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  • How to Coach Your Students and Grads to Their Ideal Careers in Six Great Ways

    Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) where I work and around the country offer government funding to job seekers (who must meet certain eligibility to qualify) to go to school or a training program for a professional certification in their recent career, or career transition. These are certifications or specific training that employers are listing in their…

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  • Beyond the Cubicle: From Moneyball to Enrollment Management

    I call the bookshelf in my office “The Literacy Center.” Included in The Literacy Center are different books which have, in some way or another, informed the work that I do. One such book is Moneyball, by Michael Lewis, which was later turned into a movie of the same name starring Brad Pitt. Moneyball tells…

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  • Grad School Highlight: Laying Down the Law

    As with most advanced degrees, it’s becoming more common that there is no set path to pursuing law school. An entering class to any Juris Doctor program is comprised of a myriad of students, some recent graduates, others with established careers spread across all disciplines and industries. For students, this sort of freedom can be exciting…

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  • Art School Confidential: Belmont University

    Imagine a gorgeous spring day on a college campus: art students sketching and painting out in the courtyard, music majors writing a song in one of the many gazebos on campus, and theatre students practicing their lines with the auditorium doors open to let in some fresh air.  That’s actually pretty typical on a warm…

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  • Indie Scene: the What and the How

    I was thinking about how I spend my working time. At this point in my practice and in this school year, I would estimate that about 70% of my time goes to working on my own, and about 30% goes to working with others—mostly students, although often it’s in meetings with parent groups, school-based counselors, college-based counselors or…

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  • NACAC San Diego 2015: Local Counselors’ Preview Day Committee

    The Local Counselors’ Preview Day Committee has been hard at work preparing to welcome our local public high school counselors and community college transfer counselors to the NACAC 2015 conference in San Diego. The committee is reaching out to local school districts, CBO’s and community colleges to ensure that our local counselors are able to…

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  • The Value of Visits

    After a $120 Uber ride to airport (surge rate???), two cancelled flights, 6 hours waiting to de-ice and take-off only to return to gate, and an unplanned hotel stay in Long Island- I thought about the importance of visiting colleges during winter. Students often have starry-eyed ideas of college life in a city like NY.…

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  • To Email, Mail, or Text: That Is The Question

    This WACACast is a small batch edition thanks to the many many applications Chapman and USC received this season! In it, Sam and Grant talk about different ways of notifying students of their admission decisions and cap it off with what is putting a kick in their step this week.  Share your thoughts about how…

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