Podcasts about College Possible

The latest episode is with Jenny Rickard, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Common App, a not-for-profit membership organization committed to the pursuit of access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. Each year, more than one million students, one-third of whom are first-generation, apply to college through Common App's online application. Ms. Rickard was a pleasure to interview, it was fun conversation with lots of great details about her personal journey coupled with great insights and advice for our listeners. Ms. Rickard has shown a strong commitment to college access as evidenced by her accomplishments as the chief enrollment officer at both the University of Puget Sound and Bryn Mawr and in admission roles at Swarthmore and New York University School of Law. Her extensive service within the national higher education community includes a wide range of roles with the College Board, Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS), US Department of Education, and The Common Application Board of Directors — serving as Board President from 2007 to 2008. Within the corporate field, Ms. Rickard was a vice president responsible for higher education product strategy at PeopleSoft. She was also a consultant for the higher education software company Datatel and started her career on Wall Street at J.P. Morgan & Co. Since she joined Common App in August of 2016, the organization has developed a long-term strategic plan and roadmap and has expanded its access initiatives, including the acquisition of Reach Higher, the college access and success campaign founded by former First Lady Michelle Obama during her time in the White House, and the development of a new application system for transfer and adult students. Ms. Rickard serves on the board of directors for the Posse Foundation and College Possible. She is an advisory board member for the National Education Equity Lab and Liaison GradCAS, a centralized application for graduation admission, and she currently sits on the American Council on Education's Washington Higher Education Secretariat. She received a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania; a Master of Business Administration degree from New York University, Stern School of Business; and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Swarthmore College. This interview was extra special for Eli and Jordana due to the common connection of Swarthmore College. It was an fun interview for them, especially connecting on all things Swarthmore. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Full Transcript   Jennifer Martinez-Badillo shares her journey of securing a position at College Possible through AmeriCorps, where she helps high school students with their college application process. As a visually impaired advocate, she discusses the accommodations she received and the support from State Services for the Blind. Jennifer reflects on her future goals, considering both counseling and teaching English to speakers of other languages, while remaining committed to guiding students on their educational paths.   To find out more about the services provided at State Services for the Blind, and what they can do for you, contact Shane DeSantis at shane.desantis@state.mn.us or call Shane at 651-385-5205.  

Check out the podcast on Macslist here: (https://www.macslist.org/?post_type=podcasts&p=15159&preview=true) You want to switch careers or fields, but you aren't sure if you have the skills necessary to be successful. What do you do? According to Find Your Dream Job guest Zach Moore, you take the time to figure out which skills you can transfer to that new field. What skills do you possess in terms of working with others, managing projects, or recording data and analytics? Zach also suggests thinking of a job description as a “cry for help,” and figuring out how your skills can answer that cry and solve that problem for the company.  About Our Guest: Zach Moore is the career pathways manager at College Possible. It's a nonprofit that coaches students from low-income communities to and through college. Resources in This Episode: To learn more about College Possible and its vision of ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to attend college, visit collegepossible.org/. Zach looks forward to connecting with you on LinkedIn; find him at www.linkedin.com/in/zach-moore-85558239/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Palmer and Dr. Siva Kumari, CEO of College Possible, delve into the challenges of making college accessible and attainable for underserved students. We learn about Dr. Kumari's inspiring journey from defying societal norms in India to pursue higher education, to her roles at prestigious institutions like Rice University and the International Baccalaureate. Together, they explore College Possible's innovative model, which pairs AmeriCorps members as near-peer mentors with high school and college students from low-income backgrounds. We gain insights into the organization's data-driven, people-oriented approach, fostering personal connections and providing crucial guidance through the complex college application and transition processes. Key takeaways include: The importance of unlocking "stranded brilliance" by expanding educational opportunities for underrepresented communities. The power of near-peer mentoring in creating a sense of belonging and navigating unfamiliar academic and bureaucratic landscapes. The exciting potential of AI and predictive analytics in streamlining routine tasks, freeing up human coaches to focus on personalized support. Don't miss this thought-provoking conversation that sheds light on the barriers and pathways to social mobility through education. Subscribe now to stay tuned for more insightful dialogues on emerging trends, innovative solutions, and the transformative power of learning. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more.

May 15 is decision day for many colleges across Minnesota. It's two weeks later than the normal May 1 deadline for students to commit to attending the school in the fall.That's because of an alarming delay to FAFSA earlier this year, which was plagued with glitches and challenges. Around 225,000 Minnesotans usually fill out the FAFSA form overseen by the U.S. Department of Education that is used to determine which government loans and grants students can receive. But Minnesota students have submitted the form at unusually low rates this year. BG Tucker is the senior director of programs at College Possible, an organization that helps low-income families with the college process. She joined MPR News host Cathy Wurzer with an update on this important day for many Minnesotans' higher education.

Today on Hustling Sideways, Allen Halas and Jim Love connect with a fellow Marquette University graduate living in New York City, Kyle Hagge. While currently a Community Manger at media company Morning Brew, Kyle has a history with creating projects that bring people together. During his time in Milwaukee, that meant the Innovators On Tap and Bridge The City podcasts, and eventually that helped him make his way out to the East Coast. We also discuss his history at College Possible, being versatile, and a networking side project called Oddly Specific. You can find Kyle online at KyleHagge.com and on Twitter @KyleHagge. Follow us: Allen Halas AllenHalas.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BreakingAndEntering.net⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter: @AllenHalas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: @AllenHalas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jim Love ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GoAuthenticYou.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter: @jim_m_love⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: @jimmlove23⁠⁠⁠⁠

With graduation ceremonies happening across the globe, Chris shares a storytime about his NYU graduation, confesses about blacking out at Yankee Stadium and crying at Radio City Music Hall, chats Hawaiian vacations, asks Justin if he's tying the knot, gives us the behind-the-scenes of his battle with an ingrown hair, listens to wild graduation stories, and plays a Mad Libs game thanks to ChatGPT to create the perfect commencement speech. Dad Grass is offering our listeners 20% off your first order when you go to http://DADGRASS.COM/UNHINGED. DONATE to support The Education Trust and College Possible:  https://edtrust.org/what-you-can-do/donate/ https://secure2.convio.net/cp1/site/Donation2?idb=1336710449&df_id=3110&mfc_pref=T&3110.donation=form1#038;mfc_pref=T&3110.donation=form1 Follow Unhinged with Chris Klemens on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unhingedwithchrisklemens Follow Chris: https://www.instagram.com/chrisklemens/ Follow Big Spark Studios: https://www.instagram.com/bigsparkstudios Leave Chris a voicemail: 310-844-6459 Submit your secrets: https://forms.gle/ZPtbT3EKFHQWpZ4K7  Submit Charitable Shoutout: https://forms.gle/6GSAoacSoepsZ5v47 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are talking to Cosette from @going.super.nova! Cosette is a recent Masters student graduate and is finishing up her thesis at the University of South Carolina. Everyone say 'Congrats' to Cosette!! She lives with her boyfriend, Dylan, and their two dogs, Nova, a 1-year-old rescue German Shepherd mix, and Odin, an 11 month old Australian Shepherd. They also have two cats who are littermate brothers, Vladimir and Milo! Cosette came to me wanting to talk about dog parenting while being a student, and I thought it was a great topic because I know so many people who get a dog during college, me included!! She shares with us the lessons having a dog while going to school taught her, which includes maximizing her time. TSHIRTS & STICKERS ARE BACK ON DOGMOMMENTALITY.COM !!Did you know I am developing a journal specifically for dog owners? Help me help you by filling out my survey!Find Karoline and Layla on Instagram @dogmommentalityThis series is for fun, but if you would like to support me hosting it on podcast platforms ( & support Layla's frisbee fund) check out our Buy Me A Coffee Sign up for the DMM newsletter!Intro song: Let You Go (feat. Tara Flanagan) (Instrumental) by Spectrum https://spoti.fi/2ZLAORn Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_let-you-go Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/of6rlIM0AZA Podcast artwork: Nicole Everlith @moth_folkPodcast editing: Elisa Dyer  @elisaann.vaSupport the show

#040 Is there anything Kyle Hagge hasn't done? (Okay, there's at least one thing, as you'll learn in today's lightning round.) Kyle is an action-oriented community leader. He talks the talk, and he's walked the walk for organizations like Marquette University, the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee, AmeriCorps, Ballot Ready, College Possible, and Morning Brew. He's a treasure trove of knowledge on topics as varied as the importance of local activism, relationship building as a precursor to learning, the power of cohort-based programming, and the utility of discomfort in facilitating human bonding. Show notes and more at SmartPassiveIncome.com/cx040.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We break down the details of an IRS complaint filed against Summerfest, claiming the organization operates as a commercial entity and not a nonprofit. Then, our Earth Week series explores how to cut back on what we throw away. Plus, a refugee and graduate student shares her advice for other immigrants considering college.

