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Missouri College Advising Corps

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In 2007, the University of Missouri successfully competed for a $1 million grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to establish the Missouri College Advising Corps (MCAC), a college-access advising program.

MCAC hires recent graduates to work in 48 partner high schools across Missouri to empower Missouri students to go to college and succeed. MCAC partner schools have high percentages of first-generation-college, low-income, and underrepresented students at risk of not going to college. MCAC college advisers help students understand that they can complete a college degree, find their “best fit” postsecondary institution and navigate the process of applying for admission and financial aid. Advisers are immersed in the school and are available to guide students through the college planning and preparation, applications and financial aid processes.

MCAC helps Missouri students who may not have otherwise gone to college. Activities provided by MCAC are unique from those generally provided by other college access programs:

  • Working alongside counselors, MCAC college advisers, who are themselves recent college graduates, model that college is within reach and, because of this near-peer approach, uniquely interact with students.
  • While many college–access programs provide part-time off-site services, MCAC college advisers devote full-time attention to college advising and are immersed in the setting and available to students all day, every day throughout the school year and beyond.
  • MCAC advisement is made available to ALL students in the school.
  • MCAC helps students find their “best fit” postsecondary institution and does not recruit for any one institution.
  • MCAC concentrates its efforts in both urban and rural areas of the state.

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MCAC in the news - Adviser helps high school students make college plans a reality - Sikeston Standard-Democrat

Mykesha Jackson, who is in her first year as a member of the Missouri College Advising Corps at New Madrid County Central, said she realized just how much her work is making a difference, when a student recently arrived in her office clutching an ...

MCAC in the news - College access mission of new Kansas State University program launching this fall in Johnson, Wyandotte counties - k-state.edu

Helping low-income, first-generation college and underrepresented high school students from Wyandotte and Johnson counties enter and complete higher education is the focus of Kansas State University's new Kansas State College Advising Corps and its ...

MCAC in the news - College advising corps places counselors in high-need schools - blackenterprise.com

College Advising Corps is a program of AmeriCorps, the nation’s service program in which more than 75,000 Americans engage in intensive service each year at nonprofits, public agencies, and faith-based groups across the country.

MCAC in the news - Colleges Discover the Rural Student -nytimes.com

To college administrators, rural students, many of them the first in their families to attend college, have become the new underrepresented minority. In their aim to shape leaders and provide access to the disadvantaged, higher education experts have ...

MCAC in the news - Getting to the Core of the Corps - Mizzou News

Ryane Boyd wanted to go to college, but she didn’t know how to choose the right one from the more than 4,000 higher-education institutions in the United States. Luckily Boyd’s St. Louis high school had established a partnership with the Missouri ...

MCAC in the news - Got grit? That’s what colleges want to know before they admit - kansascity.com

These days, in the world of college admissions, top grades, talent and community service hours will get a student a knock at the door, but it’s going to take a bit of grit, school officials say, to cross the hallowed threshold.

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