Webinar Recordings
MCAN webinars are archived for one year. The listing below is in order as the webinars were presented.
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Going Merry: A one-stop shop for scholarships – how to add your local scholarships!
Going Merry makes it easy for students to find and apply to scholarships hosted by colleges and independent providers. In this webinar, you’ll see how to add your local scholarships, so your students have one place for both their local and national scholarships! They’ll also show you how they make this process simple for you and your local scholarship providers. This is the second webinar in a two-part series. The first, hosted on Nov. 6, is an introduction to the Going Merry student and counselor portals. For more information about Going Merry, you can watch this ABC News Profile.
Recorded: November 20, 2019
Presenters: Charlie Maynard, CEO, Jacob Choi, COO, and Byron Williams, academic advisor-Harbor Beach High School
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Exploring Michigan's Undocumented Student Guide to College
Over the summer, the Undocumented Student Guide to College in Michigan was updated and published. This webinar will walk through the 28-page guide to review the content and how to use the guide in helping support undocumented students. Come and learn about how this tool can be a resource to you in your work.
Recorded: November 21, 2019
Presenters: Adriana Almanza, Assistant Director-Office of Multicultural Affairs, Grand Valley State University, Joselin Cisneros, Research Assistant-National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, University of Michigan, Nicolaus Espitia, Research Associate, National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, University of Michigan, Samantha Magdaleno, Executive Director-One Michigan for the Global Majority, Rebeca Ontiveros-Chavez, Staff Attorney-Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
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Preparing for the 2020-21 FAFSA®: Updates and Guidance from Federal Student Aid
Recorded: November 19, 2019
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Understand the SCOIR
Higher education is the gateway to expanded opportunities for advancement, yet far too many high school students fail to realize those opportunities. We set out to fix a flawed college admissions process. Join Gerry McCrory, Founder and CEO of SCOIR as we take a look at how simple SCOIR makes the college search, and admission process.
Recorded: November 7, 2019
Presenter: Gerry McCrory, CEO and Founder, SCOIR
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Going Merry: A one-stop shop for scholarships – how it works!
Going Merry makes it easy for students to find and apply to scholarships hosted by colleges and independent providers.
It’s used by thousands of providers and over 10,000 high schools across the US (including 430 in Michigan). They launched in 2018, having started as a graduate research project at Stanford University, with a mission to give every student equal access to life-changing education through scholarships.
There are four main differences between Going Merry and other scholarship sites:
1.It’s free for students and does not sell student data. That’s possible as Going Merry charges scholarship providers to use its software to manage their applications.
2.Students can apply directly to all the scholarships they are matched with. They are not redirected constantly like on Fastweb.
3.Schools can add local scholarships onto Going Merry for free, even pen and paper ones. This means students have a one-stop shop for their local and national scholarships.
4.Counselors can use Going Merry to track their students' scholarship activity, including how many scholarships they have been matched with and how many applications they have made.
This is the first webinar of a two-part series. The second webinar, hosted on 11/20, will show you how to add your local scholarships to Going Merry, so that your students have one place for both their local and national scholarships.
For more information, you can watch this ABC News Profile: https://abc7news.com/3733022/
The Common App: Reaching Higher for Higher Education
Join Meredith Lombardi from the Common App as we take a deeper dive into the most common application. We will dispel myths surrounding the common app, discuss ways to maneuver through it, and talk about the data that it emphasizes!
Date: October 30, 2019
Presenter: Meredith Lombardi, Associate Director, Outreach and Education
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Access in Action: Using Dual Enrollment Programs to Increase College Opportunities and Persistence
Dual enrollment programs that allow high school students to earn college credit have been growing in popularity in the last few decades. Among its many benefits, dual enrollment can expand college access to traditionally underserved and underrepresented high school student populations. It is also a means to aid students in college completion. Research has demonstrated that dual enrolled students may need less remediation and they have higher degrees of persistence and completion than their non-dual enrolled peers. This webinar will discuss how dual enrollment programs are able to expand access to diverse student populations, their effect on student persistence towards a college credential, and best practices and models for developing dual enrollment opportunities for students.
Learning Objectives
- · Attendees will learn how dual enrollment programs expand college access to all populations of students, including those which are traditional underserved and underrepresented
- · Attendees will learn how dual enrollment programs affect students’ persistence towards a college credential and degree completion
- · Attendees will learn about best practices and models for developing dual enrollment partnerships between K-12 and higher education institutions
Date: October 17, 2019
Presenters: Dr. DeeDee Stakley, Director of the Office of Transfer and Secondary School Partnerships, Ferris State University Leah Melichar, FerrisNow Outreach Coordinator, Ferris State University
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Unlocking You: How to use YouScience to Create Better Student Outcomes
Young adults need help finding their right path. Whether they think they know what they want to do, or are unsure, choosing a career or college can be intimidating. Our “brain games” use cutting edge technology to gather real measures of aptitudes and interests. After seeing their talents explained in a meaningful way, students have an inspired confidence toward selecting a college, staying in school, and attaining their best-fit career. Join us as we take a deeper look into how counselors can utilize YouScience software to work with students across grade levels to prepare them for postsecondary success.
