IPCN Update

IPCN
Indiana Pathways to College Network
Resources for College Access and Success

New in the IPCN Library:

• A college access contract
• Classroom activities
• Community college directory
• Engaging parents in education: Lessons from five parental information and resource centers
• League for Inovation in the Community College
• Parent involvement: School-initiated family and community partnerships
• Programme for international assessment (PISA): 2006 Results
• The ABCs of nooses and hate symbols
• Tips for parents with high school teens: Countdown to college
• Tips for parents with middle school teens: Countdown to college
• Tolerance.org
• Tools for Latino family outreach: Supporting student success in the middle grades and beyond

More Recently Added Items...

Clicking on the links above will take you to a bibliographic record for the item. In the bibliographic record, click on the Source URL or View Item to display the item.

Next IPCN Event: February 29, 2008

IPCN will host its third professional development colloquium of the academic year on February 29, 2008 at Ivy Tech – Indianapolis. The theme of the half-day professional development workshop is "Indiana Innovations in College Affordability." Agenda, directions, and free registration are available online at http://www.inpathways.net/meetings.htm. CRUs are available at no charge. Box lunches are provided.

USA Funds accepts applications for $3.2 million in scholarships - Awards help low-to-moderate-income students pay for higher education

INDIANAPOLIS - USA Funds*, the nation*s leading education-loan guarantor, announces that it is accepting applications online for a total of $3.2 million in scholarships to assist college students from low-to-moderate-income households.

USA Funds will award more than 2,100 USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships* to qualified students nationwide for the 2008-2009 academic year. The program offers $1,500 scholarships to qualified full-time or half-time undergraduates and to full-time graduate and professional students. Applicants for the scholarships must be enrolled or plan to enroll in coursework at accredited two- or four-year colleges, universities or vocational/technical schools beginning with the fall-2008 term through Feb. 1, 2009.

Due to funding reductions imposed by federal legislation, USA Funds offers these scholarships as one-time awards. If subsequent financial conditions permit, USA Funds will provide renewal awards and will notify scholarship recipients how to apply for renewal awards.

The program assists students from households with annual incomes of $35,000 or less. "In keeping with our nonprofit mission to enhance postsecondary-education preparedness, access and success, these scholarships are designed to help increase the college-going rates of low- to-moderate-income students," said Carl C. Dalstrom, USA Funds president and CEO. "Federal studies show that these students attend college at significantly lower rates than do their higher-income classmates."

The application deadline is Feb. 15, 2008.

For complete eligibility information and to apply online, students should visit www.usafunds.org/scholarship on USA Funds' Web site. A Spanish-language version of the scholarship information and online application is available from www.usafunds.org/beca. Scholarships awarded under this program to residents of Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington state are made possible with the support of College Spark Washington.Headquartered in Indianapolis, USA Funds is a nonprofit corporation that works to enhance postsecondary-education preparedness, access and success by providing and supporting financial and other valued services. During the year ending Sept. 30, 2007, USA Funds guaranteed education loans totaling $25.8 billion for students and parents throughout the nation. USA Funds serves as the designated guarantor of federal education loans in eight states: Arizona, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada and Wyoming. USA Funds also invests $16.3 million annually in scholarships and outreach programs that advance its mission of support to higher education.

For more information about USA Funds, visit www.usafunds.org.

Bob Murray
Vice President
Corporate Communications
USA Funds
Tel: (317) 806-1283
Fax: (317) 806-1203
bmurray@usafunds.org

Indiana University Researchers to Study Effects of Twenty-first Century Scholars Program

A group of Indiana University researchers in the School of Education have received a grant from the Spencer Foundation to study the effects of Indiana's tuition guarantee program for low-income students. For more information, go to http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/6886.html.

FAFSA on the Web

The website for applying online for federal and state financial aid is at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov. Paper copies of the application may be obtained by downloading and printing a PDF file from http://ifap.ed.gov/fafsa/0809FinalFAFSA.html.

