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Nicholas Highe, Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NCJennifer Fisher, Masters Student, Counselor Education, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC... UNDER

SCHOOL COUNSELORS BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN COLLEGES, CAREERS, UNDERSERVED STUDENTS AND THEIR

FAMILIES

Counselors: Let’s Make an Early Impact!

Nicholas Highe, Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University,

Raleigh, NCJennifer Fisher, Masters Student, Counselor Education, North

Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

UNDERSERVED STUDENTS

Underserved students are defined as students who do not receive

equitable resources as other students in the academic pipeline Typically, these groups of students include low-income, underrepresented

racial/ethnic minorities, and first generation students as well as many

others

http://www.apass.uiuc.edu/APASS/definitions.htm

REALITY OF K-12

 Desire to attend college

 Enrollment rates

UNDERSERVED FAMILY CHALLENGES TO

COLLEGE AND BEYOND

 Parental education level

 Nutrition

 Poor sleeping habits

 Lack of AC/Heat due to financial strains

 Pressures of adult responsibilities

 Lack of life experiences (i.e.: the zoo, beach, museums)

 Lack of technology (i.e.: educational computers games)

 Family strain

UNDERSERVED FAMILY CHALLENGES TO

COLLEGE AND BEYOND

 Academic preparation

 Support from schools

 Information about the college admissions process

HOW DO WE FIX IT?

 Task persistence

 Create and promote a school-wide college-going culture

 Close the admissions and financial aid information gap

 Increase parental involvement

 Increase access to rigorous coursework

 Begin career prep early

ESTABLISHING A COLLEGE-GOING

CULTURE

 Display student college acceptances in a well-visited area

 Have teachers display their alma mater

 Reward students for college admission

CAREER PREP RESOURCES

 Georgia Career Information Center

 College Foundation of North Carolina

 Career One Stop

 America's Career Info Net

 Reality Check

 “To the extent that ethnic minority youth perceive that racial inequality poses limits on their social and economic mobility, they are less likely to believe that working hard in school will have long-term payoff”

Source: (Taylor and Graham, 2007)

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

 Business, Law, Government, Medicine, Public Policy

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT

CHAPEL HILL

 - Business, Law, Medicine, Education, Social Work, Global

Public Health

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

 Engineers-Agricultural and Nuclear/Biological, Education, Management School

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

 Business Administration, Education, Engineering/Applied Science, Law, Medicine

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

 Public Health, Education, Engineers, Medicine, Nursing, Music and Dance

DUKE UNIVERSITY

 Business, Law, Medicine, Public Policy, Nursing, Divinity School, Environment

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

 Hotel administration, industrial and labor relations, veterinary medicine, nanotechnology, supercomputing

EMORY UNIVERSITY

 Public Health, Business, Law, Medicine, Nursing,

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

 Engineering, Business, Law, Medicine

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

 Business, Law Management, Accounting, Medicine

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

 Education, Engineering, Business

EDUCATION TODAY

 “Today, the main source of modern success is education, and the

children of those who never entered college can dream of going to

college as a first step toward improving their life chances”

Source: (Cho et al., pg 105, 2008)

 Andersson, H and Bergman, L 2011 The Role of Task Persistence in Young Adolescence for Successful

Educational and Occupational Attainment in Middle Adulthood Developmental Psychology, 47 (4) pg 950–960.

 Malecki, C.K and Demaray, M K 2006 Social Support as a Buffer in the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Academic Performance School Psychology Quarterly, 21 (4), pg 375-395.

 Cho, S., Barry, L., Hudley, C., Kelly, M., and Lee, S., 2008 Roles of Gender, Race, and SES in the College Choice Process Among First-Generation and Nonfirst-Generation Students Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 1 (2), pg 95–107.

 Graham, S., and Taylor, A.Z., 2007 An Examination of the Relationship Between Achievement Values and Perceptions of Barriers Among Low-SES African American and Latino Students Journal of Educational Psychology, 99 (1), pg 52-64.