Our very own Katy Murphy kicked off the start of the annual NACAC Conference, welcoming all attendees with a slightly diminished voice. Despite the laryngitis, Katy powered through and made us all proud to be associated with her in the Western affiliate. Well done,...
In January 2014, the Executive Board of the Western Association for College Admission Counseling (WACAC) convened a special Taskforce on Independent Educational Consultants (IECs). We invited all 1700+ members and had a 30% response rate on number questions on how the...
We were excited to launch this week the new WACAC website—a project that has been in the works for over eight months. The main force driving forward this project was a desire to better serve our members. While still housed at wacac2.wpengine.com, the site has a new...
As schools adopt laptop/tablet programs it is important to remember the power of paper. While computers provide amazing opportunities for students to discover and explore beyond the brick and mortar walls of the classroom, a simple piece of paper is still a powerful...
Two developments have seismically shifted K-12 education in California - the adoption of the Common Core State Standards and the Local Control Accountability Plan. These developments are important to our membership because they both have significant college and...
Hey Western ACAC, are we ready for over 6,000 of our friends to join us in San Diego in 2015? Plans are well under way as Western ACAC and the San Diego Local Advisory Committee (LAC) prepare to host the National Conference. The annual event will take place in San...
Check out our intro video to this year’s WACAC conference. Grant Cushman from Chapman University and Sam Schreiber from the University of Southern California explain the social media activities that will take place during the event and how you can...
Each year WACAC offers several pre-conferences for admission professionals to address specific topics in more depth during the annual conference. Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA), is one of the pre-conferences. IDEA is designed to create a safe space...
With the conference fast approaching, I figure I would give a breakdown of exactly what the social media themes are for each day of the conference and how you can participate to make @WACAC a better community than it already is. Here is a brief synopsis: Make sure you...
The recipe for a college tour chaperone, apparently, is equal parts cat-herder, Realtor, and grief counselor. Last month, I was one of five chaperones for the Ivy League Project, a Central Valley group that took 32 students on an East Coast college tour. Almost all of...