Dr. Suzanne Rivera is the President of Macalester College. She also is a Professor of Public Affairs, and her scholarship focuses on research ethics and science policy. Rivera has written numerous journal articles and book chapters, and she co-edited the book Specimen Science. Her research has been supported by the NIH, the NSF, the DHHS Office of Research Integrity, and the Cleveland Foundation. She is engaged in numerous civic and municipal leadership roles, including Chair of the Board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), Appointed Member of the Executive Council for Minnesota's Young Women's Initiative, Board Member of the Science Museum of Minnesota, Board Member of College Possible, and Member of the TeenSHARP National Advisory Board. Rivera received a BA in American Civilization from Brown University, an MSW from UC-Berkeley, and a PhD in public policy from UT Dallas. Head Start ProgramsBrown University Undocumented, First-Generation College, and Low-Income Student Center  Transcript SUMMARY KEYWORDSstudents, people, brown, feeling, college, Headstart, Minnesota, Posse, support, low income students, financial aid, St. Paul, sponsored, day, job, brown university, group, Marian Wright Edelman, graduate, phd SPEAKERSResa Lewiss, Sue Rivera Resa Lewiss  00:36Hi, listeners. Thanks so much for joining me with today's episode and I'm gonna start with a quote. You can't be what you can't see. One more time, you can't be what you can't see. Now this was said by Marian Wright Edelman. She was the founder of the Children's Defense Fund and was one of the original founders of the Headstart program. She graduated Spelman College and Yale School of Law. Now Marian Wright Edelman is not my guest in today's conversation, however, she was an inspiration for my guest. Today I'm in conversation with Suzanne M. Rivera, PhD MSW. Sue. Dr. Suzanne Rivera is the president of Macalester College in Minneapolis. She's also a Professor of Public Affairs. Her scholarship focuses on research ethics and science policy. She received her BA in American civilization from Brown University, a master's in social work from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in public policy from UT Dallas. Now Sue and I have a few areas of overlap. Number one, we graduated college one year apart. Number two is the Headstart program. Growing up in my small town, Westerly, Rhode Island, I was exposed to the Headstart program through my mother. My mother is an elementary school educator, and she did preschool testing for children. And my knowledge at the time was she helped with evaluating children for learning disabilities, for challenges with speech, sound, and sight. Let's get to the conversation where when we get started, Sue is explaining her ideas about mentorship, and who her mentors were, or at least a few of them. Sue Rivera  02:47I mean, one thing I tell young people all the time is, don't hold your breath waiting for a mentor who shares all of your attributes who can inspire you because especially if you're from a historically excluded or underserved group, the likelihood that there's going to be some inspirational leader who shares all your attributes is pretty small. So the mentors and sponsors who've made the biggest impact in my life have all been men. They've all been white men, they've all been white men who were significantly older than me and much more accomplished, and who came from backgrounds that were, you know, that had a lot more privileged than my own. And yet, we were able to connect on a deep level and they really opened doors for me. So a couple exams for Harry Spector at UC Berkeley was a great mentor is no longer with us. Another great mentor, for me was a guy named Al Gilman, a Nobel Laureate, who, who I worked for at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, opened a lot of doors for me, encouraged me to go back and get my PhD when I was a 35 year old mother of two school aged kids. And once I got it, promoted me and then what, and then once I had a faculty appointment, invited me to co author a chapter for him with him in the kind of most important pharmacology textbook, that he was responsible for publishing, which means My name is forever linked with his in the literature, which is an incredibly generous gift for him to give to me. People like that have sort of stepped in at at moments where, if not for them, I might not have seen in my self potential that was there. Another person I would mention is a professor from my undergraduate days. Greg Elliot at Brown University in the sociology department, who sort of encouraged me to think about my own interests in social inequality and poverty as things that were worth studying things that were worth studying in a rigorous way as a scholar and not just sort of feeling badly about or complaining about or having a personal interest, but really taking them on as an intellectual project. So he sponsored me for a summer research assistantship, he had me serve as a TA in one of his classes. And he sponsored a group independent study project for me and a bunch of other students. And I'm still in touch with him to this day. He's somebody who certainly helped me think about myself as a scholar at a time where I was really thinking, I was just barely holding on, like, hoping I could graduate with a BA, I wasn't imagining that I could go on to become a professor and eventually a college president. Resa Lewiss  05:36People saw in you what maybe you hadn't yet seen for yourself. I was a sociology concentrator, and I took Professor Elliott's class, and I remember him reading from Kurt Vonnegut Mother Night, and it was really moving, he sort of cut to the punch line of we are who we pretend to be, so we must be very careful who we pretend to be. And that stuck with me. And that also launched a whole lollapalooza of reading Kurt Vonnegut. Sue Rivera  06:07Yeah, actually, this is one of the beautiful things about a liberal arts education, I think is that you know, so you became a physician after being a sociology undergraduate concentrator. I dabbled in a lot of different things as an undergrad did not imagine I would eventually become an academic, but I feel like the tools I got, from that degree have served me really well, moving between jobs. You know, I originally went to go work for the federal government thinking I was going to do policy work. Eventually, I worked in higher education administration, then I went back and got a PhD in public policy. But, you know, all along as I was making career changes, the tools I got as an undergraduate to think critically and communicate effectively and, you know, think in an interdisciplinary way work with people who have really different perspectives than I have. All of that is just priceless. I mean, so so incredibly valuable. Resa Lewiss  07:02Speaking of liberal arts education, let's jump right in and talk about Macalester for audience members that aren't familiar with the college. Tell us about the college and tell us about how it's been to be President. Sue Rivera  07:14Well, it's a wonderful college. It's it's almost 150 years old, and it's a originally was founded by Presbyterians and although still Presbyterian affiliated his is a secular liberal arts college, a small private liberal arts college in St. Paul, Minnesota. It has a deep history of being committed to social justice. It was the first college in the United States to fly the United Nations flag, which is still flying outside my window in my office here. And in fact, Kofi Annan was a graduate of Macalester the four pillars of a Macalester education as they're currently described, our academic excellence, internationalism, multiculturalism and service to society. And I think the character of this place actually is not that dissimilar from the brown that you and I know, in the sense that social justice is really important part of the character read institution, but it also attracts people who dispositional li are attracted to activism, to wanting to make a more just and peaceful world who think about their education in a sense as not only a privilege, but also an obligation to go out and make things better. And so the students we attract at Macalester are really sparky, in the sense that they, they, they're, you know, they're really passionate. They all come with it, let's just set aside that they're really academically talented because they all are so that no longer is a distinguishing characteristic once they get here because they're all academically talented. So what distinguishes them when they get here is all the other stuff in addition to being bright, you know, they're, they're committed athlete, they're a poet. They're a weaver. They're a dancer, they're, they're an aspiring politician involved in political campaigns mean that they're all just how they're debater, you know. So whenever I meet students, one of the first things I say to them is, well, what are you really loving right now? Or, you know, what's keeping you really busy right now, instead of saying, you know, what are you taking? Or what's your major, I'm much less interested in what their major is. And I'm much more interested in like, you know, what's got them really jazzed? What are they spending their time on? What's what's so exciting that they're staying up into the middle of the night working on it, Resa Lewiss  09:40The timing of your start.  There was an overlap with the murder of Mr. George Floyd. And I'm wondering if you can share with the audience how that sort of set a tone and set an inspiration for your work. Sue Rivera  09:55Yeah, it was a really difficult time I actually accepted the job. On January 31, of 2020. So at that time, if you can remember back to the before times, none of us had ever heard of COVID. And the board of trustees who offered me the job, were saying, this is going to be a turnkey operation for you, the previous president had been here for 17 years, smooth sailing, really easy transition, you know, easy peasy. And three weeks later, you know, every college in America started closing because of COVID. And I realized, wow, this job is about to get a lot more challenging. I was in Cleveland, Ohio at the time at Case Western Reserve University. And I was sort of watching as the news was unfolding, but also doing my job at another higher ed institution. So I could anticipate how it was going to get more difficult to come to McAllister, then literally on the day that I got in my car to drive to Cleveland, to drive to St. Paul from Cleveland to take this job was the day that George Floyd was murdered. So as I was driving all day, north of Michigan, and then across the up of Michigan, going west to St. Paul, I would drive all day and then turn on the TV at night and watch the news. And as we approached St. Paul, the city was deeper and deeper in grief and righteous anger and fear National Guard troops were coming in, there were fires all over the place. In fact, I was supposed to start the job on a Monday and arrive on a Saturday and I got a call on that Saturday while I was on the road saying don't try and come into the city because we've got a curfew. And it's not feeling safe right now. Just get in a hotel outside of the city and try and come in tomorrow. So I arrived really on Sunday in St. Paul to start the job on Monday. And I and I recognize that my first day was going to be very different than what any of us had imagined. Because what the, what the moment called for was to name the pain and grief and anger everyone was feeling. And to try to address people's grief in a way that was honest about the challenges offer some comfort, but also a call to action about how we could be how we could be of help how we could be of service. So you know, the first couple things I did that week were one was I attended a silent vigil that was organized by the black clergy of St. Paul from various different faith, faith communities, I also attended a food and hygiene drive that was organized by our students, you know, it's just a lot, you know, we stood up a mutual aid fundraising drive, within the first couple of weeks, it was just a lot of attending to the immediate needs of the community. And also, all of this was complicated by having to do almost everything by zoom, you know, so, you know, Zoom is good for a lot of things. But when people are crying when people are scared when people, you know, our international students, many of them couldn't go home, because of COVID. So they were staying over the summer, it was just very, very complicated and didn't look anything like what we thought it was going to look like. And what I didn't have was a reservoir of trust built up with this community. And the only way I could talk to people was on a computer screen, which doesn't give the full benefit of body language. It doesn't give all you know, everything you learned from being