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Social Media Campaign – #WeNeedCounselors
Social Media Campaign – #WeNeedCounselors Goal: To spread awareness to legislators and decision makers that counselors are integral to the success of students at high schools. We want to make sure legislators in California know that budget cuts to education hurt our students by removing or limiting access to counseling in their schools. Message: Counselors…
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Working from Home: Vol. 5 – Karla Arriaga, California Institute of Technology
Karla was asked by the WACAC Communications Committee to share her thoughts, experiences, and advice on working from home during these uncertain times. Karla is the Assistant Director of Admissions and Coordinator of Prefrosh Experience at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, CA. Are virtual college student events the new normal? Covid-19. Covid-what?…
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WACAC Stands for Equity and Justice
Colleagues, Like many of you, we have felt a wide range of emotions as the nation has learned more about the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. We feel compelled to write to you now that fear, anger, and frustration are manifesting across the country in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Nashville, and here in…
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Working from Home: Vol. 4 – Margaret Isied, San José USD
Margaret was asked by the WACAC Communications Committee to share her thoughts, experiences, and advice on working from home during these uncertain times. Margaret is the Lead Academic Counselor at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Jose, CA and also serves on the WACAC Executive Board as the Chair of the Public School Counselors Ad…
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Working from Home: Vol. 3 – Todd Hicks, Cristo Rey San José
Todd Hicks was asked by the WACAC Communications Committee to share his thoughts, experiences, and advice on working from home and how best to continue helping students during these uncertain times. Todd Hicks is the Director of University Access and Success at Cristo Rey San José Supporting First Gen, Low-income students from home –…
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Working from Home: Vol. 2 – Dr. Yuri Nava, Riverside USD & Catherine Wallace, Corona-Norco USD
Dr. Yuri Nava and Catherine Wallace were asked by the WACAC Communications Committee to share their thoughts, experiences, and advice on working from home and how best to continue helping students during these uncertain times. Dr. Yuri Nava is a school counselor at Riverside Poly High School in Riverside USD and Catherine Wallace is a…
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Working from Home: Vol. 1 – Gary Clark, UCLA
Gary was asked by the WACAC Communications Committee to share his thoughts, experiences, and advice on working from home during these uncertain times. Gary is the Director of Undergraduate Admission at UCLA and serves on the WACAC Executive Board as a NACAC Assembly Delegate. I’ll start by first saying that I hope everyone in WACAC…
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Coming to Terms with Coronavirus
In the week since WACAC leadership last communicated about how COVID-19 would be affecting our work, the world has dramatically changed. Secondary schools and colleges have moved instruction online, recruitment and yield travel has been canceled, and I write this to you from San Francisco, where a “shelter in place” order was enacted for six…
