application essays they’ve written about work, money, social class and related topics. Here are five that moved us.

10/15/2019

"Institutional commitment, experts agree, is key to determining how well LGBT students fare on a college campus. To gauge this commitment, students should look at factors such as housing and restroom policies, curriculum, resources and representation."

LGBT students should look for gender-inclusive schools with strong anti-discrimination policies.

10/09/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/sat-score.html?rref=collection/timestopic/College%20and%20University%20Admissions

The College Board is adding a measure of students’ socioeconomic background to help colleges put test scores in context.

10/08/2019

"The plan was controversial from the start with many complaining that it would deny high-achieving students admission to the state’s top two schools, the University of Texas (UT) at Austin and Texas A&M University, College Station. But a new analysis of 20 years of data finds that the 10 percent policy did little to expand access to students from high schools without a tradition of regularly sending students to those universities."

Beginning in 1998, Texas top ten percent plan guaranteed admission to its most selective public universities to any student who graduated in the top 10 percent of his or her high school.

10/02/2019

"In 2008-09, Tennessee State had 77 international undergraduate students. By the fall of 2016, the year before Alharthi enrolled, it had 549 — 8 percent of its undergraduate student body of about 7,000. Other historically black colleges and universities are sparking similar rapid growth in their numbers of international students — for the same reasons.

“It is important to have different cultures on a campus because we can’t send all of our students to study abroad, so we find unique ways to bring the world to them.”
Jewell Winn, executive director for international programs, Tennessee State University"

https://hechingerreport.org/hbcus-open-their-doors-wider-to-international-students/


In addition to the tuition money they often bring — many foreign students pay the full sticker price, often aided by their home countries’ governments — there are benefits for the HBCUs’ American students. Many are from low-income families and cannot afford study-abroad programs. Having international classmates exposes them to cultures very different from their own. Also, when they graduate, they will join an increasingly globalized workforce, and could benefit from understanding the perspectives of their international peers.

Through Toni Morrison's novels and essays and plays, we come to know ourselves and our country better; we see new things and have new thoughts

09/26/2019

The tuition waiver, which does not include room and board, will go into effect in fall 2020. All Pennsylvania colleges, including public and private institutions, are covered by the legislation.

Foster children in Pennsylvania will soon be able to attend college tuition-free. A new state law extends the offer to anyone who spent time in foster care at age 16 or older, including students wh…

09/24/2019

"This phenomenon has grown so much it has a name: “summer swirl.” There’s been a steady increase in summer swirlers anxious to speed up their progress to graduation, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which tracks this. They are also more likely to graduate from their home institutions than their classmates who don’t take summer classes, the clearinghouse found."

Growing number of students have started to forgo long summer breaks to cut costs and stay on track to graduation by taking community college summer classes