Director, Editorial and Education Policy, at Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
College and career counseling is particularly important for low-income students because they usually attend schools with the fewest resources and they tend to come from families and backgrounds in which few people have gone to college and can act as mentors. An additional resource: please click through this post for the @GeorgetownCEW report about which colleges give the highest ROI to low-income students.
“Choosing a college is full of anxiety and sometimes results in bad decisions. We need a comprehensive career counseling system to help potential students determine whether a college program is worth the investment,” said Martin Vanderwerf, CEW director of editorial and education policy. Read more: https://bit.ly/3yA0Idk
So true. Working on the high school side, the lack of robust counseling that has adjusted to the issues students face today is somewhat disheartening, and explained how students I worked with on the higher education side despite meeting the standards to get into college were ill prepared to make important choices.
Independent Writer, Editor and Advisor
4moI totally agree. I have been mentoring refugees in the U.S. and they face the same problem as many low-income Americans -- not understanding U.S. higher education and trying to weigh the value of a degree vs. other career options.