Recorded September 24, 2019
Presenter: Amy Bradley, YouScience
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Prepare Your Students for the SAT through the Career Cruising Platform: An Integrated Solution
Webinar Series Recordings
From Foster Care to College: Rough Patches and Resources for Foster Youth
Description: Join MCAN Board Secretary, Maddy Day and MCAN Strategy Assistant for High School Innovation, Tony Parsons as they discuss the current state of the foster care system in the U.S. and Michigan. They will discuss the barriers that foster youth face as they strive towards a postsecondary education as well as the legislation, programs, and best practices that are being put in place to mitigate these factors.
SAT/ACT Test Prep Program through Career Cruising/Xello
This webinar will provide an overview of Method Test Prep, an SAT/ACT prep program that can be accessed directly or through the Career Cruising/Xello platform. The program gives students a checklist of 15 minutes tasks to complete and students who use the program increase their SAT scores an average of 150 points and their ACT scores an average of 3 points.
Counselor Tools for Helping Students Understand Financial Aid
Affordability is key for many students and families when choosing colleges. Learn specific ways to help them approach the issue, including how to interpret, share, and translate information from tools like financial aid award letters, the College Scorecard, and net price calculators, and how to help them navigate the financial aid application process, even if they are selected for verification. Hear more about the recent implementation of early FAFSA/prior-prior year and related opportunities and considerations.
The Financial Side of Access and Persistence: Best Practices for Ensuring Student College Financial Success
With longitudinal student outcomes, affordability, and college financial insecurity becoming only larger concerns for low-income students, the financial implications of college persistence must become a larger point of focus in access and success conversations. Edquity is a new technology platform that supports students around college financial matching, planning, FAFSA completion, financial aid award evaluation and interpretation, and college financial management. Edquity supports students and More...
AdviseMI Interested Applicants Webinar
Listen to this webinar to learn more about the AdviseMI program and the application process.
Supporting Rural Students Through the College Admissions Process
Students from rural communities face unique obstacles and need unique supports in pursuing higher education. Colleges, who are increasingly seeking to recruit more students from rural communities, also face unique challenges in connecting with and recruiting these students. In this webinar, Andrew Moe from Swarthmore College and Megan Taylor from the University of Michigan will cover share their expertise and cover important related topics:
- Unique challenges and strengths of rural students in the college search and admissions process
- Challenges colleges have in recruiting rural students
- Importance of this topic in relation to the national conversation on college access
- Ideas and practices for counselors (school and CBO) to better support their rural students
- Ideas and practices to help colleges more effectively recruit in rural communities
Uplevel your School-wide College and Career Counseling with Get Focused...Stay Focused!®
SAT/ACT Test Prep Program through Career Cruising/Xello
This webinar will provide an overview of Method Test Prep, an SAT/ACT prep program that can be accessed directly or through the Career Cruising/Xello platform. The program gives students a checklist of 15 minutes tasks to complete and students who use the program increase their SAT scores an average of 150 points and their ACT scores an average of 3 points.
Helping Students "GO BLUE!": Community College outreach at the University of Michigan School of Information
You may have heard the phrase, "You can Go Blue!". For Community College, underrepresented/non-traditional students and their advisors, the reply most often heard in response is: "Ok, but which way do I go?". The School of Information is helping Community College students answer this question by removing barriers to access and more.
This webinar will highlight:
- How the Community College Summer Institute (CCSI), opens a doorway for Community College students to the University of Michigan
- How the School of Information is connecting outreach initiatives with admissions practices and procedures and financial aid resources
- How School of Information is simplifying the credit transfer process and providing support for admitted transfer students.
Teach Bold. Respond Bold. Live Bold.
Do you want to learn how to Teach bold, Respond Bold, and Live Bold in your career and/or personal life? Yes! educators and our students are overwhelmed and sometime frustrated with the academic expectations, but learning to act in boldness, builds a capacity to have strength!
The strength that allow us to never give into our fears and failures. The strength to teach with confidence. A confidence that allow us to face teaching and learning with boldness, openness and honesty. Join me in this webinar to learn more about how to build, reach and teach our students through boldness.
First, learn how to change behavior and reach a meaningful goal with action steps to help overcome challenges. Finally, learn three simple steps that will create a vision and purpose to build, reach and teach your life and others.
A bold educator will:
- Increase student academic achievement and engagement
- Decrease student discipline challenges
- Educate with confidence
- Gain parent support and build community
Planning for College and Scholarships
Scholarships are playing an increasing important role in paying for college. This webinar will highlight:
- The value scholarships have in a student’s plan to pay for college;
- The types of scholarships available and resources for finding them; and
- Best practices and tips to share with your students on researching and applying for scholarships.
Streamline the FAFSA with Frank, apply with your students & families in 5 minutes!