Students who apply online are encouraged to use the FAFSA worksheets (as an aid to completing the online application) from http://ifap.ed.gov/fafsa/0809FOTWWksht.html. Helpful information for applying for financial aid is available from LearnMore at http://www.learnmoreindiana.org/college/paying/FinancialAid/Pages/home.aspx.

Indiana Conference on Learning January 31, 2008

The 2008 Indiana Conference on Learning is designed to help schools explore school-wide and classroom strategies for possible inclusion in their Indiana P.L.221 School Improvement Plans. The conference will be opened by Dr. Suellen Reed and will feature three keynote presenters, sixty breakout sessions, and 20 exhibitors. The conference has filled to maximum capacity for the past two years so please be sure to register online early.

Indiana Career Information System

The Indiana University P-16 Center for Research and Collaboration, in partnership with intoCareers, provides a comprehensive career information delivery system for the state of Indiana at http://incis.intocareers.org. This career planning tool provides several career assessments, an online portfolio system, and information about occupations, education and training programs, postsecondary institutions, and more.

New Data Collection Tool Available for Counselors and Education Support Professionals

ESI's Career and Postsecondary Encouragement (CAPE) Network has developed online guidance needs assessments for students in grades 7-12. The assessments enable education professionals to better understand the guidance needs, interests, experiences, and plans of their students. Available nationally at no cost to schools and education support programs, the assessment system provides the student-reported data to drive and assess guidance programming. Schools and education support programs may register online and find instructions for using the assessments at http://www.capenetwork.org.

Related materials:

• http://www.capenetwork.org (data uses for the ASCA model and comprehensive guidance)
• http://www.capenetwork.org/uep_slideshow.pdf (introduction to the Universal Encouragement Program)
• http://www.capenetwork.org/brochure.pdf (printable two-sided three-panel brochure)

Sign up to be an IPCN colleague and receive periodic IPCN updates, resource listings, and announcements at http://www.inpathways.net/colleague.htm.

We would like to thank our funders, Lumina Foundation for Education, Lilly Endowment, and United Student Aid Funds. Support from these organizations enables IPCN to provide professional development and online resources for professionals working to improve college access and success in Indiana.

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Search for Campus Programs which Target Affordability for Low-Income Students

IPCN
Indiana Pathways to College Network

The Indiana Pathways to College Network seeks to identify campus programs that make college more affordable for low-income students. On February 29th, the network will host a college access colloquium that highlights programs that

• Reduce the level of student borrowing
• Reduce time to graduation
• Reduce student costs through use of technology
• Provide work or co-op activities to offset college costs
• Show evidence of increasing the representation of students from the lowest quartile of family incomes

Please forward this message to any contact that you think has an innovation that merits recognition at our event. We are taking nominations through December 20, 2007.

IPCN December Update

IPCN

Indiana Pathways to College Network

December Update

IPCN has compiled a listing of online career development curricula and instructional materials. The listing includes resources for elementary, middle, high school, parent, and adult audiences and is available at http://www.inpathways.net/cdc.pdf.

The next IPCN College Access Colloquium will be February 29^th at Ivy Tech Indianapolis. The focus of the meeting will be innovations in Indiana college affordability. Reserve your participation at http://www.inpathways.net/meetings.htm.

The Educational Policy Institute seeks presentation proposals for its 2008 retention conference (May 28-30 in San Diego). More information is available at http://www.educationalpolicy.org/retention2008.html.

Federal policy guidance has clarified that lenders, schools, and guarantors may collaborate on initiatives such as College Goal Sunday. More information is available at http://www.nasfaa.org/NewsLetters/Daily/2007/lncgs120407.

Ivy Tech’s College for Working Adults provides an accelerated cohort program designed for working adult students. Students enroll in two courses at a time for eight-week terms and attend year-round. In attending four nights per week for three hours, students can earn an associate’s degree in two years. The program is in its pilot year currently and will be available statewide in fall 2008. For more information, go to http://www.ivytech.edu/cfwa/.