in a room with somebody. The various facial expressions, the way the way that when you talk to a roomful of people, you see two people make eye contact after you've said something and you recognize you have to go follow up with them and see what that was all about. You know, none of that is possible on Zoom. And, and it was just it was just an impossible summer. It was very, very difficult. I was trying to introduce myself at a time where I also had to deliver a lot of bad news to people. You know, we were having to take all sorts of difficult decisions about keeping the residence halls densifying the residence halls by telling some people they couldn't move back in August that was disappointing for them taking decisions related to the college's finances, like suspending contributions to employees retirement accounts for six months until we could understand how we were going to do financially. arranging for testing COVID testing was incredibly expensive and something we hadn't budgeted for figuring out where to put hand sanitizer and plexiglass and what our masking policy should be. I mean, really, it was like being a full time disaster management person not being a college president. And in many ways, the whole first year was was not being a college president. It was it was just one really challenging, ethical or logistical decision after another all year long. Resa Lewiss  14:50According to my reading in 1991, you delivered your graduation class orration and I'm wondering if you can fill us in on about what you spoke Sue Rivera  15:04well, I, you know, I basically I talked about my unlikely journey to being an Ivy League graduate and what that could mean for all of us about the possibilities of you know pathbreaking of moving into uncharted territory. When I, when I went to college, we didn't have the expression first gen, and we didn't have really a sense of pride around being a financial aid student to the contrary, my experience at an elite institution was that if you were there on financial aid, and came from a low income background, that you tried to hide it as much as possible in order to fit in, you know, back then Brown had a policy of limiting financial aid students to 30% of the student population. And that meant even just students who only had loans and got no grant awards. So just imagine an environment it's not like that anymore, I should clarify, Brown is not like that anymore. But back then 70% of the student body were full pay, meaning their parents could write the whole check. And just imagine what that means when the tuition is significantly more than the, you know, median income for a family of four in this country. It means you're, you're in a really elite and I daresay elitist environment. So what that meant if you were a student on financial aid was that it was kind of a scary place, it was kind of an alienating place. And when I arrived there, I really felt like a fish out of water. I thought about transferring, had a job in the Ratty in the dining hall. You know, my work study job, where I was sort of serving other students and feeling I don't know if I would say inferior but definitely had a sense of imposter syndrome. Like you know, one of these days somebody is going to figure out I don't really belong here. And the turning point for me was that in in the spring semester of that first year for me, a chaplain, Reverend Flora Kashagian who I don't know if that's a name, you know, but she offered like a discussion group, she and Beth Zwick, who was the head of the Women's Center offered a discussion group for students struggling with money issues. So I opened the school newspaper one day, and there's an ad in there. That's like, I don't even remember what it said. But it was something like are you struggling with money issues? Are you on financial aid, you know, are things tough at home, and you don't know how to talk about it come to this discussion. And let's rap about it. And for whatever reason, that spoke to me and I, I went, and there were like, 11 or 12 people in the room for this discussion group. But it was like the Island of Misfit Toys. Do you remember that, that that Christmas cartoon where like, every toy is broken in some kind of way, but they all have their gifts, right? Every student who showed up for that thing had a different non traditional path to get to brown and we were all broken in some kind of weird way. You know, for me, I had grown up in an immigrant home on was on public assistance, food stamps, free lunch, you know, you name it. I was there on a on a Pell Grant, which are, you know, the neediest students. And there were other people in the room who came from really different environments. I grew up in New York City, but there were other people who were like, from a rural farm family, or, you know, I mean, just all everybody had different reasons for why they came to that discussion group. But it was magical because we all saw each other in a really like, pure and non judgmental way. And we could all be real with each other. As it turns out, one of the other 11 people was the person who would eventually become my spouse. And other people in the room that day are lifelong friends. I mean, we really bonded, we ended up forming a club called sofa students on financial aid. We even have little T shirts made up that said, so far, so good. And it had like a picture of a couch that was all ripped and torn on on the front. And by making it a student club, that got incorporated by the student government, we kind of created legitimacy for ourselves on campus, and started to create a way of talking about being from a low income background that didn't feel shameful, that felt prideful, not prideful, in the sense of hubris, but in the sense of like, acknowledging the distance traveled was great that we were not born on third base. And yet we were here sort of competing with people who had every advantage in the world and having a sense of deserving to be there or belonging there. So by the time I was a senior and I got selected to give the one of the two oratory addresses at graduation, the theme for me really was one of triumph of having overcome all of those hurdles and feeling like finally I feel like I deserve at this place. I earned my spot here. Resa Lewiss  19:57In my freshman unit, there was a woman with whom I'm still very, very close. She is an attorney. She's an LA county judge. And she transferred from Brown for some of the reasons that you considered transferring. And she to this day says that it's one of her biggest regrets. And also she really feels if they were more visible vocal support for first gen students than she thinks it would have made a huge difference for her. Sue Rivera  20:29Yeah, no doubt and and Brown has come a long way. In this regard. I consider them a real leader. Now they have this you fly center. It's like it's an actual center on campus for people who are undocumented first gen or low income. And they get extra support. They have a dedicated Dean, they have programming. I think it's a real testament to the seriousness with which Brown has taken the unique challenges that face low income students going to a place like that. It also helped a lot that between Vartan, Gregorian and roof Simmons, two presidents, who I greatly admire from Brown, they were able to raise the money to provide financial aid to students who need it, but also to go need blind. So I told you that at the time that I went there, they limited the number of students on financial aid to 30% of the student body, that's no longer true. Now, when you apply to brown, you are admitted without regard to ability to pay and they commit to meet full need. So I think it's a much more socio economically diverse student body today. And I think Brown has really been a leader in how to increase access and support low income students when they get there, because I think it's a two part problem. You know, just letting people in. But allowing them to sink or swim is really not helpful. You need to increase access, but then also provide the support necessary so that the that educational opportunity is a ladder to economic mobility, people have to actually be able to finish, you know, complete the degree, and then go off and have a career afterwards in order for the opportunity to really, you know, fulfill that promise. Resa Lewiss  22:16Yeah, it reminds me a bit of what you described with the Headstart program of not just, you know, supporting this one individual child, but it's actually the system in place. So similar, like it's one thing to get in, but you have to help the student, succeed, thrive. Be healthy in that environment. I believe I've read that you that you're actually doing work to increase access and admission of students that may have fewer resources in the state. Can you talk a little bit about that initiative? Sue Rivera  22:47Yeah, I'd love to. So when I arrived at Macalester again, just like a little over a year ago, Macalester already had a relationship with the quest Bridge Program, which is one way to recruit first gen and low income students. But of course, we take those from all over the country. We also had other cohort programs like the Bonner Scholars Program and the Mellon Mays program. But after the murder of George Floyd, one thing that I heard a lot from people on campus was that while Macalester had done a great job recruiting a diverse student body from not only all over the country, but also all over the world. We have a very international student body that we hadn't done as much to focus on students from right here in Minnesota, especially talented students from historically excluded groups from right here in Minnesota. So we did two things last year. One was that we established a new fund called the Minnesota Opportunity Scholarship Fund, which is an effort to raise scholarship dollars that will be targeted specifically to talented students from Minnesota. And the second thing we did was that we joined forces with the Posse Foundation to sign on as a posse school, whereby Macalester will become recipients of the first posse from the state of Minnesota. I don't know if you're that familiar with posse, but that's a program that's 30 plus years old, that that's based on the Really clever idea that that their founder Debbie Bial had, which is that if you pluck one student from an under resourced High School, and you send them across the country to a private liberal arts college, they may feel like a fish out of water. But if you cultivate a cohort of students from a city, and you give them in high school leadership training and other kinds of support, and you foster trust and friendship among them, and then you take a group or a posse, if you will, and you take those 10 students and send them all to the same liberal arts college, the chances are, that they're going to be better equipped to persist and complete because they have each other you know, they don't have that feeling of walking into the dining hall and not seeing any familiar face. We're not having anybody who knows what it's like in their home city neighborhood. You know, the same feeling I had when I walked into that room and I saw the other Misfit Toys sitting around in a circle. The posse already formed a trusting cohort that can keep each other company and offer support through the four year experience of college. So we are adding posse to our other cohort programs here on campus. But we've specified that the posses gotta come from here in Minnesota, they will come from the Twin Cities, either Minneapolis public schools or St. Paul Public Schools. And we're going to get our first group of 10 in September, and we will give them all full tuition scholarships. It's really exciting. Yeah. Resa Lewiss  25:47Wow. What a conversation and honestly, I could have kept speaking with Sue for quite a while. I think she enjoyed the conversation too, regarding my friend that I referred to in the conversation. Attorney judge Serena Murillo. As I said, we're still friends, and she knows that I had tipped her during this episode. And all I can say is, listen to your heart. Listen to your brain. Have a growth mindset and know that your professional path is not linear. Thanks for joining and see you next week. The visible Voices Podcast amplifies voices both known and unknown, discussing topics of healthcare equity and current trends. If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and review us on Apple podcasts. It helps other people find the show. You can listen on whatever platform you subscribe to podcasts. Our team includes Stacey Gitlin and Dr. Giuliano Di Portu. If you're interested in sponsoring an episode, please contact me resa@thevisiblevoicespodcast.com. I'm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and I'm on Twitter @ResaELewiss. Thank you so much for listening and as always, to be continued

