NASFAA Wants to Know about Members' Early Awareness Efforts

The Student Access and Diversity Committee would like to gather information on the college early awareness presentations that members provide during the 2006-07 academic year. Please click here to submit an Early Awareness Presentation Report for early awareness efforts you have participated in.

Earlier this year, the committee challenged NASFAA members to reach out to the local community and make an early awareness presentation at an elementary or middle school. NASFAA hopes to track these efforts through Early Awareness Presentation Reports completed by members.

The committee developed an early awareness presentation and handout members can use increase early awareness among middle school students and to help these students start planning for college. The presentation "Education After High School: Do YOU Want to Go to College?" is available in Portable Document Format (PDF) (182 KB) and in Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) (263 KB). The "Preparing for College Checklist" that is included in the presentation is also available as a separate handout in PDF format (69 KB) that members are encouraged to download and photocopy for distribution. The URLs for links are included in both versions, but the links are live in the PDF presentation but not in the PowerPoint presentation.

• Education After High School in PDF Format
  
• Education After High School in PPT Format
  
• Preparing for College Checklist in PDF Format
  

The following guidelines will get you started on planning your first early awareness outreach presentation. For more information and resources, see NASFAA's ABCs of Early Awareness pages and 2006-2007 NASFAA Financial Aid Night and Counselor's Materials.

Before Your Outreach Presentation

• Contact local agencies that work with your target audience to invite students and families

  1. GEAR UP
  2. TRIO
  3. Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
  

• Arrange the facility and equipment
  
• Develop a presentation (or download one of ours to use)
  
• Order forms and materials you will want to provide
  
• Create a brief evaluation and feedback form

During Your Presentation

• Set up registration table with materials and any forms you plan to use
  
• Share the presentation with your audience
  
• Leave contact information for future questions
  
• Ask audience to complete and return to you any evaluation or feedback forms
  
• Have fun!

After Your Presentation

• Submit NASFAA's online Early Awareness Presentation Report to add your presentation to the running national tally
  
• Encourage a colleague to participate
  
• Get out and do it again!

Helpful Links

• http://www.collegeaccessmarketing.org
• http://www.educationplanner.org
• http://www.mapping-your-future.org/paying
  
• http://www.pathwaystocollege.net
  
• http://www.NASFAA.org/savings.html
  
• http://www.tgslc.org/pdf/Spanish_glossary.pdf

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