I first heard about Twitter in 2008 when James Buck was in Egypt and found himself arrested. His simple tweet, “arrested,” alerted his friends back in the States and fellow activists in Egypt that he may need legal help, which his University ultimately secured for...
Would you Facemash? The October 2003 dormitory online entertainment created to compare hacked photos side by side to assess levels of ‘hotness’ and ‘notness’ bred outrage, but the idea generated in Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room took root. By the dawn of 2004,...
Earlier this month, Dr. Amy Radovcic, the College and Career Counselor at Nathaniel Narbonne High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), died at the young age of 36 from complications of lupus. In her short life, she changed tens of thousands of...
On April 10, a free college preview trip to Humboldt State in Northern California ended in a tragic bus crash that killed five Southern California teens and three college advocates, along with injuring dozens of others. Since the accident, dozens of counselors and...
In the beginning, I led a parallel life. For 20 years, I was an observer. This year, I’m finally a participant. The Ivy League Project (www.ivyleagueproject.org) selects high-achieving sophomores and juniors, teaches them networking skills, and takes them on an East...
A heartfelt thank you to all of our readers! This marks our 100th post for the WACAC blog. We appreciate all who have contributed their expertise, who have taken the time to follow a series, and who have continued the discussion by engaging on the comments section. We...
Since their inception, the Federal financial aid programs have helped millions of students realize their dream of attending college. None of these programs are more important than Pell grants. Unfortunately, not all members of Congress recognize their importance and...
As high school juniors enter the full swing of the college readiness season, counselors need to remind them to manage their social media presences. Last year, 31 percent of college admissions officers who participated in a Kaplan phone questionnaire claimed that they...
This is the time of year to help high school juniors begin to develop their college lists. Research shows that many students, especially those who will be the first generation in their family to go to college, develop lists based on what they have heard from friends,...
With the launch of WACAC’s LinkedIn group last month, you may have been wondering what this whole LinkedIn thing is all about. It’s a professional networking social media site. When I finally joined Facebook in 2007, after assuming all social media was mindless, it...