Undocumented immigrant college students and the colleges that enroll them are facing an ever more hostile anti-immigrant sentiment, even when no public subsidies are involved. The experience of North Carolina is profiled in this InsideHigherEd.com article.

Newly posted on the IPCN website are the presentations and related resources from the Access to Success conference held in October. Check out these resources at http://www.inpathways.net/101807conference.htm.

Sign up to be an IPCN colleague and receive periodic IPCN updates, resource listings, and announcements at http://www.inpathways.net/colleague.htm.

We would like to thank our funders, Lumina Foundation for Education, Lilly Endowment, and United Student Aid Funds. Support from these organizations enables IPCN to provide professional development and online resources for professionals working to improve college access and success in Indiana.

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Indiana Conference on Learning; Annual Career & College Information

The Indiana Student Achievement Institute announces the:

2008 INDIANA CONFERENCE ON LEARNING

The 2008 Indiana Conference on Learning is designed to help schools explore school-wide and classroom strategies for possible inclusion in their Indiana P.L.221 School Improvement plans. The conference will be opened by Dr. Suellen Reed and will feature three keynote presenters, sixty breakout sessions, and 20 exhibitors. We have filled the conference to maximum capacity for the past two years so please be sure to register online early.

Logistics:
January 31, 2008 / 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Adams Mark Airport Hotel, Indianapolis
Conference Website
Online Registration - $60

General Session Presenters:
-- Willard Daggett, President, International Center for Leadership in Education
-- Yong Zhao, Director, U.S. - China Center for Excellence on Educational Research
-- Robert Compton - Executive Producer, Two Million Minutes

Break Out Sessions featuring Indiana educators:

ALL GRADE LEVELS
-- Accelerating your LEP Students
-- Curriculum Mapping
-- Gold Star School Counseling

ELEMENTARY
-- Open Response Questions
-- Structured Teacher Planning
-- Writing Camp
-- Model Classrooms
-- Academics in Related Arts
-- Gender-Based Instruction
-- Student Success Process
-- Extra Help in the Home
-- Process Writing and Assessment
-- Parents, Teachers, and Schools
-- Positive Behavior Support
-- Six Traits of Writing
-- Engaging Students in Writing
-- NCLB Peer Reviews
-- Early Childhood Transition
-- Extended Learning
-- Teacher Mentoring
-- Science session (TBA)
-- Social studies session (TBA)

MIDDLE LEVEL
-- Using After School Time
-- smartDesktop (All Levels)
-- Differentiated Instruction
-- Texas Instrument Navigator
-- Alternative to Suspension
-- High Expectations: No Excuses
-- Know How 2 Go
-- Student Led Conferences
-- Career - Academic Planner
-- Science session (TBA)
-- Social studies session (TBA)
-- English session (TBA)
-- Math session (TBA)

HIGH SCHOOL SESSIONS
-- KAT 9: At-Risk Freshmen
-- Freshmen Academies in Small Schools
-- Guided Study Hall
-- Community Engagement
-- Core Transfer Library
-- The New ISTEP / GQE
-- Manufacturing Camp
-- Academy of Engineering
-- Educational Support Study Hall
-- AAE Intro (AP, IB, DC) -- Lessons Learned
-- Pre-AP Summer Institute
-- Regional AP, IB, DC Collaboration Days
-- Raising AP Expectations in Gary, Indiana
-- Classroom Assessment Session TBA
-- Math Session TBA
-- English Session TBA


Sue Reynolds, Executive Director
InSAI Student Achievement Institute
931 25th Street, Columbus, IN 47201
Phone: 812-669-0006
Fax: 812-378-4457
Email: reynolds@asainstitute.org
World Wide Web: www.asainstitute.org

The American Student Achievement Institute is a 501c3 non-profit corporation that assists schools with the process of change for the purpose of raising student achievement and closing achievement gaps.

