College Counseling for Admissions Professionals
Improving Access and Retention

College Counseling for Admissions Professionals is a much-needed resource to guide college admissions professionals in helping students navigate the college choice process. This research-based book prepares college admissions professionals to not only be marketers of their institution, but also disseminators of knowledge about the college choice process. Arguing that the most effective retention tool for an institution is to provide prospective students with the best possible information to choose the right institution, College Counseling for Admissions Professionals provides the full set of tools that every college admission professional needs today to ensure students applying to their institutions are making informed choices and will more likely achieve success while in college.

Coverage Includes:

• The role of college access professionals?including school counselors, pre-college outreach providers, and independent consultants?and how to effectively work with these groups
• The shifts in financial aid at the federal, state, and institutional levels and the implications of these trends for students? and families? ability and willingness to pay for college
• The abundance of college access tools on the Internet and those that are most useful for students and families

This volume empowers admissions counselors with the knowledge, insights, best practices, and resources to understand their role more broadly in order to better serve the needs of students, providing a solid foundation upon which to build their professional admissions career.

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding the Role of Admissions Professionals in the Context of College Access

Chapter 2: Understanding the Basic Structure of P16 education in the US

Chapter 3: Understanding the Roles of Admissions and College Access Professionals

Chapter 4: Academic Preparation

Chapter 5: Paying for College

Chapter 6: Connecting Students and Parents to the Right Information

Chapter 7: Pre-College Outreach Programs and Strategies

Chapter 8: The New Frontier of Web-based College Access Strategies

Chapter 9: Planning for College Success

Chapter 10: Empowering Admissions Professionals as College Access Advocates

Nathan J. Daun-Barnett is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration in the Educational Leadership and Policy Program at the University at Buffalo, USA.

Carl W. Behrend is a retired school counselor, former chair of the guidance department at Orchard Park High School and founder of Behrend Consulting in Buffalo, New York, USA.

Cory M. Bezek is Assistant Director of Admissions at the State University of New York at Fredonia, USA.