Jim is the founder and former CEO of College Possible, a national nonprofit organization making college admission and success possible for low income students through intensive coaching and support.

Episode 1: The Importance of Stories with Rin Heise “Honestly, I think education's in my blood.” HAEd's podcast has officially opened a new chapter, and this is our debut episode! We speak to Rin Heise (Ed.M. '20) on what it's like working with college students during the pandemic, how a passion for learning runs in her family, and why she challenges herself to consider messages in stories that she does not necessarily agree with. At the time of this recording, Rin was working for MIT's Office of Minority Education as the Program Coordinator for Academic Excellence. She is also a published poet, and kindly closes the conversation with a beautiful poem of hers. Interviewers: Jasmine Chin, Shu Cao Mo Click here for the transcript. Related Links: 02:33 - Higher Education Program at Harvard Graduation School of Education (HGSE) 02:33 - MIT's Office of Minority Education 03:23 - PE/NE, an alternative grading practice at MIT 05:37 - Junior Rotary and Interact Clubs 05:59 - College Possible through AmeriCorps 07:33 - Charlotte's Web; Julie of the Wolves; 13 Reasons Why

New initiatives at Marquette and in Milwaukee are helping boost college admissions and retention for students in our city. Organizations like All In Milwaukee, College Possible and new programs at Marquette are providing resources and support to improve social, academic and graduation outcomes. In this episode we hear from leaders at Marquette and in Milwaukee who are passionate about supporting our community –– and helping students successfully navigate the college experience. Moderator: Lauren Burke Guests: Mike Lovell, President of Marquette University John Su, Marquette University Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Samira Payne, Marquette University Director of Black Student Initiatives Allison Wagner, Executive Director of All In Milwaukee Kellie J. Sigh, Executive Director of College Possible

Laurence Msall is the President of the Civic Federation, and joins Connected to Chicago. Bill and Laurence talk finances locally, state and at the Federal level. What to expect in January 2021...? We welcome in Greg Hinz of Crain’s, Ray Long of the Chicago tribune, Fran Spielman from the Chicago Sun-Times, and Heather Cherone of WTTW into this week’s Round Table. Issues with the City Budget, and what would be the smart move to make for Speaker Mike Madigan? Christine Poorman, Executive Director of College Possible talks with Lauren Cohn about how her organization is making it easier for Low-Income high school students to attend College.

How the f**k did Connor Dethlefs go from playing JV basketball in college (yes, that is a thing) to finding his passion in graphic design? Connor graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2016 where he played one season on what was the objectively the best dual affiliated NCAA Division III and NAIA Division II JV college basketball team to ever touch the floor. After graduating, Connor was a Senior Coach at College Possible helping improve the ACT scores and college acceptance rates for juniors and seniors in North Omaha. After that, Connor moved on to the customer service team of ScoreVision, a software company working on fan experience. Today, Connor is a graphic designer at ScoreVision, and the Creative Director of Grit Player Services, David and Jake’s company that’s miraculously still in business despite their leadership. So how did Connor make the leap from coaching basketball to graphic design? And why do some colleges still have JV teams?

In this episode, Steve and Adam have a lively discussion with Kellie J. Sigh, Executive Director of College Possible Milwaukee, an organization making college admission and success possible for students from low-income backgrounds through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support. It's positively impacting the lives of so many young people in Milwaukee. Listen in to learn more about the organization and how you can help, including sending potential participants to apply to the program. Oh, and perhaps to help Adam go back to 11th grade. Visit www.collegepossible.org/milwaukee or email Kellie directly at ksigh@collegepossible.org.