Results of Indiana's Annual Career and College Information Survey Issued this Month

Learn More Indiana and the Indiana Commission for Higher Education have issued the 2006-07 annual State Report of data collected from a total of 57,645 ninth grade students and 45,000 eleventh grade students at 316 high schools statewide. The report offers schools, communities and policy makers information about the career interests, postsecondary aspirations, perceived barriers and college access needs of Indiana students. Information is also collected on the best ways to reach students with college and career information.

Survey data help high schools and communities measure the progress of local career and counseling programs, especially those using Gold Star Guidance Indicators, to which the survey is aligned. In addition to the State Report, school-level data and state averages are available at www.learnmoreindiana.org. These data can assist local efforts to improve school counseling and communication efforts.

Participating in the survey encourages students to think about their plans for education after high school. The survey also provides a way to link students directly with the Indiana colleges and universities they are interested in learning more about.

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IPCN
Indiana Pathways to College Network
Resources for College Access and Success

New in the IPCN Online College Access Library

* An annotated bibliography of Latino educational research

* Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions

* Millennials talk politics: A study of college student political engagement

* Access to success initiative

* Purdue opportunity awards program

* More recent items

Next IPCN Event: November 30, 2007

IPCN will host its second professional development colloquium of the academic year on November 30, 2007 at Ivy Tech in Indianapolis. The half-day professional development workshop will include presentations on Fast Track to College, Double Up for College, the College for Working Adults, remedial and developmental learning opportunities at Ivy Tech Community College, and Department of Corrections initiatives to assist ex-offenders in re-entry. Agenda, directions, and free registration are available online at http://www.inpathways.net/meetings.htm. CRUs are available at no charge.

Indiana Council for Continuing Education Call for Proposals

The ICCE is accepting presentation proposals for its annual professional development conference March 6th and 7th at the Indianapolis Sheraton City Centre. Complete the proposal form at http://www.inpathways.net/icce_08.pdf. For more information, contact Jim McFaul (jmcfaul@indiana.edu).

Core Transfer Library

The Indiana Core Transfer Library lists courses that will transfer among Indiana public colleges and universities. The library is a response to 2005 legislation from the Indiana General Assembly. The listing is part of a larger project to create an online transfer utility and to increase articulation of associate's and bachelor's degrees. See http://www.transferin.org/ctl for more.

Student Engagement Survey Reports Issued this Month

The National Survey of Student Engagement has issued its 2007 annual report of data collected from about 313,000 students at 625 campuses. The report offers that participation in"high impact" learning activities such as collaborative learning, study abroad, research, internships, and capstone projects boosts student learning in many areas. Students with involved parents and who follow the advice of their parents are more likely to be involved with "purposeful learning activities" and are more likely to be satisfied with their college experience, according to the report.

The Community College Survey of Student Engagement report focuses on the difficulties of promoting engagement with students who spend little time on campus, divide their time among work and family obligations, and mostly attend on a part-time basis. Based on five years of responses from 700,000 students at 548 community colleges, the report states that academic advising is important to students. Ninety percent of students rated academic advising as "very important" or "somewhat important." The report also notes that more than one-third of students report not receiving academic advising services, and that a majority of students received no academic advising during the critical first four weeks of their college experience.

Indiana Career Information System

The Indiana University P-16 Center for Research and Collaboration, in partnership with intoCareers, provides a comprehensive career information delivery system for the state of Indiana at http://incis.intocareers.org. This career planning tool provides several career assessments, an online portfolio system, and information about occupations, education and training programs, postsecondary institutions, and more.

