{"id":1261,"date":"2017-08-10T08:07:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2017-08-10T08:07:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:07:25","slug":"4-ways-college-counselors-can-increase-access-for-underrepresented-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/08\/10\/4-ways-college-counselors-can-increase-access-for-underrepresented-students\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways College Counselors Can Increase Access for Underrepresented Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1262\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FAIRgirl11-e1502366247187.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1262\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FAIRgirl11-e1502366247187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FAIRgirl11-e1502366247187.jpg 459w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FAIRgirl11-e1502366247187-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NACAC\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Diversity on campus strengthens our colleges and our country.<\/p>\n<p>Yet a large number of qualified students from low-income and minority populations are still underrepresented in American higher education due to inadequate access to college advising resources.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are four ways college counselors can help increase access:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Expose students to a wide array of colleges.<\/strong> Free and open to the public, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacfairs.org\/\">NACAC\u2019s National College Fairs<\/a> offer students and parents the opportunity to meet face-to-face with college representatives in more than 90 cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Connect with access organizations.<\/strong> The<a href=\"http:\/\/casp.nacacnet.org\/\"> NACAC Directory of College Access &amp; Success Programs<\/a> offers information and contacts for hundreds of programs throughout the US that help underrepresented students prepare for postsecondary education, gain admission to college, and graduate with a degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Promote college awareness and planning.<\/strong> NACAC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/advocacy--ethics\/initiatives\/steps\/\"><em>Step by Step: College Awareness and Planning for Families, Counselors and Communitie<\/em>s<\/a> is a comprehensive college and career readiness manual. Download a free copy of the recently revised curriculum \u00a0for activities and exercises designed to build college awareness among elementary, middle, and high school students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Collaborate with colleagues.<\/strong> Join a NACAC Special Interest Group\u200b (SIG). SIGs provide micro-communities within the association, and offer participants the opportunity to collaborate with members who have similar interests. The association has 26 SIGs, several of which are devoted to broadening college access.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted<\/em> writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at <a href=\"mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity on campus strengthens our colleges and our country. Yet a large number of qualified students from low-income and minority populations are still underrepresented in American higher education due to inadequate access to college advising resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-admission","category-nacac-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-kl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}