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An Unsung Bastion of American Educational Democracy: Why More Students Should Consider Community Colleges

An Unsung Bastion of American Educational Democracy: Why More Students Should Consider Community Colleges

One of America’s best-kept secrets might not be so much a secret as much as an often-overlooked, unsung hero in the landscape of higher education. That secret? The community college. Perhaps part of what makes the American college system the envy of the world is the fact that there is such a wide breadth of options—and levels of accessibility—for anyone who wants access to a college experience and education. Community colleges; public state universities; private colleges; Liberal Arts schools; colleges…

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Supporting 1st Generation Future College Students: How School Counselors and Educators Can Help Students Bridge the Gap Between High School and College

Supporting 1st Generation Future College Students: How School Counselors and Educators Can Help Students Bridge the Gap Between High School and College

I guess that I never really thought of myself as a first-generation student throughout most of college. I went to a smaller, not highly-competitive high school where a good number of students went on to college (whether many finished or not is another story) and a smaller, but certainly not statistically insignificant, number of students did not go to college. Most people around me did not seem to obsess over college brands, rankings, or prestige (and most of what I…

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Top Ten Tips for School Counselor Interns: How to Best Maximize Your Internship Experience

Top Ten Tips for School Counselor Interns: How to Best Maximize Your Internship Experience

The culminating—or capstone—experience for most graduate-level School Counselor students is an Internship experience in a school setting. Typically, this experience is around six hundred hours and is intended to help graduate students develop their counseling skills, and gain valuable experience, while working in a school setting that is intended to mirror the day-to-day experiences of a typical school counselor. With that, let’s look at my Top-10 Internship Tips for graduate students hoping to pursue a career as a future school…

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Supporting Underrepresented Students in Advanced Courses: How Counselors Can Help Level the Playing Field for Our Students

Supporting Underrepresented Students in Advanced Courses: How Counselors Can Help Level the Playing Field for Our Students

The focus of this discussion is working with underrepresented students of Color—particularly African-American and Latinx high school students (but the following points can also apply to all students), and how counselors can help these students gain greater access to—and experience yearly success in—Accelerated and Advanced Placement courses. (For the sake of uniformity in our discussion: Honors or Accelerated Courses will be categorized as one subset, and Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and Dual Enrollment options will occupy the other subset. Together,…

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