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Partnerships and Building Relationships / Program Design, Development, and Quality / Staff Leadership and Management / Sustainability

What Can Expanded Learning Do To Improve College Access?

Rodrigo Arancibia No Comments

There you are. It’s June and you’re sitting at a graduation watching a former student from your program dressed in cap and gown ready to cross a stage into the future. Imagine, for a moment, all the people that went into ensuring those students cross that stage? An innumerable amount of hours went into looking at transcripts, meeting with students, and talking to parents. But what can expanded learning programs do to improve college access for their students? Here’s something to consider: what r...Read More

Know a teen who’s social media savvy? Seeking High School Brand Ambassadors: College Board (SAT) Instagram Campaign + More! Know a teen who’s social media savvy? Seeking High School Brand Ambassadors: College Board (SAT) Instagram Campaign + More!
On-Site Staff / Partnerships and Building Relationships / Storytellers

Know a teen who’s social media savvy? Seeking High School Brand Ambassadors: College Board (SAT) Instagram Campaign + More!

BOOST Collaborative No Comments

Motivate Youth has launched an amazing campaign to promote college test prep, and has an exciting opportunity for high school students! Motivate is assembling a team of amazing teens to be High School Brand Ambassadors to mobilize an Instagram campaign promoting SAT test prep and a $10,000 sweepstakes giveaway. If you know a teen who is active on social media and loves creating and sharing Instagram content, Motivate Youth wants to hear from them! Share this application link with any high school...Read More

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On-Site Staff / Program Design, Development, and Quality / Staff Leadership and Management

Show Me The Money? Not So Fast

Kathy Bihr No Comments

There are a multitude of ambitious scholarship programs across the United States that open doors for students to attend the universities of their dreams. From a financial standpoint, some of the best provide renewable opportunities so that worries about ongoing costs are minimized. Others, provide year one funding that greatly enhance the ability to get into a top school. From there students are free to explore both campus and local opportunities for work that will offset costs in years two and ...Read More

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Program Design, Development, and Quality

College Access and Career Readiness through Afterschool Programming

breakfastclubguest No Comments

College access and career readiness are important in the discourse regarding social mobility and at the center of discussions about the future of American competitiveness in a global economy that has significantly become knowledge and innovation-based. The Council of Economic Advisors stated in their report Preparing the Workers of Today for the Jobs of Tomorrow (July 2009),”Well-trained and highly skilled workers will be in the best positions to secure high wage jobs, thereby fueling Amer...Read More