**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 facing some pushback from your school community? Is there misinformation surrounding your job at the school or the extent of your impact with students? Is your ability to provide individual support and expand your school’s college-going culture being limited? We’re here to help! Learn how GRACE data presented in KPI and Extended Student Reports can be used to engage counselors, administrators, and other stakeholders in your schools. Find out how to use data to set reasonable expectations, showcase the extent of your work, and call together the community in difficult school environments. You’ll leave with ideas applicable to your own advising situation for effectively communicating about data and using that communication to achieve conflict resolution and compromise.
