**Reminders: Please bring a notebook and pen to every session, and wear your CAC name badge at all times.**
Dear CAC family,
Welcome to our Adviser Forum East in New York City! We are thrilled to have you here in the Big Apple and are grateful to our host chapter, the awesome NYU Corps!
Our theme this year goes to the heart of CAC’s mission -- Advancing Opportunity. The goal over the next few days is to recommit ourselves to advancing opportunity in various ways. We hope you will discover best practices from your peers, engage with the research, reflect on your journey and what may lie ahead by interacting with the alumni panel and industry workshops, and be inspired by our guest speakers whose stories capture in powerful ways the journey to advancing opportunity.
On behalf of our national team and Board of Directors, we are grateful for the work that each of you — 716 advisers serving 210,000 students in 16 states across the country — do every day. We continue to build a national movement at a critical time in our nation’s history. Let us commit to ensuring every student hears those four key words, “I believe in you” and, together, we advance opportunity.
It is an honor to serve with you!
Yours, Nicole Hurd Founder and CEO College Advising Corps
Are you struggling to integrate yourself into a rural-area school? Then this is the presentation for you! Join us for encouragement along with concrete resources to take back to your school. We’ll help advisers placed in rural schools or districts develop strategies to engage their communities and begin building college-going cultures within their service sites. We'll introduce a researched, implementation model that will help you identify best practices and create a plan for program development. And using the think-pair-share method, you’ll have time to reflect on your own service and learn from the experiences of your peers.
