**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
What are the challenges advisers face when working in large schools and how can they be overcome? Come join us as we relay our personal struggles as large-school advisers and open the floor for you to share similar challenges. Then, explore and apply best practices for publicizing information to reach the widest audience possible, finding a balance between helping the students who are reaching out and those who are not, collecting student information to enter into GRACE, utilizing a “Peer Advising Corps club” and “open work” sessions to register multiple students for the SAT/ACT, and managing your time to allow for 1:1s, avoid double-booking, and facilitate completion of advising tasks.
