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Report: How Much is Safe? Rethinking Advising on Student Loans
Looking at the history of student loans & experiences of counselors today, this report offers new guidance & resources for talking to young people about educational debt.
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Report: Scrolling Towards The Future
This youth-led research report documents how social media is shaping young people’s postsecondary plans and provides tools for educators.
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Report: Is College Worth It – For Me?
Guided by our Youth Research Council, this report shares what first-gen and low-income New Yorkers think about the value of college, in contrast to the media and policymakers’ narratives.
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Article: Credible Messengers and Cultural Guides: How Near-Peers Expand Access
This research study documents the skills & experiences near-peers use when advising students through postsecondary decisions.
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Blog: A Unified Framework for High Quality College and Career Advising
Written by CARA co-executive director Janice Bloom and Mandy Savitz-Romer, Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Senior Lecturer in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this blog describes the need for a shared understanding what comprises high quality postsecondary advising and presents a new High Quality Advising Framework that educators and policy makers can use. Read the blog here – published by the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) See the framework here
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Report: Reimagining the Summer after High School through Career-Connected Learning
This report introduces Summer CCI, an innovative program designed to leverage an often overlooked critical time in students’ development: the summer between high school and college.
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Report: Unlocking the Power of Peers
The report outlines five key practices for colleges looking to launch or grow their own peer-to-peer programs.
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Blog: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All
This blog post summarizes different leaks in the transfer pipeline and CARA’s work to address them with several CUNY campuses, highlighting the importance of fitting best practices to specific contexts. Written by CARA staff and published on InsideHigherEd.com (Dec 2024) Read the blog post Read the PDF
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Blog Series: Rethinking How High Schools Support Postsecondary Pathways
This blog series, published by (NCAN), summarizes the findings from our Organizing for Access report and describes how educators can put its findings into practice.