Questions Parents Should Ask on College Tours with Their Children The transition from home to college can be exciting as well as stressful  for parents and their college-bound children. So much is unfamiliar and unknown for both generations. For parents and students, participating in campus tours is one of the best ways to placate worries […]

What are the Advantages of Attending an HBCU School? Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) have been providing quality education to students of color for nearly 150 years. They produce almost 20% of all African American college graduates and 25% of African American graduates in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the critical […]

A Special Christmas Poem for Counselors In the spirit of the holidays, here is a poem about the big application push for high school seniors- and about the significant role counselors have during this time. Enjoy! ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Students wrote applications, with keyboard and mouse, The essays […]

Proud First-Generation Graduates Share Their Success Stories Working with first-generation students presents educators and counselors with unique challenges and potentially great rewards. While the enrolment rate of first-generation students in the U.S. is rising gradually, their retention and graduation rates are dismal and stagnant. Nearly 90% of low-income, first-generation students don’t graduate on time. The dropout rate […]