I sat down w old friend Kendra Moen, whom I met through circles at UWM. She currently works for Americore in the program College Possible. We discussed horror movies, CollegePossible's mission, the evils of privatization, education as a human right, and the kinds of students we were in school. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ben-slowey/support

Tune in to hear EIG Director of Community Outreach, Jill Economou, discuss organizations that provide support for college-bound students. Guests this week include: Kellie Sigh | College Possible Asia Connor & Ariel Milton-Kern | MKE Scholars

Tune in to hear EIG Director of Community Outreach, Jill Economou, discuss organizations that provide support for college-bound students. Guests this week include: Kellie Sigh | College Possible Asia Connor & Ariel Milton-Kern | MKE Scholars

Tune in to hear EIG Director of Community Outreach, Jill Economou, discuss organizations that provide support for college-bound students. Guests this week include: Kellie Sigh | College Possible Asia Connor & Ariel Milton-Kern | MKE Scholars

In this episode of the podcast, Ayn sits down with Rin Heise to discuss a topic that has generated interest year after year at Hamline; AmeriCorps and specifically College Possible. Rin shares with us her journey from her first year on campus to her volunteer work post-graduation. August 2020 Update: Since recording her podcast episode, Rin has started and graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a Masters in Education in the Higher Education program. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts and is seeking positions at nearby colleges and universities related to student support/advising/affairs and administration. COVID-19 is forcing her to be flexible and look at Plan B and Plan C options. She is working on a TEFL certificate online to teach English online while job-searching. “Some advice I have for current students is to take care of themselves first and foremost, but be sure to be in touch with their professors. Hamline is a place where, in my experience, professors notice when you’re gone from class and appreciate hearing from you to know you’re ok. Do whatever you need to do to focus during your online classes- they still count!  For graduating seniors, my advice is to celebrate your accomplishment- really, you deserve it! Then, look for work that can be completed virtually for the time being. While you’re looking, use LinkedIn Learning (or any online learning platform) to take some free classes to help you build skills to make you an even more attractive job candidate (in addition to your degree from a mighty fine university). What I’ve found helpful for my job search is to keep an updated spreadsheet of a diverse group of organizations along with contacts at each organization. These contacts were found via the alumni networks at Hamline, Harvard, and my AmeriCorps network (LinkedIn search). Use this time to build connections!” Want to connect with Rin? Find her on LinkedIn or send an email to kheise01@hamline.edu .

On this episode we talk about college access with Emielle Nischik, the new Executive Director of College Possible.

Deanna Singh is back with Mario to talk about how she draws the line between family and business as an entrepreneur who has the ability to operate her business remotely. She also talks about encouraging her children to be entrepreneurial and giving them the space, freedom, and confidence to explore ideas and opportunities that they feel called to do. Deanna Singh is a highly respected thought leader who travels the world motivating and educating audiences about living with joy and purpose. A gifted communicator, she is a champion for marginalized communities and an inspiration to all those who want to be agents of change in their work, lives, and society. Singh earned her Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Fordham University, a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and certification in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Cornell University. She has impacted the world as a speaker, a teacher, a principal, a leader of large foundations, a social entrepreneur, a businesswoman, an author, a publisher, and a mother. Because of her creativity, tenacity, and change-provoking honesty, Deanna Singh is in demand as a motivational speaker and educator for teams from a wide variety of organizations. She is regarded as an expert in leadership; entrepreneurship; and diversity, equity & inclusion and speaks frequently to corporate, university, and association groups on all three topics. She also visits schools to share her experiences and her three children’s books, I am a Boy of Color, I am a Girl of Color, and Cloth Crown. Singh has been recognized by the Milwaukee Business Journal as one of the community’s most influential 40 under 40 leaders and the 8 Under 40 to Watch for the University of Wisconsin School of Business. She is also the recipient of the United Way’s Philanthropic Five Award and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Leadership Development Hero Award.  She sits on the national board of College Possible and LIFT. Singh has also spent more than two decades researching, designing, and building asset-based solutions to complex social challenges while raising awareness for underserved populations. She created Flying Elephant, a social venture umbrella organization that consists of three unique enterprises. The first is her children’s book imprint Story to Tell Books, which impacts children of all colors. The second is Uplifting Impact, a consulting firm focused on elevating women and people of color who want to be social entrepreneurs. Lastly, there is Birth Coach Milwaukee, an organization that provides doula services to women who otherwise could not afford it. Deanna Singh’s fully customizable, interactive, and authentic sessions have received accolades from clients and participants from all walks of life. Her courage, positivity, and boundless imagination pervades the stories she tells, leaving audiences with an understanding that with the dawn of each new day, they can choose to have a positive impact on the world. Connect with Deanna at DeannaSingh.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Deanna Singh joined Mario to talk about how she defines and taps into her joy. They also talk about failure, what it means to each of them, how they use it in their own lives, and how dropping expectations can actually help us achieve the real outcomes we are meant to experience. Deanna Singh is a highly respected thought leader who travels the world motivating and educating audiences about living with joy and purpose. A gifted communicator, she is a champion for marginalized communities and an inspiration to all those who want to be agents of change in their work, lives, and society. Singh earned her Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Fordham University, a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and certification in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Cornell University. She has impacted the world as a speaker, a teacher, a principal, a leader of large foundations, a social entrepreneur, a businesswoman, an author, a publisher, and a mother. Because of her creativity, tenacity, and change-provoking honesty, Deanna Singh is in demand as a motivational speaker and educator for teams from a wide variety of organizations. She is regarded as an expert in leadership; entrepreneurship; and diversity, equity & inclusion and speaks frequently to corporate, university, and association groups on all three topics. She also visits schools to share her experiences and her three children’s books, I am a Boy of Color, I am a Girl of Color, and Cloth Crown. Singh has been recognized by the Milwaukee Business Journal as one of the community’s most influential 40 under 40 leaders and the 8 Under 40 to Watch for the University of Wisconsin School of Business. She is also the recipient of the United Way’s Philanthropic Five Award and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Leadership Development Hero Award.  She sits on the national board of College Possible and LIFT. Singh has also spent more than two decades researching, designing, and building asset-based solutions to complex social challenges while raising awareness for underserved populations. She created Flying Elephant, a social venture umbrella organization that consists of three unique enterprises. The first is her children’s book imprint Story to Tell Books, which impacts children of all colors. The second is Uplifting Impact, a consulting firm focused on elevating women and people of color who want to be social entrepreneurs. Lastly, there is Birth Coach Milwaukee, an organization that provides doula services to women who otherwise could not afford it. Deanna Singh’s fully customizable, interactive, and authentic sessions have received accolades from clients and participants from all walks of life. Her courage, positivity, and boundless imagination pervades the stories she tells, leaving audiences with an understanding that with the dawn of each new day, they can choose to have a positive impact on the world. Connect with Deanna at DeannaSingh.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which finally placed women's right to vote in the United States Constitution. Oregon was one of several western states that saw early victories in this area. How has the women's vote impacted Oregon over the last 100 years? What barriers remain? What kind of affect might the vote of women play in the 2020 election?In a celebration and reflection of this historic anniversary, we have a wonderful panel of scholars, historians and change-makers. Featuring Guest Speakers:Eliza Canty-JonesEliza E. Canty-Jones is Editor of the Oregon Historical Quarterly and Director of Community Engagement at the Oregon Historical Society. She produces scholarship, public programs, and organizational partnerships that advance complex and multilingual perspectives on Oregon’s past. She holds an M.A. in Pacific Northwest and public history from Portland State University and a B.A. in English from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she was founding co-editor of SlackWater: Oral Folk History of Southern Maryland. Eliza was co-founder and served as President of the Oregon Women’s History Consortium, which created the statewide centennial project, Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote, 1912–2012 Shadiin GarciaShadiin's work centers on organizational change; culturally relevant and sustaining curriculum; diversity, equity, and belonging; educational and systemic equity; culturally appropriate research; and community driven systemic change. She served as the Deputy Director of Policy and Research at Oregon’s Chief Education Office where she helped develop a research agenda driven by culturally appropriate practices and Indigenous methodologies for improving key educational outcomes. She served as the Director of TeachOregon at the Chalkboard Project leading initiatives to diversify the educator workforce and improve teacher educator systems. With funding from Meyer Memorial Trust, she facilitates Oregon's statewide American Indian/Alaska Native Educational Professional Learning Community. Dr. Garcia serves on three boards: College Possible of Oregon, Women’s Foundation ofOregon, and Carry it Forward.Dr. Shirley JacksonDr. Jackson is a professor in the Department of Black Studies at Portland State University. She received her Master’s and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Jackson's research specializations include race/ethnicity, gender, and social movements. She is the 2016 recipient of the Society for the Study of Social Problems' Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award and has received the State of Connecticut’s African American Affairs Commission’s Woman of the Year award. Dr. Jackson has served on the State of Oregon’s Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee that developed ethnic studies standards for Oregon’s K-12 schools. She is the editor of The Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender (Routledge/Taylor & Francis 2014) and co-editor of Caged Women: Incarceration, Representation, and Media (2018, Routledge/Taylor & Francis). She is currently working on several projects including a study on the intersection of gender, race, and space; a socio-historical exploration of U.S. and global themes of race/ethnicity and gender in political cartoons during WWII and the Civil Rights Movement; and a comparative analysis of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign and the 1964 Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi. As a scholar-activist, Dr. Jackson gives presentations and interviews in the community, on radio, TV, and in the print media. She has also served as an expert witness for state and federal defense attorneys and prosecutors.Moderated By: Emily Evans, Women's Foundation of OregonEvans, who was born and raised in Ashland, Ore., spent the last five years as the Lead Development Officer for the Forum for Youth Investment, a nonprofit think tank in Washington DC. During her tenure, Evans directed a multi-million dollar annual fund development effort and partnered with national and local foundations all over the country. Prior to her work at the Forum, Evans helped launch the Women’s Leadership Institute in Washington DC as the Interim Director of Partnerships and Advancement. While there, she secured the largest six-figure board member gift in the organization’s history and helped staff special events for a number of notable women leaders, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, NPR’s Linda Wertheimer, and U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. Evans also served as president of the Maxwell Women’s Caucus while completing her Masters in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and earned her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College.

