2008 Woodie Awards
Conselor Workshop
By Jake Rezac
9/24/07 - News
The Colorado Council on Higher Education Counselor Workshop occurs six times every year at six different Colorado universities. On Thursday, September 20th, the CSM Admissions Office hosted approximately 260 high school college councilors and college admissions representatives for this event. The Colorado Council on Higher Education (CCHE), which includes all Colorado public and private four-year schools, as well as community colleges and other two-year institutions, puts on these events every year as a collaborative effort to help improve relations between high school and college admissions counselors.
The event began at 7:30 AM and lasted until 3:00 PM. It included a welcome address from Director of Admissions Bruce Goetz and President Dr. Bill Scoggins. Other key events in the day included updates on the CCHE colleges, a college fair, and information sessions on a broad range of topics relating to college admissions and counseling.
These information sessions were meant to appeal to both college admissions representatives and high school councilors and included important information which could be handed down to college-seeking high school students, as well as helping admission representatives better understand the students whose applications they receive.
One of the sessions, said CSM Assistant Director for Admissions Sarah Andrews, provided a "chance for high school counselors to voice concerns about students transitioning to college" to Colorado Governor Ritter's P-20 Education Coordination Council. Another, called Usable Resource Information, was designed specifically for new counselors or college admissions staff, and included information on resources available for them as well as including introductions to topics that they would be regularly dealing with, such as financial aid.
Andrews said the workshop was a good opportunity to bring people to campus - they were exposed to the new Student Recreation Center and the new Humanitarian Engineering Minor. Attendees were "impressed with Mines, and Mines represented itself well," she said. However, she also stressed that the event was primarily an opportunity for college and high school councilors to meet with each other and for the councilors to find out about advancements at all the CCHE colleges.
The event began at 7:30 AM and lasted until 3:00 PM. It included a welcome address from Director of Admissions Bruce Goetz and President Dr. Bill Scoggins. Other key events in the day included updates on the CCHE colleges, a college fair, and information sessions on a broad range of topics relating to college admissions and counseling.
These information sessions were meant to appeal to both college admissions representatives and high school councilors and included important information which could be handed down to college-seeking high school students, as well as helping admission representatives better understand the students whose applications they receive.
One of the sessions, said CSM Assistant Director for Admissions Sarah Andrews, provided a "chance for high school counselors to voice concerns about students transitioning to college" to Colorado Governor Ritter's P-20 Education Coordination Council. Another, called Usable Resource Information, was designed specifically for new counselors or college admissions staff, and included information on resources available for them as well as including introductions to topics that they would be regularly dealing with, such as financial aid.
Andrews said the workshop was a good opportunity to bring people to campus - they were exposed to the new Student Recreation Center and the new Humanitarian Engineering Minor. Attendees were "impressed with Mines, and Mines represented itself well," she said. However, she also stressed that the event was primarily an opportunity for college and high school councilors to meet with each other and for the councilors to find out about advancements at all the CCHE colleges.
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