'Beyond High School' College Fair 2008


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2008 "Beyond High School" College Fair
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College Fair Targeting African Immigrant and Refugee Families
  4th Annual 'Beyond High School' College Fair 

When:  Saturday November 22, 2008

Time: 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: Franklin High School, 3013 South Mount Baker Boulevard, Seattle, WA 98144

Contact: 206-925-4800 or  collegefair2008 at cwaaUSA.org

For recruiters: Registration is closed


12:00 - 1:00PM Lunch
 1:00 - 4:00 PM Meet recruiters!
 1:30 - 3:30 PM Information sessions

See the volunteer schedule

Participating institutions - see below
Download flyers
Kirundi

Somali

Swahili F1 F2

Tigrigna

Why this college Fair?

What schools participated last year?

Sample questions to ask recruiters

College Readiness resources

What are your graduation requirements? Find out!
2008 Registered Higher Education Institutions and College Readiness Programs

Higher education institutions                (Register)

  1. Bastyr University (WA) www.bastyr.edu/

  2. Bates Technical College (WA) www.bates.ctc.edu/diversity

  3. Brandeis University (MA) www.brandeis.edu

  4. Central Washington University (WA) www.cwu.edu

  5. Colgate University (NY) www.colgate.edu

  6. Columbia University (NY) www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions

  7. Digipen Institute of Technology (WA) www.digipen.edu

  8. Eastern Washington University (WA) www.ewu.edu

  9. Edmonds Community College (WA) www.edcc.edu

  10. Evergreen State College (WA) www.evergreen.edu

  11. Highline Community College (WA) www.highline.edu

  12. ITT Technical Institute http://www.itt-tech.edu/programs

  13. Lake Washington Tech. College (WA)www.lwtc.edu

  14. Macalester College (MN) www.macalester.edu

  15. MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA) www.mitadmissions.org

  16. Mount Holyoke College (MA) www.mtholyoke.edu

  17. North Seattle Community College (WA) http://www.northseattle.edu/

  18. Princeton University (NJ) www.princeton.edu/main/

  19. Renton Technical College (WA) www.rtc.edu

  20. Seattle Central Community College (WA) www.seattlecentral.edu

  21. Seattle Pacific University (WA) www.spu.edu

  22. Seattle University (WA) www.seattleu.edu

  23. South Seattle Community College (WA) www.southseattle.edu

  24. Trinity Lutheran College (WA) www.tlc.edu

  25. University of the Pacific (CA) www.pacific.edu

  26. University of Pennsylvania (PA) www.upenn.edu

  27. University of Puget Sound (WA) www.ups.edu/

  28. University of Richmond (VA) www.richmond.edu/

  29. University of Washington (WA)

    1. Admissions Office

    2. Dental School

    3. Medical School

  30. Villanova University (PA) www.villanova.edu

  31. Western Washington University (WA) www.wwu.edu

CENSUS 2010

Why is it important to be counted?
So your community can be included in the budget?
Find out more! Stop by table # 43


College readiness programs        (Register)

  1. Center for the Improvement of Student Learning Website

  2. College Bound Scholarship - Higher Education Coordingating Board (HECB)  Website

  3. College Success Foundation Website

  4. Education Access Network Various programs

  5. Lake Washington Tech. College GED, Running Start, Tech Prep, The Academy

  6. NELA www.nela.net

  7. Pacific Science Center Website

  8. Seattle Education Access Website

  9. Seattle Public Library www.spl.org

  10. Seattle Community College SAT prep

Peer Supported College Prep programs
      (College Students mentoring High School Students)
  1. Somali Students Association of University of Washington

  2. University of Washington Dream Project  Website





If you know of other college readiness programs, please let us know or pass on our request for their participation.

We welcome more agencies offering similar programs. Please complete and send the registration form  to collegefair2008 at cwaaUSA.org.   


Public School District Listings in 
King County, Washington

Click on your school district below, find your school and determine your school's graduation requirements.

Auburn School District 408

Bellevue School District 405

Enumclaw School District 216

Highline School District 401

Issaquah School District 411

Kent School District 415

Lake Washington School District 414

Mercer Island School District 400

Renton School District 403

Riverview Special Services

Seattle School District 1

Shoreline School District 412

Skykomish School District 404

Snoqualmie School District 410

Tahoma School District 409

Tukwila School District 406

East African Arts and Cultural Association

Pacific Science Center

School’s Out Washington

Seattle Public Library

Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center

Somali Student Association of the University of Washington

Southern Sudanese Community of Washington

University Preparatory Academy



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About this College Fair

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4th Annual "Beyond High School" College Fair

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Seattle, Washington

What is "Beyond High School" College Fair?

 ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…“Beyond High School" College fair is organized by CWAA and serves to promote means to education beyond high school, by introducing the American college recruitment tradition to members of the African immigrant and refugee communities in King County. CWAA brings the college fair closer to the targeted neighborhood and provide interpreters during the event.

Why the target group?

Due to several realized and unrealized barriers, CWAA suspects that members of African immigrant and refugee community are not as involved in college preparation events, and may feel excluded from the mainstream activities pertaining to higher education preparation. The traditional college fairs held in massive and crowded halls may appear intimidating to many of them. In addition, lack of interpreters and unfamiliar surroundings hardly facilitates an inclusive environment. We therefore believe that families from immigrant and refugee communities may look at college as a more inclusive process and a reachable goal if we bring the college fair into their community. To this effect, CWAA invites college recruiters to come to the community mostly populated by African immigrants and refugees and recruit local graduating seniors by sharing resources about their institutions.

What else can participants benefit from this College Fair?

In addition to providing the graduating seniors with college entrance information, we want to address the key issue of how college preparation should begin as early as fifth grade.  Our theme for the 2nd year in a row is “Early Preparation". We are therefore inviting programs that focus on college preparation activities to participate in this year's college fair. Additionally, we request college recruiters to bring financial aid information and discuss financing options and scholarship programs available in their institutions, options which directly address the target population.

Can middle school children or parents attend?

Yes! Come and learn about early preparation. CWAA encourages the entire family participation. This event provides a wonderful opportunity to open dialogue about higher education among family members, especially in households where one or both parents do not have college education. We hope to interest adults who do not have higher education to consider going to college. Further, the event provides a unique environment where families can feel at ease in asking questions with the certainty that the college representatives are in their community to specifically meet their distinctive needs. Interpreters will be available to facilitate this process.   Top

Contact

Program Coordinator 206-925-4800, collegefair2008 at cwaaUSA.org

Are  you a  College Recruiter?

... and want to receive invitations to our college fair? Please add yourself to CWAA's college recruiters' mailing list, by sending an email to Majordomo at cwaaUSA.org with the following command in the body of your email message:

subscribe college_recruiters

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Somali Students Association
of the
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