As president and CEO of the Science Museum of Minnesota, Alison Rempel Brown leads an organization that is firmly committed to science education and equity. Under Alison’s leadership, the Science Museum has adopted a new strategic plan designed to transform the organization into a resource that captures the power and talent of all people – especially women and people of color – so they see themselves as scientists. New programs, like 2018’s Year of the Engineer and the ongoing Water Planet initiative, leverage the Science Museum’s relationships and rich assets. And the adoption of a brand new Statement on Equity and Inclusion captures the museum’s vision to use STEM as a tool to advocate for justice and equity, acknowledging that significant change must start from within. Alison was named one of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal’s People to Watch in 2017, and she received the publication’s Women in Business Award. Alison came to the Science Museum from the California Academy of Sciences, where she oversaw infrastructure and operations and helped lead the organization through the construction and opening of a spectacular new facility in Golden Gate Park. She is a graduate of Pomona College and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Juliette Francis joined the Science Museum’s senior leadership team in November 2013. She brings experience in employee relations, workforce planning, compensation and benefit management, and training and development to her position overseeing the museum’s service to both its paid staff and its expansive volunteer corps. Juliette comes to the Science Museum from College Possible, a national nonprofit headquartered in Saint Paul that provides low-income students with an intensive curriculum of coaching and support to help them earn college admission and college degrees. As Director of Human Resources and Operations, Juliette oversaw the organization’s HR, new site operations, and technology functions. Her professional experience also includes human resources work at Girls Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys and Fury Motors. Juliette has a bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Development from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. She has been actively involved in the Saint Paul Winter Carnival for more than 13 years, and she sits on the Business Programs Advisory Board at Inver Hills Community College. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Alison discusses the history of the Science Museum of Minnesota, and its purpose and goal to empower and educate the community Alison describes her vision for the museum and shares her commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion work Alison shares how eye-opening statistics from an employee culture survey helped her realize the importance of intentionally focusing on internal work Juliette shares the steps the Science Museum of Minnesota has taken to support individual cultural competence growth in its employees Juliette describes the cultural competence coaching program that the Science Museum has developed internally to support its employees Alison shares how the Museum works to bring everyone into their cultural competence processes and continue to improve their program Juliette shares the Museum’s success, and she explains why the Museum intentionally avoided pairing employees with coaches with whom they had a reporting relationship Alison explains why CEOs need to focus on working on their own cultural competence to most effectively lead the organization’s efforts Alison describes the Science Museum’s “RACE: Are We So Different?” exhibit and its traveling component Additional resources: Website: www.smm.org Website: www.smm.org/equity Science Museum of Minnesota RACE Exhibit website: www.smm.org/race Facebook: www.facebook.com/sciencemuseum/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/science-museum-of-minnesota/ Alison’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alisonrempelbrown/ Juliette’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/inspieringu/

We get the chance to hear about two college going programs we have here at Northwest High Magnet School. The first is Avenue Scholars, with our head person being Taleya Broadway. Second we will here from Bri Ridenour, one of our College Possible coaches.

In recent decades, low-income students have applied to and started attending college in greater numbers than ever before. But even as the college-attendance gap between rich and poor has shrunk, the gap in the number of college graduates has grown. How can we keep closing the first gap, and begin to address the second? In this episode, Jim McCorkell talks about College Possible's flagship initiative—an intensive curriculum of coaching and support to help low-income students enroll in college—as well as the newer Catalyze Program, which supports student persistence and success directly on college campuses.  Recorded July 11, 2019 Episode Notes Here are some of the links and references from this week's show: Infographic on rural colleges and universities Education Deserts: The Continued Significance of “Place” in the Twenty-First Century Nicholas Hillman and Taylor Weichman, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Identifying Predictors of Credential Completion Among Beginning Community College Students Jonathan Turk, ACE A Look at Five Key Outcomes in Early Adulthood for Associate Degree Earners Jonathan Turk, ACE AmeriCorps Posse Foundation College Board Environmental Context Dashboard From the introduction: Alaska's University System Faces Its Fate The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 15, 2019) ACE Letter to Alaska Legislature on Proposed Cuts to the State's Higher Education Budget ABOUT THE SHOW Each episode of dotEDU presents a deep dive into a major issue impacting college campuses and students across the country. Hosts from ACE are joined by guest experts to lead you through thought-provoking conversations on topics such as campus free speech, diversity in admissions, college costs and affordability, and more. Listen to all episodes of the podcast here. Tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @ACEducation or email podcast@acenet.edu. HOSTS Lorelle Espinosa is ACE's vice president for research, where she is responsible for developing the association's thought leadership and research agenda. Jon Fansmith represents ACE and its members on issues related to the federal budget and appropriations process, with a particular focus on student aid. Podcast produced by the American Council on Education.

This week I sat down w Taylar Price, who works as a coach for College Possible - an Americorps position that allows her to work with low income and first generation high school students preparing for higher education. We drank Franzia out of a water bottle as we discussed how working with high school students impacts her, what MPS needs right now, treating employees as human beings, dating apps, and standing up for education. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ben-slowey/support

Loraine Ballard Morrill has worked with a dedicated group of men at SCI Phoenix as well as their community partners in the program called F.A.C.T - Fathers and Children Together. This program works to strengthen bonds between the men behind the walls and their children and help break the cycle of incarceration withing families and ease the way for the men as they transition back into society. Loraine speaks with Connie Grier, Board member of the FACT experience and Assaya Anderson and her 11 year old son Munir Parks who went through the program.First she speaks to Jen Weikert, College Possible Executive Director and Camellia Brown College Possible participant about the program that provides tools and support for students who are the first in their family to attend college. http://www.collegepossible.org/

Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks to Jen Weikert, College Possible Executive Director and Camellia Brown College Possible participant about the program that provides tools and support for students who are the first in their family to attend college. http://www.collegepossible.org/