Frank’s online platform streamlines and simplifies the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process, enabling millions of students to access billions in free federal aid. Frank encourages financial responsibility and upward mobility, providing access to affordable quality education. Frank has already helped over 125,000 families gain access to over $3.75B in financial aid, and continues to drive a fundamental shift in college access across the nation. Frank is completely free to use and will never share or sell any of its data, promising confidentiality and safety.
In this session you will learn about: how Frank works, how to use Frank, Aid negotiation, and How we assist college counselors.
Financial Literacy with Wells Fargo
Join Wells Fargo as they teach about hands on banking, and other financial literacy tools. Learn about planning resources are available to the school counselors and teachers to use in schools.
The Tao of Peer Leadership: How to build college counseling capacity by leveraging the power of peer influences
Join Wells Fargo as they teach about hands on banking, and other financial literacy tools. Learn about planning resources are available to the school counselors and teachers to use in schools.
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2016-17 Webinar Series Recordings
A Tale of Two Districts: Increasing College Access with AVID
College Board: Score Week for School Counselors
This session, led by College Board's Midwestern Regional Office Executive Director, Ted Gardella, discusses the Student Score Portal, Educator Score Portal for Counselors, roster reports, matching students scores, AP potential reports, Khan Academy linking, fee waivers for seniors, and score sends for Spring Assessment.
Understanding the Needs of Student Veterans in the Classroom Webinar
The Consortium of Michigan Veterans Educators (CMVE) is hosting a free webinar presented by the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency (MVAA) entitled “Understanding the Needs of Student Veterans in the Classroom and Academic Environments.” See the handout (pdf) for more details.
2015-16 Webinar Series Recordings
Choosing the Right College with the College Scorecard
Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) and Florida College Access Network (Florida CAN) present a webinar on the redesigned College Scorecard, a database which provides free, transparent and nationally comparable data on thousands of colleges and career schools in the United States on student outcomes such as graduation rates, student debt and post-college earnings. This webinar includes a presentation from Michael Itzkowitz, Director of the College Scorecard at the U.S. Department of Education, who will discuss ways to use this helpful resource as well as answer questions from those attending the webinar.
Recorded:Tuesday, April 12, 2016
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MiSSG Portal Overview
Student Scholarships and Grants (SSG), within the Michigan Department of Treasury – Student Financial Services Bureau, has recently created a Web portal, MiSSG, for Michigan high schools. The Web portal allows authorized users to view Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completions data, ACT records, and soon Tuition Incentive Program (TIP) eligibility. During this webinar, SSG will discuss the process to access MiSSG and demonstrate the application.
Recorded: April 14, 2016
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Children's Savings Accounts
Viewers of this webinar discusses Children's Savings Account (CSA) platforms and their potential long-term benefits for promoting academic achievement and college completion. The webinar addresses the CSA model and provides a summary of resources and research on the impact of CSAs.
Recorded: Tuesday, March 22, 2016
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Award Letters: Introduction to Analysis
This training shows practitioners the power of understanding and analyzing award letters, and provides the tools and knowledge to do this better with students and families. The webinar reviews award letter components, formats, and differences. This webinar is presented by National College Access Network member, uAspire.
Recorded: Monday, March 14, 2016
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College Match and Fit
Patrick Cooney, College Success Manager with Michigan Future Schools, discusses the philosophy of college match/fit and the approach and tools utilized by Michigan Future Schools Counselors.
Recorded: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
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Introduction to AdviseMI - 2016 RFP Release
In the fall of 2015, MCAN began the AdviseMI program and placed 40 well-trained recent college graduates as dedicated college advisers in high schools across the state. Advisers serve alongside existing school counselors as trained resources, mentors, and champions for higher education. This webinar provides an overview of the ins and outs of college advisers, who they are, and their role in the high schools. In addition, it addresses the RFP process for AdviseMI for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Recorded: Thursday, February 18, 2016
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MiSchoolData Live Demo and Q&A
Back by popular demand, this webinar features staff from CEPI, who work hard to power MiSchoolData, leading a follow-up webinar with a Live Demo of the MiSchoolData system and features.
Recorded: January 26, 2016
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Overview of MiSchoolData
This webinar discusses the updates that have come over the past year to MiSchoolData. The webinar provides an overview of the postsecondary data reports through MiSchoolData, aggregate and individual student reporting, as well as log-in functionality. This webinar is perfect for schools/communities who have been utilizing National Student Clearinghouse StudentTracker and are interested in learning more about how MiSchoolData could play a similar role at no cost.
Recorded: January 12, 2016
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Who Are College Advisers and What is their Role
The College Advising strategy in Michigan has been in place since 2010. The work began as a pilot program, a partnership between the College Advising Corps, the University of Michigan, and the Michigan College Access Network. Since 2010, the number of advisers across the state has grown significantly with over 90 advisers serving in more than 100 high schools across the state. As the number of advisers has grown, questions have surfaced from school counselors who are often not currently working with an adviser but have heard of the various programs across the state. You will hear from the Michigan College Access Network Executive Director and the AdviseMI Co-Directors on the ins and outs of college advisers, who they are, and their role in high schools across the state.
Recorded: December 8, 2015
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