New Data Collection Tool Available for Counselors and Education Support Professionals

ESI's Career and Postsecondary Encouragement (CAPE) Network has developed online guidance needs assessments for students in grades 7-12. The assessments enable education professionals to better understand the guidance needs, interests, experiences, and plans of their students. Available nationally at no cost to schools and education support programs, the assessment system provides the student-reported data to drive and assess guidance programming. Schools and education support programs may register online and find instructions for using the assessments at http://www.capenetwork.org. Related materials:

• http://www.capenetwork.org (data uses for the ASCA model and comprehensive guidance)
• http://www.capenetwork.org/uep_slideshow.pdf (introduction to the Universal Encouragement Program)
• http://www.capenetwork.org/brochure.pdf (printable two-sided three-panel brochure)

Annual IPCN College Access Report Now Available

Order your free copy of the 2007 College Access in Indiana and the United States, IPCN's annual study of college access issues. This year's report focuses on adults in postsecondary education. To order, send a request by email to meegan@esi.cc or call 877.321.4726. The report is also available online at http://www.inpathways.net/2007report.pdf.


Student to Counselor Ratios

The Indiana Pathways to College Network has taken data on student-to-counselor ratios reported by the American Counseling Association in the current issue of Counseling Today and has posted these data on the IPCN website.

Over the six years for which these data have been reported, the trend in Indiana is for school counselors to have increasing caseloads. When looking at secondary schools, the Indiana student-to-counselor ratio is somewhat better than the national average. However, due to Indiana's relatively small numbers of elementary counselors, the overall average of students to counselors is much higher than the national average.

School counselors are an important influence on college-going. Student chances for college are diminished as counselor caseloads grow.

See http://www.inpathways.net/counselor_ratios_2006.htm.

P.S. Don't forget to register for the November 30th IPCN College Access Colloquium. The agenda features presentations on Double Up for College, Fast Track to College, the College for Working Adults, remedial and developmental education, and re-entry programs for ex-offenders. Free online registration is at http://www.inpathways.net/meetings.htm.

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Purdue Opportunity Awards Program

Purdue Opportunity Awards (POA) scholarship and support program is starting to recruit for our 2008 first-year college students - our newest group of POA scholars! Designed to provide not just scholarship money, the program goes the extra mile by providing the personal and academic support that students need to succeed at
(POA) are granted to students who otherwise might not be able to consider
as an option due to high financial need. There is at least one award for each of
Indiana's 92 counties.

We have simplified the
nomination process for 2008-09.

Nominating a student involves a simple 2 step process:

1. Encourage students to APPLY for admission to
AND complete the Preliminary Financial Aid Estimate (PFAE is the last part of the admissions application)

BEFORE December 1, 2007. Visit our website for an online Undergraduate Admissions application: www.purdue.edu/futureboilermaker/applying/download_app.shtml

2. Nominators can also forward the following to poa@purdue.edu
1. Full name (first, middle and last) of prospective POA scholars
2. Name of High School (including nominator's name)
3. Mailing contact info for an address that is most "permanent" or viable for the student. High school address is OK.


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IPCN
Indiana Pathways to College Network

College Access Colloquium

Ivy Tech Community College – Indianapolis, Fourth Floor Auditorium
One West 26th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46208
November 30, 2007
10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Agenda

9:30 - 10:00 Continental Breakfast and Registration
10:00 - 10:10 Welcome and Overview of the Day
10:10- 10:25 Ivy Tech Welcome - Tom Snyder, President, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana

10:25 - 10:40 The College for Working Adults - Kimberly Stephan, Director of College for Working Adults, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
10:40-10:50 Questions & Answers
10:50-11:05 Remedial and Developmental Education at Ivy Tech - Roderick Brown, Director of Remediation and Basic Skill Development, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana

11:05 - 11:15 Questions & Answers

11:15 - 11:30 Networking

11:30 - 12:00 Double Up for College and Fast Track to College - Rod Rich, Executive Director of K-12 Initiatives, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
12:00 - 12:10 Questions & Answers
12:10 - 1:00 Networking and Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 Indiana Department of Corrections Re-entry Programs for Ex-offenders - David Burch, Director, Re-entry, and Mike Lloyd, Superintendent

1:30 - 1:45 Questions and Answers

1:45 Networking/Adjournment

Free online registration is at http://www.inpathways.net/rsvp.htm.