Juliette Francis joined the Science Museum’s senior leadership team in November 2013. She brings experience in employee relations, workforce planning, compensation and benefit management, and training and development to her position overseeing the museum’s service to both its paid staff and its expansive volunteer corps. Juliette comes to the Science Museum from College Possible, a national nonprofit headquartered in Saint Paul that provides low-income students with an intensive curriculum of coaching and support to help them earn college admission and college degrees. As Director of Human Resources and Operations, Francis oversaw the organization’s HR, new site operations, and technology functions. Her professional experience also includes human resources work at Girls Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys and Fury Motors. Juliette has a bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Development from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. She has been actively involved in the Saint Paul Winter Carnival for more than 13 years, and she sits on the Business Programs Advisory Board at Inver Hills Community College. What you’ll learn about in this episode: How Juliette got involved in diversity and inclusion work, and how she brings it to her role in human resources at the Science Museum of Minnesota Why it can be challenging to admit that you don’t have all the answers, and why pushing yourself into an uncomfortable space is key to your own growth Why it is necessary to be aware of yourself and avoid misusing your power and authority in your role How the Science Museum of Minnesota is considered to be one of the premiere museums of its kind in the country How a science museum can be an ideal place to explore the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion Why there is still a great deal of work to do to make science more accessible to everyone, and what programs the Science Museum of Minnesota has to promote science Why the Science Museum of Minnesota considers it vitally important to create a culturally competent and inclusive workplace Why we have all been conditioned to look for similarities in ourselves and others, and why understanding the differences is important, valuable work What advice Juliette would offer to anyone wanting to pursue diversity and inclusion work in their own roles Additional resources: Website: www.smm.org

We sat down with Jen Weikert, the Executive Director of College Possible Philadelphia, to discuss the reasons why nonprofit involvement can boost your personal brand. We also discuss the nonprofit organization College Possible and the upcoming College Champions event, in Philadelphia on May 16th (For more information and to purchase tickets: https://lnkd.in/em57NpB). About our guest: Jen is a results-driven, non-profit executive with an extensive range of experience, as a senior-level development officer, executive director and as a consultant, in helping Philadelphia-area organizations start-up, grow and become sustainable. On this episode of the Self Made Strategies Podcast, you will learn about:• College Possible's mission and how College Possible can make students 4x more likely to earn a college degree.• How entrepreneurs or business owners can help College Possible close the degree divide between low-income students and their upper-income peers.• The Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC) in Pennsylvania - an explanation.• How entrepreneurs or business owners can leverage the EITC program in Pennsylvania to increase their philanthropic donations (with no additional cost to them).• How nonprofit involvement, in organizations like College Possible, can help an entrepreneur or business owner to improve their personal brand and network.• How entrepreneurs or business owners can get more involved in nonprofit organizations like College Possible.After you’ve listened to the episode, go to SelfMadeStrategies.com for more information about our show, exclusive content and to contact the Self Made Strategies hosts.You can also connect with us on: • https://www.facebook.com/selfmadestrategies/ •• https://twitter.com/SelfMadeStratGs •• https://www.instagram.com/selfmadestrategies/ •• https://www.linkedin.com/company/self-made-strategies/ •

Marquette graduate students Benjamin Rangel and Kyle Hagge created the Bridge the City podcast to focus on local Milwaukee communities. Disheartened by national media narratives, they sought to inform individuals about local elected officials like city council or the sheriff's office. Every episode ends with action steps to create positive change where people live. Ben and Kyle first met 3 years ago when they moved to Milwaukee to serve as AmeriCorps members with College Possible, a nonprofit helping low-income students get to and through college. Currently, both Ben and Kyle are Trinity Fellows at Marquette University. The Trinity Fellowship is a graduate program that focuses on social and economic justice and allows students to earn their Masters degree while simultaneously working at a nonprofit organization. Listen to their podcast: https://www.bridgethecitypodcast.com/ We Are Marquette Podcast Episode 46 Edited by Tim Cigelske

Megan Moslander is the Development Director and Katie Cunningham is the Program Director at College Possible.

Listen in as I interview, Ayesha Selden who is a private wealth advisor with a Fortune 500 company that is among the top 25 largest asset managers in the world. In 1998, while pursuing an Economics and Marketing degree at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, Ayesha was introduced to the financial services industry—via banking. She started her career with her firm in 2000 and has had various roles within her organization over the years, including financial advisor, district manager and the first female African-American Field Vice President in the firm’s history. Ayesha’s passion is disciplined investing. In addition to investments in equities, Ayesha primarily invests in real estate throughout the city of Philadelphia and suburbs. Following the housing crisis of 2008/2009, Ayesha added almost two dozen properties to her real estate portfolio. Ayesha serves as a board member on two organizations in Philadelphia. The first board she joined is Holy Redeemer Health System’s Drueding Center, which serves to break the cycle of poverty in homeless women and their children. Her second board, College Possible, helps Philadelphia high school students take the necessary steps to get accepted and then transition to college.Follow and Contact Ayesha on Instagram @ayeshaselden See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Julie Mancini is the executive director of College Possible, which is an organization that supports low income students in the college admission process, and coaches them through the higher ed experience.

Loraine Ballard Morrill had a chance to talk with three awesome nonprofit organizations: College Possible, Red Paw Emergency Service and Canine Partners for Life. Even better these three are nominated to receive either a 100K, 20 K and 10 K major grants as part of NRG Gives. Loraine speaks with representatives from the groups and Dave Schrader from NRG with the details on how we can help decide where the money goes. https://www.nrghomepower.com/nrggives/ One day after the Cosby guilty verdict Loraine took part in Hands Around City Hall sponsored by Women Organized Against rape to raise awareness about sexual assault. She catches up with WOAR Executive Director Monique Howard. https://www.woar.org/ But first The Blue Cross Blue Shield Broad Street Run is just around the corner. Loraine talks with Leo Dignam, Deputy Managing Director in charge of the Run and Ali Ladak from Moss Rehab about getting ready for this and other races.http://www.broadstreetrun.com/https://www.mossrehab.com/

Loraine Ballard Morrill had a chance to talk with three awesome nonprofit organizations: College Possible, Red Paw Emergency Service and Canine Partners for Life. Even better these three are nominated to receive either a 100K, 20 K and 10 K major grants as part of NRG Gives. Loraine speaks with representatives from the groups and Dave Schrader from NRG with the details on how we can help decide where the money goes. https://www.nrghomepower.com/nrggives/

In this week's episode we feature Julie Mancini, Executive Director at College Possible and former Executive Director of Literary Arts where she helped grow Portland Arts & Lecture Series into the largest lecture series in the nation.

You may have seen the logo floating around campus on water bottles and posters, but what do you really know about College Possible? Our guest speaker on this week's episode, TA Kieu, gives us an in-depth look at her experience with College Possible and even with AmeriCorps. How are the two related? What are the benefits of working for College Possible? Is AmeriCorps for you? With TA's guidance, we explore these questions and more! Please remember that if you have questions, comments or suggestions for future episodes, we would love to hear from you! Email us at workshop@hamline.edu, stop by the office or give us a call at 651 523 2302. For any students interested in connecting with TA, please call our office and ask for Lauren Kavan or Ayn Rassier.  For more information, visit these sites: College Possible: http://www.collegepossible.org/serve/ AmeriCorps: https://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps

Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with John Barber III Chief Development Officer for the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia about a new online crowd funding platform developed for Philadelphia Public Schools, that allows any donor give directly to addres a school's needs identified by the principal. It's called Philly FUNDamentals. http://thefundsdp.org/Patricia King Manager of Universal Services for PECO discusses LIHEAP – the Lower Income Energy Assistance Program a federal program that provides assistance to individuals who are having trouble paying their electric, natural gas or other heating bills. https://www.peco.com/MyAccount/CustomerSupport/Pages/LIHEAP.aspxContact your local County Assistance Office (CAO) by phone or in person.Call the LIHEAP Client Helpline at 1-866-857-7095.Finally a Loraine has a conversation with Jen Weikert, Executive Director of College Possible Philadelphia which served 800 students during the 2016-2017, is closing Pennsylvania's degree divide and building a competitive workforce for the future. College Possible Philadelphia's AmeriCorps coaches guide low-income students through all aspects of preparing for, applying to and enrolling in college and support students all the way through college graduation.Students who are guided by College Possible have a 98 percent college admission rate and are four times more likely to graduate from college than their low-income peers. Loraine also speaks with Cabrini College student Charma Imani who credits College Possible for her academic success. College Possible Philadelphia2000 Hamilton Street, Suite 303Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19130Phone: 215-309-7300PHLInfo@CollegePossible.orghttp://www.collegepossible.org/philadelphia/

