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Todays Presenter Africa Hands Contract Librarian Author: Successfully Serving the College Bound (ALA Edition, 2015) Receive $5 discount with code: SSCB15 How Do I Apply to College? Helping Patrons Meeting Their Higher Education Goals


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Today’s Presenter

Africa Hands

Contract Librarian Author: Successfully Serving the College Bound (ALA Edition, 2015)

Receive $5 discount with code: SSCB15

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“How Do I Apply to College?”

Helping Patrons Meeting Their Higher Education Goals March 26, 2015

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Agenda

  • Why offer college planning programs?
  • Who are your college bound patrons?
  • Programs and services for college bound

patrons

  • Working with community partners
  • Resources to promote at your library
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Why offer college planning programs?

  • To meet the needs of low-income college bound

patrons

  • To promote materials in your collection
  • To support economic development in your

community

  • To support society at large
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Why offer college planning programs?

  • To meet the needs of low-income college bound

patrons

  • To promote materials in your collection
  • To support economic development in your

community

  • To support society at large

It’s in our library DNA

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Who are your college bound patrons?

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First-gen students

  • Work 20+ hours in final year of

high school

  • Finance is important to college

selection

  • Tend to enroll closer to home
  • Less likely to live on- campus
  • Enter college with undeclared

majors

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Nontraditional students

  • Attend part-time
  • Work full-time
  • Financially

independent

  • Do not have high-

school diploma

  • Have dependents
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Be the bridge

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Military-service members and veterans

  • Attend community

colleges

  • Have family
  • bligations
  • Drawn to online,

distance education programs

  • Prefer flexible

degree programs

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Students with disabilities

  • Range of disabilities
  • All ages
  • 52% age 15-23
  • 21% age 24-29
  • 27% age 30+
  • Different information

needs

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Your turn

Which of these subgroups do you see as a potential target population for your college planning programs?

First-gen students Nontraditional students Military-service members and veterans Students with disabilities Traditional students Other (who’s missing?)

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Learn more

  • Almanac of Higher Education
  • Digest of Education Statistics
  • Integrated Postsecondary Education Data

System

  • State level higher education assistance

agencies

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Programs and Services

  • Introduction to college resources @ your library
  • Back-to-school night for specific sub-groups
  • College fairs – large or small scale
  • Campus visit preview
  • Financial planning workshop
  • Computer access
  • Printed materials
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We can’t do it all

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Partnerships

  • Who are your partners?

▫ Information sources

  • Levels of partnership

▫ Glance ▫ Date ▫ Engagement ▫ Marriage

  • Staff members as partners

▫ Experience, skills, and interests inventory

  • Examples from the field
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Partnerships at work

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Resources to promote

  • College Navigator
  • KnowHow2Go
  • Federal Student Aid
  • Think College
  • Heath Resource Center
  • Database of Accredited Programs
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What we’ve covered

  • Four subgroups of college bound patrons
  • Sources for data about the college bound

population

  • Programming ideas and services
  • Levels of partnerships
  • Sample partnerships
  • Resources for your college bound patrons
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Thank you!

Africa Hands, Contract Librarian Author of Successfully Serving the College Bound asheri@rocketmail.com @africahands Receive $5 discount! with code: SSCB15