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Guiding the Way to Higher Education:
Families, Counselors, and Communities Together
AndStep-by-Step to College Workshops
for Students
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An Important Policy Issue
• Six out of every ten jobs in our economy depend on workers with at least a two-year college degree.
• A shortage of 14 million college-educated workers is predicted by 2020.
• Despite extensive financial aid expenditures, the gap between low-income and high-income students attending college today is roughly the same as that participation gap in the 1960s.
• Improving academic preparation for college and ensuring affordability, especially for low-income students and students of color, has widespread support from researchers, policymakers, and advocates.
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Underrepresentation
African-American, Latino and Native American students are still significantly underrepresented in college in general and in four-year colleges in particular.
College Enrollment rates:• First-generation students - 59% • Students with parent with a 4-year degree - 93%.
Rural students, despite better high school graduates rates, enroll in college at rates 6% lower than the national average, and 8% lower than their metropolitan counterparts.
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Underrepresentation
• 76 percent of high-income high school graduates immediately enroll in a college or trade school. Only 49 percent of low-income graduates enroll immediately.
• 86 percent of high-income, high achieving secondary school students go on to college, while only 50 percent of low-income, high achievers enroll in postsecondary education.
• Young people whose family income is under $25,000 have less than a 6 percent chance of earning a four-year college degree.
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Research Evidence On College Access Gap
• Lower financial barriers to college affordability
• Ensure better academic preparation for college
• Encourage counselors to advise students for college and focus schools on their college preparatory mission
• Increase the quality and quantity of college entrance and financial aid information
• Engage families as college preparation partners
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Families As College Preparation Partners• Family encouragement stimulates students forming
college plans by 8th grade in time to take a college preparatory high school curriculum.
• Family support and early educational plans predict students 1) developing and maintaining college aspirations, 2) sustaining motivation and academic achievements, and 3) actual college enrollment.
• Consistent communication among students, parents, and school personnel predicts increased enrollment in college.
• The major need of parents is to have an accurate understanding of college costs and the financial aid system
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www.nacacnet.org
NACAC Resources – Guiding the Way to Higher Education
• Families, Counselors, Communities Together (FCCT)– Prepared programs for parents
• Step-by-Step to College– 3 separate curriculums – middle school,
early high school, late high school
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FCCT Purpose
Provide information to parents and guardians that will help them become informed, confident
advisors to their children about postsecondary academic
options.
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• Overview
• Using the Guide
• Essentials– Objectives, Message, Introductions, Discussion
Questions, Activities
• Essential Resources
• Resource Bibliography
** Workshop Evaluations included**
FCCT - Layout
www.nacacnet.org
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Essential IBuilding a Foundation for
Educational Success
• Importance of families to student success
• Provide methods of collaboration between families and schools
• Identify how families become involved in students’ education
• Explain study skills
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Essential IISetting the Stage for Dreams
to Become Reality
• Early planning and exploring educational options
• Research the benefits, and become aware of hard work and necessary planning
• Encourage students to dream and set goals
• Early financial planning
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Essential III
Charting a Challenging High School Experience
• Postsecondary education
• Educational routes
• Interest, values and abilities as pertains to decision-making
• Record of achievement
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Essential IV
Follow the Road to College
• High school to college transition
• College application process
• Educational goals
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Essential V
Paying for College
• College costs and financial aid
• Financial planning
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Step-by-Step to College
• 45-60 minute student centered lesson plans with optional parent sessions
• Sequential program• middle school students in grades 7 and 8• early high school students in grades 9, 10,
and first semester grade11• late high school students in the second
semester of grade 11 and grade 12
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Middle School Curriculum
• Challenge students to see college admissions and attendance as a goal
• Help students assess their interests, strengths, and academic habits
• Explain concepts about college options and financial aid
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Middle School Curriculum
• Provide a template for building a college preparatory curriculum
• Encourage students to build a profile and support network to help them reach their college goals
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Early High School Curriculum
• Instill the belief that college is accessible and affordable
• Demonstrate ways for students to build a strong curricular and extracurricular foundation
• Develop an understanding of and a plan for standardized testing
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Early High School Curriculum
• Promote the need for self-motivation and a network of adult mentors
• Assess career interests and aspirations as a way to research college options
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Late High School Curriculum
• Develop a strategic plan for the college search and application process and the transition to college
• Review standardized test questions and schedule test dates
• Provide more in-depth analysis of career interests
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Late High School Curriculum
• Guide students through the application and essay process
• Walk students through the financial aid process
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Middle School Session I:It’s All About Me: My Future Goals
• Activity #1: Peer Connections Handout: Ice Breaker Bingo• Activity #2: What Do You Like Handout: My Interests Chart• Activity #3: Making a Name for Myself Handout: Career Fact Sheet/Business Card Exercise
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Early Awareness Resource List
• NACAC- FCCT and Step-by-Step to College www.nacacnet.org
• Center for Student Opportunity http://www.csopportunity.org/
• College For Every Student www.collegefes.org
• College: Making It Happen www.certicc.org/collegemakingit.aspx
• Dream to Reality http://www.collegezone.com/counselorzone/265.htm
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Early Awareness Resource List
• ECMC Foundation – The College Place http://www.ecmcfoundation.org/thecollegeplace/
• Get Ready for College www.getreadyforcollege.org
• KnowHow2Go www.knowhow2go.org
• Pathways to College www.pathwaystocollege.net