Tag: Counselors: Page 5

Latinx

A Culture of Family And College

As Hispanic women balance family values and responsibilities with the ambition to attend college, admissions counselors are providing them with culturally sensitive retention tools.

October 29, 2008

International

Caught Between Two Cultures

Efforts to reach Asian students with culturally appropriate mental health services are paying off.

August 20, 2008

Students

More Than Gatekeepers

High school guidance counselors have extraordinary influence in steering Black males to college or to the streets.

August 6, 2008

Students

Perspectives: More Than Gatekeepers

High school guidance counselors have extraordinary influence in steering Black males to college or to the streets.

August 4, 2008

Students

Study Suggests Colleges Do More To Reach Under-represented Students

Information about college from traditional sources is not as accessible to or easily understood by low-income and first-generation students, who tend to rely on high school counselors and unsolicited marketing materials when researching colleges, according to new research that suggests the best ways to reach under-represented students.

January 9, 2008

Students

Study Suggests Colleges Do More To Reach Under-represented Students

Information about college from traditional sources is not as accessible to or easily understood by low-income and first-generation students, who tend to rely on high school counselors – when they’re available – and unsolicited marketing materials when researching colleges, according to new research that suggests the best ways to reach under-represented students.

December 12, 2007

Home

Study: Parents Need To Plant College-going Seed While Children Are In Middle School

A study being released today says parents are missing an opportunity to help their children prepare for college during the middle-school years, seen as a critical development time for a person’s educational future.

December 10, 2007

HBCUs

Addressing the Mental Health Ailments Facing Black College Students

BALTIMORE If the walls of Cicely Evans’ office could talk, they would tell of the mental health ailments facing Black college students, including domestic violence, depression, anxiety, stress, unresolved issues of homosexuality and thoughts of suicide.

November 28, 2007

Home

College-application Supplements Becoming Big Pain

When Zoe Portman finished her essay for the Common Application the widely used college-admissions form that can be sent to multiple schools she thought she had completed the bulk of the application process.

November 8, 2007

African-American

Addressing Anxiety, Depression and Suicide Among HBCU Students

In the wake the massacre at Virginia Tech and the recent shooting at Delaware State University, student mental health is becoming increasingly important to colleges and universities nationwide.

November 4, 2007

Home

The Guidance Piece of the Puzzle

One of the obstacles to academic achievement, according to The Education Trust, has been the way guidance counselors are used. Often burdened with complex scheduling duties and the responsibility to do individual and group therapy, they are rarely educational advocates for students — and sometimes, are the exact opposite. Many adults and current students can point to a guidance counselor who steered them away from more rigorous classes, telling them that they weren’t destined for college and would only be setting themselves up for failure. In the words of Education Trusts’ Patricia Martin, “We’ve been sorting and selecting and teaching some a very rigorous and others a watered down curriculum.”

July 14, 2007

STEM

Graduating in prosperous times

When Ed Wrenn pursued a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems at Florida A&M University, the young Boston-area native kept an unwavering watch on the job market. During his time at FAMU, Wrenn estimates that he had contact with nearly one hundred potential employers about jobs after college. By fall 1997, his last semester at FAMU. Wrenn had five job offers to consider.

July 12, 2007