Driving directions and more are at http://www.inpathways.net/meetings.htm.

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Race-Based Aid, After a Statewide Ban

URL: Race-Based Aid, After a Statewide Ban

Inside Higher Ed. reports on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a proposal passed last November which prohibits “state and local government from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the areas of public employment, public contracting and public education.” In response to this, The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, a group which is separate from the university system indicated it would begin offering scholarships that would factor race and gender into the selection process. The author discusses the initiative as well as potential legal implications in the remainder of the article.

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IPCN

Indiana Pathways to College Network

Update

November 2007

New in the IPCN Online College Access Library

• Indiana higher education opportunity data book 2007
• Camino de la universidad: The road to college
• Keeping kids in school: What research says about preventing dropouts
• A review of the literature: Resiliency skills and dropout prevention
• Afterschool programs as an oasis of hope for black parents in four cities

More Recently Added Items...

Conference Presentations Posted on the Web

“Challenges for Educational Opportunity in Indiana” by Tom Mortenson and “Lessons in College Access Program Delivery: Findings from the McCabe Funds” by Margaret Terry Orr are now available at http://www.inpathways.net/101807conference.htm. In addition, there are related materials and brief summaries of the presentations.

DREAM Act Fails in Senate

The DREAM Act would provide increased educational opportunity to children of undocumented residents of the U.S. and create pathways to citizenship for some students. Last week, facing opposition from the Bush administration and the divided politics of immigration, the legislation failed. Prospects for passage are dim. At a College Board Meeting in New York last Friday, educators considered their post-DREAM strategies.

Camino de la Universidad

Lumina Foundation for Education has compiled research on Latino postsecondary participation, which, despite rapid growth, continues to lag behind other groups.

New Data Collection Tool Available for Counselors and Education Support Professionals

The Career and Postsecondary Encouragement (CAPE) Network has developed online guidance needs assessments for students in grades 7-12. The assessments enable education professionals to better understand the guidance needs, interests, experiences, and plans of their students. Available nationally at no cost to schools and education support programs, the assessment system provides the data to drive and assess guidance programming. Schools and education support programs may register online and find instructions for using the assessments at http://www.capenetwork.org/. Visit the IPCN display at the Indiana School Counselor Association annual conference on November 2nd and 3rd to learn more about this important tool for advancing college access and success.

Annual IPCN College Access Report Now Available

Order your free copy of the 2007 College Access in Indiana and the United States, IPCN’s annual study of college access issues. This year’s report focuses on adults in postsecondary education. To order, send a request by email to mailto:meegan@esi.cc?body=Please%20send%20a%20copy%20of%20the%202007%20college%20access%20report%20to%20the%20following%20address:&subject=2007%20College%20Access%20Report or call 877.321.4726. The report is also available online at http://www.inpathways.net/2007report.pdf.

Next IPCN Event

IPCN will host its second professional development colloquium of the academic year on November 30, 2007 at Ivy Tech – Indianapolis. The half-day seminar will include presentations on Fast Track to College, Double Up for College, the College for Working Adults, and remedial and developmental learning opportunities at Ivy Tech Community College. Agenda, directions, and free registration are available online at http://www.inpathways.net/meetings.htm. CRUs are available at no charge.

IPCN Update

IPCN

Indiana Pathways to College Network

Update

Register Now for IPCN's Annual Access to Success Conference - October 18th at Valle Vista Conference Center in Greenwood
Headlining the event are Tom Mortenson, Senior Fellow of the Pell Institute and editor and publisher of Postsecondary Education Opportunity, and Margaret Terry Orr, author of the just published study of what works in improving access and success, Boosters, brokers, and bridges: Real world ideas for college access programs. There will be ten breakout sessions on a variety of topics, exhibits from state and national college access programs, and an opportunity to network with colleagues from many professional backgrounds.

Registration, hotel information, driving directions, and the conference agenda are online at http://www.inpathways.net/conf07.htm.

