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How to Write an Email to College Admissions Counselors

Great College Advice

If you want to communicate with admissions, it’s best to think carefully about how you will communicate with the humans that populate those offices of admission. Further on in this article we’ll address how to write an email to a college admissions counselor if you find yourself in this situation.

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Ultimately, my greatest fear is that this newly resurgent focus on career readiness will not only fail to prepare students for the workplace, but, worse, will harm the prospects of students who already face an uphill battle in the labor market—women, students of color and first-generation college students. Darling and Deanna P.

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OSU Cascades integrates equitable career readiness

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“All the people that I’ve worked with at career services, they’re always trying to figure out, ‘How can we get more students to come see us? ’” says Blair Garland, chief marketing officer and engagement officer at OSU Cascades. No In-Article Careers: 3 … How do we engage more students?’”

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What’s the Deal with Comprehensive Learner Records?

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Comprehensive Learner Records are billed as a new way for learners to communicate the totality of their educational experience. But in 2013, whenever I started here, I started looking at that transcript and we began to wonder, what would happen if we combined the academic and the co -curricular transcript together? So leadership.

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Student Transfer (Part 2) – How to Improve the Transfer Experience for Students

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So then it gets back to the difficult thing which is like pathways, thinking about pathways, academic advising. I mean, think about customer service, like we all want to feel good about something, right? Like if I get all these wraparound services, Heather (11:12.749) Mm-hmm. to overcome, right? Heather (10:43.278) Mmm.

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Eight ways to boost student engagement with advisers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Be Inclusive Melinda Anderson, executive director of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, says that her group has noticed “differences in who seeks support based on race.” ” Regarding outreach and other written advising communications, language matters.