Loraine has a conversation with Jen Weikert, Executive Director of College Possible Philadelphia which served 800 students during the 2016-2017, and is closing Pennsylvania's degree divide and building a competitive workforce for the future. College Possible Philadelphia's AmeriCorps coaches guide low-income students through all aspects of preparing for, applying to and enrolling in college and support students all the way through college graduation.Students who are guided by College Possible have a 98 percent college admission rate and are four times more likely to graduate from college than their low-income peers. Loraine also speaks with Cabrini College student Charma Imani who credits College Possible for her academic success. College Possible Philadelphia2000 Hamilton Street, Suite 303Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19130Phone: 215-309-7300PHLInfo@CollegePossible.orghttp://www.collegepossible.org/philadelphia/

Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with Amy Cliett, National Outreach Manager for TechGirlz – an organization that nurtures girls interested in STEM. Patricia King Manager of Universal Services for PECO discusses LIHEAP – the Low Income Energy Assistance Program a federal program that provides assistance to individuals who are having trouble paying their electric, natural gas or other heating bills. https://www.peco.com/MyAccount/CustomerSupport/Pages/LIHEAP.aspxContact your local County Assistance Office (CAO) by phone or in person.Call the LIHEAP Client Helpline at 1-866-857-7095.Finally a Loraine has a conversation with Jen Weikert, Executive Director of College Possible Philadelphia which served 800 students during the 2016-2017 and is closing Pennsylvania's degree divide and building a competitive workforce for the future. College Possible Philadelphia's AmeriCorps coaches guide low-income students through all aspects of preparing for, applying to and enrolling in college and support students all the way through college graduation.Students who are guided by College Possible have a 98 percent college admission rate and are four times more likely to graduate from college than their low-income peers. Loraine also speaks with Cabrini College student Charma Imani who credits College Possible for her academic success. College Possible Philadelphia2000 Hamilton Street, Suite 303Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19130Phone: 215-309-7300PHLInfo@CollegePossible.orghttp://www.collegepossible.org/philadelphia/

This webinar highlighted City Year and College Possible as two examples of effective school improvement partners under ESSA for schools that do not graduate one-third or more of their students and are required to provide students with comprehensive support and intervention.

WIRE or The Women in Real Estate Summit 2017 brought to you by Better Than Success, is a one-day intensive real estate investing summit featuring a line-up of all star women real estate investors. On Oct 28th 2018 we held our first annual summit. We closed the event out with a live podcast interview of Ayesha Selden by the BTS podcast host Nicole Purvy. Listen to pt 2 of the interview here! Ayesha Selden is a private wealth advisor with a Fortune 500 company that is among the top 25 largest asset managers in the world. In 1998, while pursuing an Economics and Marketing degree at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, Ayesha was introduced to the financial services industry—via banking. She started her career with her firm in 2000 and has had various roles within her organization over the years, including financial advisor, district manager and the first female African-American Field Vice President in the firm’s history. Ayesha’s passion is disciplined investing. In addition to investments in equities, Ayesha primarily invests in real estate throughout the city of Philadelphia and suburbs. Following the housing crisis of 2008/2009, Ayesha added almost two dozen properties to her real estate portfolio. Ayesha serves as a board member on two organizations in Philadelphia. The first board she joined is Holy Redeemer Health System’s Drueding Center, which serves to break the cycle of poverty in homeless women and their children. Her second board, College Possible, helps Philadelphia high school students take the necessary steps to get accepted and then transition to college.

WIRE or The Women in Real Estate Summit 2017 brought to you by Better Than Success, is a one-day intensive real estate investing summit featuring a line-up of all star women real estate investors. On Oct 28th 2018 we held our first annual summit. We closed the event out with a live podcast interview of Ayesha Selden by the BTS podcast host Nicole Purvy. Listen to the interview here! Ayesha Selden is a private wealth advisor with a Fortune 500 company that is among the top 25 largest asset managers in the world. In 1998, while pursuing an Economics and Marketing degree at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, Ayesha was introduced to the financial services industry—via banking. She started her career with her firm in 2000 and has had various roles within her organization over the years, including financial advisor, district manager and the first female African-American Field Vice President in the firm’s history. Ayesha’s passion is disciplined investing. In addition to investments in equities, Ayesha primarily invests in real estate throughout the city of Philadelphia and suburbs. Following the housing crisis of 2008/2009, Ayesha added almost two dozen properties to her real estate portfolio. Ayesha serves as a board member on two organizations in Philadelphia. The first board she joined is Holy Redeemer Health System’s Drueding Center, which serves to break the cycle of poverty in homeless women and their children. Her second board, College Possible, helps Philadelphia high school students take the necessary steps to get accepted and then transition to college.

Across the country, the number of jobs requiring workers with a post-secondary education is outpacing the number of college graduates. It is crucial to invest in the graduates needed to fill this gap and build a workforce representative of our communities. College Possible students will play an important role in our future workforce. Join R.T. Rybak, Kim Nelson and College Possible Alumni Fasil Adinew and Maya Vue for “Better Jobs, Better Futures: Building a Workforce that Works for All,” a panel discussion addressing how we can meet our country's changing workforce needs.

New research from the National Student Campaign against Hunger and Homelessness found that 22 percent of college students experience food insecurity, and among them, one in six also face housing insecurity. Listen to this discussion about the nuanced financial barriers to higher education. Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab is a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, and founder of the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the nation’s only translational research laboratory seeking ways to make college more affordable. Dr. Goldrick-Rab shares how her research is helping identify solutions to address college affordability and student retention. Mai Yer Yang is a student at the University of Minnesota and a College Possible program participant. Mai Yer shares her experiences with financial barriers on her college journey, and what she hopes will change. Dr. Timothy Renick is Vice President for Enrollment and Student Success, and Vice Provost at Georgia State University. Under his leadership the university has set records for the percent of underrepresented and Pell-eligible students enrolled, and has increased graduation rates by 11 percent. Dr. Renick shares how Georgia State’s innovative approaches are helping more students make it to graduation day. Kumar Balasubrahmanyan is a program manager at College Possible where he oversees programming serving more than 2,000 students. Kumar served as a College Possible coach for two years before joining the leadership team.

Why should our country value national service, and how can it make a difference in the lives of others? In this episode, College Possible takes a deeper look into the importance of national service and its impact on individuals, specific communities and our country as a whole. Hear from the former CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Wendy Spencer, along with AmeriCorps alumni who have served with College Possible as they explore the history and future of national service.

Part two of a six week series featuring winners of Willamette Week Give!Guide's Skidmore Prize in addition to organizations participating in this year's Give!Guide. This week features Skidmore winner Casey Block of College Possible as well as an interview with Elizabeth Nye of Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest from one of our Nonprofit Hour Live shows.

In November 2016, College Possible students in a variety of areas of their college journey participated in a panel at the Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Award event. In this episode you'll hear personal stories from students, and what it takes to beat the odds. Panel moderated by College Possible Minnesota Executive Director, Sara Dziuk.

Million Dollar Day: July 5th, 2029 Meet Betty Age: 41 Betty's main concerns, in her own words: I'm wondering how badly I'm screwing up my chances of getting financial aid for my 14 year old daughter. I got a very late start to... Read More The post Ep. 56: Betty's retirement plan stability makes college possible for her daugher appeared first on Pete the Planner®.

Million Dollar Day: July 5th, 2029 Meet Betty Age: 41 Betty's main concerns, in her own words: I'm wondering how badly I'm screwing up my chances of getting financial aid for my 14 year old daughter. I got a very late start to... Read More The post Ep. 56: Betty's retirement plan stability makes college possible for her daugher appeared first on Pete the Planner®.