College Advising Corps
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
College Advising Corps (CAC) works to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. In partnership with 35 colleges and universities throughout the country, CAC matches advisers from a corps of recent college graduates with under-resourced high schools to help students find and pursue their best post-secondary education path. CAC “near-peer” advisers are embedded in low-income, underserved high schools for a two-year service engagement as full-time college advisers that serve all students. Between 2018 and 2020, Corporation support allowed CAC to serve over half a million students with a growing pool of over 800 advisers. Continued Corporation support will allow CAC to continue supporting capacity building as they strengthen their core advisement work.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
College Advising Corps (CAC) works to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. CAC partners with colleges and universities throughout the country to build a network of recent college graduates who become “near-peer” advisers for high school students. As a result, advisers from CAC’s thirty-and-growing partner institutions are employed as full-time college advisers in high schools. During the 2019-20 school year, 829 CAC advisers served 240,000 students in 782 high schools throughout the United States. Support from the Corporation will strengthen CAC’s technology capacity building efforts and enable the organization to continue its efforts toward Goal 2025 to help one million high school students apply to and enroll in college. CAC will continue to build and implement a human-centered technology strategy.
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Project Title
For continued support of capacity building to strengthen core advisement work
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
College Advising Corps (CAC) works to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. CAC partners with colleges and universities throughout the country to build a network of recent college graduates who become “near-peer” advisers for high school students. As a result, advisers from CAC’s thirty-and-growing partner institutions are employed as full-time college advisers in high schools. During the 2019-20 school year, 829 CAC advisers served 240,000 students in 782 high schools throughout the United States. Support from the Corporation will strengthen CAC’s technology capacity building efforts and enable the organization to continue its efforts toward Goal 2025 to help one million high school students apply to and enroll in college. CAC will continue to build and implement a human-centered technology strategy.
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Project Title
For support of capacity building efforts to increase the organization's ability to help students apply to and enroll in college
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
College Advising Corps (CAC) works to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. CAC partners with colleges and universities throughout the country to build a network of recent college graduates who become “near-peer” advisers for high school students. As a result, advisers from CAC’s twenty-six and growing partner institutions are employed as full-time college advisers in high schools. During the 2018-19 school year, 733 CAC advisers served 210,000 students in 670 high schools throughout the United States. Support from the Corporation will enable CAC to invest in areas that will build capacity: infrastructure and staffing; a knowledge-capture system to ensure a learning network that identifies, codifies, and elevates the program’s best practices; scalable and sustainable systems at the state levels in the areas where CAC works; and the ability to test and scale innovations from the field in order to produce better outcomes, nationally.