Colloquium Presentations Available on the Web
The three sessions from our recent college access colloquium are now posted in Pathnotes, IPCN'’s online archive of presentations. Volume 21 includes a panel presentation on campus-based support programs for Twenty-first Century Scholars, an introduction to the Indiana University Center for P-16 Research and Collaboration, and an address by Martha Lamkin, President of the Lumina Foundation for Education. View online at http://www.inpathways.net/vol21.htm.

Indiana Council for Continuing Education Professional Development Conference Call for Presentations
The annual ICCE conference will be March 6-7, 2008 in Indianapolis. Go to http://www.inpathways.net/icce08.pdf for details.

New in the IPCN College Access Library

• A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
• Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
• freshmantransition.org
• Jobs for America's Graduates (jag.org)
• Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
• Standardization vs. Flexibility: State policy options on placement testing for developmental education in community colleges
• More Recently Added Items...

Crime Reduction through Increasing Educational Attainment

Education and Safety highlights research regarding educational attainment in relation to crime and safety. The report asserts that a one-year increase in the average years of schooling completed leads to a 30 percent decrease in violent crime, and that a 5 percent increase in the male high school graduation rate would lead to approximately $5 billion in annual savings related to crime expenses

http://www.justicepolicy.org/content.php?hmID=1811&smID=1581&ssmID=61

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IPCN Update

IPCN

Indiana Pathways to College Network

Update

Next IPCN Events
September 14th college access colloquium --– registration, agenda, and information at http://www.inpathways.net/meetings.htm; October 18thAccess to Success conference – registration, agenda, and information at http://www.inpathways.net/conf07.htm.

Universal Encouragement Program Data Collection System
Schools and education support programs can easily document the career and academic guidance needs, interests, and experiences of their 7th-12th-grade students through use of this online system from Encouragement Services, Inc. The system is available at no cost to schools and education support programs for the 2007-08 year. More information is available at http://www.capenetwork.org.

Indiana Academy Opportunity
The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, a residential high school for gifted and talented juniors and seniors from the state of Indiana, is now taking applications for the Class of 2010. Any high school gifted/talented sophomore seeking a challenging educational environment is welcome to apply. The application is available on-line at www.bsu.edu/academy/admissions/. Preview and SAT Days scheduled for the following dates:

Saturday, October 20, 2007 (SAT Day only)
Monday, October 29, 2007 (Preview and SAT Day)
Monday, November 26, 2007 (Preview and SAT Day)

More information is at (800) 316-3163 x 11.

From What Kids Can Do: Mentors that Matter http://whatkidscando.org Who are the significant adults in the lives of teenagers, beyond the home and classroom? How do they reach out to youth, and why? In the first six months of 2007, youth across the nation gave their answers, as they interviewed, photographed, and publicly honored "“Mentors That Matter"” in four cities (Chicago, Providence, San Francisco, and Tampa). They nominated people from all walks of life--—artists, coaches, public officials, even a school bus driver and a hair stylist--—who show that they care about "“other people'’s children."” Great Source for Software Schools, libraries, and nonprofits can purchase greatly discounted software from TechSoup at www.techsoup.org. This organization solicits donations from manufacturers and distributes the donated products to eligible purchasers for a fraction of the retail cost. School Reform Resources in IPCN Library This section of our library is an area of recent growth. Materials pertaining to school reform and school improvement efforts may be found here. Indiana Dollars for Scholars Sponsor of "“ScholarShop"” Resource for College Planning Through grant funding from Lumina Foundation for Education, Indiana Dollars for Scholars is subsidizing a limited number of installations of ScholarShop, a comprehensive college and career planning curriculum and multimedia resource center for students in grades 4-12. Schools and programs that serve substantial numbers of low-income students and students who are first in their families to pursue postsecondary education are encouraged to apply for a grant that covers the entire cost of purchase of the system. Apply by contacting Don Setterlof at Indiana Dollars for Scholars, email: dsetterlof@scholarshipamerica.org or phone: 866.877.1172.

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